Shep Rose made it clear he was all-in on girlfriend Sienna Evans on season 10 of Southern Charm — but most of his castmates weren’t as convinced.
Shep had a whirlwind romance with Sienna, who is nearly 20 years younger than him, in 2024. But by November of that year, Shep revealed he was single. The ups and down of his short-lived relationship with Sienna have been front and center on season 10 of the Bravo series, which began airing in December 2024.
During the February 20 episode, fans got a look at just how deep Shep’s feelings were for Sienna when he and his castmates were on a trip to her native Bahamas. Shep, for his part, professed his love for Sienna and sent her a long text about their possible future.
The episode also shined a light on Sienna’s feelings — which appeared to be less strong. “Were we together? Maybe, I don’t know,” Sienna told the girls when asked flat out if she was dating Shep.
She later explained, “We’re so similar in terms of being noncommittal. And it works for both of us.”
Scroll down to see what the Southern Charm cast has said about Sienna and her connection with Shep:
Craig Conover
Craig told the cameras during the February 13 episode that “you shouldn’t have to force someone into liking you” after seeing Shep get ghosted by Sienna. Once he finally met Sienna in person during day one of their Bahamas trip, Criag was convinced it was a one-sided romance.
“I have never felt someone’s aura like this in my entire life. I feel like I can sense people’s energies right away,” Craig explained. “I know any hope that I had that Sienna was genuine with her feelings with Shep disappeared as soon as she walked in the room.”
During the “Text Message in a Bottle” episode, which aired on February 20, Craig expressed his concerns to the group.
“The tension, you could cut it with a knife,” he claimed before telling the cameras, “I watch enough 90 Day Fiancé to know it just didn’t feel right.”
Looking back at the trip, Craig revealed that he could sense that Sienna would get a stomach ache and need to leave early — which she did on night one.
“Her body language is not … romantic. She’s basically like, ‘Just so you know, I’m going to have a stomach by the end of this dinner,’” he quipped during the Southern Charm: After Show while watching back Sienna’s arrival to dinner with the cast.
Taylor Ann Green
Taylor, who dated Shep from 2020 to 2022, exclusively told Us Weekly in November 2024 that she was happy to be far removed from Shep’s relationship drama this season.
“It’s something that I just kind of look at and go, ‘I’m glad that’s not me.’ And I mean that respectfully, but I’m in such a happy place where I go, ‘Everything does happen for a reason, and I’m very happy with the person that I’m with,’” she said, referring to her boyfriend, Gaston Rojas. “And so seeing that I’m just going, I’m just glad it’s not me.”
During a January episode of the show, Taylor grilled Shep over his romance with Sienna and appeared to take her side. However, she later comforted Shep when it became clear that she wasn’t that into him.
Austen Kroll
During the “Red Flags” episode, Austen got real with Shep, telling him, “You’ve only hung out with her for like six weekends. This is a 26-year-old girl who’s like, ‘I don’t know what the f—k I want.’ And that’s what it’s sounding like to me.”
The following episode, which aired on February 6, Austen was even more wary of Sienna’s intentions. “I think that Sienna told Shep that she loved him so that she could keep him on the hook. That kinda gave her a longer leash to do what she wanted,” he said in a confessional. “Clearly whatever she wants to do is ghosting Shep for days at a time.”
When the group arrived in the Bahamas, Austen continued to be skeptical of Sienna. “I am not doctor love, but you fly to the Bahamas and you call your girlfriend upon landing. You’d be in the airport waiting for that person to arrive!” he told the cameras during the February 13 episode.
While talking to Shep on the February 20 After Show, Austen called BS on Sienna having a “stomach ache” on night one that made her leave their hotel early.
“She was like, ‘I don’t feel well, I have to go home.’ Get the f–k out of here. That is the oldest trick in the book,” Austen quipped. “It was so clear, not to you apparently.”
Madison LeCroy
Madison teased in an exclusive interview with Us that she did “enjoy the ending” to Shep and Sienna’s relationship, confirming it got messy.
“Shep and I have this relationship where at this point, we can kind of just poke fun at each other, even if it’s like me bringing up things I’ve said in the past, and he doesn’t take offense to it because he’s actually kind of the same way,” Madison explained in December 2024. “So I definitely poke him a little bit this season, especially when I see a girl that I don’t know likes him as much as he likes her. So I have fun. He’s meddled in my relationships. So back at ya.”
Madison made her feelings about Sienna clear from the start of the season as well. She described her as “way too pretty for Shep” during Sienna’s Southern Charm debut. Madison claimed during the “Bahama Blues” episode, which aired on February 13, that Sienna was “not that into you, that’s the deal.”
She also told Shep to his face the next episode, “She doesn’t like you. I’m just saying.”
Leva Bonaparte
During an interview with Us, Leva broke down Shep’s state of mind to start the season — which was filmed in spring and early summer 2024 — and recalled his thoughts about his possible future with Sienna.
“He’s like, ‘Can you imagine me and my curly haired babies running down the beach? I’ll be Warren Buffet, except for without the guitar,’” Leva exclusively told Us on February 5. “I was like, ‘Wow, you have this planned out.’ I think he was literally thinking he was going to own a hotel in The Bahamas with all his little kids.”
Leva also revealed that she thinks Shep’s breakup with Taylor — which was his longest relationship to date — left him more vulnerable with Sienna.
“I do think he still loves Taylor. I don’t know if he’ll end up with Taylor, but I do think that that was a very special love,” she shared. “And I think he was so excited to have some version of that again, that he got ahead of himself.”
Leva noted that Sienna was pretty transparent about her intentions when the group met her for the first time. “She was like, ‘I’m here for a good time, not a long time.’ I was like, ‘Wow, then you’re perfect for Shep.’ Both just out here having a good time,” the Southern Hospitality star recalled. “And then when he started to talk about how in love was then it was a little bit different.”
Looking back, Leva told Us that Sienna felt like someone who “wanted to be on the show” and was interested in the “idea of Shep” because he’s so “fun.”
“She knows Shep for what she sees, and then all of a sudden Shep’s like, ‘Oh no, I’m into commitment.’ She’s like, ‘Wait, what? This is not the narrative you have sold me thus far as a viewer,’” Leva added. “I think that jarred her too.”
Patricia Altschul
During the “Red Flags” episode, which aired on January 30, Patricia revealed to Madison that her son, Whitney Sudler-Smith, had allegedly been messaged by Sienna on Raya before she connected with Shep. (Sienna claimed via TikTok in February that Whitney messaged her and she had no idea he was friends with Shep until she was visiting Charleston and dating Shep.)
“As far as I’m concerned, it screams ulterior motives to me,” Patricia said. “It sounds like she’s working a lot of angles here. Stalker!”
Whitney Sudler-Smith
One episode later, Whitney slammed Shep over his relationship with Sienna and claimed that “she just liked me first” but he allegedly “didn’t respond” to her on Raya.
When Shep confessed during the February 6 episode that he didn’t know where he and Sienna stood, Whitney went off on him. “I’ll tell you exactly where you stand. Shep. Not rich enough. Boring,” Whitney quipped. “Not famous enough. That’s the overriding issue.”
Rodrigo Reyes
“I thought it was extremely weird that she wanted to come hang out with us without Shep. She wanted to go with us [in the Bahamas],” Rodrigo told Taylor during the February 20 Southern Charm: After Show. “I was like, ‘Listen girl, you kinda were rude to me the first night.’ I was like, ‘I don’t even want to be around you.’ It’s kinda annoying to be quite honest.”
Rodrigo claimed that during their trip, Sienna was “not that nice” to him even though he was one of the only people in the group that had spent time with her in the past.
“Every experience that I had with her was so lovely,” he said, referring to their past hangouts. Rodrigo then claimed, “There was a definite switch that was flipped. She was very standoffish.”
Venita Aspen
Venita didn’t comment much on Sienna herself, but she did reveal in the February 20 After Show that Shep was “obsessed” with the model. “This was loverboy Shep. He was confessing his love,” she recalled.
Salley Carson
“A woman does deserve to be loved the way that she was loved by him,” season 10 newbie Salley confessed during the February 20 Bravo After Show.
Salley alleged that Sienna, “Just didn’t want it back,” admitting, “I think it was s—y of her not to respond.”
Southern Charm airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
