A Comprehensive Guide to ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Hookups Over the Years

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A Comprehensive Guide to ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Hookups Over the Years

The most tangled web in reality TV history? The cast of Vanderpump Rules has provided Bravo fans with jaw-dropping moments thanks to their secret hookups for nearly a decade. While season 1 included multiple shockers, one of the biggest bombshells was dropped during season 2 when Katie Maloney drunkenly revealed that Kristen Doute and Jax Taylor slept together — twice. At the time, Kristen was in a long-term relationship with Tom Sandoval (Jax’s best friend) and Jax was attempting to win back ex-girlfriend Stassi Schroeder (Kristen’s best friend). The revelation resulted in a slap heard around West Hollywood and (temporarily) strained the inner circle. While all parties forgave each other eventually, Stassi threw the situation back in Kristen’s face during season 8 when it was revealed the James Mae T-shirt designer hooked up with Max Boynes — who was linked to Dayna Kathan during the season. “She pretended to be friends with Dayna. … I’m f—kng shook right now because I thought that Dayna and Kristen were friends, and this is f—king weird,” Stassi declared. “It is so f—king on brand for you to act like you are so close to Dayna and then go and f—k the dude that she’s talking about. “You were born shady, you remain shady, you will always be shady. And you’re a liar and you have no remorse. … This is about you hooking up with another one of your friends’ ex-boyfriends ‘cause you always need to do that, Kristen.” Kristen wasn’t the only one who had to relive her indiscretion with Jax. The bartender faced his own relationship drama over the years and his other biggest scandal went down between seasons 5 and 6 when he cheated on now-wife Brittany Cartwright with Faith Stowers. “He comes over at 3 in the afternoon, middle of the day, he was out running errands in my area, so I’m thinking, ‘OK, nothing’s gonna happen.’ I was in the room writing music, so I had my recorder on. I let him come over, he comes into the room and it was almost immediate,” Faith detailed exclusively to Us Weekly in 2017. “When he gave me a hug, I have on shorts on — it’s hot, it’s summer —he grabs my butt and I’m like, ‘Jax, what are you doing?’ He goes, ‘Oh, you know, Faith, you know I’ve been wanting this for a long time.' … He’s almost begging, but it was not in a disgusting or dirty way. It was like, he just really needed to talk to me and as he’s talking to me, he’s grabbing on me. One thing led to another. It happened so fast that … We weren’t worried about protection, we weren’t worried about anything, it was just so fast.” While Jax, Brittany Kristen and Stassi were all let go ahead of season 9, the drama didn’t stop. Us exclusively revealed during summer 2022 that Tom Schwartz hooked up with Raquel Leviss (James Kennedy’s ex-fiancée) amid his divorce from Katie. Scroll through for a more detailed breakdown of the inner cast hookups:

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Peter and Katie

Prior to season 1, the SUR manager hooked up with Katie.

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Schwartz and Katie

Fans watched Schwartz and Katie’s relationship, which began before the show started, for a decade. After navigating cheating rumors, rage texts and more, they announced their divorce in February 2022. 

“There wasn’t some crazy fight that resulted in this,” Katie said on her “You’re Gonna Love Me” podcast that March. “It was my decision, which was probably the hardest and most painful decision I’ve ever had to make.”

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Schwartz and Raquel

Us broke the news in August 2022 that Schwartz made out with the former pageant queen during Scheana and Brock’s wedding weekend amid his divorce from Katie.

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Peter and Stassi

The Next Level Basic author dated the SUR manager before the cameras started rolling.

“We’re all older now. We’re adults now. So, when we dated, I was still a server/bartender there. She had just started working at SUR. We used to work lunches together. We just started flirting during lunches,” Peter said on the “Buttered Pop” podcast in 2018. “She used to call me up in the middle of the night to find out if I was having sex with someone else. I was like ‘I’m not. I just want to go to bed because I have an early day tomorrow.' I would just be like ‘I want to go to sleep.’”

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Jax and Stassi

After her fling with Peter, Stassi started dating Jax. They were still together when season 1 taped, but their tumultuous relationship ended when Jax was accused of cheating on Stassi during a trip to Sin City, which he admitted during the season 1 finale. They hooked up twice in between seasons 1 and 2 but never officially got back together. 

She married Beau Clark in 2020.

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Frank and Stassi

During her rough patches with Jax on season 1, Stassi turned to then-SUR employee Frank.

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James and Kristen

Season 3 of the Bravo show followed Kristen’s rocky romance with the DJ — which ended in them getting physical at Scheana’s wedding to Michael Shay.

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James and Lala

When Lala joined the cast during season 4, she had sex with James.

"I don't regret sleeping with James. That was the night that I pushed Kristen down to the ground," the Give Them Lala Beauty CEO told BravoTV, confirming the hookup happened after Schwartz and Katie’s engagement party.

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James and Raquel

Raquel started appearing on Pump Rules during season 5 after she started dating James. They were together for five years when they called off their engagement in December 2021.

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Sandoval and Kristen

While their romance started pre-show, seasons 1 and 2 documented the former SURver and the “T.I.P” singer’s relationship and breakup after Kristen …

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Kristen and Jax

… admitted to hooking up with Jax when he was trying to win back Stassi.

“I was drunk. I came home late that night and I had a little to drink and my buddy, well Kristen's boyfriend, was sleeping on my couch. And I'm like, 'Where is everybody?' And I walked in the room, my bedroom, and they kind of just got up really quickly. I can't really say what happened. You're gonna kind of have to see. But I wasn't happy," he said. "But after a while, I was just thinking about it, like, I don't care. That kind of thing doesn't bother me. I don't know why. I think it just kind of caught me off-guard. I've never had that happen to me before."

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Jax and Brittany

Fans met the Kentucky native on season 4 when she moved to Los Angeles after meeting Jax in Las Vegas. Their off-again, on-again relationship was featured on the show until they exited ahead of season 9.

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Brittany and Kristen

During season 5, Jax alleged that he saw Brittany and Kristen getting down.

“I was drunk. I came home late that night and I had a little to drink and my buddy, well Kristen's boyfriend was sleeping on my couch. And I'm like, 'Where is everybody?' And I walked in the room, my bedroom, and they kind of just got up really quickly. I can't really say what happened. You're gonna kind of have to see. But I wasn't happy," he said. "But after a while, I was just thinking about it [like] I don't care. That kind of thing doesn't bother me. I don't know why. I think it just kind of caught me off guard. I've never had that happen to me before."

The two women denied his story. “I’ve kissed girls, like drunk, but Kristen and I did not hook up. She did not go down on me. I can't make this any more clear. I am strictly d—kly,” Brittany said on the show at the time. 

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Jax and Faith

The bartender came under fire during the season 6 premiere when it was revealed he cheated on Brittany with Faith.

While the affair strained Jax and Brittany’s romance, they ultimately wed in 2019.

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Sandoval and Ariana

The Tom-Tom co-owner started dating his fellow bartender in between seasons 2 and 3. Despite Kristen’s claims that they pair hooked up when Sandoval was still dating the He’s Making You Crazy author, Sandoval and Ariana insist they were just friends until his relationship with Kristen ended.

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Lala and Ariana

Sandoval revealed his girlfriend hooked up with Lala in the backseat when he was driving during season 7.

“Ariana and Lala had been out all day drinking, and they’re wasted. They’re in my car, and Lala goes, ‘Sorry, Sando, I’m just in love with your girl right now. Ariana, will you come in the back seat? I just want to eat your p—-y,’” he recalled. “Ariana climbs in the back and Lala just starts going to f—king town, dude.”

While the two women confirmed the hookup, they slammed Sandoval for how he spoke about sexuality. 

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Scheana and Adam

During season 7, Scheana was linked the LVP’s employee. She confirmed in September 2019 that they were over for good.

“I’m done with him. I went back to him so many times, but I never canceled him,” Scheana said on her podcast at the time. “This last time, he was just disrespectful to me to go on a romantic vacation with this girl who he’s lied to me about for months.” 

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Scheana and Max

During season 8, viewers learned Scheana had been spending time with the Tom-Tom manager. 

“When we started dating and then when we stopped seeing each other, we didn’t talk for a fair amount of months. So when we started filming, we had to hash that out,” he said on the “#NoFilter” podcast in December 2020.

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Kristen and Max

During the season 8 reunion, it was revealed Kristen slept with Max too.

“She was a single girl last year. Max was a single guy last year. They had sex twice, drunk,” Scheana said on her podcast in June 2020 after the revelation. 

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Sandoval and Raquel

Us confirmed in March 2023 that the Schwartz & Sandy's co-owner affair with Raquel prompted him and Ariana to pull the plug on their nine-year romance. The cheating scandal made headlines shortly after Raquel confessed during an episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that she thought Sandoval was hotter than Schwartz.