Summer House‘s Kyle Cooke apparently he had problems with his now estranged wife, Amandexcluding it from a 2016 post days before the couple they announced the end of their marriage.
“I guess I was never on your camera,” Cooke, 43, wrote in the comments section of Amanda’s post, which featured a montage of photos from 2016 according to recent online trend.
“2016,” Batula, 34, captioned the post at the time, shared just five days before the pair shared a joint statement via Instagram announcing their separation.
“After much consideration, we have mutually and amicably decided to separate as a couple,” Batula and Cooke wrote in the social media post, shared on Monday, January 19. “We share this with heavy hearts and kindly ask for your grace and support as we focus on our personal growth and healing.”
The post continued: “It seems ironic to ask for privacy during this time as we have always tried to be open and honest about our relationship, but your kindness and respect will go a long way as we try to navigate our next chapter.”
Rumors of marital strife between the two reality TV stars first surfaced in November 2025, when a report claimed the couple were living apart amid their relationship struggles. Then, however, a source close to the couple said so exclusively Us Weekly that the aforementioned was not true while acknowledging his hardships.
“They are going through a difficult time,” the insider revealed at the time, adding that the couple were “both committed to making the relationship work.”
Days later, while attending BravoCon 2025 in November, that of the couple Summer House to cost Lindsay Hubbard assured we that the now-separated couple’s marriage was sound.
“It’s like any relationship, there are ups and downs,” Hubbard exclusively said we at the time, reminding fans and viewers who have been following Cooke and Batula’s “10-year journey” amid its various ups and downs.
“I know they’re very much in love with each other and they’re very much together,” Hubbard added, before claiming that Cooke and Batula’s rough patch “wasn’t a big deal.”
Throughout the former couple’s reality TV journey, fans watched as Cooke and Bulta navigated various relationship issues, including their 2018 confession of infidelity and their back-and-forth disagreements over whether they should start a family and have children.
“We’re just trying to find our way and navigate all of this with the show and an incredibly stressful business that I’m running,” Cooke said. we in February 2024. “It’s a lot. I feel like the dogs unintentionally slowed down our baby production… So we’re just taking it one day at a time.”
A year later, Batula revealed that family planning was still an issue for the couple.
“It’s going to have to be on my page. If I could grow the baby, it could be in her timeline. But it’s happening in this body,” she said. we in may “There was a lot in this (last) season that he wanted to be a father and, like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but he’s having this conversation with other people, and not with the person who’s supposed to be carrying his child. So if he was actively (saying), ‘Hey, I want to have kids. So we should start differently.” is not a conversation we’re having.”
Cooke and Batula’s relationship will be on display again, and for what could be the last time Summer House returns for Season 10 next month, including a falling out between the estranged couple over Cooke’s DJ career and more in the official teaser.