Scheana Shay Says ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Reunion Will Need ‘Cages’ Amid Raquel Leviss Lawsuit

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Scheana Shay Says ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Reunion Will Need ‘Cages’ Amid Raquel Leviss Lawsuit

Scheana’s side. After Kristen Doute, Lala Kent and Stassi Schroeder dropped podcast episodes dedicated to Scandoval, Scheana Shay is tackling the drama on “Scheananigans.” As Kent noted on her show, “Give Them Lala,” current Vanderpump Rules cast members were given guidelines by Bravo as they took to the mic to discuss the revelation that Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss had a months-long affair behind Ariana Madix’s back. The restrictions are due to the network resuming filming to capture the fallout of the scandal. “It has been a crazy few days, to say the least,” Shay told Doute and Kent on the Friday, March 10, episode of her Dear Media show. “One thing I do wanna ask both of you — because I think all three of us are in similar positions — [is about] past affairs and things that we've been involved in. And I've seen so many people online being like, ‘How could you have an opinion about this? You were a homewrecker. You cheated on this person.’” While Shay was introduced to reality TV fans as one of the women Eddie Cibrian cheated on Brandi Glanville with, Kent recently admitted to sleeping with Kennedy amid his relationship with Raquel Leviss. (She also started dating ex-fiancé Randall Emmett amid his marriage to Ambyr Childers.) Doute, meanwhile, dated Sandoval during seasons 1 and 2 of Vanderpump Rules and both stars admitted to being unfaithful. (One of the bartender’s indiscretions included kissing Madix in Las Vegas.) “We should have broken up after a year or two. … We stayed in it because we shared a DVR box,” Doute said on Friday. “We shared bills, we shared a s—ty apartment. We didn't have any money, we shared the same friend group. … We cheated on each other. We were very messy. … But I think what's really been frustrating me on the internet right now are the people that actually think that like, ‘How you get him [is] how you lose him.’ … I have to debunk that so f—king fast because it is like, where have you guys all been? … Ariana and I have been — I’m so lucky to call her a really good friend for many, many years now. Unfortunately, I had to thank her for, like, taking him out of my life… [But] there's no karma coming down on her.” Kent, for her part, called out the irony of Leviss referring to her as a “mistress” at the season 9 reunion. “I was actually greeted last year at the reunion with that and drilled about what red flags I didn't see,” she said, referring to the group’s discussion about the end of her relationship with Emmett amid claims he cheated on her. “I was actually called a mistress by Raquel Leviss.” Shay added: “That’s rich.” All three women have been vocal about being “Team Ariana” amid the drama, with Shay allegedly getting physical with Leviss when she learned about the affair following an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on March 1. Leviss subsequently filed a restraining order against Shay, but she denied the allegations. “This case is a fabrication by a known liar and a cheat who has betrayed everyone close to her. Scheana never punched Raquel, period,” Shay’s lawyer, Neama Rahmani, exclusively told Us Weekly in a statement on Thursday, March 9. “The supposed dark markings around her left eye have been there for months. Neither Scheana nor other cast members want anything to do with Raquel going forward. The judge has only heard a one-sided account of what happened, and we look forward to presenting the full and true story at the March 29 hearing.” While she didn’t address the legal matter on Friday’s podcast, Shay and Kent did mention that the upcoming reunion taping could require security. “Security will definitely be amped up,” Kent said. Shay replied: “Yeah, like, we need to have cages. Everyone needs their own personal bodyguard because oof.” Scroll through for more from Shay’s podcast:

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Scheana Shay Says ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Reunion Will Need ‘Cages’ Amid Raquel Leviss Lawsuit

Scheana’s side. After Kristen Doute, Lala Kent and Stassi Schroeder dropped podcast episodes dedicated to Scandoval, Scheana Shay is tackling the drama on “Scheananigans.” As Kent noted on her show, “Give Them Lala,” current Vanderpump Rules cast members were given guidelines by Bravo as they took to the mic to discuss the revelation that Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss had a months-long affair behind Ariana Madix’s back. The restrictions are due to the network resuming filming to capture the fallout of the scandal. “It has been a crazy few days, to say the least,” Shay told Doute and Kent on the Friday, March 10, episode of her Dear Media show. “One thing I do wanna ask both of you — because I think all three of us are in similar positions — [is about] past affairs and things that we've been involved in. And I've seen so many people online being like, ‘How could you have an opinion about this? You were a homewrecker. You cheated on this person.’” While Shay was introduced to reality TV fans as one of the women Eddie Cibrian cheated on Brandi Glanville with, Kent recently admitted to sleeping with Kennedy amid his relationship with Raquel Leviss. (She also started dating ex-fiancé Randall Emmett amid his marriage to Ambyr Childers.) Doute, meanwhile, dated Sandoval during seasons 1 and 2 of Vanderpump Rules and both stars admitted to being unfaithful. (One of the bartender’s indiscretions included kissing Madix in Las Vegas.) “We should have broken up after a year or two. … We stayed in it because we shared a DVR box,” Doute said on Friday. “We shared bills, we shared a s—ty apartment. We didn't have any money, we shared the same friend group. … We cheated on each other. We were very messy. … But I think what's really been frustrating me on the internet right now are the people that actually think that like, ‘How you get him [is] how you lose him.’ … I have to debunk that so f—king fast because it is like, where have you guys all been? … Ariana and I have been — I’m so lucky to call her a really good friend for many, many years now. Unfortunately, I had to thank her for, like, taking him out of my life… [But] there's no karma coming down on her.” Kent, for her part, called out the irony of Leviss referring to her as a “mistress” at the season 9 reunion. “I was actually greeted last year at the reunion with that and drilled about what red flags I didn't see,” she said, referring to the group’s discussion about the end of her relationship with Emmett amid claims he cheated on her. “I was actually called a mistress by Raquel Leviss.” Shay added: “That’s rich.” All three women have been vocal about being “Team Ariana” amid the drama, with Shay allegedly getting physical with Leviss when she learned about the affair following an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on March 1. Leviss subsequently filed a restraining order against Shay, but she denied the allegations. “This case is a fabrication by a known liar and a cheat who has betrayed everyone close to her. Scheana never punched Raquel, period,” Shay’s lawyer, Neama Rahmani, exclusively told Us Weekly in a statement on Thursday, March 9. “The supposed dark markings around her left eye have been there for months. Neither Scheana nor other cast members want anything to do with Raquel going forward. The judge has only heard a one-sided account of what happened, and we look forward to presenting the full and true story at the March 29 hearing.” While she didn’t address the legal matter on Friday’s podcast, Shay and Kent did mention that the upcoming reunion taping could require security. “Security will definitely be amped up,” Kent said. Shay replied: “Yeah, like, we need to have cages. Everyone needs their own personal bodyguard because oof.” Scroll through for more from Shay’s podcast:

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Lala Says Sandoval Will Cheat on His Next Partner Too

Kent repeatedly called the TomTom co-owner a narcissist after Doute pointed out that she was “shocked” her ex-boyfriend would betray Madix like he did her. “He's gonna do it to [Ariana]. He is gonna do it to Raquel. He's gonna do it to his next partner,” Kent said. “He's a soul-sucking human.”

Doute added: “Who's only concerned with himself right now, and it's just bringing back so many memories.”

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Kristen Explains Her Relationship With Raquel

Doute, who has been spotted filming scenes for season 10 after she was let go by Bravo in 2020, noted that she previously stopped “hating” Leviss — who dated her ex Kennedy for several years — after a conversation at Kent’s daughter Ocean’s first birthday party in March 2022.

“[Which] she wasn’t invited to, by the way,” Kent noted. “But [Scheana] is kind enough to pack up a pair of legs and half a torso and bring her.”

Shay revealed that the duo were supposed to go to NYC to see Sandoval’s band, but the visit was canceled. After Doute admitted that she had “really never had an actual conversation with Raquel” until the birthday party, Kent joked: “Has she had an actual conversation with anybody without circuiting?”

“Strangely, that day at Ocean's birthday party was the most intelligent and well-spoken and put together I had ever heard her be, without kind of barely blinking her eyes and just opening her mouth a lot,” Doute continued. “She and James had obviously broken up and she was willing to sort of commiserate with me on the way that he is and the things that he had done, and she was open to hearing a lot of my truth. And other than that day, I really haven't talked to her much at all. However, I have always thought that she and James are on the same exact level of being an opportunist. I had to remind myself that she was a fan of the show before she was on the show.”

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Scheana Wants an Apology From Katie Maloney

Before Leviss and Sandoval’s relationship was revealed, she made out with Tom Schwartz at Shay’s wedding in August 2022. Schwartz’s ex-wife, Katie Maloney, wasn’t happy about the make out — and blamed Shay for pushing the pair together.

“The reunion should be very interesting because I think Katie's expecting an apology from me, but I'm also expecting an apology from her,” Shay said on Friday.

She also hinted that the two women are putting their issues aside to be there for Madix. “We are a group of people who can band together for the bigger picture and put personal differences aside [to] be in a group chat together, be in the same room with one another because our s—t doesn't matter right now,” Shay said. “So for that, I am thankful."

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Lala Feels Her Hands Are 'Clean' of Past Cheating With James

“James and I hooked up when my dad was, like, alive and kicking and the [reunion] where my dad had passed … she talks about how — in her horrific polyester puffer sleeves, light a match too close to her, she was gonna f—king melt— … but she was like, ‘We really decided that our relationship started when we moved in together.’ A.k.a [when] he gave her two drawers,” Kent said. “So, like, technically we didn't cheat because my person was actually married. Very much so. I was a mistress, so you can't cheat on a married person and y'all started your relationship when you got two drawers. So we didn't cheat, hands clean, bye bitch!”

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Lala and Scheana’s Post-Reunion Plans

“I can’t wait to after this reunion, just go to Palm Springs,” Shay said.

Kent confirmed, “That’s what we’re doing. We’re sending the moms and the kids down. And then I’ll pick up Scheana and her Australian husband.”