This season of Summer House showcases the excruciating end of Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula’s four-year marriage. In this week’s episode (“The Joke’s On You”), Cooke gifted Batula with a Cartier watch at her 34th birthday dinner. The gift drew scrutiny from fans, since Cooke has been vocal about his financial troubles this season.
The extravagant present comes in the wake of a rocky start to the summer for the pair, marked by a dinner table storm-off from Cooke and a trip to the infamous Summer House “apology dune.” While the couple seems to be faring better in recent episodes, hope of any reconciliation is obviously null with their real-life divorce announcement in January (after filming had wrapped).
The gift comes as even more of a surprise since last week’s episode revealed that Cooke did not invest in castmate and best bud Carl Radke’s business venture. Radke says he invested
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