Amanda Batula and Kyle Cooke are happily married — but if that weren’t the case, Batula has the perfect match for Cooke: Summer House’s Lindsay Hubbard.
The couple exclusively told Us Weekly how “protective” they both are over Hubbard, who is pregnant with her first baby, so much so that strangers might think Cooke, 42, is the baby daddy.
“At her baby shower, I kept on being like, ‘Oh my God, I’m having a kid,’” Cooke said with a laugh while attending the Amazon’s Holiday Soirée with host Kelsea Ballerini on November 14, which he also DJed.
Batula, 33, teased that her husband’s actions at the shower raised a few eyebrows. “Kyle was getting so close that I was like, ‘If someone didn’t know you guys, they would think that like you were the father of her child.’”
She joked, “In another universe, I swear they’d be together.” (Batula and Cooke tied the knot in September 2021.)
Cooke, however, wasn’t totally sure of that, replying, “Oh, I don’t know. It’d be like fire on fire.”
Cooke and Hubbard, 38, have been friends since Summer House premiered in 2017. The pair have been vocal about their brother-sister dynamic over the years, which is why they often feud on screen.
After Hubbard announced in July that she is expecting her first baby, a little girl, with a boyfriend who opts not to be on the show, Cooke and Batula have had her back even more.
“It was a great time filming with Lindsay this summer [for season 9]. I feel like we’re all also just, like, growing up and maturing,” Batula exclusively told Us at the Amazon’s Holiday Soirée. “We all felt very protective of her.”
She continued, “There was a certain level of protection that we all felt that we as a collective group were all, we were having a baby. All of us. Lindsay was the one carrying, but we were all having this baby.”
While the Summer House cast enjoyed shooting the upcoming season of the Bravo series, Cooke and Batula said they haven’t seen their costars much in recent months.
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“We spend so much time together during the summer that, especially in the fall and winter, I think we really enjoy our time apart from each other,” Batula revealed.
Cooke explained that after filming in the Hamptons all summer they focus on their work. Batula added that if the group did hang out over the holidays, she’d feel bad it wasn’t featured on TV.
“We would never get together as a group without cameras because that would just be ridiculous. You would miss out on too much,” she said with a laugh. “Imagine us having a Friendsgiving with no one recording it? You guys would be extremely let down.”
While Cooke teased that Batula was “exaggerating” about their group dynamic, she insisted, “We’ve never had one group dinner that went well, so I think people would be very disappointed if they missed it.”
Even without a Summer House Friendsgiving or holiday bash, Cooke and Batula are busy with work and building their Amazon wish-lists for Christmas.
“An event like this kind of just reminds me because I’m such a bad shopper in the sense that I don’t think far enough advance,” Cooke said. “So [Amazon] prime saves my ass there. But also, just like having everything in one place just [is great].”
The Loverboy founder — who’s gift list includes coffee, pickleball accessories and multiple speakers — noted that he and Batula like to use Amazon to make their apartment feel festive.
Cooke said the couple have an artificial tree, which is why Batula picks scents from Amazon to mimic the tree smell. “Nest makes a really good fragrance, like, the diffuser, which makes [the] whole apartment smell like a Christmas tree,” she shared.
The pair also revealed that Amazon will be selling Loverboy’s nonalcoholic drinks beginning on Black Friday. “This has been months in the making to get on Amazon, so it’s a little full circle being here,” Cooke added.
Check out Cooke and Batula’s Amazon wish lists online, now.
With reporting by Aileen Bergin and Grace Riley
