Craig Conover Says He ‘Might Be Leaving the Country’ as Fans Watch Southern Charm Season 11

The Sewing Down South founder, 36, has appeared on the popular reality series since its debut in 2014, and viewers have watched him go through many phases of his life. While speaking with PEOPLE at BravoCon 2025, Conover says he has mixed emotions about the upcoming season.

“I’m really excited for the fans,” he notes before joking, “I might be leaving the country for a little bit, but man, is this season fun and flirty. I think our OG fans will love it because it will feel a lot like old school Southern Charm where they just got to know us and us figuring out these new chapters in our life. Most of the boys are in brand new chapters we didn’t expect to be in. I think new viewers will love it because they’ll be like, ‘Oh my God, Charleston’s wild.’ ”

“You get to see some boys date a little bit,” he teases of himself, Shep Rose and Austen Kroll. “You get to see girls like the same boys and boys like the same girls.”

Cameras picked up as Conover became single again for the first time in three years after his breakup from ex Paige DeSorbo. At one point, he even says he finds himself in a complicated love dynamic involving several of his castmates.

“I don’t know what the shape’s called — it’s definitely not a triangle,” he laughs. “There are definitely more sides. Actually, more than a square. It’s like when Charlie from Always Sunny is trying to put together the map, that meme. That’s what it’s like. That’s just Charleston for you. It’s such a hard place to date in a way that it feels like you’re in college no matter how old you are. So basically, I’m in my 30s and this season feels like I’ve already done this before. What am I doing?”

Still, he says the public split from DeSorbo, 33, and his dating life being aired on TV doesn’t make him want to start keeping his relationships private.

“I think it’s just part of my life,” he admits. “It’s all I’ve known for — I started filming when I was 24. I’m [almost] 37 now. I like sharing my life with people, and there’s really no animosity towards the show or filming with the breakup.”

He continues: “Now, in a very funny way, I don’t know what I’m going to do. And I think I’ve finally got in a really fun place of not searching and just living life. They say that’s when things find you. Who knows, but this is what you’ll get to see this season. We get to share the good, I’m not going to not share the bad. You get to see it all.”

Conover explains that despite the drama that fans will see — which includes the ongoing rift in his friendship with Kroll — he can appreciate that everything that is captured on the show is real life.

“I think sometimes we get lost with thinking that it can’t be fun and dramatic at the same time,” he says. “It’s the opposite. This season was so fun that we couldn’t stop hanging out whether the cameras were there or not, and therefore when the cameras showed up, they were just picking up on whatever was going on in our life. There is drama that exists right now from Halloween in Charleston.”

“So I think to be able to make a season 11 as incredible as this was, it’s because there was no making the season,” he shares, revealing “a lot” of the conflict is still “unresolved” among the group. “They legitimately just showed up and filmed us, and I was in a place where I was trying to figure out this new chapter that I’m in that I wasn’t planning on, and there’s a lot of fun that comes from it.”