Craig Addresses Whether There Was Any “Crossover” in Relationships with Naomie and Paige
Southern Charm’s Craig Conover also explained why he was “sad” to hear Paige DeSorbo’s revelation about Andrea Denver.
Craig Conover shocked everyone, including his (usually) closest friends Austen Kroll and Shep Rose, in the Southern Charm Season 8 premiere with the revelation that he and ex Naomie Olindo had hooked up after running into each other in Las Vegas.
However, one person who wasn’t surprised was Craig’s current girlfriend on this season of Southern Charm, Paige DeSorbo. “Paige knew the whole time,” Craig said during his June 23 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen of his and Naomie’s hookup. “The guys were the only ones that didn’t, because we hadn’t really been hanging out. And Austen can’t keep a, you know, a secret at all.”
Host Andy Cohen then wanted to suss out the timeline of events between Craig, Paige, and Naomie. Craig clarified that he and Naomie hooked up at the end of June 2021. Andy then noted that Summer House Season 6 started filming in July of last year, which was when Craig and Paige started getting more serious, ultimately becoming exclusive in September, according to Craig.
Andy recalled asking Craig around Labor Day if he and Paige were monogamous, and the Southern Charm cast member had said he was “almost there” at that point. “I was like, I think I’m gonna do it, but we hadn’t yet,” he said, before confirming that “there was no crossover” between seeing Naomie and becoming exclusive with Paige.
But that doesn’t mean Andy was done asking Craig about Paige and Naomie. The WWHL host actually made Craig choose between his current girlfriend and his ex, respectively, in various scenarios. Check out the eyebrow-raising video at the top of this post.
Later in the show, Andy asked Craig if he had been “nervous for Paige and Naomie to meet.”
“Uh, no,” Craig says in the below clip. “Our group of friends are maniacs, so I was a little nervous for her to come down because it’s such an incestuous town. I mean, you’re with exes, multiple exes, all the time.”
Shep, who was also a guest on WWHL Thursday night, remarked that Craig was a bit of a “Casanova” before he and Paige made things official. “He was juggling, yeah, a little bit,” Shep said.
Craig spilled more on briefly rekindling his romance with Naomie during a game of “Truth or Pillow!?” on WWHL, revealing that the exes had hooked up only twice: once in Vegas, and once the week after the trip. “And that’s when I was like, you know what, I don’t want to be with anyone else,” he said.
Craig and Paige are now coming up on almost a year of dating, and during the game, Andy had a pretty serious question for the Southern Charm-er about his current relationship. “On a scale of 1 to 10, how in love with Paige are you?" the WWHL host asked Craig, who replied, “Got to give room for growth, right? So I’m in the nines.”
To hear more about what it was like for Paige to get to know Naomie on this season of Southern Charm, as well as the thing Paige said about Andrea Denver that made Craig “sad,” press play on the WWHL clip below.
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Photo: Craig Conover/Instagram; Naomie Olindo/Instagram
