Amanda Batula exits Summer House after 10 seasons amid scandal
Amanda Batula is leaving Bravo's Summer House and will not return for Season 11, Variety reports, ending a 10-season run tied to the #Scamanda controversy with castmate West Wilson. Both stars are out as filming begins in the Hamptons this July.
Key Takeaways
- Amanda Batula will not return for Summer House Season 11 after 10 seasons on the Bravo series.
- Her exit follows the #Scamanda scandal involving a romance with West Wilson, who has also been ousted.
- Most of the Season 10 cast is expected back when production starts in July.
- Batula's future on the spinoff In the City remains uncertain.
- Season 10 delivered record ratings after the controversy erupted in March.
Why is Amanda Batula leaving Summer House?
The other shoe has dropped in the aftermath of the Summer House scandal: Amanda Batula will not be returning for Season 11, Variety has learned. Though some in the Bravosphere hoped she might still come back, her presence alongside estranged husband Kyle Cooke and former best friend Ciara Miller was never going to work after she and Wilson began dating in March.
Bravo executive Noah Samton told Variety on June 16 that Summer House cast members must genuinely coexist. Unlike other Bravo shows where feuding stars can film separately, Summer House requires castmates to live together in one house. "If people have a real issue with each other, you can't live together in a house," Samton said. "And we wouldn't do that to the cast."
What is the #Scamanda controversy?
The romance between Wilson and Batula was half-heartedly dubbed #Scamanda by fans, though the nickname never reached the cultural scale of #Scandoval in 2023. The couple confirmed their relationship on March 31 in a joint Instagram post, shocking viewers because Batula had been married to founding cast member Cooke and Wilson had dated Miller, Batula's close friend.
The pair faced the cast at a reunion taped three weeks later, and it did not go well. Across three reunion episodes beginning May 26, they appeared evasive and defensive. Bravo even scheduled a bonus episode, Summer House: The Aftermath, to extract more answers. Samton said viewers walked away "a little unsatisfied" because Wilson and Batula "didn't explain themselves in a satisfying way."
Who is returning for Summer House Season 11?
Season 10 was already strong, but the scandal pushed the show to record ratings. Other than Batula and Wilson, most of the Season 10 cast is expected to return when Season 11 begins filming in the Hamptons in July. That group includes Miller, Carl Radke, Cooke, Lindsay Hubbard, Jesse Solomon, Mia Calabrese, and other newcomers from Season 10, plus additional fresh faces.
Cooke and Hubbard's returns may surprise fans who assumed the In the City spinoff — which premiered May 19 and stars both of them alongside Batula — was meant to graduate veterans off Summer House. Hubbard recently said on the Gabbing With Gib podcast that last year was supposed to be transitional, "and the new plan is for this year to be the transitional year."
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What happens next for Amanda Batula?
Batula first appeared on Summer House in 2016 as Cooke's Season 1 hookup, later becoming his girlfriend and wife in a televised 2021 ceremony. They announced their split in January after years of on-screen conflict. During Season 10, a newly confident Batula seemed poised for a triumphant post-divorce arc — until the Wilson romance derailed everything.
Instead, she has been evicted from Summer House and continues to align herself with Wilson, whose contract was also not renewed. Whether she appears on a potential second season of In the City is unclear. Samton noted that any friend-group show requires cast members who are still friends "to an extent," leaving a narrow path back if Batula's standing improves before Labor Day.