Roxanne 
Ben Waddell is setting the record straight after Amanda Batula claimed there was a text chain about him wanting to have sex with her while she was still married to Kyle Cooke.
The Summer House newbie took to Threads on Monday, June 1, after a fan asked about Amanda’s claim from Season 10 that Ben wanted to sleep with her during a trip to Italy and that there was allegedly “an entire text chain about it.”
According to Waddell, that is not true.
“There’s no group text, it’s fully untrue,” Ben wrote.
Ben also claimed Amanda walked back the story during the Summer House reunion.
“[She] said she ‘over-exaggerated’ that story. Hope that clears that 🙏🏼,” Ben added.
The drama traces back to the Season 10 premiere, where Amanda explained how she first met Waddell before he joined the Summer House cast. Amanda said she and Kyle met Ben through mutual friends at a wedding in Italy during the summer of 2024.
When Waddell was introduced to the house, he played coy about his first meeting with Amanda.
“We were up. Yeah, we stayed up,” Ben told the cast.
Amanda teased, “It was great.”
West Wilson then asked the question everyone seemed to be thinking.
“Did you guys go to an orgy or something?” West asked.
Both Waddell and Amanda reacted awkwardly, but Amanda later explained in a confessional that her first meeting with Ben involved skinny dipping.
“Ben and I met at my best friend’s wedding in Italy while we were skinny-dipping,” Amanda said.
Amanda clarified that Kyle, whom she married in September 2021, was also present during the moment.
“How do I explain this?” Amanda said before adding, “We ended up, me, the bride and Waddell skinny-dipping in the pool while Kyle was blasting a speaker walking around the outside of the pool. We really got to know each at that point, fully nude.”
The story became an even bigger topic during Episode 6, when the cast celebrated Amanda’s birthday. As everyone went around the table saying what they loved most about Amanda, Bailey Taylor jumped in before Ben could answer.
“‘Ben’s going to talk about how he wants to definitely sleep with you.’ Definitely knew he was going to go there,” Bailey said.
Ben denied the claim at the table, but Amanda later told cameras that Ben did want to have sex with her when they were all together in Italy.
Now, Waddell is insisting that the story was exaggerated and that there was no group text backing up Amanda’s version of events.
The timing of the accusation made things even more awkward because Amanda was still married to Kyle when the Italy trip happened. Kyle and Amanda later announced their divorce in January after four years of marriage.
Before the summer ended, Waddell was officially dating Sabrina Belle, whom he had been casually seeing before joining the show. Sabrina has also recently defended Ben online after he faced criticism for how he treated some of the women in the house.
Amanda, meanwhile, has moved on with West Wilson. The two confirmed in March that they were dating after Amanda’s separation from Kyle and after West’s 2023 romance with Amanda’s former close friend Ciara Miller.
The Season 10 reunion has already been packed with fallout over Amanda and West’s relationship, Ciara’s hurt over the situation, Kyle’s reaction to his estranged wife dating someone in the friend group and the shifting dynamics inside the house.
