Kyle Cooke put the blame on wife Amanda Batula after she claimed on the latest episode of Summer House that his drinking was the crux of their relationship issues.

“I know I tried last night. I know it came out as some type of justification and excuse. But, I really do think we need to work on our communication,” Kyle, 43, told Amanda, 34, during the Tuesday, February 17, episode of the Bravo series, which was filmed in summer 2025 prior to the couple announcing their split in January.

Kyle said he wanted to “feel like we are on the same page,” and Amanda was in complete agreement as the pair sat on the “apology dune” during a group trip to the beach.

Despite wanting to make peace, Amanda confessed she was “not going to do things” for Kyle when he wasn’t doing the same for her.

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Amanda pointed to Kyle’s alleged excessive drinking as her biggest issue amid their marriage woes, telling him, “I need you to get your drinking under control.”

Kyle argued that he “only” drinks “when I’m social,” which didn’t sit well with his spouse.

“But that’s a problem for me. I don’t want to babysit you. I don’t want people to feel like they need to keep an eye on you,” Amanda explained. “I need to know that my husband is responsible enough to go out on his own and come back.”

Kyle alleged that he was “in a horrible place” the weekend prior, which is why he drank too much and aired their dirty laundry to the group. (Kyle accused Amanda of smoking weed every night and claimed they never had sex because of it.)

“I told you going into the summer if we can’t literally, physically get our s*** together I’m going to have a mental breakdown. What did I do? Had a mental breakdown,” he quipped.

Amanda called that explanation an “excuse,” claiming that Kyle “shut[s] down every time that I tell you my issue is with you drinking and you put a wall up. That’s where my anger stems from.”

Kyle alleged that “the second” they got engaged in 2018, she “started saying ‘no’ to everything,” implying her staying home was part of the problem.

“Me not going out with you shouldn’t change your faithfulness to me and how intoxicated you get when you go out,” Amanda fired back.

Kyle then got visibly upset, telling Amanda that he thinks their real issues stem from not having “compatibility, chemistry, intimacy [and] common interests.”

“Oh, it’s about my drinking? What about the days, weeks, months you don’t ask me a single question?” Kyle asked. “I don’t know who I married anymore.”

He started to storm off before adding, “It’s about my drinking? If that’s what you think you’re coming here to talk about, you’re driving me to the drink.”

Kyle walked away from Amanda before getting in one more jab, telling her to “maybe get some curiosity, drive, intention, personality.”

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Amanda claimed “this is how it always ends” between the pair as they’ve weathered many storms following their September 2021 nuptials.

A few minutes later, Kyle came back to Amanda who was getting choked up talking to producers about their latest fight.

“I’m sorry. We’ve gotten this far. I’m not trying to throw it down the drain here. I love you,” Kyle told his partner, confessing, “All of this makes me insanely sad and depressed.”

Amanda was equally upset. “I hurt every f***ing day. I just don’t get why after all of these years I keep asking the same thing and you keep not doing what I’m asking you for and then being like, ‘I don’t know what you need from me, Amanda!’” she explained. “I feel like I’m going crazy.”

After Kyle argued that Amanda knew he was a “social person” when they met, she confessed, “I didn’t think ‘social person’ meant cheating.”

“Every time you go out I get DMs telling me that you were up to something suspicious,” Amanda said. “I don’t even bring them up to you anymore. … It’s just constant.”

When a producer asked whether Amanda thinks Kyle has cheated on her since his 2018 infidelity, she was unclear.

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“I don’t know. I’d like to think not. But he has in the past. There have been plenty of rumors about it. Who knows? Only Kyle,” she confessed.

Kyle, meanwhile, apologized for his outburst on the beach, saying, “I’m sorry I haven’t been able to give you the trust you need to be present in this relationship. I’m trying my best. I love you.”

Amanda replied, “I love you too. But, like, something’s gotta change, Kyle.”

After the cameras wrapped filming in summer 2025, Amanda and Kyle sparked split speculation over the fall months. It wasn’t until January that the pair confirmed they had separated after four years of marriage.

Summer House airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET.

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Investigators searching for Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie, are turning to similar technology once used to capture convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger.

A press release issued on Tuesday, February 17, by the Pima Sheriff’s Office confirmed the news after noting that a pair of gloves found two miles away from Nancy’s Arizona home on Thursday, February 12, did not “trigger a match” in the “national CODIS database.” (The database electronically compares DNA profiles.)

“Investigators are currently looking into additional investigative genetic genealogy options for DNA evidence to check for matches,” the statement read. (Investigative genetic genealogy — commonly abbreviated to IGG — was utilized in Kohberger’s 2022 arrest in relation to the Idaho college murders.)

According to the International Society of Genetic Genealogy, IGG involves “the science of using genetic and genealogical methods to generate leads for law enforcement entities investigating crimes and identifying human remains.”

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Tuesday’s statement expanded on the results achieved through the gloves’ testing. “[It] did not match DNA found at the property. The DNA found at the property is being analyzed and further testing needs to be done as part of the investigation.” (Undisclosed DNA evidence was recovered directly from Nancy’s home after she was abducted in the early hours of February 1, per reporting by NBC News, while the glove was found two miles from Nancy’s home more than one week later.)

An article published by CNN in March 2025 reflected on the Kohberger case and how IGG was specifically used to secure crucial evidence against him. Kohberger, 31, was sentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole for the stabbing murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022. (Kohberger pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.)

The outlet reported that a “knife sheath” contained DNA that “authorities used IGG … to connect that sample to Kohberger’s family. It also noted that subsequent DNA testing, including fingernail clippings taken from one of the victims, found a “statistical match” to the knife sample, which led to Kohberger’s arrest.

Nancy, 84, was first reported missing on February 1 after she failed to attend a virtual church service. She was last seen one night prior by her daughter, Annie Guthrie, who dropped the matriarch off at her Catalina Foothills home following a family dinner.

As the ongoing search moved into its second week, FBI director Kash Patel released a series of black-and-white images and video that showed an individual out the front of Nancy’s home with what appeared to be a gun held in his waistband. The person was dressed in a full mask and gloves as they attempted to shield Nancy’s home security camera before the camera was entirely dismantled and removed from a wall beside the front door.

The FBI later released a formal description of the individual, detailing that he was likely “a male, approximately 5’9 – 1’10” with an average build,” and noting that he was “wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack” in the black-and-white recordings.

A subsequent search led by authorities throughout the surrounding areas of Nancy’s home collected “16 gloves in various areas,” according to the FBI and NewsNation Senior National Correspondent Brian Entin.

“Most of them were searchers’ gloves that they discarded in various areas when they searched the vicinity,” Entin wrote via X on Sunday, February 15. “The one with the DNA profile recovered is different and appears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video. The FBI has and will continue to provide assistance on whatever timeline is provided to us.”

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Disney Star Christy Carlson Romano has revealed that she “may have stageable cancer” following a recent medical screening.

Romano, 41, broke down as she detailed the news via an Instagram video shared on Tuesday, February 17. “The other day I took this cancer screening. Both my parents had cancer. My mom beat it, my dad eventually didn’t, my grandmother on my mom’s side had lung cancer and died from that,” she began while seated on a couch inside her home.

“I got the results back a little bit before filming down in Florida,” Romano, who recently wrapped her role in the forthcoming Hallmark movie Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True, continued. “My husband’s [results] came back completely negative. Mine did not come back negative, so basically, what that means is I may have stageable cancer.”

Romano married writer and producer Brendan Rooney in 2013 and the couple share two daughters, Isabella, 9, and Sofia, 7.

The actress took to the video’s caption to detail her next steps. “I’m going in for a PET scan later this week and hopefully it’s something easy to treat,” she wrote. “I debated whether or not I was going to post this because I was afraid I’d come off “cringe.” But I decided it was my duty to share, so that people get out there and get screenings.”

Romano, who is best known for her starring role as Ren Stevens in the Disney Channel’s Even Stevens, also spoke of how James Van Der Beek’s recent death at the age of 48, as a result of cancer, inspired her to undergo a cancer screening herself.

“I’m in Austin and I was able to meet James Van Der Beek a bunch. His family is amazing, he was a pillar of our community in Texas,” she explained through tears. “They always were raising money for the most amazing charities but he’s not with us anymore, and cancer is everywhere — which is why I got this test.”

Romano’s cancer scare comes approximately one year after she was shot in the face while celebrating her husband’s birthday. Sharing how the incident changed her life “profoundly” via Instagram in February 2025, Romano shone a light on her evolved mindset at the time. “I’m feeling more grateful than I’ve ever felt in my life and I’m healing really well. Every day, to me, is a gift,” she told fans. “I used to be so closed off about sharing the things in my life I loved out of fear of being judged. Now I just don’t care.”

Romano was just as candid in Tuesday’s video. “[This is a] very vulnerable time for me. About 367 days since I got shot in the face,” she said. “Time to have a strong sense of faith and know that it’s in God’s hands, most of it. I’m sure people think I’m overreacting but I’m not because cancer’s pretty f***ing serious and I have two little girls. This is a very emotional post.”

She concluded her health update on a positive note, demonstrating a determined approach to tackling whatever the future will bring. “When you’re somebody like me, you have to take life a day at a time and really be grateful for all the amazing stuff around you,” she said before giving fans two thumbs up. “So, know that I have a loving family around me to support me and I’m going to keep fighting for answers and eventually giving you updates.”

Hours after being arrested following an alleged Mardi Gras party fight, Shia LaBeouf returned to the New Orleans festivities.

According to photos obtained by the Daily Mail on Tuesday, February 17, LaBeouf, 39, was spotted holding a plastic cup of what seemed to be beer as he stood watching the annual celebration alongside fellow party goers. The outlet stated that the images were taken earlier that day. (The actor was arrested just after midnight on Tuesday.)

Other photos captured LeBeouf hugging a woman on the sidewalk, walking on his own throughout the festivities and checking his phone. He wore dark slacks, a white graphic T-shirt and sunglasses for the outing.

The Transformers star’s arrest followed an apparent physical altercation that saw paramedics called to the scene. Per court documents obtained by Us Weekly, LeBeouf is now facing two counts of simple battery.

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Us Weekly has reached out to police and LeBeouf’s team for comment.

Following his arrest, TMZ — which was first to report the news — released an 18-second video that was allegedly filmed at the scene. The footage showed LeBeouf without a shirt while speaking to somebody in the city’s French Quarter, which serves as the center for Mardi Gras festivities.

The video also showed LeBeouf sitting in the open trunk of a police vehicle as he spoke to paramedics and placed a white T-shirt atop his head. A separate set of photos showed the former Disney Channel star seated in the back of an ambulance. An eyewitness told the outlet that LaBeouf had been escorted out of a bar prior to the alleged altercation taking place.

Additional reporting by The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday claimed that LeBeouf “appeared for a virtual hearing before a judge at the Magistrate Division of Orleans Parish Criminal Court” before being released by Judge Simone Levine who “made a point that the actor recognize that he must attend future court dates.”

Us confirmed that a pre-trial hearing is scheduled for March 19.

In the altercation’s wake, Page Six reported that LeBeouf is now living in New Orleans following his breakup from Mia Goth, which occurred nearly one year ago, per multiple reports. According to the outlet, LeBeouf’s move from Los Angeles, where Goth, 32, is raising the pair’s daughter, Isabel, 3, allowed him to be closer to other New Orleans family members. It’s unclear if Goth and LeBeouf have filed for divorce.

LeBeouf, who has experienced several alcohol-related public incidents in the past, discussed his sobriety during a May 2025 interview with THR where he attributed his health to fellow actors. “[Mel Gibson], Sean Penn, James Brolin — these guys got me to sobriety. They got around me and kept me alive,” he told the outlet at the time. “Sean also showed up and motivated me to do this as a play. I was scared as f*** when this thing started. He was there week one. Sam Rockwell came. There was a bunch of guys that I looked up to that just started popping up. I had never, ever felt that kind of love — not like that.”

LeBeouf’s ups and downs include being accused of alleged “relentless abuse” and sexual battery against ex-girlfriend FKA twigs in December 2020. LeBeouf denied the allegations at the time and Us reported in July 2025 that the singer, 38, had dropped her lawsuit against him.