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Carl Radke wasn’t in ‘cahoots’ with ‘Summer House’ producers to ‘blindside’ Lindsay Hubbard with breakup: source
Carl Radke did not call “Summer House” producers to “purposely blindside” Lindsay Hubbard when he ended their engagement, a source tells Page Six.
Despite Hubbard claiming she was “trying to figure out why” they were filming again after the season had wrapped a few days prior, a source exclusively tells Page Six that producers told both Hubbard and Radke that they wanted to keep covering this “pivotal” time in their relationship.
The insider explains that producers asked them to film, because they didn’t want to end the season with a “blowout fight” between the two of them that occurred on the last day of filming on a Sunday.
“They wanted to capture a conversation after the fight, so they could continue moving forward after things were left in a rocky place on Sunday,” the source explains.
The insider adds that at the time the season finished filming, everyone was planning to film their November nuptials, but because they ended the season in “such a big fight,” production wanted to “close the loop” between the finale argument and their wedding.
After filming wrapped on Sunday, production reached out to Hubbard, 37, and Radke, 38, via a group chat on Tuesday explaining why they wanted to film the next day.
“Cast members don’t decide when cameras go up. Producers would never be in cahoots against Lindsay,” our source says.
However, when producers did go to film a conversation between Radke and Hubbard, they were “shocked” to find out that Radke was actually ending their engagement.
“Everyone was as surprised as Lindsay,” the source says. “Carl did not set her up to purposely blindside her on camera.”
Hubbard previously claimed to Us Weekly that Radke decided to “call up producers and then set up cameras and manipulate me into sitting down [so he could break up with me] after we’d already wrapped.”
She later appeared on the “Viall Files” podcast and said she found the whole group text with them and the producers “weird,” because Radke replied “immediately” and was “eager to change” the couple’s therapy session that they had scheduled that day.
“It’s a group text and it is, ‘Hey, we’re filming tomorrow blah blah blah,’ and I’m just like this is not right, and he’s responding immediately, he’s moving couples therapy he’s clearing his schedule, he is like, ‘Absolutely,’ and I’m just like, ‘This is weird,'” she said on Wednesday’s episode.
Hubbard claimed that the reason why they needed to film was “not making sense” to her and she found the whole thing “weird.”
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“I was like, ‘I don’t understand what’s going on. We’re having these conflicts in our communication surrounding his career, but why are we filming?'” she recalled.
Hubbard explained that as soon as he allegedly said to her, “‘You don’t take me seriously,'” she “knew that this was this weird like f–ked up situation that felt like he was using the cameras to threaten me.”
Meanwhile, Radke denied Hubbard’s claims to People at BravoCon 2023, telling them, “I don’t decide what is being filmed on ‘Summer House.’ I really don’t. I just respond to what’s being requested.”
Page Six confirmed in August that Radke called off the engagement just three months before he and Hubbard were set to tie the knot in Mexico.
Hubbard’s reps declined to comment, and Radke and Bravo didn’t immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
