Kyle Cooke said Amanda Batula’s relationship with West Wilson landed “a little different” for him backstage at the Summer House Season 10 reunion, a day when he admitted the split with his wife still felt raw. He said he was trying to stay calm, rise above it all, and not let his emotions get the best of him.
The comments came after Cooke and Batula announced in January 2026 that they were splitting after four years of marriage, and after Batula began dating Wilson in March 2026. That sequence is why Cooke’s reaction matters now: it turns a private breakup into a public reunion storyline, with one of his friends suddenly inside the most uncomfortable part of it.
Cooke said he and Batula had been working hard to keep the separation amicable and to avoid the kind of public unraveling he has seen other couples go through. Instead, he called Batula dating Wilson “an uppercut,” a word that carried the sting of a plan gone wrong. He said the situation was especially hard because the relationship was supposed to be handled quietly, not as a fresh point of discussion in front of a camera-ready cast.
He also said he cried the night before the reunion taping. Looking back on the evening, Cooke described it as “a little surreal” and said he felt the cast had been through a lot. That framing is what gives the reunion comments their weight: this was not just a passing complaint about an ex, but a rare public admission that the post-split dynamic was still affecting him far more than he wanted it to.
There is still one part he said may never be settled. Cooke said he does not know whether the show will ever truly get to the bottom of the Amanda Batula and West Wilson timeline, which leaves the biggest unanswered question hanging where it began — not in a grand statement, but in the exact moment the breakup stopped being only about the two people who ended it.
Cooke later tried to cool speculation after he and Batula were photographed smiling and laughing together in New York City after the In The City Season 1 reunion taping. In an Instagram Story, he said they had shared a brief elevator conversation, joked about whether photographers would catch them leaving together, and laughed when that is exactly what happened. Bravo said Summer House airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Peacock, while In The City Season 1 airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. and streams the next day on Peacock.
