Southern Charm’s Craig Conover Denies Drinking While Driving on Screen

Craig Conover supplied extra context to a Southern Charm second the place he gave the impression to be consuming behind the wheel.

The actuality star, 34, uploaded a scene through Instagram on Friday, December 22, which confirmed him and girlfriend Paige DeSorbo driving to Madison LeCroy and husband Brett Randle‘s home. After Craig obtained out of the automotive, he grabbed an open can and drank the unknown beverage.

“You don’t need to bring your own drink in,” Paige, 31, instructed Craig, who requested in response, “Is that weird?”

A Bravo viewer questioned the contents of the can, writing within the feedback part, “They lost me at drinking and driving.” Craig, nevertheless, was fast to make clear that he didn’t have a container of alcohol open on the drive to Madison’s house.

“It’s Budweiser Zero. I always have a cooler packed with some in my car. Not sure why they cut that detail 🙂,” Craig replied about him consuming the nonalcoholic beverage on display.

The offscreen clarification comes after Craig beforehand raised eyebrows for his feedback throughout the episode about his future with Paige. While speaking to Paige about how he didn’t thoughts them taking their time earlier than shifting in collectively or getting engaged, Craig admitted he wouldn’t “freak out” in the event that they broke up.

“It’s not the end of the world if we don’t end up together,” Craig stated, including he is aware of she’s “not ready” to dwell in Charleston full time. “Now, I believe that I’ve become a stable person with or without you. I know that you got me there, but I really feel stable in myself to the point where, like, I could let you go. I would be really sad, but I wouldn’t freak out, if that makes sense.”

Later within the episode, Craig admitted to the cameras that he generally wished he and Paige had been “on the same timeline” when it got here to their future.

“I’m so appreciative that I have someone that I get along with and that I love,” he shared in a confessional. “All that matters is that I’m happy and she’s supportive of me. Technically, until we have children, it doesn’t matter where we live.”

Craig and Paige’s dynamic has performed out on display since they filmed season 1 of Winter House in 2021. The pair casually dated, which viewers noticed on season 6 of Summer House, earlier than making their relationship Instagram official later that 12 months.

Throughout their high-profile romance, Craig and Paige have usually defended not being in a rush with milestone moments. “We actually love long-distance,” she solely instructed Us Weekly in October 2021. “I feel like we’re more present with each other when we are together.”

Craig, in the meantime, pointed to different Bravo {couples} as a motive why he doesn’t thoughts taking issues gradual.

“Honestly, there’s a lot of couples on Bravo and I’m not trying to throw shade. But there’s a lot of couples on Bravo that we are not trying to end up like,” he stated throughout an look on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in September. “We want it to work. Like, sustainable growth. Two years is still not that long. But we are in a really good place.”

Earlier this month, Paige stunned followers when she revealed that she and Craig thought of getting married throughout BravoCon weekend. “I said, ‘Let’s go do it in a chapel,’” she recalled to Elite Daily in regards to the November occasion, which befell in Las Vegas. “Craig chickened out, though.”

Craig added: “I’m not going to get married in Vegas. I want something more real than that.”