Amanda Batula began dating West Wilson in March. Kyle Cooke said it hit him "a little different." He delivered the remarks backstage at the Summer House Season 10 reunion and said he cried the night before the taping.
Kyle Cooke Backstage at Reunion
Kyle Cooke said "I'm just trying to rise above it all and not let my emotions get the best of me, which is pretty much what I've made a living here on Bravo doing" as he addressed the overlap between the split and the new relationship. Kyle Cooke said "So I'm just trying to be cool, calm, and collected." He also told reunion staff that "Amanda and I were working so hard to have an amicable break," and that when Amanda Batula and West Wilson became involved it felt like "an uppercut." The combination of those lines framed his emotional state: he acknowledged both an effort toward civility and a personal setback that left him upset enough to cry before the taping.
Amanda Batula and West Wilson
In January 2026, Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula announced that they were splitting after four years of marriage. Kyle Cooke addressed how that timeline intersected with Amanda Batula and West Wilson by saying, "I mean, look, I know everyone is very laser-focused on the timeline. I'm going to be honest, I don't know if we're ever going to truly get to the bottom of that." His answer accepted the limits of the public record while flagging the timeline itself as the contested fact driving the reunion conversation.
Photographers Captured Amanda Batula in NYC
After the In The City Season 1 reunion taping, photographers captured Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula smiling and laughing together in NYC. Kyle Cooke expanded on the moment in a now-disappeared Instagram Story: "Amanda and I were headed down the elevator, walking out the door, and just kind of laughing, like, 'Can you imagine if there's a photographer that captures us walking out together?' And then boom, that's exactly what happened." He added on the Story, "That causes us to laugh even harder, and yes, that's all that there was to it, guys. That's all there was to it, my God." The elevator exchange, by his account, was small and self-aware rather than conciliatory or declarative about their status.
When in March Amanda Batula and West Wilson began dating is the outstanding factual gap, and Kyle Cooke said he "don't know if we're ever going to truly get to the bottom of that." That open date is the operational issue driving the reunion friction: Cooke has publicly framed his response as an attempt to stay composed while also naming the emotional toll—crying the night before the Season 10 taping—and the photograph-driven optics that followed. Given his remarks, the next practical step for anyone tracking the story is to treat the March timeline as the central unresolved datum rather than the photos themselves.
