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Updated · Bravo · Jun 18

West Wilson Says 3-Season Summer House Run Is Over as Amanda Romance Fractures Friendships

Updated

Updated · Bravo · Jun 18

West Wilson Says 3-Season Summer House Run Is Over as Amanda Romance Fractures Friendships

Q: Was Wilson's downfall his on-screen romance or alleged off-screen power plays against the cast?

It was both, but the decisive damage appears to have come from the romance scandal itself and how Wilson handled it publicly. The clearest documented reason for West Wilson’s collapse on *Summer House* is the Amanda Batula relationship and the fallout around it. By his own account, the romance became a “disaster tornado” that blew up friendships, and he admitted lying to multiple castmates and to ex Meija Moreno about the relationship’s early stages. Reports tied his non-return for Season 11 directly to the Batula scandal that dominated Season 10, and his weak reunion performance—where even he said he did a “bad job”—seems to have deepened the backlash. The alleged off-screen power plays worsened the situation, but they are less firmly established. Page Six reported claims that Wilson tried to get Lindsay Hubbard, Kyle Cooke and Carl Radke fired, though his representative denied that as “categorically false.” Hubbard has publicly accused him of threatening her place on the show, and Wilson also drew criticism for publicly rooting for an NBA game to hurt viewership for *Summer House: The Aftermath*. Those actions fed a perception that he had turned against the cast and the show. Taken together, the off-screen allegations likely accelerated his exit by alienating colleagues and producers. But based on the available reporting, the central cause of his downfall was the on-screen Batula romance, the deception surrounding it, and the way he failed to repair the damage afterward.

3 articles · Updated · Bravo · Jun 18

One month after the reunion, West Wilson told Kyle Cooke in a bonus episode filmed May 20 that his “time on camera is over” and he expected he would no longer be on Summer House.
West said the reunion and his public comments afterward “landed poorly,” and that the fallout from dating Amanda Batula became a “disaster tornado” that left him only recently able to process the damage.
That damage centered on friendships: West said watching bonds implode was “really hard,” and he admitted he had lied to Kyle, Ciara Miller, Lindsay Hubbard, Jesse Solomon and ex Meija Moreno early in the romance.
Despite the backlash, West said he remained committed to Amanda after the Season 10 reunion, though the pair still had unresolved questions about whether they were actually “in love.”
West joined the Bravo series in Season 8 and spent 3 seasons on the show, where his relationship with Amanda ultimately deepened a cast divide after they confirmed they were dating on March 31.