Raquel Levisswas living her best single life in the weeks before she hooked up with Tom Schwartz atScheana Shay’sweddingin Mexico — and the former beauty queen’s behavior kept tongues wagging in theVanderpump Rulesfriend group well before they realized they should be keeping an eye on herconnectionwithTom Sandoval.
Raquel, 28, and Schwartz, 40, were flirting up a storm on Wednesday’s episode, which notably irritated herex-fiancéJames Kennedywhen it happened right in front of him.
“Yeah, it’s on the 31st. I hope you can make it,” he joked. “I think everything’s OK, I hope. I feel like a little like we’re suffocating, but we made a pact to not bitch about it anymore.”
“But we’re tight. I can bitch to you,” he admitted to Raquel, who agreed, “Yeah, of course,” and the two high-fived.
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In her confessional, Raquel said, “I love the fact that Schwartz and I have gotten to the place where we’re tight and who knows — maybe we’ll be even tighter in the future?” After a pause, she said with a cheeky smile, “Tighter kinda sounds like vaginal tight, though.”
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She then told Schwartz, “We’ve gotta enjoy our time in Mexico. When we’re out of the country, there’s nothing we can do but to like have fun.”
“That’s a great attitude,” Schwartz responded. “That’s very stoic.”
“Do you know how I ended with a tattoo of Lisa, LVP, on my ass?” Schwartz asked Raquel. “It was on this ping pong table.”
“Honestly, what the f— is that?” James, 31, asked in a confessional interview. “Why are you flirting with Raquel right in front of me? You look f—ing absurd, mate. You look desperate and absurd. Go hit the treadmill.”
Back at the party, Schwartz half-jokingly bragged to Raquel: “My ass looks great with LVP on it.”
“I’m sure it does,” she said. Schwartz then teased, “I’ll show you in Mexico.”
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The bridal shower eventually migrated to Schwartz and Sandy’s, where Raquel and Schwartz did not relent in their flirting.
After Raquel asked him about a sound bath in the bar, he took her to the art installation and said, “It sounds like a cheesy pickup line, but close your eyes and let the sound waves wash over you.”
Both of them closed their eyes, inhaled and exhaled together.
Schwartz then changed the subject. “The girls told me one of your happy places is you going into your room listening to, like, some EDM,” he said, adding, “I have one of those [galaxy light] projectors too.”
Raquel’s voice jumped up an octave in excitement at this surprising commonality, and she urged Schwartz, “Bring it to Cancun with you.”
Seeing this conversation from afar, Scheana’s husband-to-beBrock Daviescommented, “Raquel is on fire right now.”
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The events of Wednesday’s episode took place months before Scheana, 37, learned that Raquel had been having amonths-long affairwith Sandoval, 40. The newscame as a major bombshellsince the bar owner had been in anine-year monogamous relationshipwith Scheana’s longtime best friendAriana Madix.
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Meanwhile back on Wednesday night’s episode,Katie Maloneywas feeling reflective as she approached the day that would have been herweddinganniversary with Schwartz.
“It’s kinda weird,” she toldKristina Kelly. “It would’ve been six years, but I’d be remiss to not want to acknowledge our anniversary.”
Kristina encouraged, “I think you should. At the end of the day, I feel like it’s still important to show people that you guys are friends. I don’t want these Scheanas and these Raquels getting in the way.”
“This is so much bigger than their idiot faces,” quipped Katie, 36. “Also, Tom and I might have a dinner to celebrate the closing of our house … in Mexico. The whole house situation was really hard for me, so I’m just unpacking a lot of strange emotions this week.”
She continued the thought in her confessional interview: “I was not prepared for how I’d feel. Am I supposed to be sad? I do feel sad. Is it OK to feel sad?”
Rolling her eyes, she deadpanned, “The dream is over, you know?”
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