Not just any summer novel! Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula have endured reality TV drama, cheating scandals, and marriage delays throughout their relationship — and they are still going strong.
The Summer house The Romance of Stars has been set in the Bravo series since Season 1, which premiered in January 2017.
Cooke, who met Batula in the summer of 2015, was the first to sign on to the reality show. However, after inviting his love to spend time with him at the Hamptons home in July 2016, the New Jersey native was featured in several episodes of Season 1. She officially joined him on the TV adventure for Season 2. .
“We watched all the episodes together, the good and the bad,” the Loverboy founder wrote via Instagram in March 2019, looking back on Batula’s first time filming with him. “It’s not easy to relive the difficult and challenging parts of our relationship every year, every episode, 8 months after it happened, but here we are. Happily engaged and about to watch the season 3 premiere. Thank you everyone for your love and support! ️.”
A year earlier, Batula gave fans an inside look at her relationship with Cooke, including why they work so well together.
“I’m very picky when it comes to the guys I date. I can count on one hand the number of long term relationships I’ve had and I’ve only told 3 of those people I loved them because I don’t want to give just a piece of my heart to anyone,” she wrote. via Instagram in April 2018.
Loverboy’s creative director explained that she let Cooke in because she “trusted” him and saw “how big and kind” his heart was when they first met.
“I admired you because I saw how you were the life of the party and how much of… [your] friends… had nothing but nice things to say about you. I loved going out with you because of the weird stuff we got into as essentially complete strangers, our casual blackout date nights and sometimes your drunken jokes that made me laugh and were endless entertainment,” he continued. they. “I chose you because you chose me too and the only place I ever run is right in your arms (dedicated to trying to nail that dirty dance move, so keep going to the gym?).”
However, the pair, who got engaged in September 2018, have had their fair share of ups and downs. Their biggest roadblock came when Cooke cheated on Batula, which he later spoke about publicly after the season 3 premiere in March 2019, explaining during the episode that the infidelity happened a year earlier.
“Honestly, it’s going to sound cliche, we’ve been through a lot together and I’ve always been 99 percent sure,” the Maryland resident said on a March 2019 episode of Watch live what’s happening with Andy Cohen when asked why he was fighting for Batula after the cheating drama. “But when you go through some of those huge hurdles and speed bumps and you hold it together as a couple, you think, ‘Holy crap, life is hard and she’s the one I want to be with.'”
Batula, for her part, said she had put the betrayal behind her and was focused on her future with Cooke. “I’ve got the ring, I know he loves me, the world has changed now that he’s taking me seriously, and I think that’s all that matters,” she said at the time.
The duo tied the knot two years later, and Cooke shared it exclusively Us Weekly in October 2021 that he had “goosebumps” before the ceremony.
“I was like a ball of nerves, but at that moment everything was perfect. It’s exactly how you want it to feel,” he said of the September 2021 wedding. “And I certainly had tears in my eyes, several times during the ceremony, but I managed to get through.”
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