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Andy Cohen Reveals the Verdict: Will Kyle and Carl's Fight Still Air on Summer House?

Andy Cohen Reveals the Verdict: Will Kyle and Carl's Fight Still Air on Summer House?
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Thought Summer House season 10 maxed out on drama with the trailer? Andy Cohen teases the Kyle Cooke vs. Carl Radke blowup is only the beginning, with even bigger fireworks ahead, as he revealed on his SiriusXM show Radio Andy on Wednesday, April 22.

File under: Bravo is absolutely not leaving this on the cutting room floor. Andy Cohen says the Season 10 fight between Kyle Cooke and Carl Radke is very much in the show.

Yes, the fight is in the cut

On Wednesday, April 22, during his SiriusXM show Radio Andy, Cohen, 57, took a caller asking if the already-teased Kyle vs. Carl brawl would actually air.

'Yeah, of course! They’re not gonna leave out a big fight.'

Short answer, definitive tone. Moving on.

What actually set Kyle and Carl off

The trailer flashes the physical moment over Labor Day weekend, but the lead-up has been simmering for a while. The business piece: Kyle opted not to invest in Carl’s Soft Bar venture, which rubbed Carl the wrong way because he put $15,000 into Kyle’s drink brand Loverboy back in 2019. Then it got personal. After sparring most of the season, Carl, 41, and Kyle, 43, hit a low when Kyle didn’t text Carl on the five-year anniversary of Carl’s brother’s death.

Kyle to Carl: 'There’s no excuse, I spaced. It’s the story of my summer, just genuinely speaking, I feel like I’ve been letting you down.'

Carl back: 'It definitely let me down. I was just hoping to hear from my best friend. I feel like our friendship is disconnected. I’m disappointed and sad.'

Meanwhile: Kyle and Amanda, West and Ciara

While all this is happening, the personal lives are doing exactly what this show is built on. Kyle’s estranged wife Amanda Batula has started seeing West Wilson, 31, who happens to be the ex of her best friend Ciara Miller. So fans are watching two tracks at once: Amanda and West’s new thing, and Amanda and Kyle trying to navigate a marriage that looks shaky on camera.

How the cast frames the blowup

Carl called the night a ride, telling Us Weekly back in January that dinner started breezy, got tense, loosened up, and then went off the rails.

'It’s a roller-coaster. [The dinner] starts light and fun. Something gets brought up, then it starts getting tense, then it gets light again … Then, it starts getting crazy.'

Jesse Solomon, 32, put it more bluntly, saying it kicked off with Kyle 'putting his foot in his mouth.' He also called it 'a very unpredictable outburst' and said he didn’t want anyone choosing sides — he just wanted people to get where he was coming from after feeling misunderstood most of the summer.

Quick rundown of the moving parts

  • Andy Cohen on Radio Andy (Wednesday, April 22) confirms the Kyle vs. Carl fight will air: 'Yeah, of course!'
  • Labor Day weekend is when things get physical between Carl Radke, 41, and Kyle Cooke, 43.
  • Business tension: Kyle passes on investing in Carl’s Soft Bar; Carl previously invested $15,000 in Kyle’s Loverboy in 2019.
  • Personal tension: Kyle forgot to text Carl on the five-year anniversary of Carl’s brother’s death; both addressed it on camera.
  • Amanda Batula is dating West Wilson, 31 — the ex of her BFF Ciara Miller — while her marriage to Kyle is on shaky ground.
  • Carl describes the night as a 'roller-coaster'; Jesse Solomon, 32, says it began with Kyle 'putting his foot in his mouth' and calls the outburst 'unpredictable.'

Bottom line: the trailer wasn’t bluffing, Cohen isn’t hedging, and the episode in question sounds like one of those nights where every simmering issue finally boils over — business, friendship, and the mess in between.