Just when you thought it couldn’t get more dramatic.
Mere hours after filming wrapped on the heated Summer House season 10 reunion, an event that brought new couple Amanda Batula and West Wilson face to face with her former friend/his ex Ciara Miller and her estranged husband/his ex friend Kyle Cooke for the first time since the pair announced acknowledged their relationship at the end of March, more than two minutes of audio was leaked by an as-yet-unknown inside source that has the internet, cast members and reunion host Andy Cohen up in arms, and network Bravo promising to launch a full investigation.
We’ll share a full transcript of the clip at the end of the story, but first, here are some highlights.
As she promised during her appearance on Watch What Happens Live last week, Ciara’s best friend, and ‘Summer House’ newbie, Mia Calabrese pressed Amanda on why she pursued a relationship with West, asking the swimsuit designer, “[W]hy are you doing this? Like, why, you went from being married, and I’m not saying your relationship was perfect … But you go from being married to being one of West’s side b*****s, that’s crazy. This is unnecessary.”
Amanda tried to explain why she kept her relationship with West a secret and why she had denied that the two were seeing each other to all friends, including Ciara, saying, “[I]t was all so new and I was figuring it out, there were so many layers and complications to this, the fact that he was seeing other people, the fact that I was technically still married … .” She was then cut off by what sounded like costar Carl Radke, who countered, “But not enough complications and layers to go, ‘What the f*** are we doing here?’ period.”
Ciara also challenged Amanda on why she chose to move forward in a relationship with West, saying, “You know how f***ing weird it would be and you still did it and you chose to do it …” to which Amanda replied, “OK, but, guess what, sometimes you can’t help who you like and who you are attracted to,” calling back to a confessional moment Ciara had this season in regard to her own complicated feelings for West.
The clip ended with a back-and-forth that made it clear exactly how Ciara now feels about her former friend. “You’re a f***ing snake, Amanda,” the model and nurse said. “You’re a snake in the f***ing grass is what you are, you’re a snake in the f***ing grass and you should honestly just say OK because you know you are. You move silent but you’re f***ing deadly.”
Moments after the filming wrapped, and hours before the leak happened, Andy gave his Instagram followers a sense of what he experienced at the reunion, vibes that were confirmed by the leaked audio.
“Well, I am walking out of the ‘Summer House’ reunion,” he said. “I’ve probably hosted, well, it’s over 100 reunions, maybe 150, something like that, this was one of the most intense we’ve ever shot. This was a lot. This was a lot. It was very intense, you guys, and every question was asked, every question was asked.”
This morning Andy took to Threads to share his disappointment over the audio release, writing, “People laid their souls out emotionally for ten hours yesterday and it’s disgusting and illegal for someone to leak or distribute this. It’s disrespectful to the work and tears the cast put in yesterday. Let the season play out. You will see it all in due time.”
The Bravo network has taken a firm stance on the leak, posting to its socials and telling media outlets, “The Summer House Reunion audio leak represents a serious breach of trust and a clear lack of respect for the cast, crew, and the integrity of the production process. We take this matter very seriously and have launched a full investigation and we will take appropriate action based on our findings.”
The internet has of course gone wild over the audio, not only picking apart the content but speculating about who the leaker could be and what their motivations were. New castmember, and former friend of West’s, KJ Dillard let the world know it wasn’t him via Threads, writing, “I wouldn’t risk losing my job by leaking audio of a deeply emotional reunion. The leak wasn’t me”. Fellow newbie Levi Sebree signaled her innocence by reposting an image reading, “It wasn’t Levi either” and adding, “Put some respek on my name yall be real” to her Instagram stories.
Kyle took to Instagram to share his theories about where the leak came from in three videos posted to his Stories.
“This was not a phone on set, OK, everybody, if you do have a phone on set, it’s, like, stuck behind a pillow or in a couch cushion so the cameras can’t see it, and I don’t really see what anyone would gain having leaked this, and that goes for producers, crew, and Bravo, right, this is someone clearly acting on their own with, it doesn’t even look like they got paid because the audio clip is everywhere,” he declared in the first video.
In the second video, he got technical, explaining how audio is set up in the studio versus how it comes through in the final product.
“The audio itself from all the cast sounds like it’s audio from our mics, right, we all have different volumes in terms of our actual voices so you hear it a little differently, but there’s no way you could put your phone on set and capture what we’re hearing in a way that would make sense based on the seating chart, so it’s also not crystal clear because it’s not a live, it’s not an actual clip, right, it’s a recording of something coming out of the speaker and this audio is not mixed or mastered yet, this is live, so, like, they’re going to change the levels and change who can hear what once all is said and done with the final edit,” Kyle shared.
In the final video, he offered theories on who the culprit couldn’t be and what the leak meant to him after a long day of filming.
“I’ll tell you right now all the hair and makeup teams that are either paid for by Bravo or paid for by individual cast, they are stuck in the dressing rooms, they don’t actually get to see or hear anything, it’s kind of a boring day for them, and, then, yeah, getting access is a highly restricted, highly secured situation, and, again, someone is literally risking their job leaking this, so, yeah, I don’t think this something that we are going to make sense of anyone soon, but it’s unfortunate, like, as Andy said, it was probably one of the most intense reunions he’s ever filmed, there were a lot of emotions, it was a rough day for everybody, and, yeah, I don’t even know why this clip would be the one that they’d share, like, it’s just unfortunate all around because we put it all out there, it was like a 12-hour day, and to wake up to this, it’s a bummer,” Kyle concluded.
Fans will have to wait until the end of May to catch the first part of the reunion and learn what led to the leaked conversation and what followed. The Ashley, of course, will have any and all updates that happen regarding the leak and all the other ‘Summer House’ drama in the meantime.
‘Summer House’ airs Tuesdays on Bravo and streams Wednesdays on Peacock.
‘Summer House’ Reunion Leaked Audio Transcript
Ciara: Like you get to run amok because everyone’s your friend, to be clear, and you get to manipulate people and say whatever you want to them and get whatever you want from them.
Kyle: That’s what’s so fraudulent …
Ciara: Yeah.
Kyle: You tell yourself something so you can be at peace with the schmuck that you are but everybody else has a completely different interpretation of their relationship with you.
Mia: And also, Amanda, why are you doing this? Like, why, you went from being married, and I’m not saying your relationship was perfect …
Ciara: It definitely was not.
Mia: But you go from being married to being one of West’s side b*****s, that’s crazy. This is unnecessary.
West: The statement came out incredibly rushed because of how insane it all became, like …
Ciara or Lindsay Hubbard: You got smoked out.
Andy: So why did you feel …
Amanada: No, there was a video that was out there and the last thing I wanted was for us to continue denying it and for this video of me taken in a very vulnerable, intimate situation to be used as blackmail or released publicly.
Lindsay: So how long were you denying it?
Amanda: I don’t know, I don’t know what the video was.
Mia: And would you even have come out if the video didn’t come out?
Amanda: A thousand percent, but if I could explain …
KJ: Where was the apology for Ciara in the statement?
Ciara: Because I asked you, because I sent you a text and I asked you when the rumors came out “Is this true?” and you were like …
Amanda: And I denied it, I 100% denied it and I lied to you.
Ciara: And you were like, “Duh, we’re just friends.”
Andy: And why did you …
Amanda: Because it was all so new and I was figuring it out, there were so many layers and complications to this, the fact that he was seeing other people, the fact that I was technically still married …
Carl: But not enough complications and layers to go, what the f*** are we doing here, period.
Amanda: We talked about it …
Ciara: It was so conscious that you guys talked about it, it wasn’t just like a drunk hookup, you guys talked about it …
Amanda: No, it all started with …
Ciara: You know how f***ing weird it would be and you still did it and you chose to do it …
Amanda: OK, but, guess what, sometimes you can’t help who you like and who you are attracted to, that was something …
Ciara: You actually can help it, you can.
Amanda: Not from what you said.
Ciara: You actually can help it.
Amanda: I wasn’t married anymore, Ciara.
Ciara: You’re legal, by the state of New York, you’re so f***ing married.
Amanda, So, I’m sorry, but when I’m separated from someone I have to stay celibate and single for the rest of my life until the judge signs paperwork?
Ciara: Nobody was saying that you need to stay celibate or what the f*** ever, but there are a million other f***ing guys in New York City but you chose the one that, and you know how much that f***ed me up, you chose the one guy …
Amanda: I didn’t choose.
Ciara: You’re a f***ing snake, Amanda. You’re a snake in the f***ing grass is what you are, you’re a snake in the f***ing grass and you should honestly just say OK because you know you are. You move silent but you’re f***ing deadly.
Andy: When Ciara confronted you and said, ‘Is this happening …’ [clip ends]
(Photos: Instagram)
