‘Summer House’ Recap: Kyle Claims Carl Was ‘Coked Out’ and ‘Drunk’ in Loverboy Early Days, Danielle Blows Up Over ‘Unfair’ Allegations

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‘Summer House’ Recap: Kyle Claims Carl Was 'Coked Out' and 'Drunk' in Loverboy Early Days, Danielle Blows Up Over ‘Unfair’ Allegations

Not on the same page! Kyle Cooke’s frustration with Carl Radke over their work drama at Loverboy — and its toll on their friendship — came to a head while they spent a weekend apart on Summer House. [ami-related id="3237938" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/summer-houses-carl-radkes-battle-with-addiction-in-his-own-words/" title="Summer House’s Carl Radke’s Battle With Addiction in His Own Words" target="_blank" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Everything-‘Summer-House-Star-Carl-Radke-Has-Said-About-His-Sobriety-182.jpg?quality=86&strip=all" imgid="3237906" format="gallery" flag="" channel="1"] The tension, however, lingered during the Monday, February 20, episode of the Bravo series. Housemate Danielle Olivera made sure she had Carl’s back during the episode … even though Kyle, 40, claimed she had no idea what was going on. Fans first got a taste of Kyle and Carl’s awkward relationship during the season 7 premiere on February 13. At the time, the Loverboy founder confessed that he thought Carl, 38, wanted to quit his role as VP of sales after he started dating their mutual friend Lindsay Hubbard. (Carl confirmed in February that he was no longer working for Kyle.) “I talked to him about a month ago about his job. I’m not going to lie. … The reason I’m a little irked out is nothing has changed on my end,” Kyle told Mya Allen on Monday’s episode, hinting that Carl’s issues at the company were not new. “I think I should talk to Carl and I think you should talk to Lindsay. Let’s go confront our demons. … Just kidding.” Mya — who butted heads with Lindsay, 36, during the season premiere over her friendship with Carl — quipped: “I think demons is pretty appropriate.” While Mya, 31, and Lindsay agreed to “coexist” on Monday’s episode, Kyle and Carl’s conversation appeared to be just the tip of the iceberg of problems for the longtime friends. [sendtonews type="float" key="4RcoFvc4SX-2828778-14453"] “Some days I’ve been pissed. I’m like f—k, I’ve been working my ass off and it’s not good enough,” Carl told Kyle about his role at Loverboy. “I don’t feel like I’m valued sometimes.” Kyle, for his part, told the cameras that he wasn’t buying the sudden change in Carl’s work ethic and alleged feeling of being undervalued. “I think this is bulls—t. Carl’s been happy,” the Maryland native confessed. “Loverboy has given him purpose, at times where quite frankly, he had none.” Elsewhere in the episode, Carl angered Kyle when he chose not to tell his coworkers, including his boss and BFF, about an upcoming trip to Los Angeles until a few days before he flew out. As a result, Carl and Lindsay were not in the Hamptons for the second weekend of summer, but Kyle felt his presence — and lack of respect — across the country. “My team’s working hard. … As far as I’m concerned, he’s not even a part of. He’s checked out,” Kyle told Mya of Carl during a group dinner while the salesman was away in L.A. “When I hired him he was unhireable. [He] showed up to work drunk. He showed up one day so coked out that he didn’t bring his computer to work. … The world needs to know, I’m a pretty understanding boss.” Danielle, meanwhile, overheard Kyle seemingly throwing Carl under the bus and called him out at the table. “Kyle, I literally don’t want you to sit there right now. I heard every word you said about Carl and it f—king pisses me off,” Danielle, 34, said. “What you’re saying right now is very unfair.” Summer House airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET. Scroll down to see the biggest highlights from Summer House season 7, episode 2:

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‘Summer House’ Recap: Kyle Claims Carl Was 'Coked Out' and 'Drunk' in Loverboy Early Days, Danielle Blows Up Over ‘Unfair’ Allegations

Not on the same page! Kyle Cooke’s frustration with Carl Radke over their work drama at Loverboy — and its toll on their friendship — came to a head while they spent a weekend apart on Summer House. [ami-related id="3237938" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/summer-houses-carl-radkes-battle-with-addiction-in-his-own-words/" title="Summer House’s Carl Radke’s Battle With Addiction in His Own Words" target="_blank" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Everything-‘Summer-House-Star-Carl-Radke-Has-Said-About-His-Sobriety-182.jpg?quality=86&strip=all" imgid="3237906" format="gallery" flag="" channel="1"] The tension, however, lingered during the Monday, February 20, episode of the Bravo series. Housemate Danielle Olivera made sure she had Carl’s back during the episode … even though Kyle, 40, claimed she had no idea what was going on. Fans first got a taste of Kyle and Carl’s awkward relationship during the season 7 premiere on February 13. At the time, the Loverboy founder confessed that he thought Carl, 38, wanted to quit his role as VP of sales after he started dating their mutual friend Lindsay Hubbard. (Carl confirmed in February that he was no longer working for Kyle.) “I talked to him about a month ago about his job. I’m not going to lie. … The reason I’m a little irked out is nothing has changed on my end,” Kyle told Mya Allen on Monday’s episode, hinting that Carl’s issues at the company were not new. “I think I should talk to Carl and I think you should talk to Lindsay. Let’s go confront our demons. … Just kidding.” Mya — who butted heads with Lindsay, 36, during the season premiere over her friendship with Carl — quipped: “I think demons is pretty appropriate.” While Mya, 31, and Lindsay agreed to “coexist” on Monday’s episode, Kyle and Carl’s conversation appeared to be just the tip of the iceberg of problems for the longtime friends. [sendtonews type="float" key="4RcoFvc4SX-2828778-14453"] “Some days I’ve been pissed. I’m like f—k, I’ve been working my ass off and it’s not good enough,” Carl told Kyle about his role at Loverboy. “I don’t feel like I’m valued sometimes.” Kyle, for his part, told the cameras that he wasn’t buying the sudden change in Carl’s work ethic and alleged feeling of being undervalued. “I think this is bulls—t. Carl’s been happy,” the Maryland native confessed. “Loverboy has given him purpose, at times where quite frankly, he had none.” Elsewhere in the episode, Carl angered Kyle when he chose not to tell his coworkers, including his boss and BFF, about an upcoming trip to Los Angeles until a few days before he flew out. As a result, Carl and Lindsay were not in the Hamptons for the second weekend of summer, but Kyle felt his presence — and lack of respect — across the country. “My team’s working hard. … As far as I’m concerned, he’s not even a part of. He’s checked out,” Kyle told Mya of Carl during a group dinner while the salesman was away in L.A. “When I hired him he was unhireable. [He] showed up to work drunk. He showed up one day so coked out that he didn’t bring his computer to work. … The world needs to know, I’m a pretty understanding boss.” Danielle, meanwhile, overheard Kyle seemingly throwing Carl under the bus and called him out at the table. “Kyle, I literally don’t want you to sit there right now. I heard every word you said about Carl and it f—king pisses me off,” Danielle, 34, said. “What you’re saying right now is very unfair.” Summer House airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET. Scroll down to see the biggest highlights from Summer House season 7, episode 2:

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Do Newbies Sam and Chris Have Chemistry?

Newcomers Sam Feher and Chris Leoni appear to be hitting it off, but after a conversation at the beach on 4th of July weekend Sam seemingly friend-zoned the former Marine. “There is a very different energy that I have with Chris versus what I have with guys I make out with,” Sam, 25, said during a confessional. “You don’t fist bump a guy you’re trying to f—k.”

The following weekend, Sam and Chris, 30, opted to drive to the Hamptons together and again Sam appeared to be more interested in other men than in her housemate. “I love to have what I call a ‘roster.’ Where you have a front bench and those are the guys that play,” she told the cameras. “Some that I go on dates with. Some that I make out with. Some of them I only text when I’m drunk at a club. It’s busy and it’s fun but it never gets boring. Clearing the roster is ultimately the dream.”

During their car ride, Sam told Chris that she invited a guy up for the weekend after they enjoyed a boxing class together.

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Kyle and Carl Confront the ‘Elephant in the Room’ Amid Work Stress

“I feel like there’s an elephant in the room. I just want to check in because I can’t put my finger on it, but something’s off,” Kyle told Carl on the beach during the 4th of July holiday. Carl explained that he’d been “busy moving in with Lindsay” so he hadn’t had time to really talk to Kyle about his issues with Loverboy. “Work wise, it’s just been nuts. I’m burned out. I’m thinking longer term,” he said.

Kyle pointed out that he tried to speak with Carl about work three weeks prior and the Pennsylvania native brushed it off. “Sometimes I feel like the face of the brand sometimes. [I think], ‘Well, Amanda [Batula] and Kyle aren’t doing as much as I am publicly sometimes.' It falls on me,” Carl continued. “I just feel like the effort that I put it and the recognition and the value that I feel like I bring it’s not maybe seen as much. And it hurts.”

The entrepreneur, however, wondered if Carl’s relationship with Lindsay was the real culprit of his change of heart. “I’m trying not to f—king say it but, I’ll just say it. Because I love you and Lindsay together but I’m trying to understand what is different?” Kyle asked. “The only thing that I come back to is that she must be in your ear.”

Carl, who proposed to Lindsay in summer 2022, confessed that the Hubb House PR founder had heard him “complain” about his career hurdles. “She’s like, ‘What is it all for?’ I do think she looks out for me,” he told Kyle. “Lindsay’s just opened my eyes to what my value is as a person and what I [want]. She just wants me happy. She’s been seeing me unhappy.”

The conversation ended with Kyle asking for “more f—king honesty” from Carl and both men agreeing “we’re good.”

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Mya and Lindsay Agree to ‘Coexist’ After Texting Drama

The Knead founder pulled Lindsay aside at the 4th of July beach day to reveal she wanted to “move forward” after the publicist allegedly accused her of hitting on Carl back in February 2022. Lindsay, however, claimed that she “didn’t raise my voice” after Mya told her that she had texted Carl wanting to “smoke a J” before running the text by Lindsay.

“I asked you if you thought it would be appropriate to maybe talk about that to me first,” Lindsay recalled of the early 2022 conversation. “At that time, I was sober to support my boyfriend and you’re asking him to go smoke weed with you without even caring that I’m not even drinking to support him.”

Mya, meanwhile, insisted that it was the accusation that she was romantically into Carl that rubbed her the wrong way. “You and I are not going to agree on what happened in that car. … I’m talking to a brick wall,” the baker explained on Monday’s episode. “Lindsay, you accused my character of things that I don’t do. You told me I wanted Carl. You told me I came on to him.”

When Lindsay claimed that never happened, Mya started to talk over her and began drowning out everything she said. “You can feel whatever the f--k you want to feel bitch,” Mya quipped before Lindsay alleged that she was trying to have a “civilized conversation” amid all the drama.

Mya eventually circled back to the conversation and tried to start over. “I didn’t want to hurt you. I have zero intentions of being disrespectful of you but especially of you and your relationship. I just want to be OK living together,” she told Lindsay. "I think there’s an opportunity for us to come back together. But I don’t think it’s going to be talking in circles about what happened. I just want to find a place where we can be OK.”

The women appeared to end on good terms with Lindsay later telling Carl, “It took a while to get there. The resolution is basically she wants to coexist in the house.”

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How Is Paige’s Relationship With Craig Going?

Fans got a brief glimpse at Paige DeSorbo’s romance with Craig Conover when the Southern Charm star, 34, came to New York City during the week. The twosome enjoyed quality time cooking together ahead of Paige’s journey back to the Hamptons with her pals that weekend.

“Craig and I honestly are very nonchalant about our living schedule. I feel zero pressure to hit any milestone,” the 30-year-old fashion correspondent, whose been dating Craig since late 2021, told the cameras. “I think society is like, 'You’re turning 30. You’ve been dating a year. What’s next?' Nothing. F—k off.”

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Gabby Teases Ex-Boyfriend Cheating Scandal

Early in the episode, Gabby Prescod showed interest in Chris’ friend but once she learned he was a Cancer sign, she pumped the breaks. “Cancer men are very triggering for me. They’re not good people,” the fashion editor, 32, told the suitor on the beach. “Cancer men are sociopaths.”

Gabby concluded by saying, “It was nice talking to you” before she left the conversation. She later told the cameras that her ex-boyfriend was a Cancer, which made them untrustworthy for her.

“The last relationship I was in, we dated for four years, fresh out of college. Come to find out he was cheating on me for three years,” Gabby said during a confessional. "After that, I didn’t really have a real relationship again. I consider myself to be a very confident person and when that happened it made me reassess. Cancer men!” (During a teaser for the season, Gabby claimed that Danielle is one of the women who her ex cheated with.)

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Where Do Ciara and Danielle Stand After Wine-Toss Fight?

Ciara Miller was missing from episode 1, but when she joined the gang for episode 2, she revealed she is a whole new woman after last summer’s drama. “This summer is a redo,” the former nurse, 27, explained, referring to her fallout with Austen Kroll one year prior after he kissed Lindsay at the summer house while she still had feelings for him. “I’m on a different level this year.”

Ciara and Danielle, meanwhile, got into a massive fight during season 6 after Danielle defended Lindsay for the Austen, 35, hookup at the dinner table. The feud ended with Ciara throwing her wine glass at Danielle.

“Me and Danielle are, you know, amicable. Obviously, I had to apologize for my actions last summer and I am totally remorseful,” Ciara said on Monday’s episode. “Hopefully over the summer we can find a way to be in better graces, or better spirits, whatever the f—k that saying is.”

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Danielle Is Team Carl — And Makes Sure Kyle Knows It

Toward the middle of the episode, Kyle told his wife, Amanda, that Carl had dropped the ball with one of their California distributors. “We’ve worked so hard … and then he neglected it for nine months,” Kyle claimed. “This is just a small little microcosm of the last nine months. He’s trying to claim he’s working 90 hours a week. Ever since he’s been dating Lindsay, he’s been doing less. He wants to get paid extra … every time he does an event. This is where the Lindsay influence comes in.”

While Amanda, 31, insisted that he take a beat before speaking with Carl, things grew worse when Kyle learned that Carl hadn’t warned any of his coworkers he was traveling to Los Angeles mid-week. Tension boiled over during a group dinner — which happened when Carl and Lindsay were gone — as Kyle detailed the work turmoil to Mya.

“When I hired him he was unhireable,” Kyle claimed of Carl during the early days of Loverboy. “[He] showed up to work drunk. He showed up one day so coked out that he didn’t bring his computer to work.”

Danielle, for her part, overheard Kyle’s allegations and confronted him once he came to sit by her during the meal. “What you’re saying right now is very unfair,” she said, to which Kyle fired back, “Do you have any clue what’s going on? I’d love to hear your story. Give me your Lindsay Carl download.”

The tech guru clapped back, saying, “When you say Carl shows up to work coked out that is the most unfair [thing]. Was it two weeks ago? Was it two years ago? You’re bringing it up now as a reason not to pay him more money?”

Kyle, meanwhile, took away that Carl apparently “wants more money” amid the pair’s work disagreement. “Carl could walk away from the company right now and the company wont feel a f—king thing,” the alcohol drink founder told the whole group. “I gave him the biggest chance of a f—king lifetime.”

Danielle, meanwhile, doubled down on her comments in defense of Carl. “How are you going to talk s--t about him and [expect] me not [to] have an opinion or feeling about it? You are so wrong it’s laughable,” she said. Kyle proceeded to leave the table, but not before arguing, “I’m getting worked up, you know why? Because if you had any f—king clue what actually goes on Monday through f—king Friday come talk. I’m f—king sick of this …”