Molly O’Connell shared a big update on her love life during the Southern Charm Season 12 premiere, as she revealed to her castmate Venita Aspen that her relationship status had changed from taken to single.
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Southern Charm premieres Thursday, November 12 at 9 p.m. EST/PST on Bravo. Episodes stream next day on Peacock.
“The guy that I was dating, I think our lives just don’t leave a lot of room for each other,” she confessed to Venita.
Molly then opened up about her eight-month relationship with her ex to producers, and where it went wrong. “Our schedules are completely opposite, and we didn’t get to spend enough time with each other, so we kinda just ended it,” she said during Southern Charm’s Nov. 12 premiere.
Molly first confirmed to Bravo Insider in Dec. 2025 that she’d been dating someone for “the past few months.” Although she never shared his identity, she did share that he was “from the South,” and more specifically had lived in Charleston “for a long time.” She also said he was a musician and played guitar.
During the Southern Charm Season 11 reunion, she divulged more details about her boyfriend, including that a significant age gap existed between the two “He’s 56, and I’m 38. I like a little seasoning,” she joked at the time.
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Molly O’connell faces a “surprising romantic turn” during Southern Charm Season 12
While she’s single as of the Southern Charm Season 12 premiere, Molly’s Bravo bio hints she still has romantic chaos to come this season. “After a surprising romantic turn, her status within the group is tested and her allies seem to be caught up in their own scandals,” it says.
That romantic turn looks to include Austen Kroll, as the Season 12 trailer shows Austen confessing to Craig Conover, “Flat out, I went home with Molly last night.”
That news isn’t received well by Salley Carson, who then tells Molly in the preview, “The fact that you went home with Austen is f—king crazy.” However, Molly responds, “Y’all are not dating.”
It’s not clear yet where that relationship with Austen and Molly stands.
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What was Molly O’Connell’s relationship with Shep Rose?
Molly and Shep shared a kiss in the Southern Charm Season 10 finale, and during the reunion confessed to “some adult fun” together. When reunion host Andy Cohen asked Molly if Shep left her “satisfied,” she coyly answered, “I had fun.”
As far as why the relationship failed, Shep said it fizzled out after he “left town” for several months.
At BravoCon 2025, Molly shared she and Shep were “better as friends.” She told Entertainment Tonight, “I think on paper, all of it makes sense, but it’s Shep at the end of the day. But I love Shep. He’s so much fun. We had a fun time — a good time, not a long time.”
What was Molly O’Connell’s relationship with Kory Keefer?
Molly and Kory simply enjoyed a flirtation, which was shown during the Southern Charm Season 11 premiere. “Kory’s a huge flirt,” Molly confessed to producers at that time. “I mean, he’s hot in like a…f–kboy way.”
But she later conceded that his “toxic” ways were working on her. “My therapy apparently is not working very well if this is who I think is cute,” she added.
Molly later updated that the flirtation had gone no further. “We’re friends. We haven’t really hung out or anything,” Molly said during a Dec. 2025 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen appearance. “It was really just a very short flirtation.”
Watch more of Salley’s reaction to the rumors about Austen and Molly in a shocking Southern Charm Season 12 preview of what’s still to come.
