West Wilson told listeners on June 5 that he and Amanda Batula traveled to Italy together in late May for a cousin’s wedding — and that he paid for the flights and the hotels. "I went to a wedding in Italy with Amanda, and everyone was like, 'They're fleeing the country,'" he said, adding plainly, "My cousin got married, so I went."
The detail landed because the pair’s trip arrived amid reunion coverage of Summer House and a swirl of viral clips from their getaway. On his podcast West punctuated the account: "I handled the flights and the hotels, mother f---ers. How's that sound?" He also said Amanda "probably paid for the food at a restaurant," and described splitting bills as normal: "I grew up in a house where my family split the f---ing bills, you know?"
That account sharpened a timeline viewers already knew. West and Batula first confirmed they were seeing each other in late March, and West told listeners on May 25 that he and Amanda were "doing our best" with the relationship. The late-May wedding trip came shortly after those remarks and while part of the Season 10 reunion was airing.
Context matters here because the Italy trip was not simply a private weekend. The couple were spotted dining at an outdoor table in Taormina, Sicily, during the reunion period, and a short video from the dinner circulated widely — prompting reactions from social accounts and entertainment pages. Fans flooded comment threads with lines like "How disgustingly vile! 🤢," "What is wrong with them?" and "What in God’s name am I looking at." West pushed back on the online noise on his show: "There have been so many f---ing, stupid f---ing posts on the internet."
The friction between West’s explanation and the public’s focus is the story’s tension. He framed the trip as a family wedding; others treated the footage as evidence of a headline-making romance, even pointing to a viral clip from the restaurant that became the shorthand for the couple’s Italian weekend. West acknowledged the awkwardness: "It's still a little — like, going out in public is kind of scary because of literally what I want, OK, what we're about to do," he said, describing the pair’s caution when they appear together.
Those lines reveal how the relationship has been managed in public. West said he handled major travel costs and presented the trip as family business, while Batula apparently covered the meal — an arrangement he called ordinary. The split undercuts a simpler, cinematic reading of the getaway as a secret elopement; instead, it looks like a couple balancing family obligations, private life and the glare that comes with reality-show fame.
So, are Amanda and West still together? Yes — based on West Wilson's own June 5 comments and the fact they traveled to Italy together in late May, the pair remained an item as of his public remarks. He described an on-again, deliberate effort to manage the relationship's visibility and finances, and nothing in his account suggests a breakup after that trip.
The open question now is how visible this relationship will be going forward: West framed public outings as frightening and said the two are trying to protect what they want, so their next public moves — whether more joint appearances, clearer statements to castmates, or continued quiet — will decide if the story fades or intensifies.
