Craig Conover is getting candid about his breakup with Paige DeSorbo, his girlfriend of three years.
Following the Feb. 6 episode of Southern Charm, Craig, 35, appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen and shared his side of his split from the Summer House star, 32, revealing that it was not “mutual” and “came out of nowhere.”
Paige announced at the end of December 2024 that she and Craig broke up after three years together. She later clarified that they ended things over Thanksgiving weekend in late November.
“I didn’t think it was real,” Craig said on WWHL, 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.”
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On the Jan. 30 episode of WWHL, Craig’s costar and friend Austen Kroll asserted that Paige moved on with another man following her split from Craig.
“I don’t think that those are rumors,” Austen, 37, said when Cohen, 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.”
Paige disputed Austen in the comments section of a WWHL Instagram post about his allegation, writing, “Ahhh yes a man I haven’t spoken To in 6 months knows exactly what I’m doing.”
DeuxMoi has reported sightings of DeSorbo with sports executive Joe D’Amelio in 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 podcast tour stop in New York City and on vacation together in Miami.
“It’s none of my business what she does anymore,” Craig said during his WWHL appearance.
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The fashion influencer said on the Feb. 4 episode of her Giggly Squad podcast 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 on Giggly Squad, saying on his Instagram Stories on Jan. 7 that he “was very shocked” and “still processing everything.”
“This has all been very, very unexpected to 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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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen airs weeknights at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo.
Additional reporting by Lindsay Kimble.
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