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Season 11 of Southern Charm will continue to see Craig Conover and Austen Kroll navigating their broken friendship.
Ahead of the highly-anticipated premiere on Wednesday, Nov. 19, several of the Charleston, S.C.-based guys spent a night with PEOPLE at Caesars Palace Las Vegas during BravoCon to tease what fans can expect.
“This season, I think I skate by okay,” Shep Rose, 45, laughs, noting that “last season was tougher for me” as he broke up with ex Sienna Evans. “There was a lot of conflict elsewhere.”
“My jaw’s on the ground a couple times because I can’t believe what’s coming out of certain friends of mine’s mouths about each other,” he continues. “And that’s real, deep-seated things. It’s spicy.”
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Last year, fans saw Kroll, 38, and Conover, 36. go through several ups and downs when the latter accused the former of not supporting him through his breakup from Paige DeSorbo and navigating his addiction.
“You can’t give Craig or Austin advice, that’s the whole thing,” Rose explains. “They’re not the best at taking it. And by the way, they’re not wrong either, because Lord knows I need all the advice too, and we all know each other’s faults, deep-seated things. So it’s hard. You almost need a third party, like couples therapy.”
While there is a lot they still need to work out, one thing both Kroll and Conover can agree on is that cameras for season 11 picked up in the midst of “real situations happening in real time with real friendships.”
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“I think it’s pretty relatable,” Kroll notes. “People who might be dating someone that they’re maybe unsure of, or, for me at least, are dealing with friendships where it’s like, at a certain point you start to question [it]. I think everyone has had a friendship where it starts to deteriorate maybe, and you hold onto it and then you’re like, ‘How far am I going to take this friendship? And how much am I going to hang onto it before I maybe say, ‘Hey, this thing is detrimental to myself?’ ”
If he had to sum up the status of him and the Sewing Down South founder, Kroll says: “That’s it in a nutshell. At what point do you say, ‘All right, maybe we’re just not the same people that we used to be and maybe we need to let each other grow separately?’ ”
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Conover also dishes on a complicated love dynamic, which the trailer teases will involve him, the TropHop Beers owner, Salley Carson, and newbies Charley Manley and Whit Slagsvol.
“I don’t know what the shape’s called — it’s definitely not a triangle,” Conover jokes. “There are definitely more sides. Actually, more than a square. It’s like when Charlie from Always Sunny is trying to put together the map, that meme. That’s what it’s like.”
“That’s just Charleston for you,” he continues. “It’s such a hard place to date in a way that it feels like you’re in college no matter how old you are. So basically, I’m in my thirties and this season feels like, I was like, ‘I’ve already done this before. What am I doing? I’ve already done exactly what I’m doing and what I’ve now gotten involved with.’ It felt like I was in college again. So you’ll get to see me navigate, or start to navigate, a single life.”
Southern Charm season 11 premieres on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
