Carl Radke is “glad” he returned to Summer House for season 9 — even though his ex-fiancée Lindsay Hubbard was pregnant while filming.
Carl, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, February 24, that he felt his and Lindsay’s chapter was “100 percent” closed after he learned she was pregnant. Lindsay, 38, announced her pregnancy in July 2024, which was the weekend she and Carl reunited in the Hamptons to film the new season of Summer House.
“At first hearing it was like, ‘OK, wow, she’s really moved on.’ Not that I was expecting the door to be kept open for me,” Carl explained, noting he learned about the pregnancy one day before he arrived at the shared house. “You almost envision it’s going to be some time [before your ex moves on].”
Carl recalled calling his friend after hearing the news and he told him, “‘This is some of the best information you could have. It’s really good closure, be happy for her,’ which I was.”
In that moment, Carl said he had to “recognize that this is the reality, and you can now really move on and then you don’t have to worry [about] choosing someone else. And that’s what it is.”
Carl and Lindsay met in 2016 while filming season 1 of Summer House. They dated for a year before he proposed in August 2022. Carl broke off their engagement in August 2023, just a few months before they were set to get married. Lindsay moved on with Turner Kufe in early 2024 and they welcomed their baby girl that December.
During the season 9 premiere, which aired on February 12, Lindsay told the whole house about her pregnancy, but Carl wasn’t there. When he arrived in episode 2, which was filmed the next day, the exes had an awkward talk in the kitchen where he congratulated her on the news.
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“There was a lot of nerves. I care about her. I wanted nothing but the best for her, but I didn’t know how to say it,” Carl told Us of the moment. “I also knew that I was the elephant in the room about to walk in the house.”
Once he did get the words out, Carl said he was “proud” that they were mature and got it out of the way.
“I am glad I actually had that closure because it actually allowed, I think, both of us to move on,” he recalled. “If anything after that kind of awkwardness in the kitchen, we were just cool and cordial.”
Carl teased that there will be “another pretty epic moment” between him and Lindsay that isn’t so cordial, but it doesn’t taint the whole season.
“For the most part it was two former friends who just get along just because it’s easier,” he added.
Carl shared that his longtime BFF Kyle Cooke, who is also close to Lindsay, thinks that the former couple “might be friends down the line at some point.”
While the non-alcoholic Soft Bar + Café owner doesn’t have any “prediction” of what’s to come he noted “there’s so much history between us” that a friendship could happen again.
“There’s no playbook for how to do it. And it’s unusual to have to be in the same circle,” Carl confessed. “But I’m sure we’re not the only people in the world that have had a breakup and still have some mutual friends. And you navigate that.”
Since filming wrapped, Lindsay has welcomed her daughter, Gemma. However, Carl is still on the outside looking in and hasn’t spoken to her much.
“I’m blocked on social media, so I’ve kind of taken that as understood,” Carl told Us. [I’ve been] blocked since the breakup.”
He explained that Kyle, 42, will “let me know” what’s going on in Lindsay’s world and other people send him things about her.
Carl noted that with the social media block he “didn’t get a chance” to send her congratulations through that channel.
“I said congratulations to her, but just in person,” he shared. “And then I saw her at the premiere party two weeks ago, and we just said ‘hello’ and it was very casual and nice.”
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He revealed, “I know she’s going to make an amazing mom, and it makes me happy seeing her happy. It really does.”
Carl added that he is still “trying to move on” and said fans will see him do that with a few “cringey” and “embarrassing” romantic moments.
Throughout the summer, Carl said he was just focused on his healing and is grateful he got “closer” with both Ciara Miller and Paige DeSorbo. “It was nice to get back to some places that I had been in the past with people,” he said.
Summer House airs on Bravo Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
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