Moving on! Craig Conover confirmed he’s started dating again after his split from Paige DeSorbo.
“I’m very happy,” the Southern Charm star, 36, revealed on the Thursday, March 27, edition of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Appearing alongside his Southern Charm costars Shep Rose and Austen Kroll on WWHL, Conover surprised host Andy Cohen by revealing there’s someone new in his life.
“When I date, I tend to date only one person at a time,” he said. “I’ve been seeing someone. I’ve been reminded that the universe works in crazy ways and everything happens for a reason.”
Conover’s new relationship is his first since he and Summer House star DeSorbo, 32, called it quits in November after three years together. While the breakup may have started friendly, the former couple have thrown shade at each in recent months.
Cohen specifically asked Conover to respond to DeSorbo’s complaint on Summer House that he wasn’t always supportive of her goals. (DeSorbo even questioned if she was dating “secret hater” in one Summer House scene filmed months before the break-up.)
“I obviously was surprised when she left me,” Conover confessed in Thursday’s chat with Cohen. “I think I’m just kind of focused on moving forward.”
Dismissing “made-up stories” about his time with DeSorbo, Conover added, “Her side of things convinced her that the break-up was going to go a certain way and through choices she made after the break-up, things turned on her.”
“I haven’t done anything except try to move on with my life,” Conover went on. “I’m really happy in the chapter that I’m in.”
Conover then accused DeSorbo and “her band of friends” from Southern Charm of sending “vitriol” his way even though he was friendly with all of them before dating DeSorbo.
“I want to encourage America to never act like [them]. I think it’s disgusting,” he added.
While DeSorbo has been supported by her Summer House cast mates, she has faced repeated jabs from her former Southern Charm friends. In January, DeSorbo clapped back at Southern Charm star Kroll for a previous appearance on Watch What Happens Live where he implied she was dating someone new.
“Ahh yes a man I haven’t spoken To in 6 months knows exactly what I’m doing,” DeSorbo replied via the comments of WWHL’s interview clip.
On her “Giggly Squad” podcast in February, DeSorbo flatly denied rumors that she’d cheated on Conover during their time together.
“The narrative just took a turn really quickly: That I had cheated. That I broke up with him, like, a week ago and moved on with some new guy,” she declared. “Let me say this here and now: I did not move on with some new guy. I’m single.”
The Summer House star continued, “I don’t have a new boyfriend. I did not cheat not on my ex-boyfriend. And it was a full month that we were broken up and I didn’t say anything.”
Another of Conover’s Southern Charm costars, Rose, lambasted DeSorbo during the show’s season 10 finale on March 20 for not fully committing to filming the Bravo reality show.
“I’ll say it. I’ll say something. I think it’s total f—ing bulls–t that Paige didn’t go on one single trip while they were dating,” Rose, 44, told Kroll. “I couldn’t get away with that if I had a girlfriend, I’ll tell you that much.”
In this week’s Southern Charm season 10 reunion episode, Conover shocked moderator Cohen and his costars by recalling one particularly tense moment with DeSorbo just after they’d split.
“[I asked], ‘What do you want me to do with your [engagement] ring?’ She said, ‘Keep it. Maybe we’ll get married at BravoCon!’” Conover alleged.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen airs on Bravo Sundays through Thursdays at 10p.m. ET.
