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Venita Aspen is not too happy with her Southern Charm co-star Craig Conover amid the fallout from his breakup with Summer House’s Paige DeSorbo.
Conover and DeSorbo recently ended their romantic relationship, and the fallout from that breakup is creating tension among the cast of Bravo shows.
Aspen recently revealed that she had contacted DeSorbo after news of her breakup with Conover to see how she was doing. When Conover was a guest on Watch What Happens Live, a viewer asked him how he felt about Aspen being “Team Paige,” to which he said he would not associate himself with her.
The Southern Charm star was doing a live stream on Instagram with her co-stars and was shocked with Conover’s response as this was the first time she had heard from him about the situation.
“I’m quite disappointed,” Aspen told Deadline about Conover’s response. “I don’t operate like that from a friendship level, even if it’s a new friend, an old friend, or a friend that I’ve had back and forth with. I think that I would have preferred him to be the quarterback that he is and lead his teammates in whatever direction he wanted us to go to versus deeming people who go against whatever he wants unworthy of friendship. We don’t talk, so what was I supposed to do?”
She continued, “It doesn’t take much to say, ‘Hey, I know we’re doing a job, but I really appreciate it if you got asked about our relationship, you didn’t talk about it.’ I would have said, ‘I completely understand.'”
Following the fallout, Aspen doesn’t think there’s a path forward with Conover, unless he initiates a conversation.
“I think it would have to come from him, because I’ve never been one to shut him out or say I’m not interested in being friends with him based off of things he said about me in the past,” she explained. “I just kind of let it roll. I deal with the person that’s in front of me. If he would want to take the time to schedule something to talk to me, or pick up the phone, or send a text message, like most people do, I would highly appreciate it, but I’m not going to be the one to make the first move on that. He’s already declared what he wants. So who might go against that, right?”
Aspen revealed that DeSorbo reached out to her after she saw Conover’s comments on Bravo’s late-night talk show and expressing her solidarity.
“She was quite disappointed in what she saw, and she reached out to me to check in [and] to make sure I was doing okay, which is really nice,” Aspen said.
Summer House airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET and Southern Charm airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
