Tom Sandoval on ‘The Traitors’
Tom Sandoval knew it.
When Sandoval joined Season 3 of The Traitors, Bravo followers wasted no time speculating that the Vanderpump Guidelines star could be the primary to go.
Given the fallout from his extremely publicized affair with Rachel Leviss—ending his nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix—the web was fast to foretell an early exit.
Seems, Sandoval shared those self same fears.
“I was worried of that, actually,” he informed PEOPLE. “I felt like people might bring that opinion of me into the castle and get me out right away.”
However as an alternative of being eradicated early, Sandoval made all of it the best way to Episode 10 earlier than being “murdered” within the recreation. His longevity on the Peacock actuality collection got here all the way down to a simple technique, be good and work laborious.
“I felt like it was really important to just be nice, open-minded, build bonds with everyone, and prove my worth and my value, in a sense of working hard to win missions and make money for the collective group,” he defined. “And it worked, pretty much.”
Not like some contestants, Sandoval had no need to play as a Traitor.
“Oh, I could never have been a Traitor,” he admitted. “Absolutely not. I had no desire. In fact, I told production, ‘If you make me a Traitor, I think I’m just going to go home. I’ll quit.’ Because there’s no way I would be good at it. I would be so in my head the entire time.”
He felt the position was higher fitted to somebody who really wished it.
“There were people out there who wanted to be Traitors, and I knew they’d be much better than I would,” he added.
“It’s like I told [host Alan Cumming]: ‘If you force somebody to play an instrument versus somebody who wants to play an instrument, the person who wants to play an instrument is going to be a lot better.’ I was never going to play that instrument well.”
Whereas his Traitors journey could have come to an finish, Sandoval proved that generally, simply enjoying it good can take you additional than anticipated.