

We already had to build our relationship back up by the time we got there and I’d say for the first time ever, some of the drama, per see, wasn’t between me and Amanda. “Dealing with all the work, the living together and not being able to go anywhere, the wedding, Season 4 airing - it was just a lot. “We had an amazing summer together because we hit rock bottom a couple months prior,” Cooke admitted.

“Once lockdown hit, we were for better or for worse inseparable,” Kyle Cooke says of fiancee and castmate Amanda Batula (Photo: Bravo) One person Cooke surprisingly got along with was his fiancée, Amanda Batula, who moved in with him and joined his beverage company Loverboy prior to the pandemic. “Cleanliness is certainly NOT next to godliness for a lot of people,” he said with a laugh, without naming names. It had the tendency to turn into a pressure cooker because we didn’t leave.”Īlso Read: How 'In the Same Breath' Director Got Multiple Camera Crews in Wuhan to Shoot COVID Doc (Video) “For the first time ever, we’re spending Monday through Friday together as friends and we get a glimpse into what other people do during the week.

“I think that’s what turned it into a really special summer for our friendships and the show,” original castmember Kyle Cooke said of filming 24/7 with nine other castmates. In previous seasons, the cast filmed on weekends but would return to New York City during the week, allowing them - and production - to come down from the drama before it built up again.

But behind the scenes, things couldn’t be more different.įor the first time ever, the show was shot for six weeks straight in a COVID bubble (cast and crew were quarantined and repeatedly tested before filming began in late July). 4, the premise - a group of friends sharing a house in the Hamptons - will be the same. When the fifth season of “Summer House” returns to Bravo on Feb.
