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Georgina Ferzli urged Amanda Batula to break up with West Wilson
“In the City” star Georgina Ferzli is activated.
The board-certified dermatologist and best friend of Lindsay Hubbard exclusively told Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” she encouraged Amanda Batula to break up with West Wilson at the “In the City” premiere party back in May.
“I went up to her and I was like, ‘This is the first great thing you’ve done. It takes a lot of courage to show up to this premiere party,’” Ferzli recalled. “Nobody wanted to see her. She hadn’t made any sort of public appearance. I wouldn’t have shown up.”
After Ferzli, 40, praised Batula, 34, for making her first public appearance after her romance scandal with Wilson, 31, and told the “Summer House” alum the “next good thing is to break up with West.”
“She laughed as if I was joking,” the rookie reality star said of Batula’s response.
Batula and Wilson turned the Bravo universe on its side in March when they released a joint statement confirming their relationship — which they’d struck up behind their co-stars’ backs.
“We’ve shown up for each other as friends over the years, through all the highs and lows, and what’s developed recently was the last thing either of us expected,” the couple wrote in their Instagram statement.
They added: “Our connection grew out of a genuine long-standing friendship, which made it especially important for us to approach this with care.”
Batula, who announced her separation from Kyle Cooke in January after four years of marriage, and Wilson, who infamously dated castmate Ciara Miller — also Batula’s former best friend — in the past, were confronted by their “Summer House” co-stars at the Season 10 reunion over the shock betrayal.
Since then, Wilson was ousted from Season 11 and Page Six confirmed Batula exited the series, too.
As for whether Batula will return for future seasons of “In the City,” Ferzli said she’d be open to working with her again — but only under one condition.
“She keeps saying this is a mistake she made,” Ferzli said. “My point to her at the premiere and also going forward from there was, ‘You keep making the mistake. You can end the mistake and start fixing it.’”
Should Batula call things off with Wilson and start showing some “remorse,” Ferzli said she’d “love to watch” her co-star “redeem herself.”
“I think everybody deserves a second chance,” she explained, but admitting she doesn’t “see that happening.”
In the event Batula does come back to the “Summer House” spinoff with Wilson by her side, Ferzli said she’ll be prepared to confront him head-on.
“It’s an opportunity to really tell it to him,” Ferzli quipped. “I wouldn’t be happy to hang out with him … I say what I’m thinking. He’d hear it.”
“In the City” airs Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.
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