Summer House Star Amanda Is Rooting For A Ciara And West Reunion
On Summer House, Amanda Batula vowed to protect Ciara Miller’s heart from West Wilson — then months later confirmed she’s dating her friend’s ex. “The last thing I would ever do is invite Ciara and West out on an intimate date,” she told housemate Mia Calabrese.
Well, this aged awkwardly. On this week’s Summer House, Amanda Batula spends a whole scene vowing to protect Ciara Miller from West Wilson. Cut to a few months later: Amanda and West are officially a thing. Let’s unpack.
The episode: beach vows and a red flag double date
The Tuesday, May 5 episode (shot in late August 2025 ) finds Amanda, 34, on the beach with new housemate Mia Calabrese, reacting to news that costar Ben Waddell and his girlfriend, Sabrina Belle, want to drag Ciara, 30, and West, 31, on a so-called double date. The kicker: Ciara and West had only just patched things up as friends the week before after their 2023 split.
Amanda is not into the timing. She tells Mia she’d never put Ciara and West on an intimate date so soon, especially as they’re still flirting around the Hamptons with the rest of the crew. Mia agrees it ’s too soon and, frankly, too messy.
Amanda makes it clear she’s not anti–Ciara-and-West forever; she’s anti–Ciara-and-West right now. Her take is that West isn’t in the headspace to show up for Ciara the way she deserves. Mia backs that up, saying if West comes back, he has to be all the way in and can’t mess with her heart again.
"Until a man can treat Ciara differently than any other woman in the world, I don’t trust anyone with her heart. I would cut West off in one second if she gave me the look."
That’s the ride-or-die speech. And it lands a lot differently now that we know what happened next.
The twist: Amanda and West go public
In March, Amanda and West confirmed they’re dating with a joint Instagram Story. They said it wasn’t their intention to hide anything; they were sorting out their feelings before going public. Cue the collective side-eye from viewers and several castmates.
Complicating matters: just two months earlier, Amanda and her husband Kyle Cooke announced their split after four years of marriage. So the Amanda-West reveal hit while everything around her was already shaking.
About that overlap (depending on who you ask)
- History check: West and Ciara dated in 2023 after years of on-and-off flirting.
- Fresh tea: In April, a source claimed West and Ciara were still hooking up as recently as three to four weeks earlier — and that Ciara didn’t know about Amanda.
- West’s defense: He’s said there was no overlap between any of it.
- Kyle’s eyebrow raise: In an April TikTok chat, Kyle, 43, said he’s rethinking how handsy West seemed with Amanda while they were filming last summer.
- Ciara’s boundary that didn’t hold: She told Glamour last month she and West set ground rules to keep their friendship intact — including no more sleeping with people on Bravo. Her words: that’s clearly out the window now.
- On the show: Ciara and West share an intimate moment while Amanda is out of the house, which is… not helpful optics-wise.
Where things stand now
Despite the backlash, Amanda and West are still together. Expect more fallout at the Season 10 reunion later this month. Word is the cast is mad about how the two of them handled things at the taping, and a source says Ciara will never be friends with either of them after what went down. Apparently, Ciara wanted clear answers by the reunion so she could make a decision; instead, she feels like she’s finally seeing who Amanda really is.
Summer House airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.