SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Part 2 of the Season 10 “Summer House” reunion, streaming on Peacock as of May 27.
Where will it go from here? That was the first thought running through my mind following the dramatic opening salvo to “Summer House’s” three-part Season 10 reunion. We’d already seen Ciara Miller (with an assist from Lindsay Hubbard) read Westling “West” Wilson” and Amanda Batula for filth over their illicit situationship. But, quite frankly, it does make a little bit of sense for the ex-creative director of a canned cocktail company to be dating a Complex hypebeast whose journalistic claim to fame is interviewing Hawk Tuah on a boat — so it remained to be seen how Bravo’s Andy Cohen and his gang of Hamptons interlopers would entertain us for two more hours.
Please forgive me for ever doubting you, Andy, because Part 2 delivered an embarrassment of reality TV riches, from West’s not-to-secret ex-girlfriend Meija Moreno revealing herself (!) and Kyle Cooke’s infidelity to the politics of interracial dating.
Here are the five biggest moments.
West’s Ex-Girlfriend Meija Speaks
As we learned in Part 1 of the reunion, West had a girlfriend — Meija Moreno — up until his March 24 appearance on “Watch What Happens Live!” He even shouted her out on the show, wearing one of her horsehair ties. This occurred one week before West and Amanda publicly announced their situationship on Instagram in a mealy-mouthed statement that sounded like it was written by ChatGPT.
Kyle teases the eventual Meija reveal by calling a huddle onstage with Kyle, Ciara, Carl, Ben and Mia during a break in the action, and insinuates that West got with Amanda for publicity purposes. “The thing that I’m most focused on is West’s ease of lying,” he tells the group. “We know that he had a full-blown exclusive relationship since February of 2025. We actually have receipts. I reached out to Meija because the curiosity got the best of me. We went back and forth for a week. Everything I started learning about West made me question who he is. And I was like, Meija, with your permission, I’d like to share these notes with Ciara, because I think the two of you should talk. He knew [Amanda] was gonna have this glow-up — big breakup with ‘the bad guy.’”
Later on, during another break, Ciara has a FaceTime chat with Meija and gives her “a little recap” of what’s transpired during the reunion thus far, prompting Meija to divulge just how serious they were.
“We were literally dating last summer while you guys were filming,” she informs Ciara. “He referred to me as his ‘girlfriend’ all the time, we just weren’t in a public relationship… I literally was at his house every weekend he was filming. We knew we were in an exclusive relationship. I go over there the night before ‘Watch What Happens Live!,’ everything was so fine, he was telling me how much he loves me and everything was just totally fine.”
Meija then explains to Ciara, who’s been joined by Kyle, what West told her about why they couldn’t go public with their relationship: “[West] thinks he’ll get fired from the show if he’s in a relationship with someone who’s not from the Bravosphere.” (Kyle immediately calls BS on this.) “The other reason he would use, too, is if I bring you into this, obviously that’s putting you in a situation where people have eyes on you and they’ll have opinions about you. In hindsight, I’m like, OK, so you were concerned about people maybe pitting me against Ciara if I ever came on the show as your public girlfriend, but you’re very comfortable dumping me and then all of a sudden popping out the next day in a new relationship with Amanda, and I’m just left on my own to figure that out by myself? That’s just so fucking hurtful. I didn’t ask to be thrown in this situation. Our relationship is that easy for him to discredit?!”
Kyle’s Cheating Takes Center Stage
Amanda’s recent carelessness should not excuse the way Kyle treated her throughout their 10-year relationship (and four-year marriage), including the cheating rumors that constantly followed him around. First, Kyle accuses Amanda of “setting the tone” for the summer by jokingly remarking that he got into DJing to spite her after she proposed doing a swimsuit line (which we all saw happen). “The tone was set when you slept at a fan’s apartment,” Amanda fires back. “And I went into the summer frustrated with you.”
When Kyle and Andy press Amanda on why she’s sorta-dating a party boy now after Kyle’s partying was such a problem for her, she exclaims, “I’m single! It’s a different world.” She then adds, “It wasn’t that he was out every night, it was that he would come home blacked out, and there would be rumors about him all the time… I hated going out with Kyle. He would get so drunk, and we’d get in fights.”
After branding West “a kid” and “the most fraudulent phony I’ve ever met,” Kyle shares that he and Amanda split the very day they put their statement out in January, and that he didn’t even have a chance to warn his entire family before. “You were like, we’ve gotta push to send [the announcement] within the hour,” he says.
“The nail in the coffin was New Year’s Day for me,” Amanda counters, sharing her side. “Kyle and I were bickering. I didn’t go to New Year’s with him. I spent it myself; he spent it DJing at a restaurant. I woke up the next morning, [and] I saw that he was in a hotel at Hoboken. I’m going into 2026 wanting to have a fresh start, and he’s doing the same shit that he was doing that was pissing me off before. So, I waited until everyone was back in the office and I contacted Bravo PR immediately and I said, ‘I’m gonna put out a statement because I don’t want people watching this season thinking that Kyle and I are still together after I was treated this way the whole time.’”
Then, Kyle sorta confesses to cheating on Amanda: “There have been times where I’ve been out and I’ve been inappropriate. I will own it. Did I ever have an affair? No. Did I ever sleep with someone? No. Have I been completely starved and deprived of anything and everything from you? Yeah, and I’ve acted out.”
“He has stepped out of the marriage while we were together,” replies Amanda. “After we were married, there was a time that you were at a party asking a girl if you’d could kiss her and make out with her. She DM’d me on a personal level. That was my point. That was my issue with you going out, was you putting yourself in these positions.”
Amanda says she was sent a video of Kyle making out at the club one night while he was out with Shep and Taylor, which we can assume is Shep Rose and Taylor Ann Green from “Southern Charm.” We also learn that Kyle made out with Salley Carson (also from “Southern Charm”) the night before the “Summer House” premiere because of course they did. And Kyle hilariously argues he was not on his tippy-toes while kissing former “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member Meghan King after a Page Six party: “My heels never left the ground — analyze the tapes.”
Ciara and Interracial Dating in the Bravosphere
The most thought-provoking moment of the episode concerned the online minefield that is interracial dating in the Bravosphere, a network that features predominantly white casts. And it’s none other than KJ, arguably the most empathetic and sensitive cast member, who broaches the topic while upbraiding West. “My dad was a very womanizing player and my mom had to deal with so much shit, so that’s why I am hurting, West, because I don’t like that shit,” KJ tells West. “I grew up watching that firsthand, and it destroyed my family. My dad is a habitual liar. He lies to everyone, but then he puts on this persona like he’s got everything together and he makes people feel good, so it’s just, like — I’m seeing a correlation.”
KJ adds, “Also, too, the discussion we had over the summer when we talked about race, that was a very serious thing. And I don’t like to see Ciara being treated the way that she’s being treated.”
Earlier in Season 10, in the conversation KJ is citing, Ciara opened up to her castmates about the criticism she’s received online after being repeatedly clowned by white guys (West and Austen Kroll) on “Summer House,” “Winter House” and “Southern Charm.” “I get a lot of blowback that’s very racial, obviously, being in this position,” she said. “I was the first Black person in this house, and then dating white guys publicly, it’s a whole contraption that I don’t think you guys even understand or can even empathize with.”
Kyle Cooke, Ciara Miller, Andy Cohen, Amanda Batula and West Wilson at the “Summer House” Season 10 reunion
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West issues another one of his empty apologies to KJ and Ciara — wherein his voice de-crescendos to feign sincerity — and Ciara expands on KJ’s piece and why she addressed the topic of interracial dating during the season.
“It’s a whole other part that I have to endure and experience that my other castmates don’t have to. I just hit the point where I was like, I’m not going to sugarcoat things anymore,” she says, adding, “There are a lot of racial dynamics that happen in this group — that’s a part of having interracial relationships, interracial friendships, intercultural relationships and friendships. If I’m having white friends, in this day and age, we’re talking about race. How can we not? Politically speaking, it’s turmoil outside. I actually don’t want to be friends if we’re not talking about the political climate of this world, because there’s a whole other layer that we experience it in, so the conversations are vital.”
Amanda Leaves the Stage and West Doesn’t Go After Her
One of my personal highlights from Part 1 of the reunion was Lindsay berating West by calling him a “toddler.” It was Lindsay at her fiery best, and we got more of that in Part 2.
After Amanda rushes off the stage in tears and decamps to her dressing room, West declines to go after her, sitting around onstage like a deer in headlights. For West, optics and public sentiment are always paramount, so decisions like this tend to leave him catatonic as he ponders all the variables: “What will they think of me if I did X?”
Cue the inimitable Lindsay Hubbard: “Why isn’t her boyfriend going after her?” she wonders, before laying into him, “You should go after your fucking girl! Get up and go after her, West! Be a fucking man!”
“I would go after her to make sure she’s OK,” chimes in Kyle, and then West finally does. We can hear him comforting Amanda on a hot mic and telling her, “If you have to cry onstage, cry onstage.” Again, optics and public sentiment all day, all the time.
A Lindsay and Carl Lovefest
My favorite moment from the “Summer House” Season 10 finale went down in an igloo. There, Lindsay and Carl buried the hatchet, with Carl sincerely apologizing for dumping Lindsay on national television and Lindsay gaining the closure she’d been searching for. That emotional tête-à-tête, as well as Lindsay showing up to support Carl at the opening of Soft Bar, are brought up by Andy during Part 2.
“Yeah, I think deep-down, I know even before we dated, Lindsay was always a champion of wanting me to do well in my career and wanting me to be happy. Her walking in the door that day meant the world to me,” Carl says. “I really appreciate you showing up. It was just cool to have you there, because I care about you and always will. Having her show up for something like that, given everything that’s gone on and my behavior to her and how things unfolded, it just shows who Lindsay is and her character, and it was really cool. So, thank you.”
“Thank you for saying that,” Lindsay responds. “You seem more in your skin — you seem more confident — and that is such a beautiful thing to see. Knowing you for as long as I’ve known you, I do think that you are finally the person you’re supposed to be and always wanted to be, and that’s a beautiful thing to see.”
Aww.
Carl and Lindsay reunited for a timely Uber Eats ad riffing on the viral Kyle line “Carl’s a mess,” which Lindsay says they did to “bring a lighthearted energy to a seemingly dark situation.” When Andy asks Amanda and West how they feel about their friends “monetizing their situation,” Amanda weighs in: “I would have never done that to them during their breakup, and it did hurt a little bit.”
Enter Ciara: “Please… Please… Please!” she exclaims, adding, “You would never monetize something but you would fuck your friend’s ex? We don’t know where your bar is.”
“Also, we’ve been here for 10 years. I’m sorry, but I can do whatever the fuck I want,” says Lindsay.
“I’ve been here for just as long,” shoots back Amanda.
And then Lindsay, for the win: “OK, well I’m not fucking my friend’s ex.”
Whew. Can’t wait for Part 3.
