Craig Conover Froze His Sperm Months Before Paige DeSorbo Breakup, Which She Called the 'Craziest Thing in the World'

Craig Conover took steps toward starting a family with Paige DeSorbo a few months before their breakup.

In the episode of January 2 Southern charmCraig, 35, told friends Austen Kroll and Shep Rose that because he and Paige, 32, were planning to wait three to four years to have children, they decided to freeze his sperm – and he went to a sperm bank the day before to make sure for that.

“I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that becoming a dad is like, probably like, whatever it’s called when it has to happen in my future,” Craig Austen, 37, and Shep, 45, explained.

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In the flashback, Craig told Paige about his thought of freezing his sperm, to which she replied, “What the hell? It’s the craziest thing in the world.”

“The version of life that I saw myself living is not what I live, which is like this stable home that I grew up in,” Craig explains in an on-camera interview. “My mom and dad and my brother were at dinner every night. And I just loved it. But I think if you find the right person, and she’s a lively Italian from New York, things won’t always go as planned.”

‘Southern Charm’ stars Craig Conover (left) and Austen Kroll on ‘Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen’. Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Austen asked Craig if he came up with the deadline for starting a family or if Paige did.

“It did, and then it made sense to me,” Craig said. “Without any influence from Paige, yeah, I’d be, like, okay, you date for a while, then you get married, then you have kids. We’ll do it one day, but why don’t we just try to make as much money as possible now?”

Craig assured Austen that he definitely wanted to be a dad one day and that it didn’t have to happen right then and there.

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Still, “I’m not really convinced that Craig wants exactly what Paige wants,” Austen said on camera.

On December 30, Paige revealed on her Giggly Squad podcast that she and Craig “decided not to be together anymore” after three years together, though she didn’t give an exact reason for the split.

Later in the Jan. 2 episode, Craig FaceTimed Paige to talk about his plans to renovate the front room above the garage of his house. He expressed interest in turning it into a “multifunctional room where I can work.”

“Don’t worry about me, do whatever you want in that room,” Paige told Craig.

Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover at BravoCon 2023 in Las Vegas on November 4, 2023.

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Craig said he wanted to make room to use his Circuit and embroidery machines and asked Paige if she would like to dedicate a corner of the room to something of her choosing, such as a gift wrapping area.

“What the hell? No,” the Summer house the star said in response to the idea.

At the end of the episode, Craig talked to Austen about not being invited to Patricia Altschul’s 83rd birthday party.

“It was like a combination of thinking you were out of town and, ‘I haven’t, you know, talked to Craig much,'” the Trop Hop beer founder said.

Craig didn’t expect to hear that. “I didn’t know this s— was going on,” Austen said. “I thought we were good.”

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Austen said he missed his friend and that when the Sewing Down South founder tried to organize a weekly time together to play golf, he shut it down in favor of gardening.

“That’s fun for me now: making money, getting healthy and fucking my girlfriend. Like, that’s what I want to do,” said Craig Austen, citing gardening as a work commitment for his brand’s upcoming gardening line. “If you’re a real friend, you’d be happy for something like that.”

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Austen replied, “I was so worried you would take it that way.”

Southern charm airs Thursdays at 8:00 PM ET on Bravo.

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