Lindsay Hubbard on 'Summer House,' being surrounded by 'bunch of liars'

• Lindsay Hubbard is one of just three original "Summer House" cast members still standing after 10 seasons of Bravo's reality show.
• Hubbard has survived relationship turmoil and ending an engagement on TV. This season, "Summer House" captivated viewers with a shocking love triangle.
• Hubbard reflects on the surprising romance between Amanda Batula and West Wilson and teases Bravo's new spinoff, "In the City."

Lindsay Hubbard has earned her reality TV stripes.

The former publicist is one of only three of the inaugural "Summer House" roommates – along with Kyle Cooke and Carl Radke − still standing (Tuesdays, 8 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo, streaming the following day on Peacock) on the series dedicated to following young, attractive New Yorkers raging and planning themed soirées in The Hamptons.

Bravo renewed the show, which is also getting a spinoff, "In The City," debuting after the Season 10 finale (both airing May 19) and centered on life in New York, as the cast maneuvers marriage, the end of relationships and raising children.

Hubbard is leading the charge on the new show – as daily bombshells and drama continue to leak out of the "Summer House."

Hubbard, 39, has long been the "Summer House" spitfire, unafraid of confronting boyfriends for not making her a priority (or a sandwich) and voicing her frustration with best friend-turned-fiancé Radke’s requests that she be softer. They ended their engagement on-camera in Season 8, but years later, Hubbard is "happy to say that we are in a friendly place." (She welcomed her first child, daughter Gemma, in December 2024, with her ex, Turner Kufe.)

The latest drama began before Season 10 even started, when Cooke and Amanda Batula, his wife and costar for both series, announced their split in January after four years of marriage. At the time, their split was the biggest "Summer House" bombshell, until Batula and cast member West Wilson confirmed their rumored romance in March. Their confession left viewers gobsmacked, as Wilson and Cooke were pals, and Wilson previously dated Batula's best friend, Ciara Miller, in Season 8.

And the "Summer House" headlines keep coming. Miller alleged on May 8 that Wilson and Jennifer Fessler, a married former "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star, "slept together." Wilson and Fessler have both denied the accusation. Hubbard says she became aware of "this rumor long before" fans did, but isn't sure of its merit.

"Who's to know?" she tells USA TODAY. "We obviously know that we have a bunch of liars around us at all times, so I don't know if we'll ever know the truth."

Hubbard weighs in on the ubiquitous "Summer House" scandal, shares regrets about siding with Batula and reveals where she and Radke stand today.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

Question: Being in the house, did you see anything between Amanda and West that viewers haven't seen, which raised a red flag for you?

Lindsay Hubbard: No, that's the crazy part, is we're all really close as friends, or at least we were. And we are a very affectionate group of friends, me included. And when certain things are a little too obvious, you're like, "No. We're all just friends." It becomes almost like a hiding-in-plain-sight type of story.

What was your relationship with Amanda like while filming "In the City"?

Amanda and I have a checkered history in our friendship. It's always been up and down throughout the years, and we finally got to a point where we started getting really close over the last year, which included our time filming last season of "Summer House," which is airing now, and then also on "In the City."

… I loved filming with Amanda, and I really had her back. And I was very much taking her side in a lot of matters with her and Kyle. It sucks, and it's disappointing, and I am questioning a lot of, like, I'm defending you, and I'm being your mouthpiece, was there something else going on?

Were you taking her side because you agreed with her more? Was it because you were hearing her perspective and not getting Kyle's side? Why did you feel like she was in the right?

If we could just all take a step back and take the scandal out of our minds. We're looking at a relationship and a marriage, where optics-wise, Kyle's not being a great husband, right? He's sleeping at fans' houses. He's going out late at night and DJing and partying and staying out and drinking and getting drunk with random people, and he seemingly is not showing up to a marriage, but wanting to save a marriage at the same time.

So, any normal person who understands a little bit about partnerships and what it takes to compromise would also do the same, where you're like, "OK. I agree. As long as you're both putting in the effort," but hindsight is always 20/20.

We're all watching this and now with a different lens of the scandal. The things I was saying made sense at the time, according to what we knew and saw. Now, we know a whole lot more. I would love to go back and be the fly on the wall and know everything, but we're going off of the information we're given at that time. And this was all before the scandal.

What do we see of your life on "In the City"?

This season of "Summer House," I was really popping in and out. I was in the middle of postpartum. I was working on scheduling where Gemma was. On "In the City," you really see my day-to-day life with Gemma as a mom. And Gemma's on it. You see me navigating all of the new dynamics as a mom, my dating life, what that looks like as a single mom, and trying to figure that out and what I want and what that looks like and how to even do it.

Would you like to continue to appear on "Summer House," or would you like to make the jump to "In the City" exclusively, if it were to continue?

I'm not an exclusive girl. I will always love "Summer House" and be a part of it if they want me there. I just don't think I could do it in a full-time capacity. I'm 39. I have a baby, and I don't even know if viewers really want to continue watching me as a mom.

Lately, we've been seeing you and Carl on red carpets. Do you feel like you could be real friends?

Even over the past month, Carl and I are in a better place than we were a month ago. I do think that when something this big and impactful, such as this scandal happened, it really brings the core together to want to protect whatever we can. Protect the things that we've built together, and come together and support it and support each other.

Carl and I have a conversation [in the finale] … a very long, overdue conversation that didn't happen for two years since we broke up. And I think finally, once we had that conversation, then you can start taking the steps to [determine] what that new dynamic looks like.

I know that we love to place a status and labels on everything in our world. But I'm happy to say that we are in a friendly place. "Friends" is a category right now that is up in the air. Usually friends have a relationship where you call each other and you hang out and whatever. Right now, Carl and I are just running into each other and we're friendly, and I like that. I like where we're at right now.

When you talk about wanting to be protective of what you guys have made, the cast records an emotional and long "Summer House" reunion, only for the audio clips to leak.

The leaks are disappointing. It's disappointing if it came from somebody who works in our close environment. We really share our lives. It's not easy for a lot of people to share every single part of their lives with the entire world and open ourselves up for judgment. And we sit at these reunions, and we bare our souls and our hearts and tears, and this is not a couple of hours out of a day. This is a full-blown 15, 16-hour day for us. And obviously, there's a great format to reality TV, and why Bravo has succeeded in the reality TV space, and especially the reunion space. So let's just let everyone do what they do best and leave it at that.