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‘Summer House’ Stars Samantha Feher and Kory Keefer Break Up Over What Happened on ‘Winter House’

By Emma Chance | TV | January 17, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | TV | January 17, 2024 |

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You’d be forgiven for reading that headline and thinking, “Sam Feher and Kory Keefer were exclusive?” While the Summer House stars kinda-sorta made it official on the latest season of Winter House, said exclusivity deal was made after Keefer flirted with every other girl in the house—both behind Feher’s back and in front of her face—and while the footage of it aired in tandem with Keefer saying “no guy wants a relationship,” in a confessional, so…yeah.

After the WH reunion, when Feher was visibly on the verge of a breakdown having just seen the season in its entirety like everyone else, they were still technically together, though the writing was clearly on the proverbial wall.

Rumors of their breaking up have been swirling since then for the same reason rumors of any famous person breaking up with anyone ever swirl—they weren’t posting each other on Instagram as much as they used to. Then Feher posted a cryptic NYE message…

…and it was as good as confirmed. Yesterday, her interview with the unfortunately named “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast (though Emma Stone apparently listens so maybe I should give it a try), titled “The Breakup,” dropped.

I enjoy Sam. Her Summer House debut was rife with authentic 20-something vulnerability, including her infatuation with Kory, an obvious fuck-boy to anyone who’s ever lived. So many young women, myself included, felt for her and related to her when a castmate pulled her aside to tell her she talked too much. Watching Kory blatantly act out his disregard for her and then watching her accept it on Winter House was hard.

So, I’m glad she broke up with him, obviously, and I’m also grateful for the way she talks about it. She has a New York Valley-girl quality to her—she sounds a little vapid on the surface, but she’s also no bullshit—so you can’t help but feel for her when she talks about putting herself first and ignoring red flags, etc. It’s nothing new in the grand scheme of the human condition, but it’s new for reality TV, a medium that tends to glaze over such succinct statements as the one above in search for a juicier conflict. I hope she gets another chance on the show. Maybe she can officially replace her friend Danielle Olivera, who is nothing new on both fronts.