Southern Attraction’s Craig Conover, Naomie Olindo’s Relationship Timeline

Sew what! Craig Conover and Naomie Olindo caught followers’ consideration from the second they first appeared as an merchandise on Southern Attraction — and their 2017 cut up saved them within the highlight.

The Charleston College of Regulation alum is an OG star of the Bravo actuality present, making his TV debut throughout season 1 in 2014. Olindo, for her half, joined the collection as Conover’s girlfriend throughout season 3, which aired in spring 2016.

Regardless of shifting in collectively throughout season 4, the duo known as it quits within the fall of 2017 after lower than three years of courting — however that wasn’t the final viewers noticed of the previous Charleston energy couple.

“I believe it was only a fruits of issues that on the finish of it, we have been simply two very totally different people who couldn’t get alongside,” Olindo informed Bravo’s Day by day Dish in April 2018 of the cut up. “It was unhappy as a result of we did care about one another. You noticed, we simply couldn’t get alongside.”

The L’Abeye founder defined that she was solely 22 years outdated when she began seeing Conover. As the 2 started rising up, they not noticed eye to eye on what they needed out of the connection.

“After I was youthful, you simply begin courting somebody as a result of you have got a pair issues in widespread, and also you’re attracted to one another and you’ve got enjoyable collectively,” she mentioned on the time. “You don’t take into consideration the attributes that will make you get together with somebody, their work ethic, and all of the totally different grownup issues that matter that don’t matter if you’re a 22-year-old child.”

The entrepreneur famous that followers ridiculed her for allegedly not championing the Stitching Down South founder when he first took up stitching — however Olindo believed Conover was utilizing crafting as a distraction from pursuing legislation.

“Individuals suppose, ‘Oh, why can’t you assist his stitching?’ It had nothing to do with me not wanting a boyfriend who sews. I don’t care in any respect about that. Hobbies are essential, and I believed it was nice,” Olindo added. “The explanation I had an issue with it was Craig is a procrastinator, and he was utilizing stitching as a method to procrastinate doing issues that he truly wanted to do, you understand, essential issues. … As an alternative of doing one thing that he had a deadline on or no matter, he’d simply sit and stitch all night time, not the precise proven fact that he sewed.”

Conover, for his half, known as his cut up from Olindo “disappointing and unhappy” throughout a March 2018 Day by day Dish interview.

“Naomie and I, we had the most effective of intentions. We have been making an attempt to work it out, however after some time we needed to settle for actuality, and I needed issues have been totally different. I believe we each did,” he defined on the time. “However as a substitute of banging your head towards the wall day-after-day, you actually should look within the mirror and be like, ‘How lengthy are we gonna hold mendacity to ourselves?’ So luckily, nobody did something dangerous. Nobody stepped out or cheated or something, so there wasn’t actually any anger.”

Viewers witnessed the exes sparring on many events all through season 5 after they first parted methods, however the “Pillows and Beer” podcast cohost hoped to fix fences down the road. “There’s no purpose we shouldn’t be associates,” he added. “I nonetheless love the lady to demise. She’s nice.”

The duo’s ups and downs continued on season 6 of Southern Attraction, however exterior of the present, they have been capable of make their manner again to being associates in time. Each Conover and Olindo are set to reunite on display for season 8 of the collection, which is able to premiere in 2022.

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