Amanda Batula and newcomer Ben Waddell raised eyebrows in the course of the Summer House season 10 premiere while giving their housemates the thin on their NSFW connection.
“We met at a marriage in Italy last 12 months,” Ben, 38, told his latest housemates of his relationship with Amanda, 34, and her then-husband Kyle Cooke, in the course of the Tuesday, February 3, episode of the Bravo series. (Amanda and Kyle, 43, confirmed in January that they called it quits after 4 years of marriage, months after season 10 was filmed.)
Ben, who’s from Australia, explained that it was “us two, principally,” referring to himself and Amanda as he set free a nervous laugh.
Amanda laughed too while grabbing something from the fridge, making it appear to be something scandalous transpired between them in Europe. Kyle was also making a mischievous face next to Ben as he continued to clarify their first encounter.
“We were up. Yeah, we stayed up,” Ben said, playing coy about what transpired during that first meeting. Amanda teased, “It was great.” Ben then confirmed, “We had a very good time.”
West Wilson then asked what everyone within the kitchen was wondering: “Did you guys go to an orgy or something?”
Fellow season 10 newbie Bailey Taylor fired back, “It seemed like it.”
Amanda then broke her silence across the mystery of her and Ben’s meet-cute, telling the cameras, “Ben and I met at my best friend’s wedding in Italy while we were skinny-dipping.”
Ben Waddell. Courtesy of Ben Waddell/Instagram
She set free an ungainly laugh during her confessional. “How do I explain this?” Amanda wondered before revealing, “We ended up, me, the bride and Ben skinny-dipping within the pool while Kyle was blasting a speaker walking around the surface of the pool.”
Amanda cheekily added, “We actually got to know each at that time, fully nude.”
Back within the kitchen, Jesse Solomon was in total shock over the skinny-dipping confession. “You’ve seen Amanda’s boobs?” he asked in a bewildered tone. “I’ve never even seen them!”
Amanda jokingly replied, “It’s that European water,” as she smirked back on the group.
West, 31, shook his head in disbelief, while Jesse, 32, set free one other laugh. Ben, meanwhile, smiled while at the top of the kitchen island.
While Kyle seemed totally superb with Amanda and Ben’s intimate backstory, the subject of his then-wife baring it throughout one other man appeared to trigger him later within the episode.
Throughout the group’s first summer party — a “County Fair” theme hosted by West — on Independence Day ended with a bang and a fight between the married couple.
Because the party got here to an end, the vast majority of the shared house crew jumped into the pool after pieing one another within the face with desserts.
Ben Waddell, Amanda Batula. Eugene Gologursky/Bravo
Amanda joined them but not before stripping all the way down to her bra, which was a nude color, and underwear.
“Wait! Amanda is naked,” West said as the showering suit designer began to walk into the pool. “Your tits are so out, it’s kinda insane,” he said as Amanda approached the group within the deep end.
When Ben handed Amanda a towel on her way out of the water, Kyle, who was also within the pool in his red, white and blue trunks, noticed how little clothing his spouse was wearing.
“Amanda, you went naked?” Kyle asked, visibly upset.
“No, I actually have clothes on,” she explained.
Charles Sykes/Bravo; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images; Jennifer Graylock/NBCUniversal Even West Wilson is interested in his Summer House costars Amanda Batula and Jesse Solomon’s flirty dynamic. “I did text Amanda and was like, ‘Is he clearing these with you before he posts them?’” West, 29, quipped in the course of the Thursday, June 13, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast, […]
Kyle called Amanda’s actions “absurd,” while she was concerned as as to whether he was “mad” at her for the incident.
“That might’ve been fun in the event you, like, told me you were getting skinny,” Kyle said before Amanda chimed in and reminded him they were “all within the pool together.”
Jesse tried to ease the stress, yelling, “Kyle, you would get naked too!”
Amanda was still processing Kyle’s previous comment, asking him, “I needed to inform you?” and seemed visibly confused by what was transpiring.
Summer House star Kyle Cooke is speaking out following his split from wife Amanda Batula. “I believe people will probably be surprised but additionally pleased to see that Amanda and I are in a very good spot,” Cooke, 43, told “Hollywood Raw” podcast host Adam Glyn in a video shared via TikTok on Thursday, January 22. “Obviously […]
“You were the one topless,” Kyle quipped. Amanda fired back, “I’m not topless.” Kyle, nevertheless, wasn’t listening and began off towards the home, saying under his breath, “Just unbelievable.”
Within the preview for the remainder of the season, Kyle and Amanda’s marital issues proceed to be front and center — and Amanda’s reference to Ben doesn’t look like making things higher.
In a single clip from the trailer, Amanda is seen running her hands through Ben’s hair as they chat in her and Kyle’s room.
“Amanda can walk right into a room and brighten it up along with her smile,” Ben says within the video, which prompts Amanda to smile at him from across the group dining table.
Ben’s remark also causes Bailey to assert, “Ben desires to definitely sleep with you!”
Summer House airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET.