Craig Conover has revealed he’s ready to find love again, just three months after his split from Paige DeSorbo.
The Southern Charm star and Summer House star had been dating for three years before they announced their shock breakup back in December.
The split, which happened over Thanksgiving weekend in November 2024, was made out to be ‘mutual,’ but Craig, 36, has since insisted he was ‘blindsided.’
There have since been accusations of infidelity on both ends. Paige, 32, has vehemently denied cheating, and claimed Craig was the one texting ‘two b****es* during the Summer House season nine premiere.
However, in the forthcoming February 17 episode of the Tamron Hall show, Craig apparently sets the record straight and denies having any inappropriate communication with other women.
DailyMail.com caught up with Craig ahead of his hosting gig at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey on February 14 and he admitted he was getting messages from other people – but the context was ‘Valentine’s Day requests.’
Craig Conover spoke exclusively with DailyMail.com at Ocean Casino Resort’s HQ2 Nightclub in Atlantic City, New Jersey on February 14
Craig revealed he’s ‘ready to find love’ again after his breakup with Paige DeSorbo (pictured at the Michael Kors Fashion Show on February 11)
Paige, 32, and Craig, 36, split after three years of dating in November 2024
‘I’ve gotten so many incredible messages from people. They’ve watched me for 12 years now, and they’ve related to my journey throughout of me just trying to get better through the years,’ Craig revealed.
‘And whether it’s through breakups or drinking or whatever it used to be, I just get the nicest messages from people who are like, “We enjoy seeing you go through the same stuff that regular people do,” because I am just like a regular person.
‘So yes, I’ve had a lot of requests to be a lot of Valentine’s Day requests, but I’m going to make everyone at HQ my Valentine tonight.’
The Sewing Down South founder spent Friday hosting at HQ2 Nightclub where he partied with friends and family and posed for pictures with female fans.
When asked if he’s ready to find love again, Craig told DailyMail.com, ‘I think I’m always ready to find love. I’m a big fan of, like, sharing your life with someone and, right now, I’m just excited to find someone to travel with.
‘A lot of my life is on the road, so yeah, we’ll see. We’ll see what happens.’
He continued, ‘But I think life’s not worth living if it’s not shared… I like sharing my life with people, so whether it’s love from friends or my parents, I’ve always got love to give, and of course, one day I will be ready to receive it.’
Speaking on his last relationship with Paige, he said he’s ‘gotten a lot of love over the last few years,’ but ‘it just changed’ and it’s ‘on to the next chapter now.’
The Summer House star accused the Southern Charm of texting other women prior to their split, but he has since denied this claim
Craig told DailyMail.com that he’s ‘gotten a lot of love over the last few years,’ but ‘it just changed’ and it’s ‘on to the next chapter now’
‘I don’t know what the universe has in store for me. But yeah, I mean, I’m open to date anyone from any background or profession.
‘I think it was really exciting the last few years, but that wasn’t planned, you know, it was just by chance that we worked on a show together,’ Craig noted, referring to initially meeting Paige while filming a cameo Summer House in 2019.
While he isn’t ruling out going on a dating app, since he believes they’re ‘good for getting your self-confidence back and validation,’ he’s more of a ‘meet someone in everyday life’ kind of guy – even though he admits it can be ‘nerve-wracking.’
He reasoned, ‘I think the best way is just, like, challenge yourself to something, whether it’s, like, a fitness competition or a race or something you have to train for.
‘For me, that’s probably what it would be. And then, maybe you meet someone while you’re training… or maybe I’ll join, like, a bowling league or something.
‘You know, I have no idea what tomorrow looks like, so I’m just trying to stay excited.’
Paige, who lives in New York City, claimed that their breakup was due to them moving in different directions in their lives and ‘growing and changing’ as individuals.
The couple did admit there was some challenges of their long-distance relationship – he lives in Charleston, South Carolina – but they both would travel for one another.
Craig jumped behind the DJ booth to wish the crowd a Happy Valentine’s Day while hosting at HQ2 Nightclub on February 14
The reality star was pictured posing with female fans and having fun dancing
Craig told DailyMail.com that he’s open to being in another long-distance relationship as long as there’s ‘effort and compromise.’
‘I’m not going to lie. I really enjoyed long distance. And I think living in two different places was so exciting, and getting to share those places with each other,’ he said.
‘I just feel like I’m drawn to that, especially because there’s a lot of really incredible people in Charleston, but I have a lot of history there too, a lot of past chapters. So I’m a fan of long distance relationships, and I think it just comes down to effort and compromise. And just put the effort in, and if you do, it’ll all work out okay.’
He also said that he hopes there will be ‘healthy communication’ with his future partner since he doesn’t want to ‘feel stress or insecure about’ communicating.
‘I know that there’s always going to be games and flirtiness, but at the age I am now, like, if I’m talking to someone, I want to be in healthy communication. Like, if I text you like, text me back, but I’ll also understand that you can’t always be on your phone,’ he explained.
In the mid-season trailer for Southern Charm, Craig confessed that he bought Paige an engagement ring prior to their split.
During a past episode that aired last month, he brought up the topic of proposing during a fishing trip with pal Shep Rose.
‘If it was up to me, we would just be engaged, but she changes her mind a lot about stuff,’ the reality star said on the show before offering a specific example.
‘One day she’ll text me and say, “Let’s build a f***ing farmhouse in the middle of nowhere,”‘ he said, adding she’s also insisted, ‘I’m moving to Charleston.’
‘But then she’ll have a good day in New York and be like, “I love it up here.”‘
He added that her behavior ‘gets confusing,’ though he conceded, ‘I think that’s life, right? It’s a bunch of decisions and compromise.’
The entrepreneur also said earlier this season that Paige wanted to wait a few years before having children, which he said was ‘not a big deal’ and he froze his sperm.
Craig told DailyMail.com that he believes ‘two years is a good engagement mark,’ and as far as having kids goes, he thinks it ‘comes down to the girl.’
‘I know things get skewed on television sometimes, but for me, it’s about knowing if, not when. So, if my partner wants to have kids with me, then that’s great.
‘I don’t care when we have kids. It’s not so much the timeline, it’s whether or not we’re gonna break up or not. So, it’s just having security in a relationship, and I think if you have that security, those timelines have a healthy purpose instead of an unhealthy one,’ he explained.
For now, he’s focusing on his own family and making them a priority. He spent his birthday on February 9 with his family in Delaware, and enjoyed spending time with his brother and his sister-in-law in Atlantic City.
Craig told DailyMail.com that he hopes there will be ‘healthy communication’ with his future partner since he doesn’t want to ‘feel stress or insecure about’ communicating
The Sewing Down South founder spent Friday at Ocean Casino Resort testing his luck on the casino floor during a game of Craps
He also played Blackjack and Roulette before he partied at HQ2 Nightclub on February 14
Apart from hosting Ocean Casino Resort’s HQ2 Nightclub, Craig tested his luck inside the casino, playing Craps, Blackjack and Roulette, and ate dinner at Villain and Saint.
Upon returning to Charleston, the reality star has other projects he’s working on including a cookbook and a crafting company.
‘I’m starting a crafting company, which is going to be really great, where I like I learn how to do certain crafts with people traveling the country, speaking at home shows, speaking at business schools,’ he told DailyMail.com.
‘We just we’ve got a lot on the calendar, which has been really fun, and doing a little bit of acting. And, I mean, I just try to fit as much stuff in as I can.’
Leaving off on a positive note, he said, ‘I just want to remind everyone to be kind to themselves and not put too much pressure on themselves.
‘Don’t beat themselves up. We’re all just doing this for the first time, and we’re trying our hardest, and it really does all work out at that end.’
