Vanderpump Rules execs PAUSE cast’s contract negotiations following Scandoval

Contract negotiations for the Vanderpump Rules cast have been paused in the wake of Scandoval, according to executive producer Alex Baskin.

said Baskin Variety that he and fellow executives think it would be best for the cast to take time off the show after taping the explosive reunion special.

“I thought we should have cameras on it right away. And I now think we need a minute,” he explained on Wednesday.

Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ months-long affair came to light in March, leading to the end of his nine-year relationship with fellow castmate Ariana Madix.

The first episode of the three-part reunion airs May 24, and Baskin teased that “new information” — unknown to fans and much of the cast — will be revealed.

Due to the “revelations” of the bombshell, Baskin predicts the cast will likely need “a little space” from each other to process their emotions.

“The reunion isn’t just a recap of what you know, and it’s not just an intense version of the emotions,” the producer revealed.

“I’ll put it this way: there are revelations, and they are revelations that they don’t all know now. So we need some space.’

Baskin also stated that he wants the cast members to watch the entire reunion before deciding whether or not to return to the Vanderpump rules.

Andy Cohen served as a mediator during the reunion — which reportedly resulted in screaming matches between the cast and an alleged brawl between Sandoval and Tom Schwartz.

In a teaser trailer for the hit Bravo series, Madix called out her now-ex, Sandoval, 39, and berated Leviss for being “devilish, demented and inhuman.”

Leviss, 28, had admitted that having an affair with her close friend’s boyfriend of nearly a decade was “super selfish.”

In response, Madix quickly clapped back and said, “Selfish doesn’t cut it.”

For the rest of the trailer, Madix and the rest of the cast fired no shortage of insults at Sandoval and his mistress.

In the preview, Madix also called her ex and his on-again, off-again lover “f***ing rats” and told them not to expect “something good to come for them.”

In the episode, James Kennedy, 31 – who was previously engaged to Leviss – also called Sandoval a “conniving whore” for sleeping with his ex-fiancée.

After an explosive back-and-forth, Kennedy then fired back at Sandoval, calling him “a worm with a mustache” — which fans quickly took to social media to turn into memes.

The first part of the reunion will air on Wednesday, May 24, then part two on Wednesday, May 31 and Wednesday, June 7.

After two months of backlash, it was reported that Sandoval and his much younger mistress called it quits.

That’s what an insider told me Page six: ‘Raquel ducked. Sandoval isn’t for her.’

DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for the couple for comment.

Although their affair came to light in March, both Sandoval and Leviss have revealed that their romance actually started last summer.

The season 10 season finale of Vanderpump Rules will air on Wednesday, May 17and fans will learn about the sordid details of the affair between Sandoval and Leviss.

In a teaser clip obtained by PEOPLEshocks Madix friends Scheana Shay and Katie Maloney when she reveals that Sandoval had admitted to having sex with Leviss in his car.

At the time of the sexual encounter, Madix was mourning the death of her dog Charlotte.

She also relived the moment when she discovered an intimate recording of a FaceTime conversation between Sandoval and Levis, saved on his cell phone.

‘Then I called Raquel and I started, make her like this, f***ing tell me what the f***? When did this start?” Ariana recalls.

She said, “Right after the girls’ outing.” I’m like, “You mean right after Charlotte died?”