Craig Conover opened up about his split from Paige DeSorbo after Thursday’s finale episode of Southern Charm season 10, which featured the moments that followed their late 2024 breakup.
As a number of his co-stars, including Shep Rose, 44, and Patricia Altschul, 83, shaded Paige, 32, for her lack of interaction with the cast, Craig, 36, admitted that his girlfriends seem to succumb to the “three-year itch” as he recalled being in denial about the split and looked forward to meeting “the right person.”
“Craig, you’re good at everything,” Madison LeCroy, 34, told her castmate on the March 20 episode of the Southern Charm: After Show.
“Yeah, except keeping a girlfriend,” he replied. “My limit [is three years], I guess. At three years, the three-year itch. They just disappear.”
According to Craig, he went through grief after being dumped by Paige over the holidays.
“There was definitely denial and then fixing it and then acceptance, but that’s the biggest thing, once you accept that it’s real … I know how to move on,” he explained. “It’s been a month. It was tough. It just takes time … [But] the right person will fall in once [I] can establish this new life.”
After Craig wondered who his “right person” would be, Madison told him he’d be better suited with someone “nice.”
“You gotta find a nice girl, for once,” she stated, seemingly targeting Paige before admitting that she helped Craig get to where he was in his career “a little bit.”
“Heck yeah. I got a lot out of that relationship,” he agreed.
Meanwhile, Shep didn’t mince words.
“I’ll say it. I’ll say something: I think it’s total f*cking bullsh*t that Paige didn’t go on one single trip while they were dating with us,” Shep declared before seemingly dissing Paige’s popular podcast Giggly Squad as stupid. “I couldn’t get away with that if I had a girlfriend. What stupid a** talk show? You get your a** and you film with your boyfriend. It’s incomprehensible. And furthermore, she didn’t film with any of us … It was like her and Craig making breakfast, her pruning roses.”
“I don’t get it,” he continued. “I really feel for Craig. I don’t know. I don’t really have any sort of feelings about her, frankly, especially now.”
Patricia also felt that Paige could’ve done more to acclimate herself to Craig’s life.
“She never made an attempt to get to know Charleston, to get to know members of the group. They were isolated,” she noted.
In their own segment, Molly O’Connell, 37, described the breakup as “very sad and unfortunate,” and Salley Carson, 30, agreed, adding, “She’s just very independent, which is great.”
As for Venita Aspen, 31, she admitted to reaching out to Paige instead of Craig after their breakup.
“I was the last person she probably expected a text message from or a check-in,” she mentioned as Leva Bonaparte, 45, said, “I think I’d be the last. You’d be second last.”
“We don’t know her. I’m best friends with her best friend. It’s a quick flight [to New York City]. I know I can stay with [Ciara Miller]. I know I can be around the corner, whatever — like, ‘Let me know if you need something,'” Venita revealed of what she said in her text. “She was just like, ‘I appreciate you so much for doing that and saying something.'”
Elsewhere, Rodrigo Reyes, 40, confirmed he does “like Paige.”
“I think she’s a very funny, lovely person. I know her on a personal level. And when I reached out to Paige, she responded like that,” he shared.
