Paige DeSorbo, Craig Conover. Monica Schipper/Getty Images
Craig Conover and Paige DeSorbo were seemingly still in love when they filmed Southern Charm season 10 — but after breaking up, not all their onscreen interactions have aged well.
“My whole life is business now. That’s the fun stuff for me now,” Craig told Austen Kroll during season 10, episode 4, which aired in January. “Making money, getting healthy and f—ing my girlfriend.”
Craig’s life motto for season 10 — which was filmed before he and Paige parted ways in December 2024 after three years of dating — isn’t the only thing that makes Us do a double take watching it back.
Many of Craig’s plans were made with Paige in mind, including his choice to freeze his sperm and delay his vision of becoming a dad until she was ready. The two also were very relaxed about their hopes for marriage, which hits differently now that they aren’t a couple.
“She is doing housewife duties,” Madison LeCroy pointed out during episode 5 after Paige made floral arrangements for a party at Craig’s house. She then asked, “What about just engagement without being engaged?”
Craig responded that the duo were “basically” engaged — and Paige didn’t disagree.
Scroll down to see which of Craig and Paige’s comments from season 10 haven’t gotten better with age:
A Home for 2
“For Paige and I, time spent in the backyard, that’s our quality time,” Craig revealed during episode 3, which aired in December 2024, showing off his finished Charleston house. “When we first started dating, we were out and about all the time.”
He explained, “We just I guess [have] grown with each other. We’d rather spend the time at home relaxing than out partying. I built this sanctuary for us to be away from the world and be able to relax and connect.”
Putting His Sperm on Ice
Craig shocked pals Austen and Shep Rose during episode 4 when he revealed, “Me and Paige have decided to freeze my sperm.”
His conversation with Paige, however, was equally as surprising. “I was thinking about freezing my sperm,” Craig told his then-girlfriend. “That’s like the craziest thing in the world,” a stunned Paige said in response.
Craig went through with the process, telling his friends that it was Paige’s decision to hold off on having kids, confessing that “without any influence from Paige” he would have his own timeline. “You date a little while, then you get married, then you have kids,” he said.
Switching Up the Plan
During the same episode, Craig said, “I want kids one day. Have I ever told you that I want kids right now?” He claimed, “I never said I want kids right now.”
Austen, however, told the cameras, “Ever since I’ve known Craig, he’s wanted to get married, wanted to have kids.” Austen added, “I’m not entirely sold that Craig wants what Paige wants.”
Craig later confessed that his timeline had shifted after meeting the Summer House star. “The version of life that I saw myself living isn’t what I’m living, which is this stable home that I grew up with,” he told the cameras. “Every night at dinner, my mom and dad were there with my brother. I just loved that.”
He concluded: “But I think If you find the right person and they happen to be a feisty Italian from New York things aren’t always going to go how you have them planned.”
Sew What?
Paige was supportive of Craig’s Sewing Down South company throughout their romance. They even joked about his crafts during episode 4, which aired on January 2, while envisioning one of the rooms in his house.
“Don’t worry about me, you do what you want in that room,” Paige told Craig, who revealed he wanted the space to be “a multifunctional room where I can craft.”
Paige teased, “I want you to be able to hem things for me. It’s been three years, and you haven’t hemmed a single pair of freaking pants for me!”
While Paige was on board with a sewing nook, she shut down one of Craig’s more outlandish suggestions for the room. “What about a wrapping paper wall?” he asked to which Paige replied, “What the f—? No.”
Babies in the Bank
During episode 5, Craig joked about hosting a party to celebrate him freezing his sperm. He then revealed that he was leaving Paige his sperm if he dies, and she wants more kids.
“Is there a return policy,” she said with a laugh. Craig, however, was serious because of his dreams of their future.
“In the rom-com world that I live in, I die and you’re like, ‘But I still want to have his children,’” he said. Paige, however, noted she “would never do that.”
She argued, “What, I’m going to have a child and then actively not give them a dad?” Craig responded by saying he understood that, but “instead of throwing it away immediately” she would now have a “choice” and it was a “gift” from him.
The White Picket Fence
Craig and Shep had a heart-to-heart during episode 7, which aired on January 23, talking about his ups and downs with Paige. “You have been itching for this white picket fence existence. Now you have it,” Shep said, applauding Craig for his new life.
Craig admitted, “I think everyone knows, if it was up to me we would just get engaged. But she changes her mind a lot about stuff.”
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He detailed Paige’s inner thoughts, explaining, “One day she’ll text me and say, ‘Let’s build a f—ing farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.’ Or like, ‘I’m moving to Charleston.’ Then she’ll have a good day in New York and be like, ‘I love it up here.’”
Shep asked if that’s “hard to hear” to which Craig confessed, “It gets confusing.” He added, “I think that’s life. It’s a bunch of decisions and compromise.”
Craig later told the cameras that he did have some reservations about going off of Paige’s timeline and not his own. “Me waiting a few years to have a kid, not a big deal. But what I’m risking is, ‘What if Paige wants to turn those couple years into 10 years?’” he asked.
To Be or Not to Bees
During episode 9, which aired on February 6, Craig and Paige went to purchase bees for his Charleston home. While Craig called the experience his “fantasy,” Paige revealed she didn’t love the idea of living on a farm.
“Sometimes I do fall into that fantasyland of being like, ‘Oh, wow, we could have a farm and a bunch of kids,’” Craig said. Paige acknowledged that she also makes up “fake scenarios” in her head but claimed she’s more “realistic” than him.
Craig told Paige he’s happy she’s “grounded” but confessed, “It’s also fun to hear excitement for the future too.”
Paige claimed that she didn’t have a “checklist” of items she wants to do before they get married and have kids, but said she should be “allotted” the same time that Craig was in his early 30s to make her own timeline choices.
“I definitely feel a little pressure. I’m only 31,” Paige told Craig. “I’m not gonna lie, sometimes you make me feel like I’m 75.”
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Paige then expressed frustration over anyone telling her when she should have kids, saying, “F— yeah it’s my decision because I’m the one that holds it in my f—ing body,” she declared. “If you said to me right now, ‘We need to have a baby or I’m leaving,’ you’d have to leave.”
Craig understood where she was coming from, but confessed that when Paige talks about “our kids” or says, “I’d be a great husband,” it makes him feel like, “Oh, she likes me.”
“[Is] who I am not enough? Do I not show enough love?” Paige fired back, adding, “If you can’t handle the amount of love that I give then that’s, like, a personal problem.”
Craig called the conversation “stupid” and said he was simply trying to be “lovey dovey” about their future.
Picking Rings, Not Cities
Despite arguing during episode 9, Craig told his pals that he and Paige were heading toward engagement sooner rather than later.
“We’re gonna get married,” Craig told Patricia Altschul at her annual guys’ dinner, adding, “We’re not really letting the ceremonial stuff keep us from living our lives.
He later clarified, “I’m gonna propose soon. Soon as in by the end of the year.” Craig also revealed, “I showed her a sheet of rings and told her to pick her favorite. She picked an emerald cut and elongated cushion.”
When asked if a proposal would prompt Craig to ask Paige to move to Charleston full-time, he confessed, “We don’t know where we’re going to end up.” He then asked, “What rule says we have to pick one city?”
Living in Paige’s World
“You shouldn’t have to force someone into liking you. If the person likes you, they’ll make time for you,” Craig said during the February 13 episode while reflecting on Shep’s one-sided romance.
He confessed to his own shortcomings, revealing, “It’s an insecurity that I have dealt with because Paige is so busy.” Craig noted, “Her career is one of her biggest priorities and I had to learn how to exist in that world.”
His Rock
During the March 6 episode, Craig confided in Austen that he was an “addict” and had struggled with alcohol over the past few years. Craig explained that he had retreated from his friendship with Austen to help himself stay on track, but Paige was always there for him.
“I am very sorry for not understanding what you were going through,” Austen said during their group trip to the Bahamas, asking, “[Are] you and Paige strong as hell? You’re fine with the distance? You’re not like sitting at your house and being alone and battling, or no?”
Craig revealed that Paige was “right with me this entire time.” He explained, “There’s a reason that me and Paige are so close. I just could not imagine being closer to someone. I’m so lucky that she chose to be like, ‘I see someone there.’ She helped me, like, beat this demon.”
Changing for Paige
During the March 13 episode, Craig spoke more about his ups and downs with alcohol, revealing alcoholism runs in his family. “It was cyclical. I would be good for a few months and then I’d go too far,” he explained.
Craig noted that he wanted to get better when he saw how it affected Paige. “I got to my bottom when I could just see it on Paige’s face. Just this look of, like, I wasn’t the guy that she had seen herself marrying,” he shared, revealing, “So Paige was pretty much done.”
He confessed, “It wasn’t until almost losing Paige for me to change my behaviors. Paige was my rock.”
Paige, meanwhile, told Craig during the episode that she “bit my tongue so many times because it truly is a personal journey.” She revealed that once Craig got on track she was “very proud” of him and his “self-awareness” over the past year.
“I will always be grateful I didn’t lose you when I hit my bottom. I don’t plan on going back there,” Craig vowed. Paige then teased, “But just know if I ever need to leave in the middle of the night with kids, I will.”
How Many Kids Is Too Many?
During season 10, episode 14, which aired on March 13, Austen came over for a visit to see both Craig and Paige. During their poolside chat, Paige made it clear that her allegiance was to Craig after Austen and Craig finally made up after being at odds for months.
“Look, I do love you. I love you as a friend. But my loyalty will always be to Craig no matter what,” Paige said. “So if Craig is fighting with someone, I also have to hate them.”
Once they buried the hatchet, Paige and Austen started talking about his love life and new girlfriend Audrey Pratt, who is 10 years his junior. “Honestly, I love that she lives in Charlotte. I’m not even going to think about that shit until we’ve hit the two-year mark of dating,” Austen shared.
Paige totally understood where Austen was coming from but pointed out that her relationship with Craig wasn’t that relaxed to start. “Want to hear what a mind f— this is, Craig and I have been dating two and a half years,” she said. “Right when we started dating, it was like, ‘But are you going to move?’ I was like, ‘I’ve known this man for six months.’”
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Craig was visibly upset by the comment, asking, “Would it be weird to ever talk about if you wanted kids at six months in?” Austen said the kid conversation is fine to have early, revealing he and Audrey already talked about it and she wants four kids.
“She should marry Craig, Craig wants four,” Paige quipped. Craig replied that Paige wanted three, but she fired back, “I want two.”
Craig explained, “You said if you don’t have one of each though, you will keep having kids,” which Paige acknowledged was the truth, noting two was her dream number.
“When I’m with them, I’ve noticed things are not as calm and cool as he makes it seem,” Austen later told the cameras of the then-couple. “Like, did she just snap at him a bit or is he, like, annoyed with her? I’m going to be honest, they are so on opposite sides of, like, the spectrum of life.”
Southern Charm airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
