Paige DeSorbo Reveals She and Craig Conover Have Split After 3 Years Dating: 'It's a Very Sad Thing'

Mar. 15, 2025

Paige DeSorboandCraig Conoverhave called it quits.

TheSummer HouseandSouthern Charmstars, whomet on the first season of Bravo’sWinter House, dated for three years before breaking up.

Their split appears to be a mutual decision, with DeSorbo saying on the newest episode of herGiggly Squadpodcast published on Monday, Dec. 30 that she and Conover “have decided to no longer be together.”

“It’s weird, it’s very weird. I wasn’t expecting this,” she told podcast co-hostHannah Berner. “Obviously, when we first started dating, you don’t think, ‘Oh, what will happen? Will we get married, will we not?' You’re just kind of like, in this relationship.”

Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover on ‘Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen’.Charles Sykes/Getty

DeSorbo didn’t reveal what caused the breakup, but hinted that there wasn’t strife. “Not to sound traditional and old fashioned, this is not a situation where I have, like, a 50-part series of ‘Who the f— was I dating?’” the reality personality joked. “Could not be more opposite of that.”

Said DeSorbo: “I have so much love and respect for Craig. I think he is one of the best people I have ever met in my entire life. I will remain the biggest fan of him and want the best for him and he truly will get the best because he is the best. But with that said, I think it was just the right decision for both of us moving forward in our lives and the direction in our lives that we didn’t force.”

“I love him, I think he loves me,” she added. “I think we will remain friends. No one did anything. It wasn’t a bad thing. I think we both were just being really mature and saying what we want and what we didn’t want, and I think that’s extremely powerful to be able to voice how you’re feeling in real-time and what you want for your future.”

“He’s definitely the best boyfriend I’ve ever had, like, I can truly say that," DeSorbo said. “He was a great boyfriend, and he did everything correct, and he never made me feel insecure or anything like that, so it almost is harder when no one’s done anything to be mad about, and that’s hard.”

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Conover, 35, has not yet commented on the breakup. But on the podcast, DeSorbo hinted at changes they’ve both experienced over their time together.“As you get older, I mean, I started dating Craig when I was 29 and I’m 32 now,” she said. “And your 30s, for women, I feel like are very transformative. And you change a lot and you grow a lot. Him as well.”

“It’s a very sad thing,” an emotional DeSorbo said. “I know I said I would never cry on the internet but like, it’s okay if I cry on the pod. I feel like that’s okay.”

She also did not say when they split, but did insist that it had nothing to do with the premieres of their respective Bravo hits.

“In terms of people saying rumors like, ‘Oh, Paige was told to wait untilSouthern Charmcame out’ or like ‘Summer Housecame out’ — no one can tell me what to do,” DeSorbo said. “Like, the network has power, but they don’t have that much power. So, that was not a real thing. Rumors of us breaking up months ago again, also, not a real thing.”

Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover attend the 2022 US Open.Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Heineken

The Bravo stars long faced questions of whether they would get engaged throughout their three-year relationship but frequently said they were not in a rush to take the next step.

“It’s funny how things evolve and change,” Conover told PEOPLE at BravoCon in 2023 as he reflected on how long-distance — he lives in Charleston while Desorbo lives in New York — has affected their relationship.

“I think there was so much pressure from the outside world. I love what we have now. My home base is Charleston and hers is New York, but if it was a Venn diagram, we cross over. We’re always together, we’re just in one place and the other.”

He continued, “I think I’ve settled into a more sustainable flow of this is what works for us and let’s just enjoy it instead of rushing into the next step.”

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“Of course, we’ve had those conversations, but it’s not as much as everyone else is having them. So, like, we don’t really get that stressed out about it.”

“So we kind of, like, did that to ourselves in a way where it seemed like, oh my God, they’ve been together for, like, years. When in reality, we’ve really only been dating for two and a half years.”

source: people.com