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The cast of Summer House is reacting to news of Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s newfound relationship, with Batula’s husband Kyle Cooke being the most outspoken of the group — so far.

The DJ spoke with TikTok creator Adam Glyn on the streets of New York City, and the impromptu interview was posted in three separate parts. In the first clip, posted on Wednesday, Cooke said he was “really worried about Amanda,” and pointed out the fact that Wilson has seen a bump in followers amid the controversy while his wife has been “cyberbullied.”

“I understand people have all sorts of opinions, and I’m not justifying any behavior, but from where I’m standing, she’s kind of getting cyberbullied,” he said. “West seems to be the kind of guy playing multiple women at the same time, and I just looked, and somehow in all of this, 50,000 people have decided that West deserves their follow. And meanwhile, they’re just lighting up Amanda. I just feel bad.”  

On Tuesday, Batula and Wilson released a joint statement confirming their new relationship after weeks of rumors claiming that their friendship had turned romantic. Batula and Cooke announced they were separating in January, while Wilson notably formerly dated Ciara Miller, one of Batula’s close friends and their fellow Summer House co-star.

As gossip about their romance swirled around the Bravosphere in March, Batula and Wilson denied the claims. Cooke even defended the duo during a March 10 Watch What Happens Live appearance, where he called the rumors “outrageous.”

In the third part of the interview published Thursday, Cooke was asked a few hard-hitting questions about the time of Batula and Wilson’s relationship, which has been speculated about online. The Summer House OG said he is still unsure about details, but that he’s prioritizing being there for Batula. 

“There’s a little murkiness as to our separation and when we put the announcement out that I think we’ll have to address at the reunion,” he said. “Right now, I’m just honestly more concerned about Amanda’s mental health than I am trying to get to the bottom of it, because I am worried about her. I don’t think West is in a place to offer her what she needs. I’ve been caring and providing for her for 10 years. It’s a weird position to find myself in.” 

“West kind of positioned himself to be this knight in shining armor for women, standing up for Amanda, checking me [on Summer House,] and I watched that. And for him to say what he said in his confessional and double down on Watch What Happens — I was like, ‘Something’s up,’” Cooke added, continuing by claiming that Wilson “piling on” him on the Bravo series was strategic.

“West is smart enough to know who the audience is and he knows clearly what to say to women to win them over. Everyone’s like, ‘Oh my God, look at his redemption arc,’ and he was just piling on strategically, for sure,” the reality star said. “We film these confessionals after the fact. He knew what he was doing. He hitched his wagon on Amanda’s horse during her glow-up and made me look even worse with some of his comments.”

When asked how his cast members are reacting to the news, Cooke added, “I think they’re all super disappointed, and I know that, just given we had a 10-year relationship and she’s been friends with Ciara for, what, six years, I know that she is probably getting the brunt of it. But again, I really think West is capable of manipulating any female. My wife included, because we’re not divorced yet.”

The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Wilson’s reps for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication.

Miller herself has not yet directly responded to the controversy, though she did unfollow Batula and Wilson after they shared their statement on Instagram Tuesday. However, she did post to her Instagram feed on the same day her co-stars confirmed their relationship, sharing a video of her interviewing the cast of Your Friends & Neighbors. 

“If you can’t trust your Friends & Neighbors, who can you trust?” Miller captioned the post.

Sources have told THR that cameras will not pick up to capture the fallout from the scandal, and that the reunion will film in a few weeks. In the past, Bravo has resumed filming when controversies including its shows have arisen, most notably with the Vanderpump Rules season 10 cheating scandal called Scandoval. 

In the days leading up to Batula and Wilson sharing their joint statement, the cast of Summer House shared subliminal posts to their Instagram Stories, leading viewers to believe the later confirmed rumors. On Sunday, Lindsay Hubbard posted a selfie with Miller to her Instagram Stories, and a second still of herself from Summer House with a shocked reaction. 

Many other cast members posted several meme-style reaction posts, including Carl Radke and KJ Dillard. Southern Charm star Austen Kroll also chimed in on Sunday as well, sharing an Instagram Story that read, “Pasta and f* your friends exes are apparently so back.”

On Thursday, Hubbard shared another Instagram Story post which blankly read, “Welp… I’m about ready to throw my phone today…” 

Jesse Solomon replied to an Instagram account questioning if he knew of Batula and Wilson’s relationship prior, comparing the situation to what occurred with the Vanderpump Rules scandal when Tom Schwartz knew that Tom Sandoval was being unfaithful to Ariana Madix with Rachel Leviss. “I heard the rumors, but they were denied to me multiple times,” Solomon wrote in the comments section. 

Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham was attacked by a woman in Santa Monica, according to multiple reports.

An incident occurred involving Buckingham last Wednesday, March 25, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed with The Hollywood Reporter. (Multiple reports cite that the event occurred Wednesday, April 1.)

“The Los Angeles Police Department, Threat Management Unit, is working with the Santa Monica Police Department to investigate the incident. To protect the integrity of the open and ongoing investigation, no further comment will be provided, at this time,” the LAPD said in a statement shared with THR.

According to NBC4, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was arriving to an appointment in Santa Monica when a woman threw an “unknown substance” at him. The outlet also reported that authorities described the woman as a “stalking suspect,” and is known by Buckingham due to past incidents.

No arrests have been made in connection to the case yet, and Buckingham was not injured, per NBC4.

Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, alongside Stevie Nicks. The guitarist had an extensively successful career with the beloved band, which saw them earn a Billboard Hot 100 hit (“Dreams” hit No. 1 in 1977) and four albums reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 (1975’s Fleedwood Mac; 1977’s Rumours; 1982’s Mirage; and 1997’s The Dance).

He released his debut solo album Law and Order in 1981, and has released a total of seven solo records.

Buckingham exited the band in 1987, and later returned in 1997. He remained in Fleetwood Mac until he was dismissed from the band in 2018, which resulted in him suing Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie and John McVie.

Ye, the rapper once known as Kanye West, released his 12th record and first solo effort in four years over the weekend. With pushed release dates and esoteric listening events, the rollout has had the hallmarks of an album drop from the lauded but mercurial artist whose wild and problematic recent past have seen him fulfill his dreams and then throw them all away, as he subjected the public to an endless series of offenses and tested the limits of those close to him.

Ye has also remarried since his last solo release, and his wife, Australian architect and performance artist Bianca Censori, has made a distinctive splash while sporadically commanding collective attention. Holding her own was always going to be a tough task, given the highly scrutinized woman her husband divorced just before their secret nuptials in late 2022.

Soon, a Venetian water taxi sex scandal and her nearly nude red carpet appearance gave way to questions about Censori and Ye’s relationship. Then the unveiling of a Vanity Fair profile — her first public statements since she began to shed mere fame by proxy and come into focus. The main takeaway of that feature and lush spread was that she is not subservient to Ye, but that her life is in service of him — through antisemitic rants, wild bipolar mood swings, and whatever comes next.

Devotion like this is destined to bleed into Censori’s art, which brings us to her directorial debut. She’s the woman behind Bully’s striking first music video, for the album track “Father.” The song features Ye loyalist Travis Scott, another hip-hop icon who knows his way around dark controversy. The video has the feel of a Jacques Tati film’s cinematography and the weight of an Andrei Tarkovsky epic, constrained to an under-three-minute track length.

The set, as the psyche of Censori’s vision, is a church interior. Each parishioner seems symbolic (a girl in a blue veil seated in the background; a woman with a magician; the late King of Pop pulling focus in the back row), and the actions seen here are the rituals that define and control us. Scott and Ye are interchangeable men: the latter with his classic thousand-mile stare, the former confidently wedding two women at once. They are also alien beings, their spaceship landing and blasting off in the background. Meanwhile, a sleeping nun is hauled off by two cops; a child trips a chef delivering a massive cake. In Censori’s debut, the rituals of religious life and the looming terror of dystopian control take center stage, drifting in and out. The whole clip is captured in a single, continuous take.

Censori declined to answer The Hollywood Reporter’s questions about her vision for the video, but offered this quote in a prepared release: “The film presents a church not as a real place, but as a surreal, dreamlike environment, where time feels slowed, spatial logic is distorted, and reality becomes fantasy,” she said.

It plays as high art — almost like an installation. Censori sets Ye’s music to a highbrow video art piece where memory meshes with fantasy, and any frozen frame could make a striking still. With “Father,” she has taken the artistry found in Ye’s prior music videos to the next level. It may be seen as a challenge or a riddle to be solved, especially as it arrives from such a highly discussed couple, both deeply embedded in the worlds of high art and fashion. There’s plenty here to chew on.

Is Censori, as portrayed so far — particularly in the one instance she spoke up, insistent yet somewhat unconvincing that she’s not subservient to Ye’s overpowering everythingness — truly independent? Then why has she opted here to meld the same fashion-performance art–religious iconography he has already dabbled in? “Bye-bye to my old self / Wake up to the new me,” Ye belts out on the track; his role in the video is largely ceded to his collaborator on “Father,” while a choir and, yes, a priest, clock the most screen time.

But Censori is never going to be so obvious. She kept quiet for a remarkable stretch in the early years of her relationship with Ye, during which she was painted as another rag doll for him to toss around. She’s more than that, as she told Vanity Fair, and her debut as a filmmaker feels like an apt confirmation.