Amanda Batula and West Wilson: Every Date in the Summer House Affair Timeline

According to TMZ's reunion recap, the first red flag landed on January 17, 2026. Ciara Miller — then dating West Wilson — had been trying to reach Amanda Batula, her best friend on the cast, and couldn't. Amanda, the reunion confirmed, was at West's apartment that night. Both Amanda and West insist on the record that nothing physical happened in January. They've used the word 'platonic' more than once across promo interviews leading into the reunion. But Ciara's argument has always been simpler than the timeline: a best friend doesn't ignore your calls from your boyfriend's couch.

The January 17 anchor matters because it's the first date both parties acknowledge — and the first date that contradicts the 'nothing until spring' narrative the pair leaned on for months. Whatever happened in the apartment, it was already secret. That's the part Ciara has refused to let go of, and the part Amanda kept dodging on camera until the reunion finally pinned the date down.

Both Amanda Batula and West Wilson have now said, on the record, that their first kiss happened in February 2026 — after a brunch. They've stayed vague on the exact date. The reunion didn't pin it tighter, but TMZ frames it as the moment the friendship-or-not question got answered between them, while still being kept from the cast.

The complication is that West was, per his own admission, dating someone named Meija Moreno during this window. He's stated publicly he had ended things with Ciara before this point. The phrase 'romance overlap' has been used by Bravo's marketing — and it's the framing that lit the fuse for Ciara. Amanda was still technically estranged from husband Kyle Cooke, which Page Six confirmed in its May 26 reunion writeup. Estranged and divorced are not the same word, and the season made sure viewers knew it.

March 31, 2026, is the date the couple has consistently named as 'the day we said it out loud.' Their first joint Instagram post, by the reunion's own visual, was that night. Amanda told the room the pair waited deliberately to make sure they weren't just 'a season fling that ruins everything.' West echoed it: they were trying to do it right.

The internal cast group chat reportedly lit up that night. Ciara, in the reunion footage, calls March 31 'the day I found out from Instagram' — a detail that turns the calendar into an indictment. If the kiss was February, and the apartment hang was January 17, the public reveal in late March was either six weeks of being thoughtful or six weeks of letting a best friend keep texting in the dark.

The single line that traveled the furthest from the May 26 reunion came from Ciara Miller. Quoted by TMZ: 'The best woman for West is someone who's not gonna check him on anything. That's totally Amanda.' It's the kind of cut that doesn't deny the new relationship — it just suggests it works because Amanda doesn't push back the way Ciara did.

Amanda scoffed at the line on camera, per Page Six. West, for his part, set the record straight on the so-called 'overlap' with Moreno: he says he had ended that situation before kissing Amanda in February. The reunion did not produce a smoking date that contradicts him. What it produced instead was the texture of a friendship that's gone — Ciara and Amanda are not pretending to repair anything publicly, and the room knew it.

Roughly a week after the reunion taped, TMZ caught Amanda and West in Rome on a date night. The framing was deliberate: West's cousin's wedding pulled them to Italy, and Amanda flew over as his plus-one. Bravo's reunion airing coincided with the trip. Critics on social media called it tone-deaf; supporters called it the most honest thing they'd done all season. Either way, it confirmed that whatever the timeline said on paper, the relationship in front of the cameras is current.

This is the part of the story where AI culture starts to brush up against reality TV. Bravo viewers spent months obsessing over a timeline they could not control. The replays, the screenshots, the cast group chats — Reddit threads on r/BravoRealHousewives crossed 3,000 comments the night the reunion aired. Some of that obsessive energy now feeds another behavior entirely: parasocial AI companions modeled on the same archetype. The 'one who finally says yes' is a TV trope. It's also, on a separate but adjacent platform, a search query.

Reunion Part 2 will give Ciara the last word, per the Bravo promo cuts that aired during commercial breaks. Amanda's still-pending divorce from Kyle Cooke is its own legal thread Page Six has flagged for follow-up. And the West–Meija Moreno chapter, per West's reunion statement, is closed. The full timeline now reads: January 17 (Amanda at West's apartment), February (first kiss after brunch), March 31 (public reveal), May 26 (reunion airs and timeline is forced into the open), late May/early June (Italy date night).

It's a clean six-month arc by reality-TV standards. What kept it on Page Six's front for a week was the loyalty question — not the kissing question. Ciara stayed the issue. The reunion didn't rewrite that. It just put the dates next to her face.