Southern Charm viewers will be filled in on Austen Kroll’s relationship with Audrey Pratt on season 11.
Us Weekly spoke exclusively to cast members from the Bravo hit ahead of the November 19 premiere, with Austen, 38, addressing his status with Audrey for the first time since he hinted that they were over on Watch What Happens With Live in July.
“What I can say, and what I always will say, is that Audrey is the best kind of person,” Austen began to Us. “She’s the sweetest, she’s the kindest, most thoughtful, and you will see us [on season 11 try to] figure out what our future is going to look like together.”
Austen, who lives in Charleston, and Audrey, who resides in Charlotte, had been navigating long-distance since they started dating in late 2023.
“It’s very difficult. At first, I loved the fact that she lived here and I lived here, and we make an effort to see each other as often as possible, and then it comes to that point where it’s like, ‘We’ve been dating for this long now, who’s moving where and when?’ You’ll see this kind of unfold,” he explained.
Based on what the cast told Us about the season — which includes messy romantic entanglements between Austen, Craig Conover, Salley Carson and newcomers Whit Slagsvol and Charley Manley — things are over with Austen and Audrey. He makes a point to say there is no bad blood.
“I don’t care if it’s a spoiler, Audrey and I never had any sort of, like, ‘damn’ moment that happened to make anything [bad] between us happen,” Austen told Us.
That doesn’t mean their relationship won’t be talked about, however. In the season 11 trailer, there’s a moment where Craig and Shep are seen talking about a rumor that Austen was unfaithful, something he denies and calls “extremely disappointing” to see Craig have repeated.
“Man, if I didn’t hear things — not like unfaithfulness, per se, between him and [his ex] Paige [DeSorbo] — I never fed into any of that stuff, because that is a line crosser,” Austen said, hinting that cast members like Shep and Whitney Sudler-Smith would attempt to talk about Paige and Craig. “I never was the one who was pointing fingers at a rocky relationship between him and Paige, so to see him more than willing to offer this up is … was disappointing as hell to see. I was nothing but a supporter and never fed into the outside noise that I heard about him. You’ll definitely see that disappointment in me in the aftermath of said scene.”
Craig, for his part, described his relationship with Austen this season as “turbulent” — but all three of Southern Charm’s leading men aren’t quitting each other just yet.
“We just butt heads, and you’ll get to follow along as we continue to try to figure out what our path forward is, and it transcends the show and the cameras,” Craig said. “We don’t quit each other. The Housewives may just walk away — we don’t. And I hope you get to see some of the fun moments this year too.”
Southern Charm returns to Bravo on Wednesday, November 19, at 9 p.m. ET.
It’s the last person anyone would expect.
General Hospital keeps throwing suspects at us in the Who Shot Drew mystery. Was it Willow? Michael? Portia? Nina? Jacinda? They all have good reasons to do it. (Most of the audience feels the same.) But there is one person who has the best reason to want Drew gone. And, so far, no one has considered them….
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You’d think, what with gaslighting Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), taunting Michael (Rory Gibson), harassing Portia (Brook Kerr), and trying to steal Monica’s (Leslie Charleson) house — not to mention swiping Tracy’s (Jane Elliot) luggage (SO mature) — Drew (Cameron Mathison) would have no time to be making his daughter Scout’s (Cosette Abinante) life miserable. And if you ask Drew, it’s not Scout he’s trying to make miserable, it’s her brothers, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr). And her grandmother, Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn).
Drew is throwing out restraining orders, right and left, to keep them all away from his little girl. For her own good, of course.
Well, Scout isn’t appreciating his efforts. She hasn’t said much about it to Drew. Probably because the poor girl has already lost her mother, Sam (Kelly Monaco).
Drew has isolated her from most of her family. Scout doesn’t want to risk losing her father’s life, too. While he’s alive, that is. If Scout is forced to live with only Drew, it would be nice if he didn’t hate her. On the other hand…
On the other hand… if Scout didn’t have to live with Drew… if he were, say, dead… why, that would be a whole other story! If Drew were out of the way, Scout could see her brothers. And her grandma. And her aunts. And basically anyone she wanted, without fear that Drew might remember that they snubbed him in an elevator once by letting the door shut in his face, and now he has a score to settle.
Could Scout have been the one to shoot Drew? Maybe because she heard about this girl in Salem, who shot her uncle… and got away with it, scot-free.