‘Southern Charm’ Recap: Craig Sets ‘Boundaries’ With Ex Naomie After Hookup, Olivia Is ‘Over’ Dramatic Austen Romance

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Seeing eye to eye? Multiple Southern Charm stars faced awkward relationship conversations during this week’s episode, with exes Craig Conover and Naomie Olindo taking the cake.Craig, 33, and Naomie, 29, dated for three years before splitting in 2017.

Following their Las Vegas hookup, which came to light during the season 8 premiere in June, the twosome have been trying to figure out how to be friends.While the Sewing Down South founder has since moved on with Paige DeSorbo, his relationship with Naomie continues to influence his day-to-day in Charleston.

Paige, 29, initially appeared to be OK with Craig hooking up with Naomie in 2021 but has since asked him not to see her one-on-one to which he agreed.During the Thursday, August 4, episode, Craig reluctantly meet up with Naomie to talk about her and Chleb Ravenell’s strange chat about Kathryn Dennis — and things got uncomfortable to say the least.“One of the lessons that I learned after everything happened with me and you, is never air your dirty laundry with other people,” Naomie told Craig after explaining that Chleb, 33, was bashing his then-girlfriend Kathryn, 30, during Olivia Flowers’ oyster roast one week prior.The L’Abeye founder revealed that she has “apologized” for speaking ill of Craig in the past and noted, “I have so many regrets about that.” But her heartfelt remarks were met by crickets on Craig’s end.“Craig is making me really uncomfortable.

He’s, like, jittery,” Naomie said during a confessional interview. “Not making eye contact. He’s literally acting like I’m part of a sting operation.”The Pillow Talk author, for his part, got pissed that Naomie couldn’t just call him with all this information. “Like, why did we have to have coffee [for her] to tell