Craig Conover Says Breakup with Paige DeSorbo Came 'Out of Nowhere': 'She Just Wanted Other People'

Mar. 15, 2025

Bravo stars Paige Desorbo and Craig Conover at BravoCon’s Legends Ball 2022 at the Manhattan Center on Oct. 14, 2022 in New York City.Photo:Santiago Felipe/Getty

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Craig Conoveris getting candid about his breakup withPaige DeSorbo, his girlfriend of three years.

Paige announced at the end of December 2024 that she and Craig broke up after three years together. Shelater clarifiedthat they ended things over Thanksgiving weekend in late November.

“I didn’t think it was real,” Craig said onWWHL, recalling the moment when Paige told him she thought they should break up. “We didn’t want different things, she just wanted other people," he added.

“We were planning our future together… like I was moving to New York," the Charleston, S.C. resident said.

Craig was later asked if he “co-signed” Paige’s podcast comment that she didn’t cheat physically or emotionally. “I don’t want to be involved… I’m the ex boyfriend now, I’m moving on with my life… I never said you cheated, so I’m not a part of [the online chatter about their split].”

“I think we had an awesome relationship… I’m where I am a lot of it because of her,” Craig reflected. “It is what it is.”

‘Southern Charm’ stars Craig Conover (left) and Austen Kroll.Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

On the Jan. 30 episode ofWWHL, Craig’s costar and friendAusten Krollasserted that Paigemoved on with another manfollowing her split from Craig.

“I don’t think that those are rumors," Austen, 37, said whenCohen, 56, asked about the allegations. “I think that they’ve been substantiated, and I think Craig knows as such. You know, he didn’t know for a minute, but yeah — I think that he’s fully come to terms with that. That’s not a rumor.”

DeuxMoihas reported sightings of DeSorbo withsports executive Joe D’Amelioin the weeks following her late December breakup announcement. The two spent New Year’s Eve together, and the outlet claimed they’d been seen at an NFL game in Philadelphia in January, at DeSorbo’s podcasttour stop in New York City and on vacation together in Miami.

“It’s none of my business what she does anymore,” Craig said during hisWWHLappearance.

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The fashion influencer said on the Feb. 4 episode of herGiggly Squadpodcast that she never cheated on Conover.

“I never, in the three years that I dated my ex-boyfriend, I never physically cheated on him [or] emotionally cheated on him,” DeSorbo said. “Can you mentally cheat on him? I don’t know, but I didn’t.”

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DeSorbo also said she “did not move on with some new guy.”

“I am single,” she continued. “I don’t have a new boyfriend. I did not cheat on my ex-boyfriend. And it was a full month that we were broken up, and I didn’t say anything.”

Conover waited over a week after DeSorbo announced the breakup onGiggly Squad, saying on his Instagram Stories on Jan. 7 that he “was very shocked” and “still processing everything.”

“This has all beenvery, very unexpectedto say the least,” he said. “But I guess I gotta start living again, whatever that looks like. Whatever my new normal looks like — I have to start.”

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