Paige DeSorbo is cool with Kyle Cooke after cooking him on last week’s episode of “Summer House.”
The Bravolebrity, 31, exclusively tells Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast where she stands with the Loverboy founder, 41, after defending his wife, Amanda Batula, during an explosive exchange on camera.
“With Kyle and I, we really are very close friends. And so when we fight, I hate saying we fight like brother and sister because I’ll literally wring my brother’s neck — but we do,” DeSorbo says while promoting her “Vacation You” summer campaign with Malibu.
“We don’t hold a grudge with each other and I think it’s because me and Amanda have gotten so close,” she adds. “Like, I know that’s her husband.”
During the May 16 installment of the reality show, DeSorbo and Ciara Miller — a fellow bestie of Batula’s — laid into Cooke over a perceived lack of support for his spouse.
“You can’t even notice that she hates her f—king life!” DeSorbo told Cooke, referencing his ongoing arguments with Batula over the latter wanting to step away from some of her duties as Loverboy’s creative director.
“That she’s upset, that she wants something for herself, that she wants to feel confident,” she continued, acknowledging Batula’s desire to create her own business and explore her passion for swimwear.
DeSorbo also reminded Cooke — who stormed away from the conversation — that he “didn’t even want to compromise” on moving out of Manhattan to suburban New Jersey, which is Batula’s dream.
“You won’t compromise on anything with her,” she asserted. “Let her live in New Jersey and drink her Coronas in the backyard and make a swimsuit line and let it fail. Who cares? Let her be happy!”
After the scene aired, viewers applauded DeSorbo and Miller, 28, for standing up to Cooke on behalf of Batula.
“It makes me feel really good just seeing women, girls younger than me, women older than me, the same age, just being like, ‘This is what girlhood is, this is what friendship is,’” the fashion contributor says of the positive feedback.
“And I pride myself on loving my girlfriends and throwing myself in front of a bus for them, so I love that even if it changed one person’s perspective of, ‘Wow, I should call my best friend,’ or, ‘I should tell them I’m so proud them,’ I love that.”
DeSorbo — who is currently dating “Southern Charm” hunk Craig Conover — also jokes that she’s made a “whole career” out of putting men in their place. “Don’t tempt me with a good time to, like, yell at a straight man,” she says with a laugh.
However, the brunette beauty emphasizes that she and Cooke have made amends over the situation.
“We’re vocal people. If we weren’t, we wouldn’t be on a reality show. So we will say what we’re thinking in giving our opinions. So I’m not, ‘Oh me and Kyle are beefing now,’” she explains.
“And we had seen the episodes, we had filmed the reunion, like me and him are cool.”
With her friendships intact, DeSorbo is ready to take on the summer after curating her ResortPass x Malibu daycation experience for the beverage brand — which includes her signature Malibu Paige Breeze cocktail.
“I’m really pro-matching your outfit to your cocktail this summer because it takes a lot of guesswork out of the Instagram picture because there’s your prop and there’s your accessory and this is going to great on your grid,” says the influencer, who has amassed 1.2 million followers on the social media platform.
“So I’m literally just giving a tip and trick to the girlies,” she elaborates. “And I like a really light drink in the summer. I like it to have a little bit of seltzer but also I like it to match my mini skirt. So my Malibu Paige Breeze is the perfect pinky summer orange.”
