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Properly, right here’s a submit that ought to come as no shock to Tom Sandoval’s PR group, or the general public relations of us at Bravo, and even Vanderpump Guidelines govt producer Alex Baskin: The broadly reviled actuality star went forward and tossed out a half-baked comparability between the media consideration garnered by “Scandoval” with that of the O.J. Simpson trial or the police homicide of George Floyd in The New York Times.
The quotes seem in an intensive profile of Sandoval that digs into how the villain of the notorious Vanderpump dishonest scandal has navigated the previous 12 months. He offered the doubtful comparability after being requested why he thought the scandal turned such a sensation, particularly contemplating Vanderpump had been flagging within the rankings after 9 seasons on air.
“I’m not a pop-culture historian actually, however I witnessed the O.J. Simpson factor and George Floyd and all these massive issues, which is de facto bizarre to match this to that, I feel, however do you assume in a bizarre method it’s a bit bit the identical?”
To be honest, even Sandoval appeared to acknowledge, within the second, that this most likely was not probably the most acceptable factor to say — not that that stops him from saying it, which is, let’s be sincere, what we wish from our actuality stars.
Fittingly for a narrative that examines the murky strains between actuality and “actuality,” the profile paperwork the real-time reactions of the assorted leisure trade establishments with vested pursuits in ensuring Sandoval comes throughout as the great sort of dangerous — and never the dangerous sort of dangerous. Journalist Irina Aleksander says phrase of Sandoval’s remark rapidly obtained again to his PR group, who requested that she not attend a confessional taping the following day; Baskin, the Vanderpump EP, additionally referred to as, as did a Bravo rep, apparently providing an interview with one other forged member as a substitute. When Aleksander was allowed to see Sandoval once more, each a Bravo publicist and a senior NBCUniversal govt have been current.
One factor the story — which is actually wonderful; go learn it in full — doesn’t clarify is whether or not all these individuals have been equally involved by one of many different bonkers quotes Sandoval dropped when describing the extraordinary vitriol he obtained within the wake of Scandoval: “I really feel like I obtained extra hate than Danny Masterson and he’s a convicted rapist.”
Yeesh, cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme music.
