George Santos and Tom Sandoval just got lumped into the same category, and it didn’t come from a gossip account. It came from a Navy SEAL. Jovon“Q”Quarles, a directing staff member on Fox’s“Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test,”told Page Six’s“Virtual Reali-Tea”that Santos reminds him of Sandoval because neither man takes accountability for his actions. Quarles described the pattern as“nothing I’ve done was wrong,”followed by pointing the finger at someone else.
The comparison has some serious context behind it. Sandoval joined the show in Season 2, right after the 2023 cheating scandal with Rachel Leviss that imploded his nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix. Santos came aboard for Season 5 following his fraud conviction, his prison sentence, and a commutation from President Trump after three months served. Quarles said he took Santos’history personally given his own military deployments, and he wanted to give him“a taste”of losing control.
That mission got off to a rough start. In the Season 5 premiere, Santos’dock attempt went viral for all the wrong reasons, and Quarles called it“the funniest thing,”comparing it to a dead sea lion rolling over and falling back into the water. New episodes air Thursdays on Fox with next-day streaming on Hulu. So here’s what we want to know: do you think either of these guys can actually earn back public trust, or is accountability just not in the script?
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