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Tom Sandoval Calls Tom Schwartz's Wife a 'Bully' in Heated Vanderpump Rules Midseason Trailer

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Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz may have just opened their new bar Tom Tom together, but that doesn’t mean the duo necessarily agree on everything.

In Vanderpump Rules‘ season 7 midseason trailer — which PEOPLE is premiering exclusively — the two best friends appear to have opposite views about Schwartz’s wife Katie Maloney, who got cast member James Kennedy fired from his DJing gig at SUR after he body-shamed her during an argument earlier this season.

Schwartz has largely stood by his wife throughout the ordeal. (“James has lack of emotional control on a deep, deep level,” he says in the trailer.) But this time, Sandoval seems to be taking Kennedy’s side, much to boss Lisa Vanderpump‘s surprise. “This is your partner’s wife you’re talking about,” she reminds him.

Still, Sandoval remains unswayed. Fighting with Maloney in SUR’s famous back ally, he digs into her.

“You’re a bully, Katie!” Sandoval says, mimicking Maloney. “‘I can say whatever the f— I want to anybody, but if somebody calls me fat? I’m getting their a– f—ing fired.’ ” 

Maloney appears to stand her ground, telling Sandoval, “I didn’t get him fired, he got himself fired.” But by the trailer’s end, she’s in tears as Schwartz comforts her.

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And she’s not the only one crying.

Stassi Schroeder sheds some sobs of her own while fighting with boyfriend Beau Clark. Scheana Marie and Kristen Doute are also at odds with their partners, while LaLa Kent and Billie Lee seem unable to get past their differences.

“Get the f— out of my face, hoe!” Kent screams.

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Luckily, all seems to be going well with Jax Taylor and fiancé Brittany Cartwright as they celebrate their upcoming wedding with an extravagant engagement party.

The couple, who have survived a headline-making cheating scandal, are going strong — though Cartwright admits in a therapy session that “there’s still a little bit of me that doesn’t trust him.”

That doesn’t seem to stop her from wanting to walk down the aisle. “I love this man and I will never give up on him,” she says.

Oh, and if all that weren’t enough to make you believe in love again, then how’s this for a teaser? The group takes a trip to Mexico where Schroeder and Sandoval’s girlfriend Ariana Madix — former foes turned friends — kiss in a steamy makeout.

Vanderpump Rules airs Mondays (9 p.m. ET) on Bravo.

Stepfather Apologizes for Allegedly Slapping His Stepdaughter's Bully

February 20, 2019

No parent wants their child to be the victim of bullying, and when it does happen, it's easy to see how emotions run high and tempers flare. That doesn't mean, though, that adults have a free pass to behave as badly as the bullies, and if they do, they're going to have to face grownup consequences for their actions.

Just ask James Olander Peace, a man in Deer Park, Texas, who was arrested after allegedly slapping a 12-year-old boy that he believed was bullying his stepdaughter. According to ABC 13, Peace was charged with felony injury to a child. He has since apologized for the confrontation and admitted he should've handled the matter differently.

It all started last week when Peace got a call from his stepdaughter asking for him to come pick her up. According to Peace's wife, who wishes to remain anonymous, this happened after a 12-year-old boy and his classmate were bullying her daughter as she walked home from school. "Saying that her body was ugly, said that she was a transvestite, started throwing ice cream at her and then they picked up the rocks," the girl's mother told ABC 13.

Peace came to pick up his stepdaughter, and on the drive home, they happened to see the alleged bully and his friend. According to Deer Park Police Lt. Chris Brown, "That's when the stepdad decided to stop and confront the kid."

Peace said that while he knows there's a process to report bullying to the school, he still wanted to confront his daughter's classmate directly.

"I went up and talked to him and he kept running his mouth," he told ABC 13. "If he was talking to me like that, imagine how he was talking to her."

Part of the encounter was captured by nearby surveillance video obtained by investigators. Lt. Brown said it shows how the 12-year-old boy "was slapped across the face with an open hand, had red marks and swelling to his cheek and upper jaw."

Peace's wife said that while he was trying to stick up for her daughter, that doesn't excuse his behavior. "I do not agree with what he did," she said. "He took it too far, he did."

The stepfather said he "[wishes] I could go back and change it," and he regrets getting physical with the boy.

"I am sorry for that," he said. "I wish I would have approached it differently."

Anti-bullying experts would agree that a drastically different approach was needed in this situation. The fact that Peace's stepdaughter felt comfortable talking to him about the alleged bullying is a good thing, though, and parents should encourage their children to talk about any problems they're having with other kids.

When there's repeated harassment or bullying taking place, parents should talk to their child's teacher and potentially make administrators aware of what's happening as well. Many schools have specific protocol for intervening.

If your child is being bullied, you can also contact the offender's parents. This needs to be done in a non-confrontational way, making it clear that your goal is to resolve the matter together. If talking to this child's parents isn't effective and you don't feel like there's a solution within the school, take advantage of outside community resources that can help deal with the problem.

And as much as we can tell our kids how to react to being bullied, they're really paying attention to what we do. In other words, if you lose your temper, raise your voice or take a swing when you're faced with a bully, there's a good chance your child will react in the same way. Lead by example, and remember cooler heads prevail—in life and on the playground.

Bully officer threatens to send kid reporter to juvy, but kid doesn't back down

A reporter for Pennsylvania's Orange Street News rode her bike near the Arizona-Mexico border on an assignment when a marshal in the town of Patagonia threatened to arrest her. He wanted her to stop what she was doing. The reporter, Hilde Lysiak, is only 12 years old.

According to her story in the Orange Street News, when she gave him her name and phone number and told him she was working for a news organization, he said, “I don’t want to hear about any of that freedom of the press stuff. I’m going to have you arrested and thrown in juvey."

A bit later, she approached him to ask what he meant about sending her to juvey. "What exactly am I doing that's illegal?"

He tells her if she puts his face on the Internet it's against the law in Arizona. He then talks in circles, not ever giving a valid reason of how she was breaking the law.

Via USA Today:

He went on to tell her that he was worried about her safety and had told her not to follow the marshals because they were going into an area where people have seen mountain lions. From Patterson's perspective, Hilde had ignored a lawful order, the video shows.

Hilde wasn't satisfied.

"Yeah, how is that illegal?" Hilde asked. "I understand that you're concerned about the safety, but what exactly am I doing?"

Patterson insisted she disobeyed and also lied about where she was going. He told her she originally said she was going to her friend's house when he first stopped her, and instead she followed him, the video shows.

"You can lie to your mother, you can lie to your father, you can lie to your priest, but you can't lie to a law-enforcement officer," Patterson told her.

The officer then says he'll be contacting her parents before he took off in his truck.

The town of Patagonia claims on their website that the marshal is being disciplined, but doesn't give any details on what that looks like.

Meanwhile, Lysiak, the youngest member of the Society of Professional Journalists, tweeted that she's glad the town is taking action, but doesn't want people harassing the marshal online. "My focus is on protecting our First Amendment Rights."

This is one amazing kid and I look forward to seeing where she's at 10 years from now.

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