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Kyle Cooke is speaking out about his split from Amanda Batula.
Days after the Summer House couple shared a joint announcement in regard to their decision to separate after four years of marriage, Kyle, 43, insisted he and Amanda, 34, were in a “good spot,” described their split as the “worst kept secret,” and admitted to wanting to give their relationship another shot while also denying that Bravo pushed them to go public, addressing future filming, and commenting on a potentially messy divorce.
“I think people will be surprised but also happy to see that Amanda and I are in a good spot,” Kyle told Hollywood Raw‘s Adam Glyn in a video shared on TikTok on January 22. “Obviously, the internet’s gonna do its thing, but you know, we literally pushed send together [on our separation announcement].”
“There’s still a lot of love. It’s both the hard part, but also it’s making this easy for the both of us,” he added.
According to Kyle, his split from Amanda began with Amanda moving out.
“It started as living separately, and people kind of picked up on that,” he admitted. “She’s in a big building. All the accounts, people kind of DMing them … It was like the worst kept secret, but we just weren’t ready to talk about it.”
“We weren’t lying about it. We didn’t split, we didn’t separate. We were trying to figure out the best way to give our relationship another shot. And ultimately, we decided we don’t wanna give each other false hope, we don’t wanna give our friends and family false hope, we don’t wanna give fans false hope,” he continued.
Although there have been rumors that Bravo made them go public with their breakup before the season began, Kyle confirmed the decision to make the announcement was made by him and Amanda.
“We decided to just kind of rip the band-aid off,” he explained. “The last thing we were ever going to do is make some type of decision about our relationship and our marriage based on the show or the new show.”
Regarding a potential reconciliation in the future, Kyle said he was unsure.
“We don’t know. There’s no playbook. We were very much on the same page where like, we knew we needed to create some space. We knew things had been tough,” he reasoned.
That said, Kyle confirmed he and Amanda would be doing press together in the coming weeks and added that he was open to filming with Amanda in the future.
“We’re gonna do some press next week together. We’ll do [Watch What Happens Live] together. This isn’t like a big breakup where there’s a smoking gun, and there’s a lot of hate. There’s absolutely some frustration. I’ve done things. She’s done things. But we got each other’s back,” he shared. “We care about each other. We still love each other, so in a world where it makes sense to both film Summer House again, we’ll film Summer House.”
Kyle then acknowledged the debt he’s had within his Loverboy company and mentioned the videos he’d seen about his and Amanda’s potential divorce.
“We don’t really plan to get to that point,” he noted. “I just hope that we both find happiness, whatever the heck that looks like.”
@adamglyn @Bravo Summer House star Kyle Cooke speaks about his separation news on the streets of NYC. #bravo #summerhouse #realitytv ♬ original sound – Adam Glyn
Summer House season 10 premieres on Tuesday, February 3, at 8/7c on Bravo.