Paige DeSorbo 'Died Laughing' When She Saw Rumors She Cheated on Craig Conover withSNL's Marcello Hernandez

Mar. 15, 2025

‘Summer House’ star Paige DeSorbo; ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member Marcello Hernandez.Photo:Phillip Faraone/Getty; Slaven Vlasic/Getty

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The theories about whyPaige DeSorboandCraig Conoverbroke up continue to swirl online.

DeSorbo, 32, said on the Jan. 7 episode of her podcastGiggly Squadpodcast that she doesn’t “care about any rumor that is like, ever said about me,” but she couldn’t ignore a social media claim that she cheated on Conover, 35, withSaturday Night Livecast memberMarcello Hernandez.

“When I first saw that, I died laughing,” DeSorbo told co-hostHannah Berner.

The fashion influencer said she reached out to Hernandez, 27, because she “felt weird” about his involvement in the aftermath of her split.

“I was like, I feel like I have to text Marcello cause like, what if he sees it? What if he has a girlfriend?” DeSorbo said.

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Berner, 33, and DeSorbo are in aBachelorettegroup chat with Hernandez, and theSummer Housestar said she only ever texted him outside of the group chat to ask him for an invite to theSNLafterparty whencomedian Shane Gillis hostedin February 2024.

“So I just texted him. I was like, ‘Hey, just want to let you know, there was a rumor going around that I cheated on my boyfriend with you,’” DeSorbo said. “And he was just like, ‘F— yeah!’”

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From there, DeSorbo claimed Hernandez “was sending me screenshots of DMs he was getting of people being like, ‘We f—ing hate you now if you’re the reason,’” she said. “And I was like, ‘Marcelo, I’m so f—ing sorry. This is so embarrassing.’ And no one involved was defending me, which I found interesting.”

“I was like, I can’t have sex with a minor, that’s illegal,” DeSorbo quipped.

Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover at BravoCon 2022’s Legends Ball at Manhattan Center on Oct. 14, 2022 in New York City.Santiago Felipe/Getty

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DeSorbo said she did not expect “the amount of misogyny” she receivedafter announcing her split from Conoverafter three years on the Dec. 30 episode ofGiggly Squad. “The 65-year-old boy moms can absolutely f— off,” she continued.

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Conoveraddressed the breakup for the first timeon his Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Jan. 7, saying the split happened right before the holidays and he “was very shocked.”

“And it’s okay,” theSouthern Charmstar said. “It takes two people to be in a relationship and you can’t control other people, you can only control how you react to it. Remember to be kind to Paige and me and yourselves and all of that good stuff.”

Now, Conover said he’s “gotta start living again” as his life moves forward without DeSorbo.

“I’m still processing everything, which is normal,” theSewing Down Southfounder continued. “It’s a three-year relationship, it’s your best friend who you talk to all day every day, and then they’re just gone. So, you know, one day I’ll be able to talk more on it.”

source: people.com