Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula are reportedly living separately and facing relationship challenges after four years of marriage.
Ahead of the upcoming 10th season of Summer House, and after Amanda, 34, expressed a desire to distance herself professionally from Kyle, 43, and his Loverboy canned alcohol brand on season nine, an insider has revealed that the two of them are no longer living together.
While the source told Page Six on November 12 that there is trouble in paradise when it comes to Kyle and Amanda, another insider clarified that while the couple was “going through a challenging time,” they were “not on a break” and were “both committed to working on their relationship.”
As Summer House fans well know, Kyle and Amanda began dating in 2016, amid the Bravo reality series’ debut season. Then, after getting engaged in 2018 during season three, they wed in 2021 during season six, with Carl Radke, 40, serving as their officiant.
While Kyle and Amanda have faced ups and downs along the way, and seemed to be on different pages when it came to where they wanted to live and when they wanted to start a family, their biggest issue appeared to be the ongoing infidelity rumors they faced since Kyle admitted to cheating on Amanda before they got engaged.
Most recently, in June 2024, Kyle was accused of “making out” with another woman in Charleston. And when Amanda posted and deleted a photo of herself in a “Boys Lie” sweatshirt days later, the rumor was further fueled.
Still, speaking to E! News earlier this year, Amanda, who recently launched a swimwear line in an effort to get out of Kyle’s “shadow,” denied that she and Kyle were headed for divorce.
“Our entire relationship there have been some sort of rumors going on, from me being pregnant to us getting divorced. It seems to be something new every time, but none of them are true. I’m not pregnant, we’re not getting divorced,” she stated.
No word yet on a premiere date for Summer House season 10.
Tom Schwartz welcomed his new girlfriend, model Kiana Carroll, to his podcast on Tuesday.
As he promoted the latest episode of Detox Retox, the 43-year-old Vanderpump Rules alum, who split from ex-wife Katie Maloney, 38, in 2022, shared a soft launch with Kiana, 27, as the two of them were heard discussing their modeling careers and the Bravo reality show.
“Ever wonder what it’s really like to make a living as a model?” Tom asked in the caption of his November 12 post on Instagram. “At some point, you’ve probably thought damn, I’d like to get paid to look pretty. But it’s more than a just being a pretty face & competition is FIERCE.”
“It’s not for the faint of heart. Job insecurity lurks after every casting and for every breakout star, there are a troves of stunning faces barely booking. I did my share of print work back in my early LA days. Fed off the scraps from the the big models but even then always felt lucky to book a gig,” he continued.
Tom then said he had interviewed Kiana, whom he described as “one of [his] favorite humans in the world,” in New York City, applauding her as charismatic, funny, and beautiful.
“With Cold beer in hand, we riff on the current state of the modeling biz from her chic high-rise apartment. Here’s your peek behind the curtain into the glamorous, gritty, and unpredictable world of professional modeling [PodcastOne],” he teased.
On the November 11 episode of Detox Retox, Kiana revealed she was discovered by a scouting agent in Orlando, where she was attending college, sharing that he connected her to an agent who linked her with a large agency in New York City. Meanwhile, Tom joked about his own modeling past, admitting that he was “never a real model.”
“I was a ‘mactor,’” he explained. “When I first started, Tom Sandoval gave me his old book from his Miami modeling days and I had like four pictures in there and I was always almost embarrassed to hand it over to prospective clients.”
Moving on to Bravo, Kiana said she was a fan of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and compared it to Pump Rules.
“You couldn’t have scripted a better show … it’s so perfect. Some people probably say that about Vanderpump. You couldn’t have even, if you tried to script it, you couldn’t have created such magic; it was so good,” she noted.
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime, lightning in a bottle scenario,” Tom agreed.