Kyle Cooke famously said, “Summer should be fun,” but his wife, Amanda Batula, admitted the anticipation of a new Summer House season is anything but.
“I feel like this lull between the super tease and the premiere is probably when I have the most anxiety,” Amanda, 33, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, December 19, while promoting Amazon’s Buy With Prime feature. “Because it’s like you just start thinking about like, ‘Oh, my God, everything that’s gonna air.’”
Amanda noted that while it’s “exciting” for fans to get a glimpse of the upcoming season, the official trailer release gets her worked up. “I’m glad that it happens over the holidays, so that there’s plenty of stuff to distract us with,” she confessed.
She revealed, “Even though it was a great summer, it’s just always that anticipation of, ‘What the hell did we do?’”
The Summer House season 9 trailer dropped on Wednesday, December 18. In the video, then-pregnant Lindsay Hubbard accused ex-fiancé Carl Radke of being unfaithful during their engagement. (Lindsay, 38, welcomed her first baby earlier this month with her new boyfriend.)
Paige DeSorbo cried over a possible breakup with boyfriend Craig Conover, while one of her best friends, Ciara Miller, claimed Craig, 35, gives “hater energy.”
Although Amanda wasn’t at the heart of the drama, her spouse, 42, did get into a fight with her bestie Paige, 32. “The only reason I came here tonight was so that someone kept his wife company while he pretended to be Diplo,” Paige said of Kyle in the trailer.
Despite seemingly being in hot water with Paige, Amanda told Us that Kyle “doesn’t get anxious” about the show before it airs.
“It also just feels like a lifetime ago even though it was just last summer,” Kyle exclusively told Us of his mindset. “You know, what were you doing for every hour of your July 4th weekend?”
Amanda, however, confessed it’s “hard” to wait and see what made the cut. “It’s exciting to watch but it’s also just like, ‘Oh my God, what’s gonna play out?’”
She teased, “Do you remember everything you said or did when you had a few cocktails? You know, it’s a little hazy.”
When she does watch the events unfold on TV, Amanda said it’s “weird” because so much has “transpired” since they wrapped filming. “You watch it back knowing what you know now and you have a different perspective on it than you did in the moment.”
One thing that Amanda doesn’t worry about every season is getting her costumes and vacation supplies shipped directly to the Hamptons thanks to Amazon’s Buy With Prime feature.
“Have you seen the boxes that stack up on our porch? I mean, we’re constantly using Buy With Prime [and] Amazon Prime,” Amanda explained. “It’s just so convenient. Like any last-minute things that we need, it’s just so easy to ship it to the house when we’re forgetting stuff.”
She revealed that “100 percent” of Kyle’s costumes and “98 percent” of her own looks this past summer came from Prime.
“I feel like Ciara orders most of her stuff to the Hamptons instead of her apartment,” Amanda said. “So there’s constantly personal boxes there for her.”
Amanda noted that because the Hamptons “takes a little bit longer” to get packages, she has turned to Buy With Prime because it curates “your favorite sites instead of doing the normal five to seven shipping days.”
Season 9 of Summer House premieres on Bravo Wednesday, February 12, at 9 p.m. ET.
