Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover's breakup is getting messier by the minute, and with Summer House AND Southern Charm currently airing, new information is popping up...pretty much daily. So naturally the time has come to gather it all in one place. Here's a timeline of events, starting from the beginning.
December 30, 2024
Paige reveals that she and Craig have broken up during an episode of her podcast Giggly Squad. Some top notes?
- “Craig and I have decided to no longer be together.”
- “I love him; I think he loves me. 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.”
- “I have so much love and respect for Craig. I think he is one of the best people I’ve met in my entire life. I will remain the biggest fan for 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 is the right decision for both of us.”
- “He’s definitely the best boyfriend I’ve ever had, like, I can truly say that. 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.”
She also shuts down speculation that they split for ratings, saying “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.”
January 2, 2025
Amid false rumors that she cheated with an "internet personality," Paige hits TikTok to shut everyone down, writing “see you in court" on one video, as well as “I’m obsessed with all of this fan fiction" on another.
January 7, 2025
Craig breaks his silence on Instagram Stories, saying he and Paige split ahead of the holidays: “I was very shocked and it’s okay. It takes two people to be in a relationship. You can’t control other people—you can only control how you react to it.”
He adds, “I’m still processing everything, which is normal... I mean, a three-year relationship, it’s your best friend who you talk to all day, every day, and then they’re just gone. So one day, I’ll be able to talk more on it—but right now, I just wanted to thank everyone for their kind messages.”
January 12, 2025
Paige is seen with a "mystery man," which naturally leads to dating rumors:
Her response?
January 28, 2025
Us Weekly reports that Craig is on Raya. Apparently, his profile notes that he's “based in Charleston and often visits New York,” he has “Raincoat” by Timeflies as his profile song, and his interests are “elephants and snowboarding.”
January 30, 2025
Austen Kroll visits WWHL and is asked about rumors that Paige is dating someone new. His response? “I don’t think that those are rumors. I think that they’ve been substantiated. Craig knows as such. He didn’t know for a minute, but yeah, I think that he’s fully come to terms with that. That’s not a rumor.”
January 31, 2025
Paige hops into the comments of a fan account and writes “Ahhh yes, a man I haven’t spoken to in six months knows exactly what I’m doing.”
February 3, 2025
Paige says she and Craig broke up around thanksgiving, and claims Craig "did press for Southern Charm, did whatever he needed to do, acting as if we were still together, and that was fine: I said that he could do that [if] he was processing [the split] in his own way."
She adds, "I saw that my ex-boyfriend was on a trip presenting himself as single. And I said, 'Oh, here we go, We’re ready to announce.' I then texted [him] whilst he was on this trip and said I’m going to say something on 'Giggly Squad' and we can both start moving forward. It’s been a full month now. My text went unanswered."
Paige also confirms she's single and says "I did not cheat not on my ex-boyfriend. And it was a full month that we were broken up and I didn’t say anything."
February 6, 2025
Craig shows up on WWHL and defends himself for not defending Paige amid cheating rumors:
"I don’t want to be involved. I got broken up with. I’m the ex-boyfriend, now moving on with my life. I’m not going to get sucked into the mud with them. Her cast, like, commenting on how I am grieving and that I’m sorry that I’m not reading Reddit everyday, and getting on there and defending her. Like, I never said you cheated, so I’m not a part of this."
He also claims Paige "wanted other people."
Direct quote: "For all the long-distance people watching, like, we didn’t want different things, she just wanted other people and that’s fine. She didn’t want those things with me anymore and I’m not mad at her for that but I don’t like this ‘love isn’t enough’ thing because you’ll make it work."
Craig then accuses Paige of lying on her podcast by saying the breakup was mutual, alleging "I got a text and she said, ‘I’m announcing it on my podcast.’ And then she said it was mutual, which it wasn’t, I didn’t know about it, she called me and told me.”
AND he hits back at Paige's claims that he lied about the breakup for a month, explaining that he didn't think Paige was serious when she ended things: "I thought she was having kinda a bad night or a breakdown. When she called and broke up with me, the last thing I was gonna do is the next day when I was being interviewed be like 'by the way Paige broke up with me.'....I didn't think it was real. We had been together for three years, Andy. A week prior, two weeks prior, she asked me to plan us a trip to Europe for New Years. She also talked about our wedding in her mom's kitchen."
This same day, Bravo drops flash-forward footage from Southern Charm featuring Craig chatting about the split. “She asked me to buy her a ring and like, I did,” he says. “It was just like, over. It’s weird to like, mourn someone that’s still alive.”
February 9, 2025
Paige and Joe D'Amelio are spotted holding hands at the Super Bowl.
February 12, 2025
Summer House premieres and the show flashes forward to Paige and Craig's breakup aftermath in the last five minutes of the episode. The bombshell? Paige reveals she caught Craig texting two women while they were dating.
February 13, 2025
An episode of Southern Charm airs where Craig opens up about his insecurities, saying, “It’s an insecurity that I have dealt with because Paige is so busy. Her career is one of her biggest priorities and I had to learn how to exist in that world.”
February 14, 2025
Us Weekly obtains a clip of Craig defending himself against cheating rumors during an upcoming appearance on the Tamron Hall show, saying, "I never cheated."
When asked about Paige's claim that Craig was texting two women while they were still together, Craig explains, "That wasn’t part of our breakup. That was filmed later on. I think it was a retaliatory scene."
That's it for now, but we'll keep you updated with the latest twists and turns in this breakup.
