Who is West Wilson, the Summer House star who went fishing with the ‘hawk tuah girl’? The sports journalist launched West Date Ever with Complex, starring TikTok-famous Haliey Welch

The new show, titled West Date Ever and available on Complex’s YouTube channel, features videos of Wilson challenging women to competitive dates, while talking about what it’s like to be single, according to US media. “The dates are, like, kind of gimmicky and cute, and there’s food and games and all that kind of stuff. It’s kind of just getting to know more about them and, like, what dating with a spotlight on you is like,” Wilson told Page Six.

For his first date on the series, the Bravo TV celeb went fishing with the TikTok-famous “hawk tuah girl”, whose real name is Haliey Welch. “It was fun going on a little day date with Haliey. She got thrown into the spotlight almost against her will, so I wanted to make sure she knew I wasn’t there to beat her viral meme over everyone’s heads,” he said in his interview.

In the episode, 22-year-old Welch explains how it was “one of the best dates” and finds Wilson to be a “real nice guy”.

Here’s what we know about West Wilson – who hasn’t always had a great public reputation …

What does West Wilson do for work?

According to his LinkedIn profile, Wilson, 29, is currently a sports social and editorial producer at Complex Networks, an American media and entertainment company for youth culture. The Missouri native, who is now based in New York, is also a video producer for Bleacher Report, and has worked with Mediaplanet, MLB and Pandora in the past, per the same source.

He was on Summer House

Wilson is best known for his stint on reality TV show Summer House’s eighth season, which kicked off earlier this year. According to Bravo TV, he was introduced to the group through Lindsay Hubbard, who he met on a night out.

While fans initially liked him on the show, it was later revealed that he had showed his “true colours” and wasn’t as much of a “good guy” as everyone thought he was, writes Screenrant.

He launched “West Date Ever”

West announced the news around his latest project in an Instagram post shared earlier this month.

“Love you say it back @complex,” he wrote alongside a promotional poster of the show. In an Instagram Q&A, he explained that West Date Ever was “essentially taking different guests on silly dates that have fun competition, but also having conversations about life and love because they all have unique stories, trying to date in the public eye”.

He likes baseball

It’s clear that Wilson has a passion for baseball, as seen on his Instagram feed, where he shares photos of himself on the playing field.

He’s also been seen at sports games with Kylie Jenner’s ex Travis Scott and 2Chainz.

What happened between Ciara Miller and West Wilson on Summer House?

After seeing Ciara Miller and West Wilson’s romance blossom on Summer House, many viewers were left wondering if they had kept their relationship going beyond the summer, per People. “We kept things rolling to December, early December we had a dinner about like laying it all out there and figuring out what we were going to do,” West said on a reunion episode of Watch What Happens Live this year. The show had been filmed in summer 2023. “I don’t think we walked around saying boyfriend-girlfriend but basically, we hung out every day.”

West also admitted to sleeping with other women over the summer and wasn’t ready to commit, adds People.