• Part 1 of the Summer House Season 10 reunion aired May 26, and it was exactly as explosive as the leaked audio promised
• Kyle Cooke found out about Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s relationship in real time, on camera, during confessional filming
• Ciara Miller confronted both Amanda and West directly, calling out the betrayal from two people she considered close
• The reunion was filmed April 23 — less than a month after Amanda and West confirmed their relationship publicly
• Two more parts are still to come

“I think you need to check your phone.”

That’s how Part 1 of the Summer House Season 10 reunion opens. Kyle Cooke says it to Lindsay Hubbard, interrupting her confessional interview just seconds in. Both their phones start buzzing at the same time. Somewhere in the building, a Bravo producer is watching this happen and feeling very good about their job.

What follows is the moment the entire season has been building toward: Kyle and Lindsay reading Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s relationship confirmation statement in real time, on camera, while the rest of the cast starts blowing up their phones. Jesse calls Lindsay. Then Mia. The reactions cascade in real time, all of it captured, none of it scripted. NBC News called it a can’t-miss event, and honestly, that’s an understatement.

The Scandal, Layered

To understand why this reunion hits so hard, you have to understand how many layers of betrayal are baked into the Amanda-West situation. West is Ciara Miller’s ex. Amanda is — was — Ciara’s close friend. Amanda had only just announced her split from Summer House cast member Kyle Cooke in January. And for weeks before they went public, viewers had been watching West and Ciara on screen while Amanda and West were apparently already together off it.

The reunion was filmed April 23, less than a month after the joint statement dropped. The wounds were not healed. They were not even close to healed.

Ciara Miller, who has been careful and measured in how she’s talked about this in press, did not hold back on that couch. She confronted both Amanda and West directly about how betrayed she felt — by her ex, yes, but also and maybe especially by her friend. That’s the part that stings most in the New York Times’s breakdown of the episode’s four biggest takeaways: the friend code violation hits differently than the ex situation, and Ciara made sure that landed.

Amanda on the Hot Seat

One journalist covering the reunion wrote something that captured the mood perfectly. She had interviewed Amanda back in February, left feeling like she’d made a new friend, and spent the months since — through the blind items, the leaked reunion audio, the resurfaced podcast clips — feeling “confused, unsettled, and like I’ve been played a fool.”

That’s essentially the energy of the entire Part 1. Amanda and West went to Italy the day the reunion aired — a trip for his cousin’s wedding, sources confirmed — but the tape doesn’t care where you are when it airs. The confessional rooms caught everything: the moment the news broke, the real-time reactions, the phone calls, and the looks on faces when people realized just how long this had apparently been going on.

New York Magazine put it best: “The devil works hard, but a Bravo producer works harder.”

What’s Still Coming

Part 1 is just the beginning. Two more reunion episodes are on the way, which means there’s still room for more confrontations, more timeline questions, and whatever else the producers are saving for the finale of the finale. Based on what Part 1 delivered, the bar is already high.

Kyle Cooke, for what it’s worth, had to find out his marriage was publicly over while sitting in a confessional chair. That image alone will live in the Summer House canon forever.

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• Jackson Olson, internet personality and Savannah Bananas baseball player, is the third confirmed cast member for DWTS Season 35.
• Maura Higgins (The Traitors/Love Island) and Ciara Miller (Summer House) were the first two stars announced.
• The full cast and pro partners will be revealed on Good Morning America on September 2, 2026.
• DWTS Season 35 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on ABC — and no, the results show is not coming back.
• A companion spinoff, Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro, is also coming this summer.

Dancing With the Stars is slowly but surely building out its Season 35 ballroom, and the third confirmed cast member is someone you might already be following online. Jackson Olson — internet personality and baseball player for the viral Savannah Bananas — was revealed at the Disney Upfronts on May 12, joining a cast that’s shaping up to be one of the more reality-and-internet-savvy lineups in the show’s history.

Olson joins Ciara Miller of Summer House and Maura Higgins — the Irish fan favorite who became a breakout star on both Love Island and The Traitors — as the first three celebrities confirmed for the fall season. All three had massive moments in 2025, which makes their casting feel less like a coincidence and more like executive producer and casting head Deena Katz knew exactly what she was doing.

Higgins, for her part, is fully ready to put in the work. “I know it’s going to be so, so hard, but because I really want to do it I’m going to put my all into it,” she said. “I’m just so excited. I just want to get going now, to be honest.”

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The Full Cast Reveal Is Coming September 2

The rest of the celebrity lineup — along with which professional dancers will be paired with whom — won’t be officially unveiled until the September 2 episode of Good Morning America. In the meantime, Just Jared reports that several additional celebrities are rumored for the season, a few have confirmed they were approached, and at least one has publicly shot down the reports linking her to the show. The rumor mill, as always, is very much running.

What’s new this cycle is the addition of a companion series: Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro, set to air this summer, where a group of dancers will compete for a spot on the pro cast. Showrunner Conrad Green told The Hollywood Reporter that the winner has already been determined — “secretly in the bank,” as he put it — and explained what the spinoff revealed about what it actually takes to be a DWTS pro.

“Just being a good ballroom or Latin dancer is the basics,” Green said. “But you have to be able to do group dancing, choreograph, manage difficult people, manage time pressure, format a dance and choreograph for a one-minute routine that’s got moments that might get picked up on social media that might make your couple pop.”

Tuesday Nights, No Results Show, Same Three Judges

ABC confirmed at the Upfronts that DWTS Season 35 will air Tuesdays from 8/7c to 10/9c. No specific premiere date has been set, but the show typically returns in mid-September, so a September 2026 kickoff is the safe bet.

One thing that won’t be returning: the results show. During Season 34, Tom Bergeron came back as a guest judge and publicly urged ABC to bring back the two-night format, citing record ratings and arguing that the old overnight voting window gave the show a different energy. ABC isn’t biting — with only one night of DWTS on the schedule, the results show stays gone.

The judging panel, at least, remains unchanged. Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli are all back. Inaba and Tonioli have been judging since the very first season in 2005; Hough joined later during Len Goodman‘s tenure, and has remained a fixture since Goodman’s passing in April 2023. Guest judges will likely pop up throughout the season as well, though those names are typically kept under wraps until just before their episodes air.

For now, all eyes are on September 2 — and whatever names Deena Katz has been quietly assembling for what is, after all, a landmark 35th season.

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• Ciara Miller and Tefi Pessoa have been named co-hosts of Love Island USA’s companion series Aftersun on Peacock
• The announcement came during NBCUniversal’s 2026 Upfront Presentation, replacing departing host Maura Higgins
• Miller rose to national fame after her Summer House co-stars West Wilson and Amanda Batula revealed they were dating
• Sources tell TMZ that Miller’s Fiji filming schedule won’t conflict with Summer House Season 11, which starts July 4th weekend
• The move mirrors Ariana Madix’s post-Scandoval glow-up — betrayal, Dancing with the Stars, and now Love Island hosting duties

Ciara Miller is having her moment — and she’s not slowing down for anyone. Peacock announced Monday that the Summer House breakout star and internet personality Tefi Pessoa will co-host Love Island USA‘s companion series Aftersun, taking over from departing host Maura Higgins when Season 8 premieres on June 2.

The news dropped during NBCUniversal’s 2026 Upfront Presentation, where the network made it official: Miller, the model and former ICU nurse who’s been a Summer House mainstay since Season 5, is stepping into a much bigger spotlight. Pessoa, who previously hosted Prime Video’s talk show Influenced in 2024, rounds out the duo.

Aftersun functions as the after-show heartbeat of Love Island — hosts recap the latest drama, sit down with freshly dumped Islanders, and keep the conversation going as relationships in the villa bloom and blow up. Ariana Madix returns as host of the main show, and the parallels between her and Miller are hard to ignore: both were blindsided by a friend and a significant other, both landed spots on Dancing with the Stars Season 35, and now both are central to the Love Island USA universe. Bravo fans are already calling it the “Ariana Madix Effect.”

The Scandal That Changed Everything

If you need a refresher on how Ciara Miller became one of the most talked-about names in Bravoland: earlier this year, her ex-boyfriend West Wilson and her close friend Amanda Batula confirmed they had started a relationship — a revelation that hit Miller like a freight train, and played out in full view of the internet.

The pair issued a joint statement on Instagram Stories, writing, “We’ve shown up for each other as friends over the years, through all the highs and lows, and what’s developed recently was the last thing either of us expected. Our connection grew out of a genuine, long-standing friendship, which made it especially important for us to approach this with care.”

Miller told Glamour she found out with barely any warning. “I read it with the rest of the world,” she said. “There’s something about the lack of being able to say each other’s names in the statement that I found very telling.”

She’d had real conversations with West about where they stood as exes — conversations that included, apparently, an agreement not to get involved with anyone else in the Bravo world. “I felt like we were actually starting to be friends again,” she explained. “One of those [boundaries] was no more sleeping with people on Bravo. Obviously, now that’s out the window.”

When it came to who the bigger hurt came from, Miller didn’t hesitate. “At the end of the day, a guy’s a guy,” she said. “You just can’t put anything past a man. But I just never would think that it would come from someone like Amanda, who has been what has felt like in my circle and in my corner for so long. I think that’s the craziest part.”

Processing all of it publicly — while the season continued to air — was its own kind of torture. “It’s one thing to experience hurt behind closed doors,” she told Glamour. “To experience it so publicly is like another layer, and then to have to see what you thought was your life still play out in season 10. It’s a major mindf**k.”

Her advice to anyone in a similar situation? “Just know when something’s weird in your gut, there’s a reason. What’s done in the dark always comes to light. And sometimes you really don’t even have to do anything except sit back and let the universe handle it all.”

What’s Next — and Yes, She’s Still Going to the Hamptons

For fans worried that Love Island might pull Miller away from Summer House for good, sources close to the production tell TMZ there’s no conflict. Love Island USA Season 8 runs from June 2 through mid-July, and Summer House doesn’t go into production until July 4th weekend — meaning Miller will be back from Fiji in time to hop on the Jitney to the Hamptons. She’ll also appear in the Summer House Season 10 reunion, where she’s set to confront West and Amanda face-to-face.

Beyond that, Miller has been steadily building out her media presence — hosting red carpet events, appearing as a commentator on E!’s Met Gala coverage, and now joining Higgins on the Dancing with the Stars Season 35 cast. (Yes, she and her predecessor will both be in the ballroom.)

It’s a lot of irons in the fire. But if the last year has shown anything, it’s that Ciara Miller works best when the universe hands her something to prove.

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• Ciara Miller claimed on Threads that ex West Wilson slept with RHONJ alum Jennifer Fessler, 57, who is married.
• Both West and Jennifer denied the allegation — West posted “news to me” on Instagram Stories, while Jennifer fired back with a sharp quip to Page Six.
• A source close to West exclusively told Us Weekly the claim was “absolutely not true” and “such a silly allegation.”
• Ciara then reposted a cryptic meme about liars after the denials went public.
• The Summer House Season 10 reunion airs May 26, with three weeks still left to go in what is already a historically chaotic off-season.

Just when you thought the Summer House drama had reached peak chaos, Ciara Miller casually blew the roof off on a Friday afternoon — and now it involves the Real Housewives of New Jersey.

It started innocuously enough. RHONJ alum Jennifer Fessler, 57, was at Vulture’s The Masterminds of Reality TV event Thursday night when Page Six asked her about the ongoing West Wilson situation. Her answer was warm, a little gushing, and very much the kind of thing you say when you’re fond of someone. “West is the cutest, sweetest golden retriever puppy dog. He does not mean any harm. He didn’t mean it,” Jennifer said. “He’s just trying to have a good time. He doesn’t wanna hurt anyone. Give him a break.”

When those comments got recapped on Threads the next day, Ciara Miller — West’s ex, still very much in the thick of her own public heartbreak — hopped right into the comments. Her response was four words and an absolute grenade: “Lol, because they slept together too.”

The internet caught fire immediately. One fan replied, “Ma’am! I beg your pardon?!?!? Ain’t that old lady married? Oh he got a type!” Ciara didn’t walk it back. She wrote, “That’s what I thought….” and added a cartwheeling emoji, which honestly might be the most chaotic punctuation choice in Bravo history.

For the record: yes, Jennifer is married. She and husband Jeff Fessler have been together since 1999.

West and Jennifer Push Back — Hard

Neither West nor Jennifer took the allegation lying down. West went straight to his Instagram Stories, posting “news to me” alongside a meme illustrating total confusion, and tagged Jennifer’s account in the process. A source close to him went further, telling Us Weekly exclusively that the claim was “absolutely not true” and dismissing it as “such a silly allegation.”

Jennifer, for her part, delivered arguably the most cutting denial of the whole saga. Speaking to Page Six on Friday, she said: “It’s flattering that anyone would think someone who slept with Ciara Miller would be interested in sleeping with me.”

Girl.

Neither West nor Ciara responded to Page Six’s request for comment, which — given the volume of chaos already in motion — tracks.

Ciara’s Response to the Denials

After West and Jennifer went public with their denials, Ciara made one more move. She reposted a Summer House still of Amanda Batula on Threads — the original caption reading, “If I send this to you I’m about to lie straight to your face.” She didn’t add a word. She didn’t need to.

Fans were living for every second of it. “Ciara has entered her IDGAF stage and is about to burn this s**t to the ground!” one person wrote on Instagram. Another simply called her “SAVAGE.” Southern Hospitality’s Mia Alario, who has her own complicated history with West after alleging she went on a date with him in September while he was already spending time with Batula, put it more directly at a Page Six event last month: “Ciara, if she was ugly … I’d feel bad for her. But she is one of the baddest bitches on Bravo.”

How We Got Here

To understand why Ciara is in full scorched-earth mode, you have to go back to March 31, when West Wilson and Amanda Batula — Ciara’s ex and her former best friend — confirmed their romance in a joint Instagram statement. “It was never our intention to purposely hide anything,” they wrote. “Given the complicated relationship dynamics involved and the scrutiny that comes with being on a reality show, we needed a little space to process things privately before speaking on it.”

Ciara told Glamour she had “less than 24 hours notice” before that statement went live. “It’s one thing to experience hurt behind closed doors,” she said. “To experience it so publicly is like another layer, and then to have to see what you thought was your life still play out in season 10. It’s a major mindf***.”

Leaked audio from the reunion made clear just how deep the wound goes. “There are a million other f**king guys in New York City and … you chose the one guy,” Ciara told Amanda in the recording, before calling her former best friend a “f**king snake.” In interviews since, she’s been consistent: the betrayal from Amanda stings more than anything West did. “A guy’s a guy,” she told Glamour. “But I just never would think that it would come from someone like Amanda.”

West has maintained there was no overlap between his relationship with Ciara and whatever developed with Amanda. “There was no overlap,” he said last month. “I know there are a thousand different theories right now, but that is one thing that for sure did not happen.” Amanda separated from husband Kyle Cooke in January after four years of marriage.

Meanwhile, West has been dealing with a separate avalanche entirely — his nudes leaked earlier this week, which he addressed on his Show Me Something With Sophie and West podcast. “I know my f**king nudes leaked, but guess what? It’s like the sixth worry of mine right now,” he said. “I know I’m laughing, because if I don’t laugh I’ll f**king cry about all this.”

And through all of it, Ciara has been showing up — literally. At the Season 10 reunion, she arrived in a white embellished look with a nude illusion cutout that showed off her abs, her hair in Old Hollywood waves. Fans in the comments of Bravo’s Instagram post called it “red carpet ready” and invoked the iconic Pretty Woman line: “Big mistake. HUGE.” She told Glamour her look would be “a statement of where I stand.” Consider the statement made.

The Summer House Season 10 reunion airs May 26. At this rate, it might need a content warning.

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• Ciara Miller debuted her Summer House Season 10 reunion look on May 8 via Bravo’s Instagram — a white beaded crop top and floor-length fringe skirt
• The look was styled by Marc Eram and completed with an emerald choker, dainty diamond rings, and Old Hollywood waves
• Miller called the outfit “a statement of where I stand” amid the Amanda Batula and West Wilson dating scandal
• Audio leaked after the reunion taping of Miller confronting Batula and Wilson; Bravo confirmed it took “appropriate action”
• The reunion’s release date has not yet been announced by Bravo

Ciara Miller walked into the Summer House Season 10 reunion looking like she had absolutely nothing to prove — and somehow that made everything hit harder.

Bravo shared first-look images of the tell-all special on May 8, and Miller, 30, showed up in a white beaded bikini-style crop top paired with a champagne slip skirt dripping with wavy fringe detailing that swept all the way to the floor. Stylist Marc Eram — who’s been dressing Miller throughout what has become one of Bravo’s messiest off-camera sagas — pulled together the full armor: an emerald choker necklace, a few dainty diamond rings, and brunette hair (with a subtle red tint) styled in polished Old Hollywood waves perched on one shoulder. Her abs? Very much present and accounted for.

Fans in the comments of Bravo’s Instagram post did not hold back. “ABS-OLUTELY,” wrote one. Another declared: “She’s on another playing field with this look. Red carpet ready, about to walk the runway in Paris, luxury brand photoshoot level.” A third went full Pretty Woman: “She said BIG MISTAKE, HUGE!!!!!” And perhaps the most devastating review of all: “She could have worn a paper bag and still would have upstaged everyone there.”

“A Statement of Where I Stand”

Miller had been teasing the look for weeks. In an April interview with Glamour, she revealed she’d had one fitting but wasn’t following the reunion’s loose “summer show” theme. “I’m probably going to just push that to the side and wear whatever I want,” she said. “I think what I pick out is going to be a statement of where I stand. I feel like it’s going to represent who I am and how I’m feeling on that particular day.”

She was careful to distance herself from the “revenge dress” label — even as the internet immediately slapped it on anyway. “I still don’t really think about a revenge look,” she told Glamour. “I just think about what’s a proper representation of who I am right now.” For the record, she also noted she had a “different mindset” going into this reunion compared to 2023, when an accidental revenge dress went viral. This time, the intention was self-expression. The effect, though? Undeniably pointed.

The reunion — filmed April 23 — marked the first time Miller sat across from her former best friend Amanda Batula and her ex West Wilson since the two confirmed they were dating in March. Miller had previously dated Wilson in 2023, and sources have said the two also hooked up earlier this year, before she found out about his relationship with Batula, 34, who announced her separation from husband Kyle Cooke in January.

Batula and Wilson have both maintained there was no overlap. “Our connection grew out of a genuine, longstanding friendship, which made it especially important for us to approach this with care,” the two said in a joint statement in March.

Miller has been less measured. She told Glamour she felt the betrayal from Batula more acutely than from Wilson. “It’s one thing to experience hurt behind closed doors,” she said. “To experience it so publicly is like another layer, and then to have to see what you thought was your life still play out in season 10. It’s a major mindf***.”

The Leaked Audio and the Fallout

Days after the reunion taped, audio leaked of Miller confronting Batula and Wilson — including a clip in which she reportedly called Batula “a snake in the f**king grass.” The recording was released by a production member, and Bravo confirmed it had taken “appropriate action” in response.

Through all of it, Miller has kept moving — and dressing accordingly. Since the taping, she turned up to the CULT100 gala in a sheer vintage Dolce & Gabbana lace look, then served as a fashion commentator for E! News at the Met Gala in a lingerie-inspired Erik Charlotte corset complete with cutout detailing. The Victoria’s Secret model is clearly not lying low.

Bravo hasn’t announced a release date for the reunion yet, and the rest of the cast’s looks are set to be revealed in the coming week. But if the first image is any indication, Miller already won the room before anyone said a word.

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