[This story contains spoilers from part one of the Summer House season 10 reunion.]
Bravo aired the first part of the Summer House season 10 reunion on Tuesday night, where West Wilson and Amanda Batula shared new details about the beginning of their romance that triggered reality television’s latest scandal.
The debut reunion episode also captured the first in-person interactions between Ciara Miller, her ex and former best friend, where things got heated quickly. The upcoming Dancing With the Stars contestant even argued that she could see Wilson and Batula working out in an icy moment.
“Maybe they’ll be together, because I honestly think that the best woman for West is someone who’s not gonna check him on anything, and that’s totally Amanda,” Miller said. “She’s very mute, she’s gonna be that weak figure that he needs, and he can always be the star in the relationship. So I actually think, like, maybe it could work.”
Before that, part one of the Summer House reunion kicked off just as the trailer promised, with Lindsay Hubbard in the midst of filming a confessional interview for the new spinoff, In The City. However, the Summer House cut was much longer, capturing Hubbard and Kyle Cooke’s reaction to Wilson and Batula releasing their joint statement (and confirming their romance) on March 31.
Jesse Solomon called Hubbard amid the chaos, as did their fellow co-stars Mia Calabrese and Carl Radke, as they all joined a joint phone call to discuss their reaction to the statement. During that phone call, Cooke, who is married but separated from Batula, said he spoke with his wife the night before.
Calabrese also shared her suspicions that Wilson and Batula began their romance potentially in the second week of January.
Fast forward to April 23, the day that the Summer House reunion was filmed in New York City. Andy Cohen spoke with all parties involved in the scandal briefly before they convened on the stage and chaos erupted.
In an awkward moment just after Miller arrived at the reunion set, Wilson checked his phone and was notified that his phone was hacked and a nude photo of him was swirling around. His male Summer House co-stars already talked about these alleged nudes backstage, though, before they saw him on set. Solomon even let Wilson see the nude photo he was sent with claims that it was a photo of Wilson, to which he confirms that it was a photo of himself.
Cohen greeted each of the cast members, with Batula starting by saying she wants to take accountability and apologize specifically to Miller and Cooke.
“I’m glad you could say our names this time,” Miller says, in reference to the joint statement that has been criticized for not citing Miller and Cooke by name.
The Bravo boss wasted no time getting into the nitty-gritty details of the controversy, and Miller revealed she was first skeptical of Wilson and Batula on Jan. 17 when she called the latter to invite her out to drinks with Calabrese and she didn’t answer her calls and noticed her location was at Wilson’s apartment.
“I had called and she didn’t answer,” Miller said, as Batula shook her head no. “Then texted, and she didn’t answer,” Miller continued, shaking her head up and down in a yes motion in response to Batula. She argued that she answered within 30 minutes later, which Miller said she found weird.
Miller also called out Wilson, sharing many speculated claims that he had a girlfriend (or at least someone he was exclusively dating) when he started exploring things with Batula.
“I think the problem is now you lie about your life,” Miller said to Wilson. “You lie about who you are. I think you’re the most fraudulent person sitting on this couch. We’ve been here three years now. I don’t know anybody really, truly knows who you are. You live a different fucking life off camera than you do on camera. We don’t know what you’re doing, and probably the reason why it was so confusing is because you had a girlfriend. Meija?”
“Not a girlfriend, but I was seeing someone,” Wilson mustered as a response.
Hubbard also backed up those allegations, noting that the woman he was seemingly seeing, Meija Moreno, said she stayed the night with him the day before his March 24 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, where he shouted her out for the horsehair tie he wore in that episode.
Batula claimed she was aware Wilson was seeing Moreno.
Miller then pulled out her phone to go over her texts with Batula from early March, when rumors that she and Wilson started a romantic relationship picked up online. Batula said at that point, their relationship had been kept “PG,” and Miller asked her explicitly to clarify, “You and West haven’t hooked up, made out, held hands under a table or had sex?” Batula replied in their texts, “Correct.”
“And I lied,” Batula said at the reunion. Cohen asked the couple who made the first move, and Wilson said that he recalled a moment when they were out and he asked if she felt something between them. They said they first kissed in February after a brunch, as a photo of some of the men of Summer House popped up on the screen, dated to March 1.
Batula also said that she did not have sex with Wilson until after they released their joint statement. (Their Summer House co-stars did not seem to believe their timeline.)
Cohen took some time to speak to new castmembers about their freshman seasons on the show, before they got onto the topic of Miller and Wilson somewhat rekindling their flame on season 10. The two shared a few kisses at the end of the season, and Miller questioned at the reunion if his pursuits were merely for storyline purposes.
“You and Amanda feel like the best revenge that you could execute. And honestly,” Miller said as she began clapping her hands, “Claps to you.”
Wilson said he expressed that he did not want to commit to Miller, and that the two got dinner post-Summer House season 10 where he said he didn’t want to jump back into their romance. However, Miller did clarify that she spent the night at his place in NYC twice after filming ended throughout the fall, but the terms of them hanging out again were that they would not have sex.
As Wilson argued that he made it clear he didn’t want to have a committed relationship with Wilson, Hubbard bluntly offered her take on the situation.
“West, you’re so fucking good. I’m, like, getting pulled into you right now, and I can catch myself. You’re so fucking good. You’re good at pulling girls, do whatever you need to do to climb the latter, to clout-chase, to get whenever you need to fucking go,” she said, as Miller added, “And then you drop them.”
Hubbard continued, “And then, boom. They don’t work for you, they don’t serve what you need to be served, and you drop them. You’re gonna do the same fucking thing to Amanda when this is not working out, because it’s not going to, and you’re not going to be able to handle it, West, because you’re a fucking toddler.”
Miller offered her direct explanation for why Wilson and Batula might work out in the end, arguing that “the best woman for West is someone who’s not gonna check him on anything, and that’s totally Amanda. Like, she’s very mute, she’s gonna be that weak figure that he needs, and he can always be the star in the relationship. So I actually think, like, maybe it could work.”
Afterwards, Cooke, who was seated next to Miller, leaned over to her and whispered, “That was a little harsh.”
“That’s your wife, she’s not my wife,” she responded. Cooke added, “You have every right to feel the way you feel but even that was hard for me to hear.”
Batula was visibly shaken up and began crying, as Cooke also appeared teary-eyed.
And that’s where the first part of the Summer House reunion ended, with a striking “To Be Continued” message looming.
Immediately following part one of the Summer House reunion, the second episode of In The City aired.
Season 10 of Summer House is now streaming on Peacock, with all three reunion parts airing Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Uncensored and extended versions of all three parts will be available to stream the next day on Peacock.
