When Craig Conover’s dating life took center stage at BravoCon 2025, the Southern Charm-er didn’t hold back from spilling all the latest tea.
The subject arose multiple times during Day 3’s “It’s All About to Go South” panel on Nov. 16 in Las Vegas, beginning with the moderators asking what Craig’s DMs looked like, following his late 2024 breakup from Paige DeSorbo. “Well, it’s been a year, guys,” Craig noted. “So, I think we’ve both moved on with our lives. … I didn’t plan on being here, but I’m here.”
Teasing that fans can expect to see him “trying to figure out” the “next chapter” in his love life when Southern Charm Season 11 premieres on Nov. 19, he went on to detail a conversation he had with castmate Madison LeCroy, roughly six months post-split. “I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll start dating, maybe I won’t,'” the Sewing Down South co-owner recalled. “You can’t really plan your life out; you just have to take it with a grain of salt.”
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Craig Conover and Salley Carson tease their Southern Charm Season 11 romance
Elsewhere during the BravoCon panel, Salley Carson teased that “people are gonna be shocked by” the complicated romance that arose between her and Craig — and several others, apparently — while filming Season 11. “I was obviously very attracted to Craig,” Salley remarked, before adding, “Throughout the summer, I definitely saw some different sides of Craig: some that I loved and some that I didn’t love so much.”
Craig, for his part, chimed in to say, “I’ll tell you this: It’s not a triangle. It’s a shape that has too many sides for me to know what it’s called. … I would say it’s more of a trapezoid than a triangle.”
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As the Southern Charm trailer already previewed, one of the other people involved is Salley’s friend and newcomer Charley Manley. Craig further clarified that there “were lots of people that liked each other,” noting, “I think saying that it was a triangle is minimalistic for Season 11.”
Craig elaborated more about his dating life in his new chapter: “You’ll get to see me go through kind of a fear of rejection. … When Paige and I met, we met filming a show, so no one had to ever go out on a limb to ask the other out. … I’ve never just blindly asked someone on a date without actually knowing if they like me back or not.”
What Craig Conover is looking for in a relationship now
Because Craig had previously expressed interest in settling down and starting a family, one of the moderators also asked him to clarify if he was in a “more fun-seeking mode” in his dating life now, or if he was really ready to find his “person.”
“Well, lover-boy Craig didn’t work out, so party-boy Craig is here,” he joked, before admitting that he actually “didn’t know what to do” when he became single again.
“You get to see me figure all this stuff out,” Craig continued. “I think I finally stopped chasing to fill that void. I’m really fortunate; I’ve achieved a lot that I wanted in life, and I enjoy sharing that with someone. … But I don’t think it’s worth forcing it with the wrong person. And so, I have no idea what’s gonna happen.”
As the Southern Charm-er concluded at BravoCon, “I would like to have a girlfriend, sure. … And apparently when you stop chasing things, they might find you. So, hopefully that happens.”
In the meantime, get even more details on how Craig’s love life played a major role in the Southern Charm Season 11 drama.
