One of the best of pals! Scheana Shay and Ariana Madix’s tight friendship has been documented on Vanderpump Guidelines for years.
After making visitor appearances on the primary two seasons of the Bravo actuality collection, Madix turned a important forged member in 2015. From the start, Shay’s bond with the Florida native served as a distinction to her tumultuous relationships with fellow SUR staff Stassi Schroeder, Kristen Doute and Katie Maloney. Nonetheless, the costars have nonetheless had their ups and downs through the years.
Throughout a season 4 episode of Pump Guidelines that aired in January 2016, Shay and Maloney confronted Madix about stress between her and Doute, who dated Tom Sandoval previous to her.
“Ariana thinks she’s the cool laid-back chick and Kristen’s the one holding on to grudges, however in actuality, it’s the opposite manner round,” Shay stated in a confessional on the time.
The “Good As Gold” singer advised her pal that each she and Maloney felt Madix had been “extraordinarily damaging” and “bitchy” about the group being on good phrases with Doute.
“Your mother had really reached out to me and requested for those who have been OK and she or he didn’t know for those who have been sad with Tom and if he was a foul boyfriend,” Shay stated, noting that Madix’s “circle of relatives [had] observed a change in [her] character.”
The “Scheananigans” podcaster’s dialog with Madix’s mother got here again round in the course of the season 4 reunion in March 2016.
“A number of what she stated [to my mom] have been these bizarre backhanded, but very offensive issues about Tom that aren’t actually correct,” the Fancy Af Cocktails coauthor advised host Andy Cohen, including that Shay claimed her then-beau was “all about” himself.
Regardless of the drama, the friends have been capable of bury the hatchet.
“We’re higher than ever, actually,” Shay stated of Madix throughout a January 2017 look on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen. The California native added that viewers may count on to see the pair heal their friendship on season 5 of Pump Guidelines. “You’ll see Ariana and I type of reconnect and also you’ll see extra of that friendship develop again stronger because it was within the earlier seasons,” she stated.
Shay supported her fellow Bravolebrity in March 2023 when information broke that Sandoval had cheated on Madix with costar Raquel Leviss. Amid the scandal, the duo cut up after 9 years of courting.
Though Shay was shut with Leviss previous to the controversy, she and far of the Pump Guidelines forged pledged their allegiance to Madix within the wake of Sandoval’s infidelity.
“We rally,” the “Shake That” musician captioned Instagram footage of her and Madix at a Tove Lo live performance hours after Us Weekly confirmed the breakup and affair.
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