{"id":9017,"date":"2025-11-15T02:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/southern-charm-star-craig-conover-says-viral-tiktok-with-ex-naomie-olindo-was-all-her-idea-i-got-nervous-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:10:50","slug":"southern-charm-star-craig-conover-says-viral-tiktok-with-ex-naomie-olindo-was-all-her-idea-i-got-nervous-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/?p=9017","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Southern Charm\u2019 Star Craig Conover Says Viral TikTok With Ex Naomie Olindo Was All Her Idea: \u201cI Got Nervous\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Craig Conover\u2018s formative years have all been documented on Bravo\u2019s Southern Charm,\u00a0<\/em>including every girlfriend, every breakup, and every makeup. That\u2019s why fans lost their minds when he reunited with his ex-girlfriend\u00a0Naomie Olindo\u2014who appeared as a cast member on Seasons 3-6 and Season 8 of\u00a0<\/p>\n

The newly single Bravoleb told Decider that the video\u2014in which they acted out their iconic, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with my sewing,\u201d fight\u2014was all Olindo\u2019s idea. Despite initially feeling \u201cnervous,\u201d Conover decided to take the plunge when he reunited with his ex at a mutual friend\u2019s wedding last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat great closure for everyone who\u2019s been invested in our lives,\u201d he added while speaking to Decider about his partnership and upcoming BravoCon activation with State Farm. \u201cI thought it was a pretty great idea of hers.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Olindo currently dating model Brooks Nader\u2019s ex-husband, Billy Haire, the chances of her and Conover rekindling any past flame are slim. The Sewing Down South founder, for his part, has been dipping his toes back into the dating pool in light of his highly publicized breakup with\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a town as small as Charleston, it\u2019s really hard to find space, or at least enough space, to not develop feelings for people you hang out with,\u201d he said, sharing that he\u2019s still open to exploring showmances with his co-stars. \u201cI think you really get to know someone well when you\u2019re filming with them. You just do. It\u2019s a unique experience and I prefer it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Decider caught up with Conover via Zoom, he also spoke about his friendships with\u00a0Shep Rose\u00a0and\u00a0Austen Kroll,\u00a0Southern Charm\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>\u201cfun and flirty\u201d eleventh season, and whether he wants to be the next\u00a0Andy Cohen\u00a0with his new production company, Plaid Horse Productions. Check out the full interview below.<\/p>\n

DECIDER: Are you excited for BravoCon this week?!<\/strong><\/p>\n

CRAIG CONOVER:\u00a0<\/strong>I am. I love it. I\u2019ve messaged my cast and told them to try to get out there Wednesday just so they can get prepared. Some are super excited, some are nervous. I love it and I know we skipped last year, but I\u2019m ready to be back. I do all of my meet and greets at the store across the country anyway, but this is a giant one. This is the first time I\u2019m using a stylist, so I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m wearing. This is a little nerve-wracking, but I\u2019ve got some backup options. I\u2019m excited. I bring my parents out and I bring a whole team, and we\u2019ve got a massive booth for the bazaar this year, so that\u2019s gonna be great.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You will be bringing your male Martha Stewart persona to life in the Bravohood this weekend. Can you speak a bit about your collab with State Farm and what can fans expect from your activation?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jake and I \u2013 a.k.a Kevin, as I got to know him \u2013 had so much fun shooting a commercial earlier this year that we\u2019ve decided to run it back. I just got to see the finished roadmap of what fans will get to experience at BravoCon, which is Patricia\u2019s infamous dining room table and Madison\u2019s porch and my sewing studio and the backyard, which is awesome too. To be able to follow my journey \u2013 I started filming when I was 24, I\u2019m 37 now \u2013 and the roller coaster ride of the sewing and where it came from \u2026 to now be able to embroider something with me at BravoCon or sew something on your own. We\u2019ve got these quick little souvenirs you can make and take that home. For me, I just think there\u2019s no better way to celebrate how far we\u2019ve come and how much we love the fans. Jake and I are excited to see each other again, and we\u2019re going to be doing lots of little activations. I get to have Madison and Patricia there too, so I think it\u2019s a really fun thing to highlight at BravoCon. The Bravohood is always something fun. But this just feels special this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I want to talk about the\u00a0Southern Charm<\/em>\u00a0Season 11 premiere, which I just watched the other day. I noticed that you never mentioned your ex by name. Was that intentional? Was that a direct response to what she said at the\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Summer House<\/em>\u00a0reunion? Can you speak to that a bit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, no. Yeah, I can see how that would come off. Life\u2019s funny, and that\u2019s why watching our lives on these shows is so interesting because we actually are just doing this for the first time, right? Everything you see me going through, I\u2019m just trying to figure out for the first time ever. I get to speak around the country and I get to speak about small businesses and home shows and stuff. You never know, out of respect, whether to say your ex\u2019s name now that she\u2019s not on the show. So you\u2019re like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to say your name if you\u2019re not comfortable with it.\u201d But then when you say, \u201cMy ex,\u201d you\u2019re almost, not dehumanizing them, but taking the personalization out of it. You\u2019re like, \u201cI have no problem saying your name.\u201d But we had just started filming again for the first time in a year. It was the first time we were filming since the breakup. And what you\u2019re watching is me just trying to navigate life in this new chapter that I definitely didn\u2019t plan on being in, but you just put your best step forward. Hopefully, the premiere was good. I hope you liked it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You guys are capturing this new chapter in my life. No, I\u2019ve got no ill will. I just didn\u2019t know \u2026 You just get thrown back into it. When cameras picked up this year was kind of when I was starting to come to terms with everything. You\u2019re just going to watch me go through figuring life out, which is what so many people, I realize, are going through. A lot of times you don\u2019t talk about it, and then when you do, you\u2019re like, \u201cOh, so like there\u2019s plenty of other people going through similar journeys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

You and Shep are both single for the first time in a long time, and you\u2019re going to BravoCon later this week. Have you guys been finding yourselves falling back into old habits? Do you view him as having actually evolved after he promised to change his relationship with alcohol after that messy BravoCon experience a few years back?<\/p>\n

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I think he\u2019s going to make it through Sunday this year. I got hopes that we\u2019re going to have a great time. He\u2019s excited for it. He self-admittedly does not volunteer himself to go to Vegas in regular life. He knows his boundaries, but he\u2019s ready. Shep and I are actually in probably the best place that we\u2019ve ever been. It was such a nice thing to have our friendship get to a level where we both accepted each other for who we are, which is complete opposites. We just are. We\u2019ll never understand each other [and] both of us have finally accepted that that\u2019s okay. I think the love that we have for each other \u2026\u00a0 We\u2019re the only two that started this journey 12 years ago. I know it\u2019s the 11th season, but we started 12 years ago. Well, Whitney, too. But, you know, Whitney\u2019s Whitney.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shep and I \u2026 I really think you\u2019ll get to see our friendship flourish this year. Now we are in different stages in life, but I think we want the same things. Eventually, both of us want families and to experience the world together. We both were fortunate in different ways. It was just nice to have him around. I wouldn\u2019t characterize it as falling back into bad habits. It really is just me trying to figure it out. I would rather stay home and watch movies with someone all day long. But now if you don\u2019t have that, you have to go out and meet people. Jumping back into that world is interesting and not as easy as some people would think. There\u2019s plenty to see on that front. But Shep\u2019s just Shep. He\u2019s pretty much the exact same person that we met 12 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well I\u2019m happy to see that you guys are on the same page, as much as you can be.\u00a0 I have to say, I was upset that you and Austen are still kind of going at it, at least as we see in the trailer. I know you\u2019re very entangled in your businesses and stuff like that. How has your turbulent friendship kind of had an impact on your professional relationship with him?<\/p>\n

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You never know when Austen\u2019s going to have an issue with something I do. It\u2019s very unpredictable. I\u2019m just as surprised as everyone a lot of times. But, fortunately, we have such a great team of people around us. My partner, Jerry [Casselano], is a great glue between Austen and I, and our other partners in our businesses, that fortunately, when it comes to business, he doesn\u2019t get frustrated with that stuff. Our synergy there has never been affected because our businesses are all the things that we share in common. Our bars are all the things that we enjoy traveling together with. The restaurant we opened, the music, the menus are all the things that we enjoy. When it comes to the minutia of how we live our lives or our day to day, or the quality time that we spend together, that\u2019s where we seem to be missing. Once again, you\u2019ll just see us try to figure out what our friendship is. Austen had some issues last year with me not being around enough. This year, you\u2019ll see the opposite concern. It\u2019s hard to keep track of. But I love him to death and hopefully we have a great BravoCon together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

JT Thomas was back in the news this week after having gone on Instagram and proclaiming he\u2019s sold all of his worldly possessions and moved to Bali. Do you see a world where you two could ever mend fences?<\/p>\n

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Oh, I don\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t know he moved to Bali. That\u2019s cool. Again, we\u2019re all just trying to figure our life out, and if that\u2019s what works for him then I wish him the best. I\u2019m going to root for him, and if he decides to move back to the States, I don\u2019t see why not. But we don\u2019t really cross paths that much. We just don\u2019t cross paths. I\u2019ll have to catch up on that story. I haven\u2019t seen that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the trailer, it seems like you and Salley are showing some interest in each other. I\u2019m sure we\u2019re going to see it all unfold this season, but how do you feel about showmances\/Bravo romances at this point in your life?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When I was like 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, I bartended and waited tables and I had the best friendships and relationships with the people I worked with. You can only bartend with someone so long before you start to catch feelings. With a town as small as Charleston, it\u2019s really hard to find space, or at least enough space, to not develop feelings for people you hang out with. Also, as you get later in life, you don\u2019t meet as many people as you did when you were younger. When really big personalities come around and cool people, you\u2019re going to have to navigate that, because sometimes someone\u2019s going to like one person, and that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it\u2019s always going to be the same on both sides. You\u2019ve only seen me really meet people on television. Paige and I filmed a whole show in Vermont together. Our relationship came from spending, like, three weeks together in the same house. I think you really get to know someone well when you\u2019re filming with them. You just do. It\u2019s a unique experience and I prefer it. It hasn\u2019t worked out for me yet, so I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the best thing to do, but it is my life and so I would say that I have a positive feeling about it. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s the healthiest thing in the world, but I think it\u2019s fun to meet people on television and then see where that goes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You also need somebody who understands your life and what you do for a living. Somebody who\u2019s an introvert and wants to hide is probably not the one for you.<\/p>\n

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I think the shared experience, that\u2019s what brings me closer to people. Yes, what you get to see on television is real, but they still have to capture it. That small fourth-wall part of your life is a shared experience you have with the people filming with you. I think it brings you together. Now, whether or not that keeps you together, we\u2019ll have to wait and see this season.<\/p>\n

The internet was SHOOK when you and your ex-girlfriend Naomie reunited for an iconic TikTok. How did you two reconnect? What are your thoughts on her new boyfriend?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve only ever heard great things about her new guy. I don\u2019t know him. I haven\u2019t met him. But I was at dinner with a friend in LA and we went out in Venice Beach and the couple knew him \u2013 they were friends with [his ex-wife] Brooks [Nader], I don\u2019t know \u2013 but they were just like, \u201cWe miss him! He\u2019s a great guy.\u201d And I was like, \u201cWell, that\u2019s good to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

She and I had messaged months ago because I was going to France with my brother and sister-in-law. I was just getting recommendations with the old list that we used to do, or something came up, and she was like, \u201cWe really should recreate the, \u2018What\u2019s wrong with my sewing thing,\u2019 one day. But you do my part and I do yours.\u201d And I was like, \u201cYou know what? That\u2019s really funny.\u201d So, we were at one of my best friend\u2019s weddings, and she was there too. It was a Charleston wedding. She was like, \u201cAlright,\u00a0 we\u2019re going to do this.\u201d I got nervous, and I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m ready.\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay, whatever, we\u2019ll just do it.\u201d What great closure for everyone who\u2019s been invested in our lives and stuff. I thought it was a pretty great idea of hers. We have a very, I guess, normal relationship now. Charleston really is small, like I can keep saying, but we have all the same friends, and so it\u2019s nice to be able to coexist in a friend way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was excited to see you launch your own production company, Plaid Horse Productions. Do you want to be the next Andy Cohen?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, I mean, who doesn\u2019t? He\u2019s just an incredible role model and someone to look towards. There\u2019s a couple people that I look up to where they stayed in front of the camera while also running a production company. I think that\u2019s the goal. I don\u2019t want to disappear at all. I love sharing my life with people. I just have 12 years of experience now. I think that there\u2019s a value add that I can bring to the table. We\u2019re actively casting three shows right now, and it\u2019s been really cool to be able to participate in that side of things. I\u2019m really excited for it. I think it was the next logical step. We\u2019ve got two great partners in it, and I\u2019ve already gotten to do a lot of neat things because I am fascinated with the industry. I love my sound teams and my camera teams and the producers outside of filming. But just to be a part of the other world, the other side of things, has been really great. So hopefully, something comes together. But yes, if I could be anything like Andy, that would mean I was succeeding.<\/p>\n

I could see you hosting reunions!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would love to host one day. It\u2019s really one foot in front of the other, and I try to implore people or Bravolebrities just to say yes to opportunities. I have something that\u2019s coming up next week that came from something that I said yes to that was not paid for. You go up there and you just gotta keep moving and participating. I love the TV world, and I would love to be a part of as many facets of that. I just I filmed my first movie two years ago, and it just premiered at the Austin Film Fest, and I walked the red carpet with my co-stars and watched the movie for the first time with the other actors, and had to watch myself on the big screen for the first time, and felt really proud of that. I worked with some really big names. I don\u2019t know, I like to do a little bit of a lot of different things.<\/p>\n

Yeah. If you find something you\u2019re proud of,\u00a0 just keep doing it. That\u2019s why sharing my sewing room with everyone involved in the Bravohood at BravoCon is going to be awesome. Maybe people will walk away and buy their own kits for it. State Farm orchestrating it for us is just really great. I\u2019ve been with State Farm for 20 years. I just think sometimes things come full circle in a really great way. So hopefully, I don\u2019t know. Can I watch the premiere? I don\u2019t know, I haven\u2019t watched in a little while.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very good. I was talking to Ms. Patricia [Altschul] last week, and she was like, \u201cIt has an old-school\u00a0Southern Charm<\/em>\u00a0feel.\u201d And I think she was right.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s fun and flirty. Sometimes people go their own ways. We were all together on Halloween at By The Way, me and Austen\u2019s bar. The drama did not stop when the cameras went down. This is a very organic thing. It\u2019s going to be funny to see everyone at BravoCon. That\u2019s what\u2019s kind of old-school about it. We can\u2019t quit the drama for some reason this year. It\u2019s fun. This is the first time that you\u2019ll see me really exploring new relationships and stuff. You\u2019ll get to see some new sides of me that you\u2019ve never seen before. You get to see Austen going through changes in his life and Shep trying to figure out what\u2019s next for him. I\u2019m glad we were able to capture the months that we did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Southern Charm\u00a0<\/em>Season 11 premieres Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 9 p.m. ET\/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on\u00a0Peacock.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year,\u00a0Todd Chrisley<\/strong>\u00a0received a pardon from the President. However,\u00a0Patricia Altschul<\/strong>\u00a0is a tougher sell. Unlike POTUS, this\u00a0Southern Charm\u00a0star refuses to absolve Todd of his verbal crimes. Instead, this queen honey bee is standing ten wealthy toes down, adamant that Charleston is not a place for a \u201cfelon\u201d like Todd.<\/p>\n

Todd and Patricia are the reality feud I never saw coming.\u00a0Their tiny tit for tat\u00a0started after Todd\u2019s release from prison. \u201cDuring the [post-prison] press conference, I had stated that we are doing a hotel and it\u2019s going to be near Charleston, South Carolina,\u201d Todd explained. In response, Patricia said, \u201cWell, there goes the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, Todd did not like that. So, he made several jests about Patricia, which mainly focused on her older age and her finances. Overall, it was gross.<\/p>\n

So, recently clapping back via\u00a0Decider, Pat quipped, \u201cHe\u2019s very irrelevant. I said four words\u2014there goes the neighborhood \u2014 and he went on, and he did a whole program about me. It was just a comment in passing.\u201d Nevertheless, Patricia stands by her original stance, saying, \u201cWe just don\u2019t need any more\u00a0felons in Charleston.\u201d<\/p>\n

Todd and his wife,\u00a0Julie Chrisley, were indicted on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States back in 2019. They swore they were innocent. Yet, they were still found guilty. In all,\u00a0The Chrisleys: Back to Reality\u00a0stars received a combined 19 years in federal prison, but thanks to their pardons, they walked out of their prison cells for good in May of this year.<\/p>\n

And now, Ms. Pat wants them to heed her words and not walk toward\u00a0her in Charleston.<\/p>\n

Southern Charm Season 11 premieres on November 19, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET\/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock, or Hayu in Canada, the UK, and Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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