“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, Amanda Batula, just lately hinted that the “Giggly Squad” podcast host might return to the collection before anticipated.
In a brand new interview, Batula additionally weighed in on Lexi Wooden’s shocking “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 Current Season
The day after the “Summer time Home” season 9 reunion concluded, DeSorbo shared a prolonged Instagram put up asserting her departure from the Bravo present.
“I’ve a bit of 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 group, and the alternatives this wild experience has introduced me. However like all good issues (and a few unhealthy selections), 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’ll be alongside for the experience. And you have not seen the final of me, I promise. A lot extra to do collectively, however for now you realize you may all the time discover me and Daphne in my mattress.”
Though many followers had been shocked by her choice, Batula advised The Submit 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 advised us, and it was actually robust to listen to,” Batula, 33, advised the publication.
“I believe I used to be type of anticipating it simply because she had such a tough time final summer time, and you may actually inform that her anxiousness was taking her over. She stayed again just a few Fridays, would keep again a weekend. She was actually struggling, and I believe that it’s the very best choice for her,” she added.
Nonetheless, the veteran actuality star, who just lately launched her “Amanda Batula” swim line, stated she has a sense DeSorbo will return to the collection—or TV basically—someday quickly.
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Might DeSorbo Make Her Method Again To The Hamptons For A Future Season Of ‘Summer time Home’?

“I’m calling it taking a summer time off,” Batula advised The Submit. “I’d prefer to suppose that she’s not performed. I do know that she shouldn’t be performed 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 consuming. It’s lots. And I believe she went via it final summer time, and she or he 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 form of checked out one another and had been like, ‘It’s simply the 2 of us.’”
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Wooden Is Additionally Performed 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 along with her ex-boyfriend, Solomon, additionally introduced her departure in June 2025.
“Nicely… that wasn’t the summer time I signed up for nevertheless it undoubtedly taught me lots,” she wrote on-line. “I stood up for girls and for what’s proper, even when it wasn’t simple and I’d do this once more in a heartbeat.”
Wooden continued, “I’m leaving Summer time Home with no regrets (Nicely… possibly one),” earlier than saying she was “happy with the best way I dealt with myself” and “happy with what I walked away from.”
What Does Batula Have To Say About Her Exit?

Throughout her chat with The Submit, 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 believe it might have been nice to have a woman summer time, however I can’t management what individuals determine to do.”
