‘She didn’t say that by accident’ – Lala Kent’s bombshell ‘sperm donor’ comment about Tom Schwartz was a calculated move as insiders claim she’s been seriously exploring co-parenting with him behind the scenes - suong

It turns out Lala Kent’s eyebrow-raising revelation on her podcast this week—where she joked that she’d choose Tom Schwartz as her “sperm donor” if she had to pick a Vanderpump Rules cast member—wasn’t as spontaneous as it seemed.

According to a source close to the reality star, the moment wasn’t a throwaway laugh line. In fact, it was a carefully calculated way to ease the public into an idea that Lala has allegedly been toying with for months: co-parenting with Schwartz for real.

“She didn’t say that by accident,” the insider tells DailyMail+. “Lala has been seriously considering Tom as a future co-parent. They’ve been closer than people realize, and this has been a private conversation between them for a while now. That podcast moment was her way of testing how fans would react.”

On the June 23 episode of Give Them Lala, the 34-year-old mother-of-two told Schwartz directly, “I got asked what Vanderpump cast member I would choose as my baby daddy or my sperm donor… and I said you.” Schwartz responded playfully, calling himself “so easy,” and the two gushed over their bond in a way that many listeners found unusually affectionate.

But behind the banter, the stakes may be much higher.

Sources say Lala, who welcomed her second child, Sosa, via a sperm donor last fall, has grown increasingly thoughtful about the prospect of giving her daughters a present and consistent father figure—especially after the emotional and logistical challenges of solo parenting two young kids.

“Lala’s tired,” the source continued. “She’s been doing it on her own, and while she’s proud of that, she’s also craving stability for her girls. Schwartz is already good with Ocean, and she sees something soft and loyal in him. There’s a part of her that thinks, ‘What if we didn’t just pretend?’”

Schwartz, for his part, has remained mostly mum on the romance rumors swirling around them following his recent breakup from 24-year-old Sophia Skoro. But on Lala’s podcast, he did call her one of his “best friends,” and multiple eyewitnesses have claimed they’ve seen the two dining together around Los Angeles more frequently than ever.

“They’re always together at this one bistro I work at,” a restaurant employee recently told Bravo and Cocktails. “He always picks up the check. They look like a couple already.”

If the rumors are true, the implications could be explosive—not just for their personal lives, but also for their tangled Bravo history. Lala is a longtime ally of Katie Maloney, Schwartz’s ex-wife. The two women have maintained a complex friendship since Katie’s divorce, but insiders say Katie “wouldn’t exactly be thrilled” to see her ex raising children with Lala.

“Lala knows there would be fallout,” the source admits. “But she also knows how to handle public backlash. If she really wants this, she’s going to do it on her terms.”

What makes the story even more complicated is Lala’s long-standing assertion that she’s done with traditional dating. After a bitter split from her ex-fiancé Randall Emmett, she’s been vocal about using sperm donors, working with fertility clinics, and designing her own path to motherhood without emotional entanglements.

Which is why this potential shift with Schwartz feels so personal—and so unprecedented.

“She swore off relationships, but Schwartz doesn’t feel like a relationship,” the insider explained. “He feels safe. He feels like family. And if she’s going to take another leap, it’s only going to be with someone like that.”

As of now, neither Lala nor Schwartz has publicly confirmed or denied a romantic or parental arrangement, but fans are reading between the lines—and watching their every move. Whether this is a soft launch of something serious, or just another moment of flirtation in the ever-blurred world of Vanderpump Rules, remains to be seen.

But one thing is clear: Lala’s “sperm donor” comment wasn’t just a joke. It was a clue.