{"id":95101,"date":"2024-02-21T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/?p=1662335"},"modified":"2024-02-21T00:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:40:36","slug":"why-did-tom-sandoval-compare-himself-to-george-floyd-the-controversy-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/why-did-tom-sandoval-compare-himself-to-george-floyd-the-controversy-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Tom Sandoval compare himself to George Floyd? The controversy, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The fallout from \u201cScandoval<\/a>\u201d continues, almost a year after the affair that started it all first made headlines last March. The Vanderpump Rules<\/strong><\/a><\/em> cheating scandal \u2014 which saw star Tom Sandoval<\/strong><\/a> engage in a months-long affair with castmate Raquel Leviss<\/a>, behind the back of his longtime girlfriend Ariana Maddix<\/a> \u2014 was *almost* <\/em>beginning to die down, but it appears there\u2019s no reprieve from reality TV\u2019s most depraved waitstaff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week, The New York Times<\/a> <\/em>published a lengthy profile piece of Sandoval, dubbing him the \u201cmost hated man in America\u201d and covering his reaction to the headline-making 2023 scandal. While a smarter public figure might\u2019ve used the piece to kickstart some form of redemption arc, Sandoval instead compared the uproar about his affair to the attention around George Floyd and O.J. Simpson. <\/p>\n

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When asked by NYT <\/em>why he thought Scandoval became such a hot-button topic amongst the public, Tom Sandoval gave an answer that has since ignited a deserved level of backlash. The reality star said that while he is \u201cnot really a pop-culture\u201d historian, he witnessed \u201cbig things\u201d like \u201cthe O.J. Simpson thing and George Floyd.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201c[It\u2019s] really weird to compare [Scandoval] to that,\u201d Sandoval went on, \u201cbut do you think in a weird way it\u2019s a little bit the same?\u201d As if preempting the backlash, NYT <\/em>interviewer Irina Aleksander wrote that she \u201cknew what he meant,\u201d contextualizing Sandoval\u2019s comparison as being the \u201csymbolic center of a nationwide discussion and a major news story.\u201d <\/p>\n

While she gave Sandoval some grace, Aleksander also wrote that the scandal had evidently \u201cmade him lose perspective.\u201d According to NYT, <\/em>multiple Bravo representatives and producers reached out to Aleksander \u201cvery concerned\u201d following the interview, saying that Scandoval \u201cwasn\u2019t ready for this.\u201d In any case, the story took off, and has since caught the ire of Sandoval\u2019s fellow Bravolebrities.<\/p>\n

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