“Summer time Home” star Paige DeSorbo shocked the Bravosphere when she introduced her exit from the long-running actuality collection in early June 2025.
Nonetheless, her on-and-off-screen bestie, Amandlately hinted that the “Giggly Squad” podcast host might return to the collection earlier than anticipated.
In a brand new interview, Batula additionally weighed in on Lexi Wooden’s stunning “Summer time Home” departure, which adopted a season largely outlined by her contentious relationship with ex-boyfriend Jesse Solomon.
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‘Summer time Home’ Star Hints That She Noticed DeSorbo’s Exit Coming Whereas Filming The Most Latest Season
The day after the “Summer time Home” season 9 reunion concluded, DeSorbo shared a prolonged Instagram publish saying her departure from the Bravo present.
“I’ve a little bit life replace for you: I’ve made the choice to not return to Summer time Home,” she wrote in her Instagram Tales. “Being a part of this present has been one of the crucial rewarding chapters of my life — the friendships, the drama, the giggles, all unforgettable,” she continued.
“You have seen me develop up over these final 7 summers. I will all the time be past grateful for the reminiscences, the neighborhood, and the alternatives this wild journey has introduced me. However like all good issues (and a few dangerous choices), it is time for this chapter to shut,” the style influencer added.
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“To my castmates, the followers, and my NBCU household: thanks,” she continued. “I by no means might’ve imagined what this journey would flip into — and what number of of you’d be alongside for the journey. And you have not seen the final of me, I promise. A lot extra to do collectively, however for now you understand you possibly can all the time discover me and Daphne in my mattress.”
Though many followers had been shocked by her resolution, Batula instructed The Publish that she noticed her exit coming from a mile away.
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Batula Was ‘Anticipating’ DeSorbo’s ‘Summer time Home’ Exit After Her Season Earlier than
“She FaceTimed me and Ciara (Miller) and instructed us, and it was actually powerful to listen to,” Batula, 33, instructed the publication.
“I feel I used to be form of anticipating it simply because she had such a tough time final summer season, and you may actually inform that her nervousness was taking her over. She stayed again a couple of Fridays, would keep again a weekend. She was actually struggling, and I feel that it’s the perfect resolution for her,” she added.
Nonetheless, the veteran actuality star, who lately launched her “Amanda Batula” swim line, stated she has a sense DeSorbo will return to the collection—or TV on the whole—someday quickly.
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Might DeSorbo Make Her Approach Again To The Hamptons For A Future Season Of ‘Summer time Home’?
“I’m calling it taking a summer season off,” Batula instructed The Publish. “I’d wish to suppose that she’s not finished. I do know that she just isn’t finished with TV.”
She added, “That lady was born for TV. So I do know we’ll be seeing loads of her. However I imply, it’s exhausting to exit to the Hamptons each single weekend, driving backwards and forwards, sitting within the visitors, all of the partying, the ingesting. It’s so much. And I feel she went by means of it final summer season, and he or she simply wants a break. And I respect that.”
Batula defined that though DeSorbo’s exit made her and her co-star, Ciara Miller, “unhappy,” she’s glad to nonetheless have an ally on the present. “(Ciara and I) simply type of checked out one another and had been like, ‘It’s simply the 2 of us.’”
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Wooden Is Additionally Achieved With The Hamptons
And DeSorbo is not the one one leaving “Summer time Home” and the Hamptons behind.
Wooden, who spent a lot of the season arguing together with her ex-boyfriend, Solomon, additionally introduced her departure in June 2025.
“Effectively… that wasn’t the summer season I signed up for however it positively taught me so much,” she wrote on-line. “I stood up for girls and for what’s proper, even when it wasn’t straightforward and I’d do this once more in a heartbeat.”
Wooden continued, “I’m leaving Summer time Home with no regrets (Effectively… perhaps one),” earlier than saying she was “pleased with the way in which I dealt with myself” and “pleased with what I walked away from.”
What Does Batula Have To Say About Her Exit?
Throughout her chat with The Publish, Batula opened up about Wooden’s announcement, calling the choice a “bummer.”
She added that she believed Wooden, 27, “had a lot potential” and referred to as her tumultuous relationship with Solomon “unlucky.”
“Lexi and I knew one another earlier than,” she continued. “I feel it could have been nice to have a lady summer season, however I can’t management what individuals resolve to do.”
