Katie Maloney Slams Hairstylist Jo Amid Tom Schwartz Friendship

And the Scandoval fallout continues. Amid Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ affair scandal, curious followers have speculated about Tom Schwartz’s involvement after his kiss with the previous pageant queen.

Vanderpump Guidelines Instagram fan account @realvanderpump theorized on Friday, March 17, that Schwartz’s hookup with Leviss, 28, was merely a canopy for her secret romance with Sandoval, 39 — and his personal fling with hairstylist Jo Wenberg. The 40-year-old TomTom founder’s ex-wife, Katie Maloney, has seemingly reacted to the hypothesis.

“Jo is spooky. I imply none of us might stand to be round her. Her power is on par with a crack head,” Maloney, 36, claimed by way of Instagram touch upon Saturday, March 18. “However when Tom and I introduced our divorce virtually a 12 months in the past the very last thing she textual content me was ‘Bieber loves you / I really like you, and I’m so supporting of your inside ideas and visions / dwell within the second, you’re a gem and I’ve at all times revered you. I really like you. Xo Jo.’”

The Bravo star added: “She is a psycho and I may also gentle her on hearth with Rachel [Leviss’ birth name].”

The “You’re Gonna Love Me” podcaster and Schwartz introduced in Might 2022 that that they had separated after greater than 12 years collectively. Their divorce was finalized the next October, by which they meant to share custody of their two canines.

Contemporary off their cut up, Us Weekly broke the information in August 2022 that the Schwartz & Sandy’s co-owner connected with Leviss at Scheana Shay’s wedding ceremony to Brock Davies. Whereas the twosome later claimed to have solely shared a kiss, Schwartz has since shaped a good friendship with Wenberg.

“Jo is a badass hairstylist. … I believe she’s an attractive soul,” he solely informed Us Weekly in February. “We’re not dwelling collectively and we’re not relationship both, however she’s simply somebody who I admire on a deep stage and she or he’s a very cool human being, and we’re simply hanging out.”

He added on the time: “I simply bought out of a 12-year relationship. I can’t be in a dedicated — I can’t dive again into one other relationship. It wouldn’t be honest to the opposite particular person ‘trigger I’m type of consumed with enterprise and my household and I’m type of falling in love with myself over again.”

Schwartz in the end did verify in a Vanderpump Guidelines season 10 deleted scene, which aired earlier this month, that he’s dwelling with the hair guru.

“I went to Tom’s immediately to deliver the canines there and within the rest room, there’s a toothbrush with lipstick on it and a pile of jewellery. Like, that the f—okay is that this s—t? He’s like, ‘It’s Jo’s,’” Maloney informed costars Lala Kent and Leviss within the March 1 episode clip. “To start with, Kristen [Doute’s]’s her finest f—king buddy. Why isn’t she staying at Kristen’s down the road?”

Doute, 40, who was fired from Vanderpump Guidelines in 2020 after previous racist tweets resurfaced, revealed throughout a “Viall Recordsdata” look earlier this month that she is now not buddies with Wenberg after eight years of friendship.

“I haven’t spoken to her since July due to all of this [drama],” she informed host Nick Viall. “Over the autumn, there have been so many instances the place Schwartz, Jo, Sandoval and Raquel had been hanging out nonstop. I simply assumed it was as a result of Schwartz and Jo are seeing one another [or] sleeping collectively and nobody desires to be part of that. They solely have these two folks. … The 4 of you had been happening f—king double dates.”

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Us confirmed in March that Sandoval and longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix had separated after the Missouri native had been concerned in a months-long affair with Leviss. Each Sandoval and the previous Miss Sonoma County have since apologized for his or her actions.