The 10th season of “Summer House” was nearly halfway through airing when scandal struck. The reality show, which chronicles a group of friends as they summer in the Hamptons, swerved in March when two cast members, Amanda Batula and West Wilson, announced they were dating, a potential violation of friend code, since Wilson had previously dated Batula’s buddy Ciara Miller and Batula had only recently announced that her marriage to another cast mate, Kyle Cooke, was ending.
Public outrage followed the announcement, but without confirmation of the facts in the love triangle, it could not be properly calibrated. Was Batula’s relationship over before she hooked up with Wilson? Did the pair lie about when their attraction started? The “Summer House” reunion, set to air in three parts for the first time in show history, answered a few lingering questions and gave viewers the Ciara-Amanda-West confrontation needed to process it all. After filming, the host Andy Cohen told his Instagram followers that of the roughly 200 reunions he had hosted, it was “one of the most intense we’ve ever shot” and that “every question was asked.”
Here are the four biggest takeaways from Part 1, which aired Tuesday.
Some timeline questions were answered.
Amid many of the questions viewers had about Wilson and Batula’s relationship, lots revolved around the chronology.
Miller said that she had begun to get suspicious that something was happening between the pair on Jan. 17 when she called Batula to get drinks and, after the call went unanswered, she checked Batula’s location on a phone app to find that her still-married friend was at Wilson’s apartment. Though Miller and Wilson had stopped dating by that point, they had remained friendly since reconciling in the summer and, as they clarified at the reunion, had sleepovers in the fall.
At the reunion, Wilson and Batula told the group that they had kissed for the first time on March 1, after Wilson had had brunch with Cooke and other cast members. On a late April episode of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” Bailey Taylor, another housemate, said that Batula and Cooke had kissed at that very brunch.
Batula confirmed that she and Wilson had sex for the first time sometime after they posted their joint statement on March 31.
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