The“Summer House”spinoff drama just went from simmering to full boil. Amanda Batula responded to an X post claiming Kyle Cooke“melted down”after she declined to film Season 2 of“In the City,”and her entire reply was a bullseye emoji. No caption, no explanation, just a direct hit aimed at her estranged husband.
The emoji landed after Cooke left a since-deleted Instagram comment calling West Wilson, Batula’s new boyfriend, a“coke head”who“blew my ex’s life and career up.”Wilson fired back with a pointed line of his own:“My boy’s don’t call their partners‘dumb ass bitch.'”Meanwhile, sources are giving conflicting reasons for Batula’s exit from the spinoff. One says producers only offered her part-time work, another points to the network declining to cast Wilson, a third mentions timing, and a fourth claims a salary request went unmet.
The backstory makes it all heavier. Cooke and Batula split in January after four years of marriage, and Batula started dating Wilson, formerly a close friend of Cooke, two months later.“In the City”is still filming with Cooke and Lindsay Hubbard, so this story isn’t cooling off anytime soon. Whose side of this whole situation are you on?
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