Get ready, ‘Southern Charm’ fans — the cast is here to answer your juiciest questions! Join Leva Bonaparte, Austen Kroll, Madison LeCroy, Taylor Ann Green, Shep Rose, Venita Aspen, and Craig Conover as they dive into fan mail and spill the tea on all things Southern Charm.
From debating who’s the biggest beta this season, to revealing which cast member they’d date (with some unexpected answers), no topic is off-limits. Madison dishes on her marriage, Craig opens up about his relationship with Paige (before their breakup), and yes — they even tackle the age-old question: Are pandas real?
Plus, the cast shares who they’d love to see return to the show, and we find out if Craig is really the hottest man on Bravo. Don’t miss all the laughs, drama, and surprising reveals in this can't-miss Q&A!
From debating who’s the biggest beta this season, to revealing which cast member they’d date (with some unexpected answers), no topic is off-limits. Madison dishes on her marriage, Craig opens up about his relationship with Paige (before their breakup), and yes — they even tackle the age-old question: Are pandas real?
Plus, the cast shares who they’d love to see return to the show, and we find out if Craig is really the hottest man on Bravo. Don’t miss all the laughs, drama, and surprising reveals in this can't-miss Q&A!
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00:00Craig might be, oh wow, the hottest man on Bravo.
00:03Um, well that's very nice of you.
00:05That puts the target on your back.
00:06You do that and then everyone's like,
00:07you're not even that good looking.
00:08And you're like, I didn't even say I was.
00:10Hey InStyle!
00:11What's up InStyle?
00:12I am Craig Conover.
00:13It's Shep.
00:14This is Madison.
00:15I'm Austin.
00:16It's Lova.
00:16My name is Vanita Aspen.
00:17I am Taylor from Southern Charm
00:18and I'm going to read some fan mail.
00:20I'm nervous.
00:21See what this one's all about.
00:22They better be fans.
00:23Hopefully these are all good.
00:24I will be skipping the ones I don't like.
00:30If you had to date another cast member,
00:32why are you guys doing this to me?
00:34Not including someone you've already dated slash are dating.
00:39I would date Whitney.
00:40A little charcuterie?
00:41Mom always taught me to be a good host.
00:43She'll always have hors d'oeuvres,
00:45cocktails on hand when guests first arrive.
00:47Whitney and I would travel around
00:49and Whitney could sleep around on me if he wanted to.
00:51Uh, probably Patricia.
00:53Okay.
00:54The one limitation, no alcohol, no sex
00:56for an hour after acupuncture.
00:58Well, take them out.
01:01Of course Madison said that she would date Miss Pat.
01:03That tracks.
01:04It makes me even happier that I said Whitney.
01:08I probably would date Lova.
01:10She's safe.
01:11She's very motherly.
01:12She'll take care of you.
01:13She'll feed you.
01:14She'll coddle you and read you stories at night.
01:17I guess maybe if like I wasn't married
01:19since like love is love these days,
01:20maybe I'd like go after Naomi.
01:22Like maybe I'd swim in a new pond.
01:24She's hot.
01:25She's great feet.
01:26She always says I'm obsessed with her feet.
01:27I'm not, she has nice feet.
01:29I mean, I'm not a foot person.
01:30That got weird, didn't it?
01:31I think I let Chelsea slip through my fingers.
01:34I mean, I know Shep well enough to know
01:36he's kind of trying to make Austin seem like the bad guy.
01:40A lot of girls, whatever.
01:41I just, I don't get any pleasure from that.
01:45Although I told her I read Indians in the Cupboard
01:47when I was a kid and she'd never heard of it.
01:50Which is the precursor to Toy Story,
01:52by the way, everybody.
01:53You know, my head keeps going to Shep.
01:54So Shep.
01:55If I had to date someone else, it'd be Shep.
01:57She's forgiven all my transgressions over the years.
01:59I love it.
02:00Yeah, Shep was a wild boy at ProvoCon.
02:02Partying and drinking, doing all, you know what?
02:03I'm describing this and I just said I would date him
02:05and I think I might need to change my answer.
02:06My mom probably wouldn't be happy after I just said
02:08that he was partying, drinking, doing too much.
02:10And then I'm like, oh yeah, I would love to date him.
02:12I'm changing my answer to Craig.
02:13My mom would accept Craig.
02:15Okay, this is a long one.
02:17Paige has caused Craig to change 100%.
02:20It's called a soulmate relationship support.
02:23Growing up, finding yourself, et cetera, and that's okay.
02:27Paige has been so much of a partner to Craig.
02:29Honestly, one that he's always needed
02:31and one that most wished they had.
02:33She supports him, doesn't baby him, lets him do his thing.
02:36She's fun, gorgeous, holds her own,
02:39gives it to him straight, makes her own money.
02:40But most of all, she loves that man for who he is.
02:43You know, I try to remind people
02:44that we're just trying to figure stuff out still too.
02:47Sometimes on TV, you lose all of the connective tissue
02:51and then it's been three years of work
02:54and understanding each other.
02:54We're very different people, but we're very supportive.
02:56And she has brought out a version of myself
02:58that I've always dreamed of being.
03:01So it's been great.
03:02I've seen every episode of Southern Charm,
03:04but I would still date Shep Rose.
03:06Who was this?
03:07It's NYC hot dog girl.
03:10I love her already.
03:11I will date you.
03:12Hot dogs, yes please.
03:14We'll go out to Coney Island.
03:15She's on X.
03:17I got off X.
03:18Hot dog girl.
03:19DM me on Instagram.
03:21Imagine a season of Southern Charm
03:23where everyone is a Muppet but Madison.
03:26What?
03:27What?
03:28I think we're already doing that, girl.
03:30I don't even know how to feel about that.
03:32Kermit, I feel like kind of has to be Austin.
03:35I'm Fozzie Bear.
03:36You can't really say that anyone's Miss Piggy.
03:38I don't want to say anyone can be Miss Piggy
03:39because I feel like that's mean.
03:40I mean, it's really rude to call someone Miss Piggy,
03:44but I mean, Madison would be Miss Piggy.
03:46I feel like I would be Miss Piggy, duh.
03:48Like we kind of look alike.
03:49If I was a Muppet, that'd be me.
03:50I would like to be Elmo.
03:52Austin would be Cooking Monster.
03:54Shep would be Big Bird.
03:56Those are Sesame Street.
03:57Well, what's a Muppet?
03:58Oscar the Grouch?
03:59Madison could be Snuffleupagus.
04:02I don't know the Muppets, forget it.
04:03Austin and JT could be the two grumpy old men.
04:07What would we do without the internet?
04:09Huh.
04:10Well, that kind of makes sense.
04:16Really?
04:17Come on.
04:18Taylor is still obsessed with Shep.
04:20Honey is the other way around.
04:21Taylor is still obsessed with Shep, oh my God.
04:24I'm here to tell you she is not obsessed.
04:27He is obsessed with me.
04:29It's upsetting to me, but it's okay.
04:32It's life.
04:33It seems to be that he's having a hard time
04:36letting things go, or letting me go, I should say.
04:39She went through a lot.
04:40I mean, our breakup, the Olivia Austin thing,
04:46very public things, and then her brother, tragically,
04:50who was a good guy and a good friend.
04:52You can't blame her at all for being emotionally mixed up.
04:57I wish we had a friendship.
04:59Maybe we will one day, but man, we do not.
05:04I do feel like Santa opening all of these letters.
05:07Now we all know Craig was 1,000% right.
05:11Pandas are not real.
05:12See, Holly gets it.
05:13Some people say that they are a cash grab,
05:16that they were invented by the Chinese government
05:18for other countries to donate money
05:20and rent them for their zoos.
05:22I don't necessarily believe that.
05:23But no, I did just give out a nice stuffed panda bear
05:26to a girl at an army base, Fort Campbell.
05:29The panda wrote her a letter, and it said,
05:31I'm Panda Boo.
05:32I hear your parents are in the service,
05:34and you must be really proud too.
05:36And so I finally had to admit that pandas,
05:38at least Panda Boo, was real.
05:40Fans will never forget when you called Austin a beta.
05:42Who is the biggest beta this season?
05:44He's no longer with us, but his name's JT,
05:48and he's definitely getting the award for the beta.
05:51Other people in our friend group alluded
05:53that I, at the driving range,
05:54referred to the lovely Miss Pat as the B-word.
05:58When I said that we were gonna get rid of JT,
06:00I really didn't mean I was gonna get rid of him,
06:01but he, I think, couldn't take the heat.
06:04So we got him out of the kitchen, if you know what I mean.
06:07Bro, I hope Vanita doesn't entertain that JT guy.
06:12He was obsessed with Taylor last year,
06:13and I find him annoying.
06:15You know, I too find him annoying now,
06:18and, you know, it's sad days.
06:21I still think it's hilarious how hard JT tried
06:23to hit on Taylor last season on Southern Charm,
06:26and she just wanted no part of it, lol.
06:28He's pretty much confessed his love to everyone
06:30at this point, whether it's me, Craig, and Vanita.
06:33I just don't really take it too personally.
06:35He's never hit on me.
06:36Yeah, he's a little pervert.
06:39The moment with Vanita and JT kinda took me by surprise
06:42because I thought that he was dating someone.
06:45Everyone thought that he was dating someone,
06:48and then he's confessing his love to Vanita, so.
06:50It started off really, really well,
06:52and, you know, currently there is a little bit of a rift.
06:56That kinda started right after we did
06:58Watch What Happens Live, I guess it was last November.
07:01And we kinda, like, were conjoined at the hip after that.
07:03Like, he put up this really beautiful Instagram post,
07:05like, saying that he was so grateful for our friendship,
07:08but now that's over, so, you know, on to the next.
07:11JT actually texted me this morning
07:12and said, thank you for supporting me.
07:14And he's like, you know, it's been an up and down year,
07:16and I said, look, I understand,
07:18but don't let the show affect you negatively.
07:22It's hard, I know it seems like the weight,
07:24I wrote this, the weight of the world is on you,
07:26and especially when it airs and you have a bad episode.
07:31But it's really only important
07:32to a very silly, small group of people.
07:36Where's my haters at?
07:37I know they're in here.
07:38Is Madison already bored with her marriage?
07:41Do I look effing bored to you?
07:44I'm not bored, I promise you, honey.
07:45Austin and I, we were better off friends,
07:47we should've just been friends from the very beginning.
07:50Everyone serves a purpose, it was a lesson learned to me.
07:54And I just realized what I wanted with my life,
07:57and I found it.
07:59He's got a great girlfriend who I actually really like.
08:02Yeah, I have a girlfriend.
08:03Which is so weird to say,
08:05I feel like I haven't been able to say that
08:06with confidence in such a long time.
08:09I think it's hard for Shep and Austin to reconcile
08:11that Craig is pushing 40 and left Jagerbombs in his 20s.
08:14He just stopped partying last year, I digress.
08:18I also don't think Craig is an angel,
08:20he's a little self-involved, I didn't say it,
08:23but at least he's trying.
08:24I support Craig and his changes
08:26and his journey and what have you.
08:28I do think that Shep cares about me
08:30and wants what's best for me,
08:32but it does feel sometimes that he wants me to do well,
08:35but not better than him.
08:36For years, it was I went out too much
08:39and didn't work enough,
08:40and now it's I work too much and I don't go out enough.
08:42I know that Shep and Austin are mourning their bar buddy,
08:46but I'm giving that part of me up for so much more.
08:50The tables turned a little bit,
08:51and he has like the, I don't know,
08:53high ground, if you want to say.
08:55So at BravoCon, I hadn't drank in months,
08:57and he tried to convince a network exec
08:59that I was hammered and causing problems
09:02and was actually this close to getting me sent home
09:05from BravoCon.
09:06I'm maturing at a glacial pace, but I am maturing.
09:10I just hope that he achieves a better version of himself,
09:14because I know he has it in him.
09:16You're like the Lisa Vanderpump of the South.
09:18I love it, lover.
09:19Thank you, Noah.
09:21That's such a compliment.
09:21That's so sweet.
09:22I said that first thing when they gave me the show.
09:24I was like, yo, guys, I don't know if I misled you.
09:26I don't have little ponies in my yard and a swing,
09:29and I don't have swans as you enter.
09:31In fact, if I were to have anything,
09:33I would have a moat with gators in it.
09:36I'm real, so I'm like, there's a gator.
09:38Act correct when you enter my home.
09:40Love him or hate him, Shep is honest and owns his mistakes.
09:44I wish nothing but the best.
09:45I take very much pride in being honest and vulnerable,
09:49especially these days.
09:51Maybe not in the, ah, I was a terror
09:53in season four, five, and six.
09:55If we were all docile and well-mannered,
10:00we wouldn't have a TV show.
10:02Love the current cast so much,
10:04but what former cast member?
10:05Who is no longer on the show.
10:07Would you like to see come back?
10:08Probably Naomi, I would say.
10:10I like to do things like normal people ahead of time.
10:13Easy, Cameron.
10:14Every time you bend over, I have to see your ass crack.
10:16I don't have a butt.
10:17Crack is whack.
10:18God knows when the last time he has washed it
10:20or where it has been.
10:21Obviously, Cameron is fantastic,
10:24but Thomas brought the insanity to a level
10:27that all the rest of us didn't have to worry about it.
10:30Thomas, stop!
10:32Thomas, seriously!
10:33Thomas, stop!
10:35I'm not letting you leave me!
10:36Oh my God, Thomas!
10:38Stop!
10:39Listen to you, we haven't been yelling
10:41like a two-year-old?
10:42I would love to see Catherine come back.
10:43It's really neat to follow everyone's,
10:45like, the evolution of their lives,
10:47so hopefully one day we can catch up with Catherine
10:49and see where she's at in life.
10:52Chelsea and I had a bond during season four
10:58because we both came in late.
11:00Did you get a cut or what?
11:01I did get a haircut.
11:02Looks good.
11:03You got your chest hair out tonight, too.
11:05That's right.
11:05You look good.
11:06She made the whole process so much easier for me,
11:09and I hope that she would say the same about me.
11:11You know, I would love to see Olivia come back.
11:14He does literally not know how to do that.
11:17Like, he doesn't know how to apologize
11:19and, like, take ownership to anything.
11:21That is a relationship that, like,
11:22we worked really hard on once the cameras
11:24went down to perfect, and we started off rocky,
11:27so I'm really sad that she's not back with us.
11:30I love all the former cast members.
11:33Oh, this is thick.
11:36Every time they're thick, they're about JT.
11:37Oh, where's little Craig?
11:39Oh, yeah, Shep, where is little Craig?
11:41I feel like we didn't get to see him a lot this season.
11:44I think there was, there's a moment,
11:45and I don't know if you guys will get to see it or not,
11:48but Shep and I walked the battery with our dogs,
11:51and Charles had a diaper on because his anal gland exploded,
11:55and that was the last time I saw little Craig.
11:58Baby Craig is doing well.
12:00I think, again, I don't keep up with Shep,
12:01so I don't keep up with anything
12:04that's going on in his life,
12:05but that little dog will always
12:06have a little piece of my heart.
12:08Now this is good.
12:09Okay, the way the guys can't stand Madison
12:12because they can't control her is everything.
12:15We love you, Madison.
12:18Love that, and you are so right.
12:20They can't stand it, and they never will.
12:22I have to say, I like Lava a lot more
12:24when she's on Southern Hospitality.
12:26She seems much more in her element
12:28than she does on Southern Charm.
12:30Thank you, I guess.
12:31On Southern Hospitality, everyone works for me,
12:33so I'm just like, it's easy peasy lemon squeezy.
12:35You know what I mean?
12:36I'm just like, don't do that, do this.
12:38I lose my shit at Republic, you know?
12:40Guys, I don't know.
12:41I feel like I might get another little man question,
12:43and I don't know how I'm feeling about that.
12:45How kind.
12:46Vanita is so incredibly beautiful.
12:48I hope Bravo gives her some more camera time.
12:50I need to see all her outfits.
12:51Thank you very much.
12:52I really appreciate it.
12:54You know, this year I tried to bring
12:57a little more relatability to my fashion.
13:00I feel like sometimes I'm always doing a lot,
13:01but I was like, I want people to feel
13:02like they can do what I do,
13:03so I feel like I kind of went
13:05with a little more approachable look and feel this year,
13:08which I'm excited to show everyone.
13:10I don't work with a stylist.
13:12Yeah, so I do everything myself.
13:13I typically shop my closet.
13:15I try really hard not to buy things brand new too often,
13:18just because we do so much,
13:19and I'm like, okay, how can I just rework something
13:22versus buying something new?
13:23Craig has grown up and Austin and Shep are jealous.
13:27I'm here for a good Craig victory lap on those two.
13:29I am jealous of nobody on this entire planet.
13:32I've had it so good.
13:34I did Ayahuasca.
13:36I broke down in tears.
13:38I had this like vision
13:39of all these beautiful moments growing up,
13:41my mom making me and my friends pancakes,
13:43my sister getting picked up for prom
13:45and my brother and I hiding behind the window.
13:48I had this montage with my head
13:49and I just started just pouring tears
13:52because how lucky and how much love
13:54and how much support I've had.
13:57While I was at the retreat,
13:59there was some major trauma there, major trauma.
14:02Everyone who's walking around right now
14:04is going through something
14:05and that's a big lesson to learn and to embrace.
14:08Empathy, empathy, empathy, and gratitude.
14:10I can't imagine being anyone else, honestly.
14:13Let's see what this is.
14:14Craig might be, oh wow, the hottest man on Bravo.
14:18Well, that's very nice of you.
14:20That's all new to me, so I still don't know how to,
14:22I guess just take the compliment, Craig, say thank you.
14:25Thank you, Hot Mess Jess.
14:26I'm gonna get brownie points
14:28and say Paige is my biggest competition
14:30for attractive person.
14:32No, I don't wanna be in that.
14:34That just draws target.
14:35That puts the target on your back.
14:37You do that and then everyone's like,
14:38you're not even that good looking
14:39and you're like, I didn't say I was.
14:41Final one.
14:42Ladies and gents, whose penmanship is that?
14:44It's quite good.
14:45Not yours?
14:46Sienna is very pretty and tall.
14:49Her and Sheppie look good together.
14:51She was.
14:52She was all that and more.
14:53Very interesting gal and smart.
14:56It was just a lovely thing.
14:59She's, yeah, she's a good one.
15:01Thanks so much, everyone, for all of the fan mail.
15:04That was really fun.
15:06No, that was actually really fun.
15:08You know, they were all right.
15:08There were a couple dicey ones in there.
15:10They were super cute, a little messy.
15:12I'm so thankful that you guys enjoyed me
15:14as much as I enjoy you.
15:16I had so much fun and enjoyed reading
15:18what you guys had to say.
15:19Thank you in style as well.
15:20I'll be back any time to check my mail.
15:23Until then, everyone, keep being awesome.
15:25Watch Southern Charm.
15:25Check out Southern Charm streaming on Peacock.