SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 10 finale of “Summer House,” streaming on Peacock as of May 20.
Much like the pall #Scandoval cast over Season 10 of “Vanderpump Rules,” transmogrifying its fan base into a pack of wild hounds sniffing out any hints of indiscretion on the part of the offending parties, “Scamanda,” as it’s come to be known, has dominated the discussion surrounding the 10th season of its Bravo counterpart, “Summer House.”
For the uninitiated, “Scamanda” refers to a recent situationship involving “Summer House” cast members Amanda Batula, 34, and Westling “West” Wilson, 31. Amanda is the former creative director of Loverboy, her (now estranged) husband’s canned cocktail company that is perpetually on the verge of collapse; West is a content creator at Complex, podcast co-host, and for the most part a professional hypebeast.
Their coupling has captured the public’s imagination for a number of reasons:
Amanda and Kyle Cooke publicly announced their separation in January after four years of marriage (and ten long, arduous years together, all documented on “Summer House”); in late March, two months later, Amanda and West released a rather mealy-mouthed joint statement on their Instagram Stories that sounded like it was written by ChatGPT essentially coming out as a sorta couple.
