West Wilson of 'Summer House.' Clifton Prescod/Bravo Logo text West Wilson won’t be returning to Summer House.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned via a source close to production that the Bravo star is exiting the series he has starred on for three seasons. West joined the hit reality series that 2024 season, but this year has catapulted him to a new level of stardom when he became embroiled in a relationship scandal with co-star Amanda Batula.
West, the ex to fan-favorite castmember Ciara Miller, and Batula, the estranged wife to Summer House veteran Kyle Cooke, confirmed their shock relationship on March 31, around two months after Batula and Cooke had publicly announced they were separating after four years of marriage. The confirmation sparked a scandal and ratings bonanza that Bravo hasn’t seen since the likes of “Scandoval” in 2023.
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The West-Batula news fractured the cast due to secrecy and betrayals, and the fallout from the off-camera events has played out over an explosive three-part reunion that concluded last week. This week, on Tuesday (at 9 p.m.), Bravo set a bonus episode, Summer House: The Aftermath, featuring three separate sitdowns that were filmed after the reunion taped in order to update viewers on where the cast currently stands.
West’s departure comes before the season 11 cast has been officially announced by Bravo. The season was renewed in May and talks with the cast have been ongoing, with Josh Brown, Bravo’s vp, current production, confirming to The Hollywood Reporter last week after the reunion concluded airing that the cast will be locked by end of June. Season 11 will film early July — no matter who returns, or doesn’t.
“We do not feel like this is a reboot situation at all. We feel like this is evolving,” Brown told THR. “It’s interesting that we’re not talking about this past season where we had five new cast members on. We didn’t feel like that was a reboot, either. We felt that was evolving. It really comes down to what the show is, which is obviously about a summer share in the Hamptons, and in real life, every summer, there might be a core group but the group does evolve in real life share houses. So these things evolve. We can’t say exactly how many people are returning or exactly how many new cast members are joining, but there’s always new people to freshen the dynamic and we were planning for that before any of this scandal hit.”
Summer House spinoff, In the City, is also currently airing, starring Batula, Cooke and Summer House star Lindsay Hubbard.
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