Summer House’s Amanda Batula Reveals Whether She’s Dating Again Yet After Kyle Cooke Split (Exclusive)
Jason Pham
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Summer House’s Amanda Batula may be the latest Bravo star to enter the single scene, but don’t expect her to date again anytime soon.
“I just made my announcement two, three weeks ago. I am not dating anyone. I’m dating myself. I’m dating this couch,” Amanda tells StyleCaster while promoting her campaign with Lovesac, the brand behind the couch she was sitting on during her interview. “Me and this couch have a date for Valentine’s Day, and if you’re looking for me, I’ll be right here. I’ll be flying on Valentine’s Day, so I don’t even need to worry about it. I’m a working woman. I’m literally dating my job.”
Amanda and her estranged husband and Summer House co-star, Kyle Cooke, announced they had split after four years of marriage in January 2026. While the two remain good friends—as seen in their joint appearances promoting Summer House Season 10, airing now—Amanda confessed that she’s still not done healing.
“There’s definitely a lot of healing still to be done,” she says. “At the end of the day, Kyle and I have just remained really good friends through it all, and that’s been the most important part for me. That was something we were both very adamant about. That’s why 2026 is the year of healing.”
Amanda and Kyle started living separately around October or November 2025. At that time, Amanda moved into her own apartment—the first place she’s lived completely on her own—while Kyle kept their old residence, which, coincidentally, also has a Lovesac couch. “I’m there quite often. Not all the time, but I stopped by on his Lovesac couch. He’s got recliners and everything. I’m very envious of his very large couch,” she says.
Living on her own for the first time, Amanda didn’t bring a single piece of furniture from her and Kyle’s old apartment together to her new place. “I had been wanting to redo our apartment for so long, so when I moved out, I was like, ‘You keep everything, I’m starting fresh,’” she says. “I didn’t have any other opinions. It was all on me.”
One of Amanda’s goals for her new apartment is to add more color, which is where her new Loveac couch comes in. “The interior design aesthetic at our old place was very millennial beige. Everything was white and crisp and clean and light-colored,” she says. “My new space, I want to add color. So this new shade for the couch is incredible. I have colorful rugs, colorful accessories. It’s not too much, but it’s just enough where it makes the space feel warmer and happier instead of cold and clinical.”
Amanda is the spokesperson for Lovesac’s new [Sit]utionship campaign, which promotes the idea of investing in furniture (and relationships) that will last for years to come. “This one’s all about situationships, if you get the play on words there. It’s about not being with something that’s not going to last, whether that’s a person or a couch. It’s about committing to something that’s going to be with you for the long haul,” she says. “The sectionals, they’re interchangeable. You can size down, size up, they can grow with you, especially living in New York City apartments, having a couch that you can downsize or add on to is great. My favorite part of the whole thing is the washable covers. Especially having pets, that has been a game changer.”
Amanda is so into the couch that she’s campaigning to swap the one in the summer house next season. “I keep saying we need a Lovesac for next summer, because the one there just doesn’t cut it. It’s not the most comfortable. That’s why we spend time in bed because that’s a more comfortable situation,” she says.
As for what’s next, Amanda is set to star alongside Kyle and their Summer House co-star, Lindsay Hubbard, in In the City, Bravo’s upcoming Summer House spinoff following both old and new cast members as they navigate adulthood in New York City.
“In the City is based off of my, Kyle and Lindsay’s friends. Our actual true friends. It’s really about that next phase and that next chapter in life, and following us into adulthood, and people in different places in their relationships,” she says. “There’s a lot of familiar faces, and there’s a lot of new faces too. I think people are going to be really excited to watch us hang out in the city versus being out in the Hamptons and in the pool all the time.”
She continues, “There’s obviously no surveillance. They did not put cameras in our homes, thankfully. But you’re diving deeper into these relationships, where Summer House was more about hookups and flings and partying. There’s going to be an older group of viewers who are going to relate a lot to what they’re watching on the new one.”
