If there’s one thing fans of Bravo’s Summer House are loving about season nine, it’s women supporting women – especially after years of blowups, breakups and wine glass throwing.
This season, longtime cast members Ciara Miller, 29, Lindsay Hubbard, 38, Paige DeSorbo, 32, and Amanda Batula, 33, have hit their friendship stride.
Many viewers think it was Lindsay’s breakup with fiancé and Summer House co-star Carl Radke that warmed the ‘activated’ OG of Summer House to the rest of the girls.
But according to Ciara, who exclusively spoke to DailyMail.com, it wasn’t exactly ‘one thing’ that sparked a change in their dynamic.
‘At the end of the day, we’re girls living the same experience in different bodies. I think the older that we get, the things that we used to fight about we just don’t fight about anymore,’ she said, while promoting her recent partnership with the European Wax Center.
Of course, some of the most iconic moments from the Bravo reality TV series – which follows a group of young adults living and working in New York City as they travel to the Hamptons each weekend during the summer – occurred when these fights ensued.
How can we forget the tense love triangle between Ciara, Lindsay and Southern Charm’s Austen Kroll, which escalated during season six when Ciara threw her wine glass at former cast member Danielle Olivera during an Italian-themed dinner?
Or, when Paige called Lindsay a ‘fake ass b****’ in season four and later accused Lindsay of submitting a blind item about then-boyfriend Craig Conover to celebrity gossip account DeuxMoi at the season seven reunion?
Ciara Miller, 29, tells DailyMail.com how her fellow female cast members on Bravo’s Summer House came together after years of past blow-ups and tense fights
Summer House cast season nine, pictured left to right: Ciara Miller, Amanda Batula, Carl Radke, Jesse Soloman, Paige DeSorbo, West Wilson, Kyle Cooke, Lindsay Hubbard, Gabby Prescod, Imrul Hassan, Lexi Wood
Those days are far behind the core four, as Ciara explained that the women of Summer House are now ‘in such different stages of our life’ compared to the early days of the series.
Fashion expert Paige recently co-hosted the Vanity Fair Oscar Party livestream with her Giggly Squad partner Hannah Berner, as their podcast continues to hit the top of the streaming charts.
Ciara, who is not only a Victoria’s Secret model but also a registered nurse, was recently featured on season three of Peacock’s The Traitors.
Although Amanda still serves as creative director for her husband Kyle Cooke’s canned cocktail line Loverboy, she recently launched her own swimwear collection in partnership with South Moon Under.
And Lindsay is basking in the glory of motherhood after welcoming her first child, baby daughter Gemma, in December 2024 with boyfriend Turner Kufe.
‘Maybe we thought we were competing against each other; we kind of just realized we’re actually not,’ Ciara continued. ‘We’re all so different in the best way and very alike in certain ways.’
Fans witnessed their newfound sisterhood on full display during the season eight finale, when Lindsay’s engagement to Carl came to an abrupt end in August 2023, just three months before they were set to tie the knot in Mexico.
Ciara, Amanda and Paige, along with cast members Danielle and Gabby Prescod, gathered at Danielle’s apartment to comfort Lindsay following the dissolution of her relationship.
Ciara explained that the women of Summer House are now ‘in such different stages of our life’ compared to the early days of the series, which premiered on Bravo in 2017
The model and registered nurse recently appeared on season three of Peacock’s ‘The Traitors’
Lindsay Hubbard announced her pregnancy during the season nine premiere, less than one year after ending her engagement with co-star Carl Radke
‘We’re all so different in the best way and very alike in certain ways,’ Ciara told DailyMail.com about her female co-stars
Funnily enough, Paige offered Lindsay some words of wisdom that ultimately became something of a manifestation.
‘He did you a favor. He did you a favor! Let him go. Let him go! In a year, you could be married with a baby with the love of your life,’ she told Lindsay, as the season concluded with a group hug.
For Ciara, her time and energy on Summer House is far better spent bonding with her fellow female castmates… and ragging on their male co-stars.
‘I’d rather fight the boys than fight the girls,’ she quipped to DailyMail.com.
Fighting with the male cast members of Summer House – including OGs Kyle and Carl, as well as newbies West Wilson, Jesse Solomon and Imrul Hassan – isn’t quite so hard when the men seem to be the ones causing all the drama.
Last summer, Ciara had sparked a relationship with sports journalist West, which fizzled after cameras went down at the end of season eight. But that didn’t stop him from giving several interviews about their whirlwind romance and why he decided to end things with the model.
Unsurprisingly, Ciara didn’t appreciate West’s so-called ‘press tour’ and confronted him at the start of this season’s Summer House.
‘People wanna be – try to be – nice, but then they put out a lot of press about s***,’ Ciara said during the cast’s first group dinner of the summer, staring directly at West.
Summer House newbie West Wilson caused a stir for his onscreen romance with Ciara, which came to an end after season eight wrapped filming
Ciara quipped she would ‘rather fight the boys than fight the girls’ on Summer House, which airs Wednesdays at 9pm ET
‘But I think, like, keep the same energy as your articles and s***.
‘What about sending a text of a warning that you’re going to drop another New York Times article saying like, “Oh, actually, I didn’t like her and I should’ve just said that at the reunion because that would’ve read better as opposed to what I said at the reunion.”
‘I think that was such a beta a** move,’ she added.
As for West, the single answer he could muster up was: ‘Perfect.’
Meanwhile, the trailer for season nine showed Jesse dragging Ciara into the drama that is his ongoing romance with Summer House’s new addition Lexi Wood, as Lexi accused Jesse of being flirty with Ciara.
However, fans still have to wait and see how the supposed love triangle unfolds throughout the rest of the season.
New episodes of Bravo’s Summer House airs Wednesdays at 9pm ET.
