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Paige DeSorbo announced her split from Craig Conover in December 2024 after three years of dating — and their reality TV costars have thoughts.
While The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne confessed to Andy Cohen in January that she doesn’t “know who Craig and Paige are” so she couldn’t weigh in on their split, the same cannot be said for the casts of Summer House and Southern Charm.
After Paige, 32, revealed on her “Giggly Squad” podcast that she and Craig, 35, parted ways over the holidays, her Summer House pals have been all-in on her new single girl era. (Paige later clarified that she broke up with Craig over Thanksgiving weekend in November 2024.)
“I love all versions of Paige,” Amanda Batula exclusively told Us Weekly in January. “I love Paige in a relationship, and I love single Paige.”
Summer House’s Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula had mixed reactions when they first learned Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover were officially over. “I’d say I was surprised, not shocked,” Amanda, 33, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting a new season of Summer House. “I didn’t react the way the rest of the internet did. But […]
She added: “She’s our friend at the end of the day, so whatever makes her happy [we support].”
Meanwhile, Craig’s Southern Charm castmates have revealed they’re not “surprised” by the breakup. Austen Kroll even insinuated that Paige was already onto the next guy.
Scroll down to see how the casts of Summer House and Southern Charm have varied in their responses to the Bravo couple’s split:
‘Summer House’ Stars
Ciara Miller
Ciara, 29, exclusively told Us in January during a joint interview with Amanda, 33, that she and Amanda are “on [Paige’s] side no matter what it is” and no matter what “choice and decisions” she makes moving forward.
“Honestly, I’m excited for her to kind of spread her wings outside of this relationship and hit the streets with me,” Ciara confessed, noting that she is also a single lady.
Ciara added that she wants Amanda, who is married to costar Kyle Cooke, to be the ladies’ “wingman” as she and Paige start going out in New York City.
Jesse Solomon
Following a trip to Colombia with his friends, Jesse, 31, posted a series of photos from the getaway via Instagram in January. “Okay this dump is better,” Paige wrote in the comments section.
The social media message inspired one fan to write, “@paige_desorbo @jessesols pls d8 <3.” Jesse hinted that he’s OK with the idea, cheekily replying, “I know what Jesse Solomon would do,” referring to him openly flirting with Paige during season 8 of Summer House even though she was dating Craig at the time.
Amanda Batula
“I’d say I was surprised, not shocked,” Amanda exclusively told Us in February while promoting season 9 of Summer House with her husband, Kyle, 42. “I didn’t react the way the rest of the internet did. But when I did get the text from her, I was like, ‘What happened? Are you OK? Is everything OK?’”
Amanda, who had Paige as one of her bridesmaids, explained that she was unimpressed with how Craig has handled the split publicly, including his choice to unfollow Paige on social media.
“I think it’s a little ridiculous,” she told Us. “I think Craig likes the sympathy from everyone and ultimately, I think what he should have done was clear up the cheating rumors in some regards because she’s really getting a lot of hate for that.”
Paige DeSorbo raised eyebrows after seemingly trolling her ex-boyfriend Craig Conover with a simple social media click. Eagle-eyed fans noticed on Monday, February 3, that DeSorbo, 32, “liked” a seemingly shady post about relationships one month after going public with her and Conover’s break up. “I’m so bummed to be single. How will I ever […]
Looking back, Amanda said because Craig and Paige had “such a long relationship with such history together” she thought he’d approach the split differently.
“You don’t want to piss someone off with Instagram. We’ll see,” she added, noting that Paige is “keeping busy. She has her tour. She’s always filming something or taking photographs or something. She is busy. Her mind is occupied.”
Kyle Cooke
“I was rooting for them,” Kyle confessed to Us in February. “But ultimately, I think they both kind of kept the relationship pretty close to the chest.”
The DJ explained, “I don’t know if there are little red flags on Southern Charm, but I think for the first time ever in the three years that they were dating, she kind of confided in me about some of the challenges they were having. That was a first. I was like, ‘Oh, interesting.’ I always thought it was just rainbows and butterflies.”
Kyle also praised Paige for how she announced the break up, saying, “I listened to her whole podcast and I was like, ‘Wow. She handled that with compassion and grace.’ And I think I felt like there were a couple of things that he said that were clearly trying to tilt the scale a little bit, if you catch my drift. So I don’t know.”
Carl Radke
During an appearance on “The Viall Files” in February, Carl proclaimed that he is Team Paige.
“I’m a Paige guy. I give her props for the way she handled doing it on [her podcast] ‘Giggly Squad.’ There’s no easy way to do any of that,” Carl said. “I texted her, ‘I give you credit.’”
He added, “It’s such a difficult thing to break up in that manner,” he stated. “I did worry that the distance and where they were career-wise was maybe not in line. Craig was ready to settle down, but Paige is young. … I feel equally sorry for both of them, but I will say I am closer to Paige than I am to Craig.”
During the episode, Carl also recalled Craig’s behavior while filming Summer House season 9.
“What I uncovered was his behavior, at a period of time, was not great at all,” Carl claimed. “Paige was like, ‘I can’t be with you if you’re going to be like this.’ I know she dealt with a lot of his ups and downs and challenges through the years. I feel, like, that got lost in the shuffle … but [she] helped him become a better version of himself.”
‘Southern Charm’ Stars
Madison LeCroy
“I don’t need to give him any advice,” Madison, 34, said during a January Amazon Live broadcast, sharing that she told Craig after the split, “You’re going to be a great husband [and] you’re going to be a great dad one day. You have so much to look forward to, like, just be lucky you didn’t already have those things and then go through a breakup.”
She added, “I’m here to hype him up when he’s down — and I’ll do that for anyone really. But they’re still good and I think everything’s going to be fine. I think you guys are taking it a lot harder than they are. I don’t know.”
Molly O’Connell
The Southern Charm season 10 newbie told Nick Viall during the January 16 episode of “The Viall Files” podcast that she had not “checked in” on Craig post-breakup.
“I have sent him a meme or something,” Molly, 37, explained. “I don’t remember what it was. Nothing crazy or flirty or anything. [It was about] a waterslide.” She said she planned to “let him [be]” for now.
Molly added, “I saw the video that he posted, kind of addressing what had happened. He was smiling, but it looked like a pained smile. It was very depressing, so I’m not trying to jump on someone who’s [healing] — and we haven’t been like that in years.”
Austen Kroll
“Was I surprised?” Austen, 37, said during the January 30 episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen when asked about the split. “I mean, I know it’s, like, a block kind of answer, but the writing was on the wall. I knew something was amiss for a month or so before I heard this news.”
Austen, who has had several ups and downs with Craig during their friendship, also alluded to Paige’s negative treatment of Craig during their romance. “I mean, she definitely was the dominant person in their relationship. That’s a nice way of putting it,” he quipped.
When asked if the rumors about Paige dating someone new were true, Austen said it was “not a rumor,” hinting that Paige was romantically involved with a new guy. Paige fired back at Austen’s remarks, writing on WWHL’s Instagram post, “Ahh, yes a man I haven’t spoken to in six months knows exactly what I’m doing.”
Patricia Altschul
“I thought Paige was mean to Craig,” Altschul, 83, claimed during the same January episode of WWHL. “If you think back, Naomie [Olindo] was mean to Craig. I think he deserves somebody who will really love and cherish him because remember he said to her, ‘I want to get married and have kids.’ And she said, ‘Blech.’” (Craig dated Naomie, 32, from 2014 to 2017 and during their relationship, she publicly shamed him for his love of sewing before he went on to create his successful company Sewing Down South.)
Taylor Ann Green
“Craig and I live very close to each other. I always go on walks in his neighborhood, and I was passing by his house so I just shot him a quick text,” Taylor, 30, told Decider on January 31 of her first interaction with Craig post-split. “It wasn’t right after the breakup because I know how that goes. You just get infiltrated with hundreds of people reaching out.”
She recalled messaging him and saying, “Hey, bud, thinking about you, hope you’re doing OK, staying busy, seems like you’re doing just that.” Taylor said Craig replied, “Thanks, Tay. Appreciate it.”
Looking back on the relationship, Taylor said she “wasn’t all that surprised” that it came to an end, even though she thought they were a “very good match.”
Taylor added that she thinks The Bachelor’s Rachael Kirkconnell would be a good match for Craig since Rachael recently split from boyfriend Matt James. Even if Craig doesn’t date the Bachelor Nation star, Taylor told the outlet “he’ll be fine” and most likely marry “whoever he decides to date next.”
Taylor also noted that since Paige is “such a strong woman” she might move on with someone who will “tell her no sometimes,” since that’s the opposite of Craig. “I think she needs a man that’s going to really give it to her,” she said.
Leva Bonaparte
“I checked in on Craig, like, ‘Are you doing OK after the breakup? I know we’re not talking all the time, but I just want to let you know. I know this sucks. I know it’s hard to navigate it publicly,’” Leva, 45, exclusively told Us in February as to what she texted Craig. “I have a lot of empathy for that, for both of them.”
She explained that Craig “hearted the message” but she doesn’t know exactly how he’s doing. “He’s probably not doing great. But I think that at the end of the day, with all of that, it’s hard to navigate any breakup,” Leva continued. “Forget in the public eye, but we’re in the business of authenticity.”
Leva also noted that she doesn’t like how some people have turned on Paige because she changed her mind on having a future with Craig.
“I think at the end of the day, it just maybe wasn’t a fit, and maybe none of us will ever know why,” she said. “We have to normalize being OK with not being ‘Team Craig’ and not being ‘Team Paige,’ but just being, like, ‘It’s complicated.’”
Leva argued that we need to “normalize” allowing women to “change their mind” as well. “I think to vilify her for changing her mind is wrong. Women are allowed to do that,” Leva concluded. “Men do it all the time. So I am not in the business of vilifying a woman [for] changing her mind before she walks down the aisle.”
Salley Carson
“I always thought that they were end game, but I was never in the relationship,” the Southern Charm season 10 newbie exclusively told Us in February of Craig and Paige. “She said that she’s a different person than she was when they first started dating. And I think people do change and move on.”
Salley, who told Us she thinks Craig is “hot as s—,” explained that she believes he is “handling it well” when it comes to the split. “I mean a lot better than I would handle it,” she teased.
Salley noted that although Craig received some backlash for not defending Paige against cheating allegations, he has been dealing with it internally. “He seemed to be more quiet — on the quiet side about things. I respect that,” she said.
When it comes to whether or not she thinks Craig is ready to date again, Salley told Us, “Maybe if the right person came around, but I think he’s just kinda getting through the breakup.”
