Craig Conover and Paige DeSorbo Had a ‘Nice Intercourse Life’ Earlier than Breakup

Southern Appeal season 10 got here to an finish on Thursday, March 20, and so did Craig Conover and Paige DeSorbo’s relationship.

On the finish of the season finale, the episode flashed ahead to January, when Craig, 36, sat down with castmates Austen Kroll and Shep Rose to speak about his breakup with Paige, 32, after three years collectively.

“Paige and I had an excellent Thanksgiving collectively. Like, all the things was regular at her mother and father’, like our chemistry and like, all the things…” Craig started. “Then a pair weeks later she known as me and was like, ‘We gotta speak.'”

Austen, 37, requested if that decision occurred previous to Christmas, and Craig confirmed it did.

“I used to be like, I can not imagine that is like occurring,” Craig continued. “And it was actually calm. She’s like, ‘I would like to search out myself.’ And she or he’s like, ‘I’ve to take management of my life once more and we have to break up.’”

Craig known as it a “bummer” that he couldn’t inform Austen concerning the break up as a result of he anxious about it getting out. “I wasn’t going to f—— say something ‘trigger I did not need it to be actual,” he defined.

Paige ultimately introduced the breakup on her Giggly Squad podcast in late December.

After telling Austen earlier within the March 20 episode that he deliberate to suggest to Paige in 2024, Craig confirmed to Austen and Shep that he purchased an engagement ring for the Summer season Home star.

“She requested me to purchase her a hoop and like, I did,” Craig stated. “I went to New York, designed this entire ring. Earlier than final summer season. Then she was like, ‘Really, maintain off.’ Wanting again, perhaps that was her beginning to panic or freak out.”

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The Pillow Discuss creator additionally revealed that he “provided to maneuver to New York” to be with Paige. “She requested me to boost children in Manhattan and he or she’s like, ‘You’ll resent me without end if it’s important to reside this life in New York,’’ Craig continued.

However for Craig, making the sacrifice to depart Charleston, S.C. for Paige felt like the suitable alternative for what he thought of a “uncommon” love.

“We have been finest mates, we liked one another, we had an excellent intercourse life, we simply checked so many containers that you just’re like, the place the f— am I going to search out … how are we giving this up?” Craig puzzled. “It is bizarre to mourn somebody that is nonetheless alive.”

Paige spoke concerning the breakup on the newest episode of Summer season Home: After Present, saying that she had new perspective on her relationship with Craig because it ended.

“I feel I liked him a lot that I tolerated an excessive amount of,” she advised costars Amanda Batula and Ciara Miller. “And now that I’m out of it and I look again on issues, I’m like, ‘Oh wait, any time I had like, a profession milestone, he discovered a solution to like make it about him.’ ”

The podcast host described the scenario as “embarrassing.”

“That’s one thing that I look again on now, and I’m like, ‘Oh, wow, I actually was very blinded,” Paige continued. “I needed to like do loads of injury management.”

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Half 1 of the Southern Appeal reunion airs Thursday, March 27, at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.