Here’s exactly when West Wilson joined Summer House before causing total chaos
He hasn't even been on the show that long
The Summer House universe has entered one of its messiest, most gasp-out-loud chapters yet, and yes, West Wilson is right at the center of it.
Between his flirty rookie-era arrival, his complicated history with Ciara Miller, and now this very public plot twist involving Amanda Batula, the timeline is officially doing the most.
If you’ve been trying to pin down when West actually entered the Hamptons group chat, when he and Amanda first crossed paths, and why Ciara is suddenly at the heart of the current fallout, here’s the rundown.
West and Amanda just announced their relationship
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On March 31, 2026, Amanda Batula and West Wilson confirmed that they are romantically involved after weeks of rumours.
In a joint statement posted to Instagram and later reported by Bravo, they said the relationship is “still very new” and explained that they had wanted privacy while sorting through complicated dynamics.
They described what’s happening as something that grew out of a “genuine, longstanding friendship,” which is what places their connection back before this current season’s bombshell reveal.
That reveal instantly landed with extra drama because Amanda had only recently split from Kyle Cooke in January 2026, and West is also Amanda’s close friend Ciara Miller’s ex.
Since the announcement, Ciara has distanced herself publicly by unfollowing both Amanda and West.
When did he join Summer House?
West officially joined Summer House as a new cast member for season eight, with Bravo announcing him on January 11, 2024, ahead of the season’s February 22, 2024, premiere.
He was introduced to the group through Lindsay Hubbard, making him one of the rookie additions who arrived just as the house dynamics were shifting in a major way.
So, when did West meet Amanda? Basically, when he entered the Summer House orbit in season eight.
Amanda was already a central cast member, and West’s recent statement that he and Amanda have “shown up for each other as friends over the years” strongly suggests their friendship dates back to his earliest seasons around the group, not to some super-recent post-split moment.
So where do things stand with Ciara now?
This is where the timeline gets especially awkward. During season eight, West and Ciara had one of the show’s most talked-about flirtations, and by the reunion, they confirmed they had kept dating after filming wrapped.
According to Bravo, they continued seeing each other through the fall, but broke up in early December 2023. Ciara said she left that breakup devastated, while Amanda was notably one of the castmates who defended her and criticised West’s inability to commit.
Fast-forward to season 10, and West and Ciara had actually started talking more openly about their fallout.
Bravo reported on March 17 that both seemed to be in a place where they could at least discuss what happened, with West admitting he now understood more clearly how badly the post-breakup press cycle affected Ciara.
That’s what makes the Amanda reveal hit even harder: just as viewers were watching West and Ciara inch toward a more mature, calmer place, the Amanda relationship news dropped and blew the whole thing up again. As of April 1, 2026, the clearest public sign of where things stand is icy at best.
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