Paige Takes a Swing at Bravo Men: Kyle Cooke Reads the Room

Sometimes the best shade isn’t thrown directly—it’s whispered from thousands of miles away, ideally on a podcast with a best friend who gets it.

During the Tuesday, July 7 episode of the Giggly Squad podcast, Paige DeSorbo found herself circling back to her viral scarf visor moment from Italy. But as she and Hannah Berner were riffing about how fans romanticize the past, Paige let loose with a comment that had listeners reading between the lines.“They’re literally any man on Bravo. Let’s just rewrite it. Let’s just change the past, I don’t know, 10 years,”she said before catching herself—sort of.“Sorry, that was out of pocket and I don’t care because I’m thousands of miles away.”The comment landed like a knowing elbow to the ribs, and the internet immediately wondered if Summer House star Kyle Cooke, 43, was the target.

The timing made sense. Cooke has been quietly rehabilitated in the court of public opinion over the past few months, largely thanks to the messy fallout between his estranged wife Amanda Batula and West Wilson. Journalist Stephanie Ruhle voiced what Paige seemed to be hinting at during her appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that same night: Kyle’s past behavior—cheating, cursing at Amanda—somehow got overshadowed when his wife became the focal point of scandal instead.“I can’t believe how everyone is just super forgiving Kyle,”Ruhle said.“Why is no one mad at him?”Her observation crystallized what fans and even insiders were feeling: the narrative shifted, and Kyle benefited from it.

Andy Cohen, 58, backed up that read, suggesting that the Summer House season 10 reunion—which wrapped last month—would’ve looked dramatically different if Amanda and West hadn’t started dating. In other words, Kyle dodged a bullet he didn’t even know was coming his way.

Paige and Hannah both left Summer House behind (Paige in 2025, Hannah in 2021), which gave them the distance and perspective to call out what was happening without getting tangled in current cast drama. That“out of pocket”comment from thousands of miles away? It was the move. It said what needed saying, owned the audacity, and made it clear she wasn’t sticking around to defend it. That’s not shade—that’s a surgical strike with a smile.