The Summer House Season 9 finale showed the aftermath of Paige DeSorbo's split from Craig Conover and how her dad really felt about it.
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The Summer House Season 9 finale showed the cameras picking back up in January 2025 for a girls' afternoon at Lindsay Hubbard's, where Amanda Batula and Paige DeSorbo first met her daughter Gemma. But the real reason for the get-together was obvious: Paige's split from Southern Charm cast member Craig Conover had gone public, and the podcaster was ready to talk about it.
As Paige navigated headlines and a newly strained relationship with her ex-boyfriend of three years, perhaps the most insightful comment came from not another Bravoleb who knows about life in the spotlight, but her father Gary DeSorbo.
Paige revealed the remark after admitting she felt "great."
"Honestly, I feel bad that I feel good," she said before explaining that she knew she made "the right decision" after a phone call with her dad "literally two days later."
"My dad called me and he was like, 'I just want to let you know I feel like your personality is back,'" Paige recalled, adding that her father apparently hadn't realized "how different" she had been lately.
Basically, her dad revealed that not only does Paige sound "so happy" when they talk, but "I feel like I have my daughter back a little."
Amanda and Lindsay agreed that their housemate had seemed "different" over the summer, but wanted her to be able to express her feelings to them on her own terms.
The new details Paige DeSorbo revealed about her split from Craig on the Summer House finale
Per Paige, when the Sewing Down South founder came to visit her in the fall, his questions sparked a series of realizations for her — mainly the realization that they weren't in the same place when it came to their relationship.
For example, when Craig apparently asked her if she ever pictured their future life together, like "hosting the holidays" as a family, she said yes — and then it hit her that she actually didn't.
"I said 'That's not fair to you,'" Paige recapped for her friends on the finale.
She also remembered saying to Craig that "You deserve to have the love of your life, and I feel like I do too, and I can't, like, pretend that we don't have these issues."
If that weren't enough, Craig's mention that he'd purchased an engagement ring for her during their next conversation sealed the deal. "Right when he says that to me, in my head I'm like, This is why we're breaking up," she said, "Because I don't know if you're lying right now."
When did Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover really break up?
The couple of three years initially called it quits in November 2024, with it becoming official about "two weeks later," around mid-December 2024.
After a few weeks to process the news privately with their closest friends, Paige went public with the breakup on an episode of Giggly Squad.
Is Paige DeSorbo dating anyone now?
No, Paige is not in a relationship as of May 2025. However, she's looking forward to this new chapter of her life. “I’m excited," Paige revealed to Us Weekly, "I haven’t been single for a summer in a while, but I’m also excited, too, because I’ve never been single in my 30s.”
Here's what Paige herself had to say about Craig months before the breakup.
