Summer House fans have watched every phase of Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula’s relationship, beginning in season 1 when she wasn’t even an official cast member but would sneak into the house to hook up. In front of cameras, they’ve navigated cheating, getting engaged, planning a wedding, working on their business and more.
In season 10, however, they were “at a crossroads,” according to Amanda, before ultimately calling it quits this month.
“We’re figuring out what we want out of life and out of the relationship,” Amanda, 34, told Us Weekly exclusively weeks before she and Kyle made their split public. “We’re sort of trying to talk through that and figure it all out in real time. It’s going to be a very raw season.”
One issue at hand this round is Kyle’s career as a DJ, though he doesn’t agree that adding a job tied to more partying is to blame.
“There’s no particular issue — what you’re seeing is a 10-year relationship. … A lot of people don’t make it very far, and that’s on or off camera,” Kyle, 43, told Us, calling his deejaying “an easy thing to point a finger at.” He noted that he’s always traveled for work and had an “affinity for music” Still, he added, “I’m not trying to discredit how Amanda feels — her frustrations are totally valid. I think that’s part of what we’re trying to figure out.”
Since November 2025, there have been rumors that the twosome were on the rocks. They responded by putting on a united front at BravoCon and poking fun at reports that she had moved out on social media. One element that stood out to Us as a potential indicator about their status during their interviews, however, was the fact that Kyle didn’t know Amanda told the story about him falling asleep at a fan’s house on the show until the teaser dropped.
“I had no idea she talked about that. That was something that happened last February, so, literally almost a year ago. I think a lot of people jump to conclusions,” he said, calling the evening an “unofficial afterparty” following a Bravo event. “Trailers are trailers — you don’t have context. That’s why they’re so riveting and dramatic. … It was by no means just me spending the night with some fan.”
Both Carl Radke and Jesse Solomon pointed out that the show can magnify relationship issues.
“If you pointed a camera at 95 percent of people’s marriages, we’d all be like, ‘Oh, my God, wait, what?’” Carl offered. “I give Kyle and Amanda a ton of credit — it’s not easy when your relationship is a topic of conversation every summer. … It’s a gift and a curse that they allow us in.”
From Jesse’s point of view, “What you see on TV is the boiled-down, most intense moments.” He also acknowledged the love between them: “I really do feel like they are each other’s person. … I just want both of them to be happy — whatever that means for them.”
Amanda admitted that she might get answers about her own marriage watching the season back.
“Being on the same page with what our future looks like, what we want in life, where we’re going career-wise. … Things just sort of became different for us,” Amanda said. “I mean, honestly, I’m gonna have to watch it back and figure it out with everyone else, because I still don’t know! … I’m going to be learning a lot watching the show back.”
Overall, Kyle reiterated, “Love is challenging and complicated. Relationships are challenging and complicated. Marriage is challenging and complicated.” He went on to call season 10 his “most challenging season ever.”
“I’m proud of how open and honest [Amanda and I] are,” he said. “I think there’s gonna be a lot of people that can relate or identify or learn from some of the challenges that we’ve had. Ultimately, we’re just trying to navigate this just like anybody else. It’s just very different, because for a decade, we have had the luxury of all of our friends talking excessively about our relationship and then the entire internet. So, it’s not easy, but I realize this is what we signed up for, but I think that I’m hoping people understand and hopefully have some level of respect for us putting it all out there, and this is by no means a moment to choose sides. We’re trying to navigate this to the day.”
Of the endless fan chatter about their ups and downs, he added, “I hope people appreciate our willingness to put it all out there.”
On her end, Amanda noted to Us that in a “strange, weird and twisted” way, one of the words she uses to describe this summer is “healing.”
The former couple, along with Lindsay Hubbard, subsequently went directly from filming Summer House to its new NYC-based spinoff, In the City. Kyle said going into filming the spinoff contributed to 2025 being “the perfect storm” for him personally and professionally.
“Once I found out In the City was green-lit, I was already filming Summer House,” he revealed. “These things take so much time, you almost have to assume it’s not going to work out. And when it was green-lit, I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ Normally I film Summer House, I give it my all, and then, literally, the weekend after Labor Day, I try to recuperate and decompress. I am off to the races with my business making up for lost time. [This year], I’m thinking to myself, ‘I’m having the most challenging year professionally ever as an entrepreneur, and I’m going to literally film two shows back to back.’ Even when we did Winter House, there was a six-month gap.”
Lindsay hinted that things were still unfolding between the pair at the time of our interview, admitting, “I don’t know what’s gonna happen. There’s a lot of moving parts at all times.”
Summer House season 10 premieres on Bravo Tuesday, February 3, at 8 p.m. ET.
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