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Austen Kroll and Audrey Pratt are going their separate ways.
Kroll, 38, confirmed to PEOPLE at BravoCon 2025 that he is single just shy of the two-year anniversary of his relationship with Pratt.
The Southern Charm star told E! News that his relationship with Pratt was a “casualty” of the upcoming season of the Bravo series.
“Coming into this year, I’ve been dating a girl — when the season starts — for a year and change, and I’m in it. And then it starts to beg the question, ‘Really, what is the next step?'” he told the outlet.
“So, I just have to talk out this with family and friends,” he continued. “You have to hear the outside noise from friends, which is what makes it hardest on a TV show because unwanted opinions and things start to seep in. But, the relationship was a casualty this year.”
When asked how the single life is treating him, he said it’s “not bad.” Adding, “Look, I go through these ups and downs of sometimes I miss the hell out of being in a relationship. It’s really nice to have someone there for you all the time. You could call and lean on and rely on. Single me, sometimes I’m like, ‘I don’t like this life,’ but [it’s a] grass is greener sort of situation.”
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Kroll met Pratt in December 2023 when he was at a restaurant in Charlotte, N.C., where she lives. He previously explained that he ran into her friend in the bathroom, who told him to go talk to Pratt.
“I was like, ‘No, it’s awkward now because you’re telling me to,'” he recalled to The Daily Dish in 2024. “Anyways, long story short, I took her to a baseball game in Charlotte and that is how we met.”
Kroll later revealed that he was the one to open up a conversation about defining the relationship, which came as a shock to many fans who watched him go through years of ups and downs in his dating life on the show. He added that “long talks” with his therapist helped him realize that “commitment is exactly what I was ready for upon meeting the right person.”
“I met the right person and couldn’t ignore it, to be honest,” he told E! News in 2024.
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The pair made their relationship Instagram official in May 2024, and she made her debut on the Southern Charm season 10 premiere episode later that year.
“Audrey’s about as ‘go-with-the-flow’ as it gets,” Kroll said in a confessional on the Bravo series. “I really think it comes from me being an open and transparent person to her. Shocker that that’s what it takes to make a relationship work, but it’s been, like, revelatory.”
He told E! News that he made sure to consult Pratt about bringing her into his reality TV world, and she was open to filming.
“I was like, ‘Is this something that you wanna do? I mean, I totally understand if you’re like, this world is not for me,'” he shared with the outlet. “And she was like, ‘It’s important to you, so I’d be willing to dip in my toes and do things with you.'”
“I just wanted her to feel as comfortable as possible,” he noted.
Cameras went on to capture pivotal moments in their relationship, including when Pratt met Kroll’s parents for the first time.
“A big word that I’ve been working on with my therapist is ‘intentionality,’ or the act of being ‘[intentional],'” the Pillows & Beer podcast co-host said in a confessional.
He continued, “And I have intentionally waited four months to bring home Audrey because I don’t want to do this to my parents — introduce them to a girl that I might not be that serious about and then they’re like, ‘Aw, I liked her.'”
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Pratt also got the stamp of approval from Kroll’s castmate and close friend Shep Rose, who commended him for taking the relationship seriously.
“He’s very committed to Audrey, and it’s fun to watch,” Rose said during a December 2024 appearance on Watch What Happens Live. “I think she’s fantastic. She’s very chill, very reserved.”
BravoCon 2025 continues through Sunday, Nov. 16 at Las Vegas’ Caesars Forum.
