“Summer time Home” star Paige DeSorbo shocked the Bravosphere when she introduced her exit from the long-running actuality sequence in early June 2025.

Nonetheless, her on-and-off-screen bestie, Amanda Batula, just lately hinted that the “Giggly Squad” podcast host may return to the sequence earlier than anticipated.

In a brand new interview, Batula additionally weighed in on Lexi Wooden’s stunning “Summer time Home” departure, which adopted a season largely outlined by her contentious relationship with ex-boyfriend Jesse Solomon.

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 some of the rewarding chapters of my life — the friendships, the drama, the giggles, all unforgettable,” she continued.

“You’ve got seen me develop up over these final 7 summers. I am going to at all times 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 dangerous choices), it is time for this chapter to shut,” the style influencer added.

“To my castmates, the followers, and my NBCU household: thanks,” she continued. “I by no means may’ve imagined what this journey would flip into — and what number of of you’d 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 understand you possibly can at all times discover me and Daphne in my mattress.”

Though many followers have been surprised by her resolution, Batula instructed The Put up that she noticed her exit coming from a mile away.

“She FaceTimed me and Ciara [Miller] and instructed us, and it was actually robust to listen to,” Batula, 33, instructed the publication.

“I feel I used to be kind of anticipating it simply because she had such a tough time final summer time, and you may actually inform that her nervousness was taking her over. She stayed again just a few Fridays, would keep again a weekend. She was actually struggling, and I feel that it’s one of the best resolution 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 sequence—or TV on the whole—someday quickly.

“I’m calling it taking a summer time off,” Batula instructed The Put up. “I’d prefer to assume that she’s not executed. I do know that she will not be executed 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 quite a bit. And I feel 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 sort of checked out one another and have been like, ‘It’s simply the 2 of us.’”

And DeSorbo is not the one one leaving “Summer time Home” and the Hamptons behind.

Wooden, who spent many of the season arguing along with her ex-boyfriend, Solomon, additionally introduced her departure in June 2025.

“Effectively… that wasn’t the summer time I signed up for however it undoubtedly taught me quite a bit,” she wrote on-line. “I stood up for ladies and for what’s proper, even when it wasn’t straightforward and I’d do this once more in a heartbeat.”