A Timeline of the ‘Summer House’ Love-Triangle Drama

It was the joint Instagram Story heard round the world. On March 31, Amanda Batula and West Wilson of Summer House announced they were officially a couple with all the social and emotional consequences. Wait, what’s that? They only announced that they have “a connection” and they want our “understanding and respect” as they “navigate” whatever that connection is? It’s longer than the joint statement Batula and Kyle Cooke made to announce their separation.

After this joint situationship news broke online, fellow Summer House cast member (and Wilson’s ex-girlfriend) Ciara Miller was spotted in photos obtained by “Page Six” “slumped against the Hermès store in New York City” being “comforted by an unidentified male.” Everyone from Summer House cast members Lindsay Hubbard and KJ Dillard, to indie songstress Remi Wolf, to actor and Bravo stan Jon Hamm has expressed their shock and disgust. People are calling it the new Scandoval. Others are praying it’s an extended April Fools’ prank. We may not know the grisly details until the Summer House season-ten reunion, which Andy Cohen says is taping on April 15. Until then, here’s everything we know about the messy saga of Miller, Wilson, and Batula.

Summer 2020: ICU nurse Ciara Miller joins the cast of Summer House in its fifth season. She is experiencing major burnout from doing her job during the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time, Cooke and Batula have been together since season one and engaged since 2018. Already a major theme of the show is the fighting between Cooke and Batula, usually over his desire to have fun and hers to be together. In season two, Cooke famously said “fun” and “Amanda” were antithetical concepts. Yet they still got married.

Also in this pandemic season are Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner (future Giggly Squad podcast magnates). Because of pandemic filming restrictions during, the cast members are forced to spend all their time at the titular summer house rather than just venturing out for weekends. This causes a pressure-cooker-like energy at the house and results in Berner feuding with both Cooke and Batula. Berner eventually exits the show after season five.

Winter 2020: Miller is part of the first cast of Winter House, Bravo’s attempt at Bachelor in Paradise, which is basically a hookup extravaganza between various IPs. While there, she gets into a love triangle with Summer House’s Lindsay Hubbard and Southern Charm’s Austen Kroll. Miller later says she didn’t speak to Hubbard for years after this incident. Kroll will later use the racially inflected insult “Jezebel” when referring to Miller. Miller vows never again to be in a reality-TV love triangle or get physical with someone who isn’t serious about their relationship.

September 25, 2021: Batula and Cooke get married. Miller is in attendance. On an unrelated note, DeSorbo’s then-boyfriend, Craig Conover, (of Southern Charm) gets drunk and does something that gets him kicked out of the wedding. The details have never been divulged to the public.

Spring 2023: Scandoval happens, launching the cast of Vanderpump Rules into a level of fame hitherto unreachable by Bravolebs. For those who were asleep all spring and summer 2003, Scandoval was when Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval cheated on his girlfriend of nine years, Ariana Madix, with fellow cast member Rachel Leviss. Madix is the greatest recipient of brand deals and hosting gigs, but anyone who stays loyal to her also gets a significant bump. Let’s call it the Ariana Effect, where breakups equal brand deals.

Summer 2023: Wilson joins Summer House for season eight. He works at Complex and is known as a playboy around New York. He pursues Miller all season, her resistance owing in part to previous bad experiences with reality-TV boys (Kroll, Luke Gulbranson). But their flirty energy is a highlight of the season, and Wilson becomes a fan favorite. They go on dates, Wilson tries to give her his undivided romantic attention, and they even call each other “boyfriend” and “girlfriend.” Or, in Wilson’s case, “my, like, alien girlfriend.” (Miller was dressed as an alien at the time.)

Also this season, Tom Schwartz visits the house mid-Scandoval. He speaks ominously about how reality-TV friendships can dissolve in an instant. “You’ve got to cherish this,” he tells a bedrotting DeSorbo and Miller. “I used to have a happy family in L.A., and now everyone hates each other. We all hate each other. You’ve got to cherish this. It’s very sacred.” DeSorbo counters, “We’re gonna love each other forever, no matter what,” to which Schwartz responds, “That’s what I used to say!”

August 31, 2023: Hubbard and castmate Carl Radke end their engagement after two-ish years of dating. Hubbard is a beneficiary of the Ariana Effect, getting more fan love post-breakup than pre-.

December 2023: After the two get closer all fall, Wilson breaks up with Miller. Between the taping and airing of season eight, Wilson and Miller keep dating and consummate their relationship, and he introduces her to his parents. But sometime in December, Wilson decides he belongs to the streets.

February 22, 2024: Summer House season eight premieres, and Wilson becomes a fan favorite for his courtship of Miller. Both Miller and Wilson go on Watch What Happens Live and tease the relationship, knowing full well it was over before fans even knew it began.

May 3, 2024: The Summer House season-eight reunion tapes. It’s basically a full course of Girls vs. West, with some “Fuck you, Carl” as a side. “[You told me] you can’t commit because, basically, for show-related reasons,” Miller says to Wilson. She says after December, “I stopped talking to you altogether. Because I think that’s mean — to take someone to your parents’ house and want to sleep with them when you have no intention of doing anything.” West says he couldn’t commit to Miller because he didn’t want to be “some fucking dude who came onto the show and is just Ciara’s puppet the whole time.”

She also calls him a clout chaser. “It’s a little offensive to question my sincerity,” West responds. “I think our relationship was what it was. I had feelings, you had feelings. Like, that wasn’t fake.” Throughout the episode, Batula is supportive of Miller and side-eyes Wilson’s excuses.

June 12, 2024: Wilson gives an interview to the New York Times to defend his character after the reunion. “Ultimately, I think I handled the reunion horribly and was nervous and said the wrong things,” West says. “But I still stand on the decision I made. I think our relationship ran its course. I hope that decision doesn’t haunt me forever, even though I still think it’s the right one.”

In Summer House season nine, episode two, Miller chews out Wilson for going to the papers without giving her a heads-up: “What about sending a text of a warning that you’re going to drop another New York Times article saying, like, ‘Oh, actually, I didn’t like her, and I should’ve just said that at the reunion because that would’ve read better as opposed to what I said at the reunion.’ I think that was such a beta-ass move.”

Thanksgiving 2024: DeSorbo and Conover break up. Her Ariana Effect is even bigger than Hubbard’s. Her podcast, Giggly Squad, goes on a sold-out tour, she appears on The Tonight Show, and publishes a best-selling book. Three is a trend: Breaking up with your playboy cast-member partner has officially become a formula for success on the Bravoverse.

April 24, 2025: The Summer House season-nine reunion tapes, during which Miller and Wilson again discuss the Times article and their breakup. She explains the breakup hit her hard because she was going through family stuff at the time. “Me and West did have a friendship, so we would talk about family dynamics and stuff like that,” she says. “But he was so totally in his own world and like one foot in the door, one foot out the door where, like, he wasn’t there for me.”

Summer 2025: Summer House season ten tapes. The degeneration of Kyle and Amanda’s relationship is a major through-line, as are Wilson’s attempts at getting back into Miller’s good graces. With DeSorbo not returning, Miller is Batula’s bestie in the house. They are the last two bedbugs standing. Or lying down, as it were.

November 2025: Cooke and Batula stop living together, “just before BravoCon,” per Batula.

January 19, 2026: Cooke and Batula announce their separation via joint Instagram Story. “After much reflection, we have mutually and amicably decided to part ways as a couple,” they say. “We share this with a heavy heart and kindly ask for your grace and support while we focus on our personal growth and healing.”

February 3, 2026: Summer House season ten premieres. Fans notice the cracks in Kymanda immediately and also begin to ship Miller and Wilson all over again.

Fans will also retrospectively notice that Batula is wearing Wilson’s hat in the premiere.

That night, Miller and Batula appear on WWHL to discuss the season. Miller seems so happy for Batula’s newfound freedom. When asked if she’d date another Summer House guy after this, Batula says “No, ew.” She also says she’s “taking a page out of [Miller’s] book and staying away from Bravo men. I love my boys, not in that way.”

February 8, 2026: The cast of Summer House attends Super Bowl LIX as part of the greater NBCUniversal family. Fans see Miller and Wilson watching the game next to each other and are excited about a possible reconciliation. Meanwhile, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy claims Briana LaPaglia told him that day that Wilson and Batula were already an item.

February 24, 2026: In episode four, Jesse Solomon asks for Wilson’s permission to pursue/make out with Miller. Wilson seems perturbed by the ask. Is it because he still has feelings for Miller? Or because Miller’s makeouts aren’t his to disperse to his bros? It’s unclear.

March 4, 2026: Batula gives an interview to Marie Claire, in which she praises Miller and Wilson for having her back during the separation. “It would have been a very difficult summer to get through without Ciara,” she says. “She is one of the kindest, most loving, loyal friends I’ve ever had. She sends me texts out of the blue, reminding me how strong, powerful, smart, and kind I am — I don’t think she even realizes how much I need those texts.”

She also praises Wilson’s support. “It’s also meant so much to me how supportive West has been throughout the season, sometimes in ways I wasn’t even aware of when filming. It’s not performative; it’s just really authentic to who West is,” she says. “He checks Kyle and puts him in his place, and you’ll continue to see him be there for me throughout the season.”

March 5, 2026: A day after Batula’s interview drops, DeuxMoi claims she and Wilson were spotted flirting across NYC, “allegedly even holding hands under the table, with Kyle, Amanda’s ex-husband, right there.” DeuxMoi’s sources say “it’s casual.”

March 10, 2026: Cooke appears on WWHL and responds to the Amanda-West rumors. “I mean, I kind of thought it was outrageous,” he says. “For it to go as long as it has in the news cycle is kind of shocking. But no, I don’t think there’s any merit to it.” When asked how he’d feel if there was merit to the story, Cooke says “It would certainly catch me by surprise and feel a little reckless. And I think I’d probably be the last person people would be worried about. I think Ciara would probably have something to say. But if it made Amanda happy, I think I just would have to vote ‘yea.’”

March 17, 2026: In episode seven, the house has a discussion of race on reality TV and Miller opens up about the racist hatred she received after dating Wilson. “I don’t think you guys also realize the interracial aspect that exists and all the shit that goes on,” Miller says. “I get a lot of blowback that’s very racial, obviously, being in this position. I was the first Black person in this house, and dating white guys publicly, it’s like a whole contraption that you guys don’t understand or can even empathize with.”

Wilson agrees that he’s been blind to the racial dynamics at play in their breakup. “Selfishly, when the fucking reunion happened, and I was getting smoked, I was being called, like racist, and people were DM-ing my family and shit like that, for this whole thing, I was fucking panicking and didn’t realize what was going on,” he says. “I thought that if I can express myself and try to make things better, as long as I’m not saying anything bad about Ciara, it will be okay. But I didn’t know, and I apologize.”

March 24, 2026: After previously being scheduled to do an Amazon Live for Olly sleep gummies as part of their “bedbugs” branding, Batula and Miller do their streams separately.

Episode eight of Summer House season ten airs that night. In it, Cooke curses out Batula, which prompts her to go to bed. Wilson comes in to comfort her, then confronts Cooke. Cooke and Wilson exchange words.

“On the way out, West tells Amanda that he loves her and to text if she needs anything,” our recapper writes of the exchange. “Now that is a real man, right there, not only supporting his female friends but willing to stand up to another man and tell him when he’s acting like an asshole. Yeah, he can be a fuck-up sometimes, but West is still the best.” Is he, though?

That night, Wilson goes on WWHL and denies the hookup rumors. A viewer poll overwhelmingly says they don’t want to see Batula and Wilson together. “We’re just hanging out in New York,” he says. “She’s single. I kinda gotta show her the streets, you know?” Important to note: He’s wearing a tie made of hair while he says this.

March 29, 2026: Fans spot another clothing exchange between Wilson and Batula.

March 30, 2026: When asked how she’s doing by Jon Hamm on the Your Friends and Neighbors season-two red carpet, Miller says “I’ve been better.”

March 31, 2026: Batula and Wilson go public with … whatever it is that they’re doing. “We’ve seen the growing online speculation, so while this is still very new, we wanted to provide some clarity,” they wrote. “It was never our intention to purposely hide anything. Given the complicated relationship dynamics involved and the scrutiny that comes with being on a reality show, we needed a little space to process things privately before speaking on it.”

“We’ve shown up for each other as friends over the years, through all the highs and lows, and what’s developed recently was the last thing either of us expected,” they continued. “Our connection grew out of a genuine, long-standing friendship, which made it especially important for us to approach this with care.”

The fallout is instant. “Page Six” obtains photos of Miller slumped over outside Hermès minutes after the IG Story broke. She also unfollows both Batula and Wilson. Within hours, Batula has lost a partnership with weed girlboss brand Flower by Edie Parker. The rest of the Summer House cast, as well as several cast members of Southern Charm (even ex-fling Austen Kroll), make vague IG posts to declare allegiance with Team Ciara. Jon Hamm does the same on WWHL. When it comes to Bravo, with Jon Hamm goeth the nation.

April 1, 2026: Cooke is approached by a TikToker and spills tea on the streets. He says he is worried about Batula, saying she knows Wilson is seeing other women and that she messed up with Miller. Miller has followed one of Wilson’s alleged girlfriends, Mejia Moreno. So definitely not an April Fools’ prank.