Watch: Southern Charm’s Craig Conover Ready for Babies With Paige Desorbo
One of Bravo’s most beloved couples is calling it quits.
Southern Charm‘s Craig Conover and Summer House star Paige DeSorbo have broken up after three years of dating, Paige announced during the Dec. 30 episode of her and Hannah Berner’s Giggly Squad podcast.
“Craig and I have decided to no longer be together,” she shared, adding that she had “love and respect for” her now-ex.
“I think he is one of the best people I’ve met in my entire life,” she noted. “I will remain the biggest fan for him and want the best for him, and he truly will get the best, because he is the best. But, with that said, I think it is the right decision for both of us.”
She also went on share that they broke up on amicable terms.
“I love him, I think he loves me,” she continued. “I think we will remain friends. No one did anything. It wasn’t a bad thing. I think we both were just being really mature and saying what we want and what we didn’t want, and I think that’s extremely powerful to be able to voice how you’re feeling in real time and what you want for your future.”
Craig has yet to publicly comment on the split.
After first meeting in 2019 while filming season four of Summer House and reuniting two years later on Winter House‘s first season, the couple took their friendship to the next level and officially confirmed they were a couple in October 2021.
Although they’ve been dating for more than three years, the reality stars’ romance has remained long distance as she still lives in her native New York City and he has a house in Charleston. So how did they manage to keep the spark alive?
The pair actually never went more than three days without seeing each other, Craig previously revealed.
“The summer we spend in New York because she’s busier,” the pillow designer exclusively told E! News in September, “and then the fall we spend down here. It’s nice because we’re never really apart. They call it long-distance because I don’t know what else to call it, but we’re always together, we just live in two separate places.”
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Relocating for her boyfriend is actually something that Paige has voiced fear over in the past. During an April 2023 episode of Summer House, the two disagreed on the timeline of when they should get engaged.
“If you were to propose to me tomorrow it would be amazing,” she told Craig at the time, “but then it would immediately start the clock of, ‘When are you moving down? When are you planning your wedding?'”
Ultimately, it was the thought of leaving her family behind in New York that made her emotional.
“I will be changing a lot more than you will be,” she told Craig. “I will be changing my whole life. I have no friends in Charleston, I don’t know anyone. My whole career is there, my family is in New York. I don’t want to leave my mom.”
But despite being more eager to walk down the aisle than his future wife, Craig also understood the importance of not hurrying their engagement.
As the Pillow & Beer podcast co-host exclusively explained to E! News in September, “There’s a lot of relationships on Bravo that we are privy too and we don’t want to end up like. That’s no shade to anyone, but we actually want to have a family one day. We gotta do it the right way. We can’t just rush into this because it makes everyone else happy.”
Keep reading to relive Craig and Paige’s romance.
Winter House co-stars Craig Conover and Paige DeSorbo started casually seeing each other in summer 2021 before becoming a couple that fall. As Craig told E! News, “We openly dated around until it just got to the point where, you know, you like one person so much that you don’t want to do that anymore.”
Craig joined Paige for a photobooth session as they celebrated her Summer House co-stars Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula saying “I do” on September 25.
Paige and Craig dressed up as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee à la Hulu’s Pam and Tommy for Halloween.
The couple that goes all out for Halloween together, stays together.
Craig made his debut on Paige’s Instagram grid on December 19 with this cute pic captioned, “Sew in love.”
Paige began making appearances on Craig’s Instagram around the same time.
The couple is currently “having a lot of fun and spending more time with each other,” Craig recently told E! News, “and just happy.”
Dressed to the nines, Paige and Craig got cozy on their Jan. 2022 trip.
Back in New York later that month, the couple spent the night on the town.
Craig joined Paige for an Instagram Live shopping event on Valentine’s Day.
The couple headed out West for a fun double date with former Vanderpump Rules stars Stassi Schroeder and Beau Clark.
Nothing like a night out in the Bravo Clubhouse!
The couple paid Andy Cohen another visit in March.
“Getting ‘the shot’ is a full time job,” Paige captioned this sweet Instagram pic of herself and Craig at a friend’s wedding, along with candids of them perfecting their pose.
Excited to share his southern charm with his girlfriend, Craig shared pics from his fun beach day with Paige on Instagram, posing with pillows from his home decor company, Sewing Down South.
The happy couple took a stroll along the beach in Charleston, South Carolina.
Paige and Craig got all glammed up for the MTV Movie & TV Awards on June 5, 2022.
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The lovebirds snack on their favorite bites from Panera while announcing the chain’s revamped menu in March 2024.
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Putting Breakup Rumors to Rest
Amid online speculation that the couple had broken up, Craig shut down the breakup rumors.
“I don’t know where that came from, because we’re together, like, every week,” he told E! News in December 2024. “So, no, Paige and I are not broken up. We’re still together.”
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