SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Part 1 of the Season 10 “Summer House” reunion, streaming on Peacock as of May 27.
What a week for New Yorkers.
On Monday night, the New York Knicks trounced the Cleveland Cavaliers to reach the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years. And Tuesday, the first part of the “Summer House” Season 10 reunion saw Lindsay Hubbard call Westling Wilson a “toddler.”
In the immortal words of Stefon, “This place has everything.”
For those of you who haven’t been keeping track of all the “Summer House” drama — which I break down in rigorous detail here — on March 31, two of the Hamptons-set series’ cast members, Westling Wilson and Amanda Batula, publicly announced that they were in a situationship on Instagram. This confirmation followed weeks of speculative gossip about them on sites like Deuxmoi, including alleged footage of them caught in a compromising position. This news is noteworthy to the Bravoverse because Amanda and her husband of four years, Kyle Cooke, had announced their separation in January; Amanda’s close friend, Ciara Miller, had previously dated West and still has feelings for him; Ciara had spent the entire 10th season of the show serving as a shoulder to cry on for Amanda while her marriage fell apart; and West actively pursued Ciara all summer, kissing her during the season finale. Furthermore, a series of audio leaks from the “Summer House” reunion appeared to show West and Amanda acting defiant and unapologetic in the face of criticism.
Jesse Solomon says the #SummerHouse reunion was “worse” than he expected:
“I was hoping to leave there and we’d all find a little common ground, maybe be able to repair things. But it didn’t feel that way.” pic.twitter.com/QkGkMGBrBr
— Variety (@Variety) May 25, 2026
The “Summer House” Season 10 reunion episodes — the first of three parts — kicked off Tuesday night on Bravo (and will stream uncensored starting Wednesday on Peacock). It opens on March 31, as Lindsay is seated on a couch taping confessional interviews for the “Summer House” spinoff “In the City.” Kyle enters, and tells her to check her phone, flagging the aforementioned situationship post. A conference call ensues between the two, Jesse Solomon, Mia Calabrese and Carl Radke, who is a mess.
“Amanda tried to play it off last night like it’s only been happening for a month,” Kyle shares of his estranged wife and West. “Bullshit. At minimum, the second week of January they were together,” offers Mia. “And I will say,” adds Kyle, “there were blinds going back to June 2025.”
The orchestral score races and swells in the background as if we’re in a psychological thriller — you really do have it to give it to Bravo — as the action jumps forward to April 23, the day of the reunion taping.
“I’ve been on this for 10 years, from the beginning,” says Carl, who is still a mess. “What’s been going on the last month and a half, two months, is unlike anything we’ve ever experienced.”
KJ Dillard points out that West and Amanda making a public spectacle of themselves at a Yankees game rather coincidentally happened the same day that Ciara’s Glamour magazine cover issue dropped, and that KJ was initially supposed to go to the game with West because they were playing the Kansas City Royals (KJ and West’s hometown club), but he didn’t go because “we’re not friends anymore” and “that hurts… I considered him like a brother.”
We are treated to a heartfelt exchange between reunion host Andy Cohen and Ciara in her dressing room. “Who do you feel more betrayed by?” he asks her. “Amanda,” Ciara responds. “I mean, I’m shocked by West, but I’m also really hurt by Amanda.” Then, there’s a hard (soft?) transition to the boys in their dressing room joking about West’s dick pic that’s unfortunately started making the rounds. “It’s not a good dick pic!” exclaims Kyle. “Who does it flaccid?” chimes in Jesse. And lastly, Andy pays a visit to Amanda and West, who are sharing a dressing room. When he asks them how they think the reunion’s gonna go, Amanda takes the floor: “The truth is already out there. It’s just going to be shutting down the rumors.” As for seeing Ciara, Amanda maintains, “I mean, there’s a lot of guilt. That’s my friend, and it kills me that I’m the one that caused her any pain.” It is an unpersuasive mea culpa, to say the least. And the first of many.
The women of “Summer House” strut onto the set looking fabulous; the men, considerably less so. In a blink-and you’ll-miss-it moment, as Ciara marches out in her tight corset, West can be seen pursing his lips while eyeing her because he cannot help himself, as has been made abundantly clear. The fireworks start almost immediately.
“I’m prepared to own up to what I’ve done, take accountability, apologize — especially to Ciara and Kyle — and just hopefully be able to explain to everyone’s face what went on, and where I’m coming from,” Amanda says.
“I’m glad you could say our name this time,” Ciara shoots back, a nod to how she and Kyle were conspicuously left out of Amanda and West’s relationship announcement.
Ciara first suspected that something was up between Amanda and West on Jan. 17, when she invited Amanda out to drinks with her and Mia, but she wasn’t answering her phone. So, she checked Amanda’s location and discovered that she was at West’s apartment.
“West was there for me all summer and was checking in…” Amanda mumbles.
“And where was I?” Ciara presses. “And how many times have I asked you to hang out and you have either blown me off…” — at which point Amanda tries to talk over her, and Ciara tells her to “shut the fuck up,” continuing, “How many times have I asked you to hang out, have I asked to come over to your house, have I invited you to do stuff, and you act like your phone doesn’t work?!”
Kyle Cooke and Ciara Miller at the “Summer House” Season 10 reunion.
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The focus turns to West, who’s remained mum up to that point, and the level to which he’d deceived his friends about his budding situationship with Amanda.
“I 100% lied to people here, and I take full accountability for that. Not cool to do in general, not cool to do to your friends, and no matter the case, lying to people you care about is not OK,” he says.
Cue Ciara: “The problem is that I feel like you lie about your life. 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, and I don’t think 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.”
Then, the kicker: “Probably the reason it was so confusing is: You had a girlfriend! Meija [Moreno].”
Yes, West apparently had a girlfriend as he started seeing Amanda, and his denial prompts Lindsay to point out how Meija said the two were “exclusive” and that “she spent the night with you the night before you were on ‘Watch What Happens Live!’ on March 24,” or a week before West and Amanda’s notorious IG post.
“Correct,” West admits. “She brought me that [horse-hair] tie.” (Westling made a point to plug his probable-girlfriend’s horse-hair tie on the show.)
And Amanda, who’s been staring into the abyss throughout this exchange, is snapped back to reality by Mia, who asks: “You went from being married to being one of West’s side bitches? That’s crazy.” I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Mia needs to be a permanent addition to the “Summer House” cast. Just delightful.
It is here that I will simply list a series of quotes from Amanda:
- “Is it weird I’ve never gotten any?” (Amanda on Westling’s dick pics)
- “Oh my God! Guess what? I had an awakening! I was living on my own, I’d separated from my ex, and I was trying to prioritize myself!”
- “Sometimes you can’t help who you like and who you’re attracted to.”
- “Oh, I’m sorry, but when I’m separated from someone I have to stay celibate and single for the rest of my life until the judge signs paperwork?”
- “So I’m not allowed to pursue something that I feel strongly about? No one in this world has ever been in a situation like this before?”
- “This is not the craziest thing that’s ever happened in the whole entire world! You guys are acting like I had an affair!”
Yikes. While I do think Amanda has caught too much flak from the public for her reckless behavior, the way she plays the victim throughout Part 1 of the reunion doesn’t do her any favors. You do not believe for one single second that she thinks she’s overstepped in any way, or that she even cares about the toll this has taken on one of her closest friends.
Ciara, for her part, has this scathing response to Amanda’s “celibate” line:
“Nobody was saying that you needed to stay celibate or what the fuck ever, but there are a million other fucking guys in New York City, but you chose the one that — and you know how much that fucked me up — you chose the one guy, and you did it on purpose because you’re a fucking snake, Amanda. You’re a snake in the fucking grass, is what you are. You’re a snake in the fucking grass, and you should honestly just say, ‘OK,’ because you know you are. You move silent but you’re fucking deadly.” (The “snake in the grass” bit comes off a bit too rehearsed, for what it’s worth.)
We also see Ciara dictate a series of texts Amanda sent her where she lies about her relationship with West, saying they’re just friends; and Kyle, who mostly remains silent, questions why, for the first time in years, Amanda began turning off her phone location. Their first kiss, West and Amanda allege, was “at the end of February after brunch,” and they slept together for the first time only after releasing the statement.
The cast of “Summer House” Season 10 with host Andy Cohen.
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After a good half-hour of West and Amanda getting grilled, Andy guides the conversation to other topics, such as Mia opening up about losing her mother — “I just try and almost live for my mom and my dad, and do all the things I can that I know they would want me to do” — KJ candidly detailing his mental health battle: “In the fall, I went through some heavy stuff mentally. I actually had to go to the hospital for self-harm,” he says. “I was there for a week. Mia and Ciara were there almost every day, and then I went to recovery and that solidified it for me. I was there for a few months… But now I’m better — I’m in therapy, and I’m on medication. I got diagnosed with BPD when I was in the hospital, and I’m grateful that I’m here, alive, because I could have not been.” (While Mia and KJ were side characters during this season of “Summer House,” the way their traumatic stories are glossed over does not sit well.)
We are also treated to Bailey Taylor making a meal of her moment, going off on Ben for reprimanding her over that joke she’d told about him wanting to sleep with Amanda. “You like to reprimand women, that was your problem,” she tells him. “I don’t fucking like the way you talk to Sabrina and I don’t like the way you talk to me, and I think you’re full of shit.” Preach.
Everyone’s standout moment from Part 1 of the reunion will be different, but for me, it came from the inimitable Lindsay Hubbard. Clad in an eye-catching red dress, she calmly takes in West’s bullshit explanation as to why he had Ciara over for kissy sleepovers in the fall (!) only to rip her heart out some months later.
“West, you’re so fucking good. I’m getting pulled into you right now, and I can catch myself. You’re so fucking good,” she says. “You’re good at pulling girls. Do whatever you need to do to climb the ladder, to clout-chase to get wherever you fucking need to go, 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.”
Bravo, Lindsay. You’re the best reason to watch “In the City,” and I will continue to do so on the off chance that I’ll get to witness moments like this. As for the “Summer House” Season 10 reunion, I can’t believe there are two more parts to this. After the first, I’m sorely in need of a drink (or three).
