Summer House’s Kyle Cooke breaks the silence after Amanda Batula’s breakup
Summer house star Kyle Cooke speaks out after his divorce from his wife Amanda Batula.
“I think people will be surprised, but also happy to see that Amanda and I are in a good place,” Cooke, 43, told podcast host “Hollywood Raw.” Adam Glyn in a video shared via TikTok on Thursday, January 22. “Obviously the internet will do its thing, but you know what, we literally pushed ship together.”
Cooke and Batula, 34, confirmed their separation on Monday, January 19, after four years of marriage, noting that they “mutually and amicably decided to separate as a couple.” The couple also asked for “mercy and support” from their fans as they “try to navigate” their next steps.
Cooke said Thursday, “It’s a lot to swallow when your entire relationship is on TV from the very beginning. So we knew it wasn’t going to be easy,” stressing that there’s still a lot of love between him and Batula despite their split.
Although he declined to specify when the couple went their separate ways, Cooke noted that fans “noticed” the fact that he and Batula were living apart. “It seemed like the worst kept secret, but we just weren’t ready to talk about it,” he joked.
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Cooke added that he and Batula are still figuring out what comes next as they prepare for season 10 of Summer house to premiere.
“We didn’t lie about it. We didn’t break up, we didn’t break up. We tried to find the best way to give our relationship another chance. And ultimately we decided that we don’t want to give each other false hope, we don’t want to give our friends and family false hope, we don’t want to give fans false hope. There is no playbook,” he said Thursday. “We were mostly on the same page and knew we had to create some space… This isn’t a big surprise.”
The reality star also noted that fans will see him and Batula doing press together for their show. “This isn’t like a big breakup where there’s a smoking gun and there’s a lot of hate. … We have each other back,” he said.
Shortly after Cooke and Batula announced their split, a source exclusively shared We weekly that the two “had ongoing problems throughout the summer and decided to separate in the fall.”
According to the insider, the reality stars “technically” already “divorced” at BravoCon 2025 in November, but “kept it a secret.”
Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula
Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesBefore their breakup, “Batula realized that Kyle’s behavior wasn’t changing,” the source said.
Batula finally reached her “breaking point” after Cooke was caught “sleeping with a fan” and continued “staying out late and partying like he was in his 20s and not understanding her needs after they had multiple conversations,” the insider shared. Us.
“She felt unheard and emotionally drained,” the source revealed, adding that both Batula and Cooke “realized they are on different pages and don’t want the same things in life anymore.”
Although Cooke was “deeply upset by the divorce and didn’t expect things to reach this point,” the insider noted that he “understood that he can’t be what Amanda wants.”
Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula endured reality TV dramas, fraud scandals and marriage delays before their split. The Summer House stars’ romance played out on the Bravo series in season 1, which premiered in January 2017. Cooke, who met Batula in the summer of 2015, was the first to sign up for the reality show and had […]
“They are on completely different wavelengths,” the source said Us of the estranged couple. “Over time, it became impossible to ignore the fact that they were no longer on the same page.”
As for Cooke and Batula’s friends, the split was “not shocking” to those in the former couple’s inner circle because “it’s been a long time coming,” although their loved ones are still “sad about it.”
The insider revealed at the time that Batula “wanted a divorce, but neither of us did [had] lawyers or any scheme in force to date.
Despite eventually calling it quits, Cooke and Batula “have always been authentic, vulnerable and fought for their relationship,” according to the source, who insisted their split couldn’t be attributed to “one incident or situation.”
With season 10 of Summer house premiering on February 3, fans can expect to see Cooke and Batula’s relationship issues play out on screen.
“We are figuring out what we want in life and in the relationship,” Batula shared exclusively Us weeks before she and Cooke publicly confirmed their divorce. “We’re trying to kind of talk through that and figure it all out in real time. It’s going to be a very difficult season.”
