'Southern Charm's Craig Conover on 'Bizarre' Naomie-Whitney Hookup and His Drama With the Guys (Exclusive)

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Craig Conover admits he had no right to be upset by the news his ex, Naomie Olindo, and buddy, Whitney Sudler-Smith, hooked up.

However, he still finds it «weird.»«I was very surprised by each of them,» the  star confesses to ET. «I just didn't see Naomie, this person that dated me — it was a while ago, but still — ever being with Whitney in that way, because whenever we were together, she had an opinion about Whitney.

And there's significant age gap. It's just bizarre.» (For the record, Naomie just turned 30 and Whitney is 54.) «Basically, I felt like I was in the circus, or the house of horrors, where I was just like, things can't get more crazy than this,» he recalls of getting confirmation of the pair's make-out session while the cast was on a group trip to Auldbrass, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed property in South Carolina. «Confirmation» is a key word here, though; Craig says Austen Kroll's big reveal about Naomie and Whitney wasn't that big at all, because whispers about the two were already going around Charleston.«There had been rumors around town, obviously, because Charleston's not that big,» Craig explains. «So they had been spotted having coffee in the morning, and a couple times near her house.»«When Austen told me, I couldn't stop laughing,» he admits. «And [Whitney and Naomie] basically told me, I needed to get serious about it, and I was excited for everyone.