{"id":205898,"date":"2025-10-07T00:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205898\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:11:13","slug":"did-lala-kent-just-soft-launch-a-relationship-with-tom-schwartz-gotten-very-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205898\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Lala Kent Just “Soft Launch” a Relationship with Tom Schwartz? “Gotten Very Close…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderpump Rules<\/a>\u00a0alums Lala Kent<\/a> and Tom Schwartz<\/a> are once again playing\u00a0into the dating rumors about them.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 28, former SUR hostess Lala shared a picture of herself arm in arm with Tom, a \u201csoft launch\u201d of their relationship, as she humorously captioned the Instagram Story. The pair smiled in their shades with the mountains in the background, a follow-up to when they jokingly announced a \u201chard launch\u201d<\/a> of their coupledom \u2014 only this time around, Lala stated their soft launch was \u201cLike so soft it\u2019s not even real, type soft.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, in a Sept. 30 Amazon Live stream<\/a>, she shared a more serious statement about the romance rumors. “Some people won’t let the Lala and Tom Schwartz thing go, and I just don’t see it happening,” she said. “He is one of my dearest friends, though. We’ve gotten very close over the past, I wanna say, year. He’s just a good dude.”<\/p>\n

What’s more, “I think he may be talking to someone right now,” Lala added. “Not that that would matter. But he seems very happy.”<\/p>\n

\"Lala<\/p>\n

Lala Kent and Tom Schwartz wearing sunglasses and posing for a photo together<\/p>\n

Everything to know about Lala Kent and Tom Schwartz\u2019s dating rumors<\/p>\n

Rumors about the longtime costars dating began earlier this year, even though Tom said in July on his Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz podcast<\/a> that he had \u201cno clue where that rumor originated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related: Tom Schwartz Reacts to Katie Maloney\u2019s Bold Statement on His Proposal: \u201cWhat the Helly\u2026\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The businessman joked, \u201cIf it’s on the internet, it’s true, right?\u201d before laughing, \u201cIs this a hard launch? This is a hard launch.\u201d Later, he clarified in the comment section, \u201cNo, we are not dating.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, on Lala\u2019s birthday earlier this month, Tom once again leaned into circulating whispers<\/a> when posting a snap of Lala, wishing a Happy Birthday to his \u201cimaginary internet GF.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rumors weren\u2019t reserved for online chatter, either. They reached into the Bravosphere, where VPR\u2019s Scheana Shay<\/a> entered the chat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Scheana Shay weighs in on the Lala Kent and Tom Schwartz romance rumors<\/p>\n

On the July 4 episode of her Scheananigans with Scheana podcast, the friend of The Valley<\/a> said she didn\u2019t think there was \u201cany truth\u201d to the Lala-Tom dating rumors. Or, as she called it, \u201cthe tea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Scheana, \u201cI can tell you this. If they’re secretly dating, they’re secretly dating from me because I have heard this only online. So as far as I know, there is no truth to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lala Kent speculates if she’d date Tom Schwartz<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Lala admitted on the June 23 episode<\/a> of her former Give Them Lala podcast<\/a> that fans recognized their on-screen \u201cchemistry.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Explained Lala, \u201cCan I tell you, Schwartzy, we got this so much [Vanderpump Rules] Season 11 \u2026 And I didn\u2019t realize it because I avoid the comment section, but it was every time I went on a podcast or anything like that. People always said that \u2026 We talked about it. I feel like I would be way too high-strung and intense for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The single mother admitted on an Amazon Live stream that perhaps she was too much of a homebody for Tom, too. As she put it, \u201cI was like, if Schwartz liked to go out a little bit or a lot of bit less, and I liked to go out a lot of bit more, who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n

Related: Tom Schwartz Shouts Out the Special Woman in His Life He Loves \u201cthe Most\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Who is Lala Kent dating?<\/p>\n

Lala is single and recently stated<\/a> that she believes she\u2019ll eventually begin dating again, but perhaps not anytime soon. In her Detox\u00a0Retox interview with Tom, she added, \u201cI haven’t thought about men in a romantic way in a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A split of Tom Schwartz and Lala Kent.<\/p>\n

Who is Tom Schwartz dating?<\/p>\n

In spite of Lala’s comments about Tom “talking” to somebody, he has yet to share that he’s dating anyone since\u00a0previously being linked<\/a> to\u00a0Sophia Skoro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find more drama by learning\u00a0Lala\u2019s surprising reason for her public feud with Scheana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanderpump Rules\u00a0alums Lala Kent and Tom Schwartz are once again playing\u00a0into the dating rumors about them. On Sept.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,51391,12986,65747,12987],"class_list":{"0":"post-205898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lala-kent","11":"tag-scheana-shay","12":"tag-tom-schwartz","13":"tag-vanderpump-rules"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}