Sandoval's Shade and Maloney's Sharp Response Ignite New Feud
Tom Sandoval quickly voiced his genuine opinions regarding former Vanderpump Rules colleague Katie Maloney — and the sentiment appears to be reciprocated.
“It’s interesting that you mention Katie because… did anyone happen to see ID Discovery?” Sandoval, 43, stated during his Saturday, December 20, live broadcast in Pittsburgh, while playing a game of “F, Marry, Kill” with his previous costars. “You often hear about a woman who was killed. They typically share one common trait [and remark] ‘she possessed a smile that could brighten any room.’”
He went on, “Katie is quite the opposite of that. She doesn’t illuminate a room in the slightest.”
Sandoval additionally suggested that Katie, 38, differed from most victims and wasn’t “at risk of being harmed.”
Katie Maloney Expresses Sadness Over How 'Demon' Sandoval Affected Her Marriage
Ultimately, Sandoval opted to “eliminate” Maloney, engage with Lala Kent and wed Lisa Vanderpump.
Video clips of Sandoval’s remarks circulated rapidly online, eventually reaching Katie herself.
“Haha, well he exhibits the qualities of someone who commits violent acts,” Katie responded via an Instagram comment on Sunday, December 21.
Sandoval hasn’t offered any further explanation regarding his statements about Katie or her reaction. Us Weekly has contacted a representative for the TomTom proprietor for a statement.
Katie and Sandoval were both original cast members on Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules, where Katie dated and married Sandoval’s close friend, Tom Schwartz. Katie and Schwartz, 43, eventually divorced in 2022, shortly before Sandoval had an affair with then-girlfriend Ariana Madix and Rachel “Raquel” Leviss. (Katie and Ariana, 40, are close friends, and even jointly own the Something About Her sandwich shop.)
Following the VPR season 12 recast with a new team of SURvers, Katie and Sandoval have maintained their distance.
Katie Maloney Describes Awkward Tom Sandoval Encounter as a 'Slightly Aggressive Act’
“I glanced to my left and there weren’t a large number of people, but there were enough to create a fairly intimate atmosphere. I looked over and Tom Sandoval was dressed up as Fred Durst,” Katie shared on her “Disrespectfully” podcast in September 2024, revealing she last saw Sandoval at a Limp Bizkit show. “Usually, he’s wearing a black TomTom hat, but this time he had a red one. He selected the red hat for the evening.”
According to Katie, she didn’t even attempt to acknowledge Sandoval.
“[We] disregard them. My focus needs to be over here regardless,” she remarked. “I don’t need to look over there. I keep my attention in this direction. At one point, I was looking to my left and from the corner of my eye, I noticed [Sandoval and girlfriend Victoria Robinson] waving at me. It felt a little bit like a deliberate provocation.”
Katie added, “It didn’t really disrupt anything, but we could have done without it. I wasn’t paying attention. I wasn’t involved.”
Katie had attended the concert with fellow show personality Dayna Kathan, who considered the near-interaction “clearly uncomfortable.”
“We were invited as guests of the band, and I wasn’t going to cause a disturbance. I wasn’t going to start a fight there,” Dayna, 35, explained at the time. “I could have lived without it. All I can say is that it gave off some really hostile energy from them. The atmosphere was strange. It seemed like they were trying to assert their presence and say, ‘We are here. We don't care about your feelings.’”
