From Exes to Allies: The Summer House Scandal That Brought Lindsay and Carl Back Together

Sometimes the best comebacks aren’t romantic—they’re about showing up for your people when the house is under siege.

Nearly three years after Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke called off their engagement, the two Summer House veterans found themselves back in each other’s orbit this spring, not because of lingering feelings, but because a cast scandal demanded they circle the wagons. During her appearance on Carl’s More Life podcast on Tuesday, June 16, Lindsay explained how the Amanda Batula and West Wilson drama—which ignited when West, who previously dated Ciara Miller in 2023, began dating Amanda shortly after her separation from husband Kyle Cooke—forced the old exes and Kyle to band together with a shared mission: protecting their show from implosion.

The real turning point came in April with that viral Uber Eats commercial featuring Lindsay consoling a tearful Carl. The spot, inspired by Kyle’s now-iconic quote about how Carl was handling the chaos, became more than just a clever bit of marketing. For Carl, it reminded him what he and Lindsay had always done well together—create chemistry on camera. More importantly, it cracked open a door that had been firmly shut. After years of Lindsay keeping Carl blocked on Instagram, the pair re-followed each other during the podcast recording, with Carl shouting“We’re back, baby!”and Lindsay agreeing,“We’re so back.”What began as a strategic alliance to keep the cast unified had quietly become genuine friendship again.

The reconciliation signals something broader about how relationships—even broken ones—can find new shape when circumstances shift. Lindsay moved on with Turner Kufe, with whom she shares 18-month-old daughter Gemma, before splitting in early 2025. Carl remains single. Both are now in fundamentally different places than when they were engaged in 2022-2023, which may be exactly why they can appreciate each other again without the weight of what didn’t work. As Lindsay put it, nearly three years later, they’d figured out how to coexist, film together, and even live in the same house—a feat many exes never manage.

What makes this story resonate isn’t the rekindled romance (there isn’t one). It’s the reminder that sometimes the people who hurt us most can become our steadiest allies if we’re willing to let go of the narrative we built around them. In the chaos of Summer House’s Amanda-Ciara-West triangle, Lindsay and Carl discovered that their bond had room to grow into something healthier than what it was before.