Amanda Batula Is the Most Normal Girl on Bravo
glamour.comBy Photography by Every good Bravo reality show has one iconic line fans will never forget. has The Real Housewives of New Jersey has —Jersey accent optional—and for Summer House, the choice is obvious: The catchphrase, uttered by star Kyle Cooke during the show’s second season as part of a drunken fight with his costar and then girlfriend, Amanda Batula, is now printed on stickers, mugs, and onesies in .
It’s a and a . Fans shout it while partying and repurpose it for captions on Instagram (“COVID-19: not fun!”). Five years later the phrase still makes Batula cringe—“I prefer when people just say ‘summer should be fun’ and they leave out Amanda,” she says—but like any enterprising reality star, she sanctioned the sale of by her own company (more on that later) with the phrase emblazoned on the back.
The memory was a lemon, but she knows enough to turn it into profitable lemonade.That roll-with-it spirit is how Batula, 31, tends to handle most things in her life, including becoming a star.
For the past seven years, she’s been a key cast member of Bravo’s Summer House and its spin-off, Winter House—hour-long romps that follow a group of friends as they party, hook up, and fight in palatial vacation homes—and, in the process, has become fair game for public consumption.
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