Amanda Batula gave followers a fresh look at her relationship with West Wilson on Monday, Aug. 24, posting a rare Instagram carousel that pulled together photos from the past few months. The post showed the pair lying in the grass, sipping wine on a sailboat, drinking drinks, hanging out at a restaurant and posing in a kitchen.
It was the clearest public update on the Amanda Batula boyfriend West Wilson search this summer, after both had kept a lower profile than they did earlier in the year. Batula’s post also included a shot of her wearing Wilson’s Montana State University sweatshirt, along with another photo of him sitting on top of her while they were on a train platform together.
Batula captioned the set, “Weenies and martinis,” and Wilson answered in the comments with, “Straws at Del’s >”. The exchange gave the post a casual, teasing tone that matched the rest of the carousel. Wilson had already given fans a smaller look at their summer earlier in August, when he posted a carousel that included Batula, and he also shared a photo of the two of them posed together on a boardwalk.
The new post matters because it follows a stretch of noticeably limited public appearances for the pair, even though they had already been seen together in July at a wedding in Montana. Wilson posted a photo from that wedding on July 23, and Batula and Wilson had also shared separate Instagram Stories from the event in mid-July. By Monday, the online picture was less about a single outing than a pattern: the two were still together, still posting, but doing it sparingly.
That restraint makes Batula’s comments from the In The City Season 1 reunion stand out even more. During Part 1, she said she was still dating Wilson and described him as “supportive,” adding that she was getting things from him that she felt she was lacking in her relationship with Kyle Cooke. The post did not answer why Batula had been keeping such a low profile this summer, but it did make one thing plain: when she chooses to share, Wilson is now part of the picture.
The unanswered piece is not whether they are still together. Batula’s post and Wilson’s response settled that. What remains open is why the pair chose to stay so quiet for so long, and whether Monday’s carousel is the start of more frequent public glimpses or just another brief look before they go back off the grid.
