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Bravo launched an investigation into who was behind the leaked clip from the Summer House reunion taping after filming wrapped on Thursday.
After the audio, which featured Ciara Miller, 30, blasting Amanda Batula, 34, as a “snake” for her controversial romance with West Wilson, 31, was released on social media, the network put out a statement, and another source came forward, alleging that the leak came from a cast member who’d already been fired from the show.
“The Summer House Reunion audio leak represents a serious breach of trust and a clear lack of respect for the cast, crew, and the integrity of the production process,” Bravo wrote in its statement on April 24.
“We take this matter very seriously and have launched a full investigation and we will take appropriate action based on our findings,” it added.
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Around the time of the network’s statement, Your Moms Are Watching on Instagram spoke of the rumored firing of a cast member.
“Oh wow. So my friend who works at Bravo says the cast member who leaked this video already got fired,” the fan page wrote in a post that seems to have been deleted.
“VERY reliable source,” it added, as seen in a screenshot shared by Bravo Block Party on Instagram.
A short time later, Your Moms Are Watching shared a more detailed post, alleging that it was actually West who leaked the clip.
“Ok so someone told me this morning (who does work at Bravo) but ancillary that West leaked the audio in an attempt to make Amanda look bad and because he wanted a reason to get fired so he can make a lot of money from Complex spilling this story,” the outlet alleged. “This person also gave me screenshots of some Bravo internal convos. They said West already got fired for this, first thing this morning. I posted it because of those screenshots.”
The fan page went on to say that due to the rules of production, the recording likely didn’t originate from the cast itself. Instead, it could have come from someone off-stage who forwarded it to West.
“[The Bravo person] said it did originate from a viewing room recording but that they are certain West is how it got to Reddit, and so are Bravo execs,” it stated. “I would at this point say the origin of the audio is still not completely verified. And as for West being fired I have not heard this from anyone else so the jury is still out on that too. I am sure people will continue to write into the blogs and we will know more later.”
The outlet then noted that it was “interesting” that this particular clip painted Amanda as a villain.
Summer House season 10 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.