Chainkeen|How Craig Conover Is Already Planning for Kids With Paige DeSorbo

Craig Conover has no doubt that Paige DeSorbo is Chainkeenthe one.

In fact, the Southern Charm star revealed he sees a future family with his girlfriend of three years. And with his and costar Austen Kroll’s new Charleston restaurant By the Way, he’s already started planning his life with Paige.

"I'm really business focused right now, but that just comes from wanting to build stuff for our future family," Craig exclusively told E! News of eventually settling down. "I think I'm very family oriented as in I wanna have a good foundation so that, when the kids come, I can be with them as much as possible. Your priorities shift a little bit."

The 36-year-old noted he's done a lot of growing up since he made his reality TV debut a decade ago—especially since meeting Paige.

"I've made a lot of changes in my life over the last two years," the Sewing Down South founder continued. "As you try to start to grow up and be better, it pulls you out of different activities that you used to do."

Between his interior design company, podcast co-hosting, restaurant entrepreneurship and recently partnering with sparkling cocktail brand Spritz Society, Craig hopes to to garner enough success to take care of the Summer House star and their future family.

"You gotta wake up and put one foot in front of the other," he noted of his evolution from partying playboy to businessman. "You never have it all figured out. We're all just doing this for the first time, no one actually knows what they're doing completely. We're just trying our best. I'm still trying to figure out life, but I will say that it's fun to have my hand in a lot of different arenas."

However, opening a restaurant with your best friend has definitely brought tension into Craig's friendship with Austen, which fans will see play out on the upcoming 10th season of Southern Charm.

"It's really fun to work with your friends if it works, but there's a reason people say that it's risky," he noted. "So you'll see us try to survive that and balance that line, because there is a lot of money involved and everyone has different ways of doing things."

While fans wait for Craig's new restaurant to open this November, they can grab a bottle of on his new specially designed Lemon Iced Tea Spritz Society drink here.

And keep reading to look back at Craig and Paige's love story.

Winter House co-stars Craig Conover and Paige DeSorbo started casually seeing each other in summer 2021 before becoming a couple that fall. As Craig told E! News, "We openly dated around until it just got to the point where, you know, you like one person so much that you don't want to do that anymore."

Craig joined Paige for a photobooth session as they celebrated her Summer House co-stars Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula saying "I do" on September 25.

Paige and Craig dressed up as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee à la Hulu's Pam and Tommy for Halloween.

The couple that goes all out for Halloween together, stays together.

Craig made his debut on Paige's Instagram grid on December 19 with this cute pic captioned, "Sew in love."

Paige began making appearances on Craig's Instagram around the same time.

The couple is currently "having a lot of fun and spending more time with each other," Craig recently told E! News, "and just happy."

Dressed to the nines, Paige and Craig got cozy on their Jan. 2022 trip.

Back in New York later that month, the couple spent the night on the town.

Craig joined Paige for an Instagram Live shopping event on Valentine's Day.

The couple headed out West for a fun double date with former Vanderpump Rules stars Stassi Schroeder and Beau Clark.

Nothing like a night out in the Bravo Clubhouse!

The couple paid Andy Cohen another visit in March.

"Getting 'the shot' is a full time job," Paige captioned this sweet Instagram pic of herself and Craig at a friend's wedding, along with candids of them perfecting their pose.

Excited to share his southern charm with his girlfriend, Craig shared pics from his fun beach day with Paige on Instagram, posing with pillows from his home decor company, Sewing Down South.

The happy couple took a stroll along the beach in Charleston, South Carolina.

Paige and Craig got all glammed up for the MTV Movie & TV Awards on June 5, 2022.

The lovebirds snack on their favorite bites from Panera while announcing the chain's revamped menu in March 2024.

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