The Petty Comment That Predicted the End
If you thought the divorce announcement from Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula came out of nowhere, you clearly weren’t reading the comments section. Just five days before the Summer House couple issued their generic “amicable” separation statement on Monday, January , Kyle was already getting salty in public, leaving a passive-aggressive jab on his wife’s Instagram that screamed marital trouble.
The drama started when Amanda, , jumped on the viral “” trend, posting a montage of photos from that year. It was a simpler time: pre-wedding stress, pre-Loverboy lawsuits, and apparently, pre-Kyle dominance. Fans noticed that the montage featured plenty of fun memories, but was noticeably lacking in one specific area: Her husband.
Kyle, , noticed the snub immediately and couldn’t resist calling her out. “I guess I was never in your camera roll,” he wrote in the comments. It was a cringeworthy moment of public insecurity that hinted at the deep rot within their relationship.
“He is so needy! Imagine your marriage is crumbling and you’re worried about not being in a TikTok trend? This man needs to grow up. Team Amanda all the way.”
While Amanda didn’t publicly clap back, the silence was deafening. Less than a week later, the hammer dropped, and the marriage was officially over. That comment wasn’t just a joke; it was a symptom of a husband who felt erased from his wife’s life long before the papers were signed.
The ‘Amicable’ Lie
The official statement released on Monday tried to paint a picture of maturity and grace. “After much reflection, we have mutually and amicably decided to part ways as a couple,” the pair wrote. They asked for “grace and support” and claimed they are focusing on “personal growth and healing.”
But let’s be real: Amicable exes don’t troll each other’s nostalgia posts days before pulling the plug. Sources have been whispering for months that this split is anything but smooth. Rumors of separate living arrangements surfaced back in November , and while insiders tried to downplay it as a “challenging time,” it is clear now that they were simply running out the clock.
The timeline is brutal. They met in , survived Kyle’s drunken antics in , and weathered a massive cheating scandal in . But that “camera roll” comment suggests that even looking back at the “good old days,” Amanda is rewriting history to exclude the chaos that Kyle brought into her life.
Lindsay Hubbard’s Failed Cover-Up
We have to give a special shoutout to Lindsay Hubbard, who tried—and failed—to gaslight the entire Bravo fanbase at BravoCon in November. When asked about the rumors plaguing Kyle and Amanda, Lindsay went into full spin mode, assuring Us Weekly that the marriage was rock solid.
“It’s like any relationship, there’s ups and downs,” Lindsay insisted, claiming she knew they were “so in love with each other.” She dismissed the rumors as “no big deal.”
Well, Lindsay, it turns out it was a very big deal. The cover-up attempt only makes the final explosion look worse. It seems the entire cast was trying to keep the lid on this pressure cooker until the season aired, but Kyle’s petty thumbs couldn’t help but leak the truth early.
The DJ Career and Baby Wars
The upcoming Season of Summer House is shaping up to be a televised autopsy of their marriage. Teasers show the couple screaming at each other over Kyle’s mid-life crisis pivot into being a touring DJ. While Kyle wants to party across the country, Amanda has been begging for stability and a family—but on her terms.
Amanda dropped a nuclear truth bomb in an interview last May that should have been the final nail in the coffin. Discussing their fertility struggles and Kyle’s pressure to have kids, she said, “He’s gonna have to be on my page. If he could grow the baby, it could be on his timeline. But it’s happening in this body.”
She bluntly stated that Kyle was having conversations about kids with “other people” instead of her, and accused him of not being ready for fatherhood. “I know he’s not ready,” she said. That is a devastating thing for a wife to say about her husband, and it seems Kyle never stepped up to prove her wrong.
What’s Next?
Now that the split is official, all eyes are on the upcoming season. We are about to watch the slow-motion disintegration of the “King and Queen” of Bravo. Kyle’s “camera roll” comment was just the appetizer; the main course is going to be a messy, tear-filled, Loverboy-fueled disaster.
Kyle might not have been in Amanda’s throwback, but he is certainly going to be in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in .
