Bravo has released a preview for Summer House Season 10, Episode 12, and Kyle Cooke says Amanda Batula’s absence has left him looking at their marriage differently. The episode airs Tuesday, April 21, at 8/7c on Bravo and streams the next day on Peacock.
In the preview, Cooke says he is “for the first time in a long time, having fun,” and that he feels “a little more light-hearted, a little like myself” because his wife is “nowhere to be seen.” He calls Batula’s absence “a rude awakening” and says it made him realize “just how effed we really are.”
Cooke makes the comments while speaking with Ben Waddell, telling him he “basically really felt bad the first couple of weeks” and felt viewers had seen him at his worst. Waddell pushes back, saying he does not think that is Cooke’s worst and that everyone goes through trouble with business and relationships. The exchange lands after weeks of increasingly public friction between Cooke and Batula on Season 10, where the couple has been unusually direct about how strained things have become.
That tension has been building since the premiere, when Cooke said, “Every summer, Amanda just makes me feel like I don't exist” and added that she “just, like, doesn't f–k with me.” Later, Batula said she did not think marriage and the first few years would be this hard, then asked in Episode 7, “Where do I fit in?” and whether Cooke was taking “us into consideration with some of these decisions.” Cooke has said his DJ work and the way he is using those gigs to get Loverboy into venues that normally charge have added pressure, while Batula appears unconvinced that he is accounting for the business, debt and employees he says are on his shoulders.
Season 10 brings the pair back to the Hamptons with Lindsay Hubbard, Ciara Miller, Carl Radke, Jesse Solomon and West Wilson, alongside new friends Mia Calabrese, KJ Dillard, Dara Levitan, Levi Sebree, Bailey Taylor and Waddell. The bigger picture is already clear: Cooke’s latest remarks suggest the marriage conflict has moved past one bad summer and into a deeper reckoning over work, money and whether either of them feels seen.