‘Southern Charm’ stars Craig Conover and Taylor Ann Green.Photo:Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images; Cindy Ord/Bravo via Getty Images
Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images; Cindy Ord/Bravo via Getty Images
Welcome back to Charleston, whereAusten Kroll’shookupwithShep Rose’s exTaylor Ann Greenhas blown theSouthern Charmstars’ friend group wide open.
But before that, Taylor was gushing about the joys of being single to Austen’s exOlivia Flowers.
“The breakups with Shep and Austen kind of brought Taylor and I closer,” Olivia said in a confessional interview. “They’re pretty much glued to the hip at this point. Neither one of us have been single in this town before so we’re kind of navigating it together.”
Olivia, 31, and Taylor, 28, literally navigated Charleston as they went rollerblading. “She’s definitely a sister to me,” Taylor told the cameras. “Ride or die.”
Taylor expressed to Olivia that she enjoyed not having to account for someone else anymore. “It’s nice to not have to worry about somebody,” Taylor said. “I feel like I’m still catching my breath after Shep.”
‘Southern Charm’ star Olivia Flowers at BravoCon 2022 in New York City.Bryan Bedder/Bravo via Getty
Bryan Bedder/Bravo via Getty
Olivia recounted that things with Austen took a turn after their time together in New York City.
“When we got back from New York, he just kept telling me to give him a chance to be the guy that I knew and thought he was,” she recalled a confessional interview. “I said, ‘OK,’ and then not even a week later, he told me that his feelings had changed.”
Taylor told Olivia that while she’ll “always cherish the time” she had with Shep, “for it to come spiraling down so quickly was totally a mindf—.”
Taylor said in her own confessional, “I was in love with Shep and I wanted to go full force, no turning back, let’s do it. Let’s get married, let’s have a family, let’s do all these things. And after Shep and I broke up, I still really wanted to make things work. And he said, ‘I will not change.’”
‘Southern Charm’ stars Shep Rose and Taylor Ann Green.Cindy Ord/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty, Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty
Meanwhile, Shep hoped he and Taylor could be friends after he returned to town from traveling to South Africa and Australia with Austen, 36.
“I loved getting away from Charleston, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say Taylor was on my mind at least a few times a day,” Shep, 43, admitted in a confessional. “I don’t know if time has healed anything for Taylor, but I hope she’s willing to try to patch things up and be friends.”
MADISON’S WEDDING CELEBRATION
Olivia and Taylor would be coming face to face with Austen and Shep atMadison LeCroy’s celebration for herweddingtoBrett Randle. They tied the knot in Mexico with just her son Hudson present. Since then, Brett had been commuting to his firefighter job in California three days a week.
‘Southern Charm’ stars Madison LeCroy and Austen Kroll.Tommy Garcia/Bravo; John Valkos/Bravo
Taylor followed up with her own gift for Madison — a vibrator. “Ya’ll are doing long distance," she explained. “I thought that maybe….”
Madison handled it with grace, telling Taylor, “Thank you, we won’t ever forget it.”
Taylor’s awkward afternoon continued when Shep approached her at the bar. Shep told Taylor she looked great, and they discussed her travels to London and Paris.
Meanwhile, Austen approached Olivia and asked her, “How have you been in the month of December since I haven’t spoke to you?”
Olivia said she’d been “good” and informed Austen that she spent Christmas in Sedona, Arizona.
“You could’ve texted me that, but you chose not to,” Austen replied. “And you instead just decided to thumbs-up me when I said, ‘Hey, hope you’re having a Merry Christmas.’”
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Olivia justified not responding to Austen because “that was the first time you had reached out to me in a very long time.”
Instead of escalating the tension, Olivia asked Austen, “What do you need from me in this moment to enjoy the day?”
“Nothing in this moment,” Austen said.
So Olivia decided, “We can go our separate f—ing ways.”
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Taylor went over to Austen for a hug, but she still felt riled up about her talk with Shep.
“[Shep] cheated on me tenfold,” Taylor said to Austen and Rodrigo Reyes “and I know some of y’all know about it.”
Taylor was twisted up about rumors Shep had hooked up withLeva Bonaparte’s employee Mia Alario, but Austen denied that had ever happened.
Taylor claimedCraig Conover“was laughing about it” and “thought it was hysterical.”
Craig, however, countered that he tried to stop Shep from hooking up with Mia. But Taylor felt disappointed that Craig supposedly never reached out to her after her breakup with Shep.
“Do you realize how s—ty that is?” Taylor asked Craig, 34. “We used to be friends.”
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Craig said that he didn’t reach out to Taylor because he’s friends with Shep.
“He’s a f—ed-up human being,” Taylor asserted.
Craig felt Taylor was “deflecting from the fact that Shep hurt” her, but Taylor felt hurt that Craig “didn’t have my back.”
The back-and-forth escalated into expletive filled-shouting when Craig tried to prove to Taylor that he stopped Shep from cheating with Mia.
“I f—ing threw him through a f—ing wall, alright? So screw you,” Craig said to Taylor. “If it wasn’t for me, he would’ve slept with the f—ing girl, and I should’ve let him. Jesus, stop f—ing yelling at me. I didn’t cheat on you, my friend did. So stop f—ing yelling about s— you don’t know about.”
Trying to put things in perspective for Craig, a teary-eyed Taylor asked the Sewing Down South founder, “What about ifyour girlcheated on you?”
Madison immediately jumped on Taylor for suggesting that, chiding her: “No Taylor! You can’t say that!”
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source: people.com
