Production crew rolled into Charleston recently and all sorts of things are being discovered before any filming even begins. First we learned that JD and Elizabeth were splitsville over the summer. And now, Naomie has announce on Instagram that she and Craig are spilt up.
She posted the above photo with Wilson Filogamo Jones and a fan asks if she and Craig are still together. She replied, “Unfortunately, we are not. But we are still great friends.” Her followers seem to be presuming that she is dating Wilson. They are not. Wilson his her GBF of many years.
Production has been in Charleston for a few days now but the filming schedule has already been pushed back a couple of weeks. I feel like JD’s situation might have something to do with it, but it’s not really clear. Nor is it unexpected. Last season production was pushed back several times because Kathryn was in rehab.
They should probably just open up a rehab for the Southern Charm cast. JD, Thomas and Shep all definitely need to go. If they had their own treatment center, we could just film in the rehab center every week.
Maybe Craig will pursue Kathryn again next season. It would be like season one all over again. I think anyone would be better for Craig than Naomie. She treated him horribly. Now he can sew to his heart’s content without being nagged.
What do you think about all of these breakups?
She may have “nagged” him, but he wasn’t exactly a walk in the park either. He can’t keep a job or a single hobby, he’s all over the place, and he spoke horribly to her at times. I’m not saying she was a saint, but the relationship didn’t bring out the best in either of them. If I were dating someone like Craig, I’d be nagging the crap out of him too!
Get a job! Pick a career! Stop living off of my family $$!
He was collecting a check from the show.
He was making money somewhere cuz he was buying property!
My aunt’s name was Aunt Sis!!!
True, but he also wasn’t paying rent because he was living with Naomi in her parent’s house – at least for the first year or two – until they moved in Charleston.
It’s one thing to not even pretend like you have another job and are just enjoying life as a reality star, but its another to lie about your degree and act like you are trying to find a professional career while you totally aren’t.
I just don’t think this all falls on Naomi! I think women get accused of nagging way too much as if there isn’t a damn good reason to get on your partner’s ass sometimes (or oftentimes, depending on the partner).
Also remember that Craig had a storyline. Try not to believe everything you see on reality tv, it isn’t a documentary.
I agree! Craig needs to be nagged because he is a man child. But,how stressful it has to be for a woman to deal with a man that acts like an unmotivated child.
WHAT THE FUCKING HELL are you nagging a boy into doing WHEN HE MAKES SIX FIGURES
Y’all are terrible people. Craig is pulling six figures. Sit down.
y’all are some jealous bitches.
WHA
If you are pulling in six figures from various o it lets and enjoying life, you sleep till 2pm if you want too honey.
Heck, on that amount of money I’d quit my job and sleep till 2pm WITH him, not nag him. It’s amazing how many people gage functionality and success by your ability to get up at six and put a suit on.
Just curious how anyone “KNOWS” if he was paying rent or not! LMAO. She wasn’t “working either. Apparantely she was in school but clearly he was busy educating himself on real estate, sewing and God only knows what else. They both were making more than enough money from the show. And clearly if he made it through college AND law school he can’t be that bad. So what if he took a break before taking the bar all the while making six figures and making fabulous connections for networking later! He will make a good husband and father someday. He has a good heart.
Craig can garden like nobody’s business and he has NICE ABS. He’s also usually pleasant. 20+ years ago I would have been on it for awhile and NO nagging. ?
You and I both!! I MIGHT be a little overly excited when he replies to be on twitter and/or IG. ??♀️ That is COMPLETELY Tamara’s fault. I had neither before she made me sign up for them LOL
Amen
She is the one who has NO job. Craig is making well over 6 figures on this show…about 250K to be exact. He bought rental property and a new home recently. She is the one living off her parent’s money, not Craig
Ummmm, Naomi has the SAME job as Craig, since they both work on the same reality tv show. She most likely makes the same or almost the same amount of money as he does from said show. I really do not understand your comment.
Naomie isn’t paid nearly as much as Craig. Craig is an original full time cast member, Naomie is part time and only on the show as his girlfriend.
And that may be the last we see of Naomi. Unless, perhaps, she’ll take Landon’s place on the show
Agree, ktwallis! They were both at fault with the dysfunction, but Craig’s bs drove me crazy. Cannot stand a man that’s all over the place like that with the whiny tone and procrastination. Just doesn’t mesh well at all with my personality. I think they’re both better suited finding other people and moving on. I wish them both well.
JD and Elizbeth, really? Don’t they have a bunch of kids? That’s unfortunate, I never like to see a family broken up like that.
Meh. I love sewing machine Craig, but then I’d have to think before answering how many machines I own.
Agree. And…5 electric, one treadle.
Please don’t ask about fabric stash.
I think Craig is better off not with Naomi too! She was mean to him, all the guy wanted to do was sew and figure his life out. He wasn’t out partying and being an ass. Idk. Good idea about the rehab TT lol.
I’m wondering how many relationships have now started/ended due to possible storylines?
(Don’t think JD and Elizabeth)
But it seems like the increase may be because of just that.(Would Naomi have dated Craig?)
Reality TV has made reality, so suspect, lol.
They weren’t a good match. They’re both better off.
Agree. She has a life and Craig is still trying to find his path. Takes a lot to pass the bar for law school.
But he can’t pass other bars when friends ask him out. Sorry this happened, but she is better off.Craig needs to grow up fast! INHO
Though I really like Craig, I always felt Naomi was dumbing-down being with him. Craig is clearly so much more immature than she, and it was evident this is what really got on her nerves within their relationship. These two kids were not on the same level whatsoever so I always knew the relationship would eventually and inevitably implode. People say Naomi was really mean to him, but I did not see it that way at all. Craig really did do a lot of immature things and was oftentimes a baby, and someone like Naomi who is more mature and refined had no concept of being able to understand, relatE, or tolerate such childish behavior. Hence, she just flat out wasn’t having it and I can’t say I blame her one bit. That flaky whiny baby man stuff is nothing I ever allow myself to be around.
Whether he’s whiny or not , no one has the right to speak to someone in public and belittle him the way she did. It was mean and immature the way she spoke to him.
I agree with both of you. Naomi is so much more refined and focused than Craig. But she was really rough on him. And I think the gardening and sewing / embroidery is adorable
They’re just not for each other, unfortunately.
Naomi and Craig were very good together AT FIRST. I think they both are good people who learned a lot from this relationship, including that they make better friends than romantic partners. If it were a woman doing what Craig was doing, she would be praised for her domestic goddess skills. I think Naomi needs a guy more like Austin. And Craig “gets” Kathryn, but I like their friendship. She needs a friend at this point in her life. And I don’t think Craig really wants to be a lawyer. Maybe he can be a real estate mogul. Cam can advise him on properties and he can do everything all legal and not get sued by tenants. As for Shep… so much potential. But will he ever settle down?
Thinking about it more… I think Craig should buy up some historic Charlestown buildings that need some TLC, RESTORE them while preserving their character and turn them into B&Bs. He has a fair measure of charm and he could choose from any number of interior and landscape designers after the networking he has been doing. I see a little ” square” of Craig’s Village, with one building having a world-class kitchen setup to serve family style meals to all of the B&B visitors. He could hold special events there, rent out the whole caboodle for destination weddings. I can see it so clearly. Kathryn can learn some southern belle manners and put on historic fashion shows starring herself and her beautiful babies. OK, Cam, find Craig a small cluster of homes to renovate and he can dig up investors, just not JD.
Opela, I don’t understand why people take up for the man when the man has been a douche and then the woman calls him out and takes up for herself after he’s been an a******* to her.?
You hit that on the nail. There is nothing appealing about a 30 year old man who is still “finding himself.”
Um, I will reiterate the banging abs, nice smile, pleasant personality, green thumb and wide range of interesting and useful hobbies, along with the fact he HAS a job on this show. Just because he’s not a 9 to 9 workaholic, doesn’t mean he’s some lazy pos. Again, I would have been ON HIM in a heartbeat 2 decades ago. I also think he cooks. Sure, he’s sometimes naive and unaware, but, hell, I think a LOT of people would be lucky and happy to be with him. I also think he’s matured since season 1.
Weren’t his friends all questioning what he was doing also at one point, as in please admit you have no desire to be a lawyer?! I watched them discuss getting back together last night and totally saw where she was coming from. He is far too whiny and lost at his age. She wants him to have his act together but he doesnt so she feels forced to get on his case or leave him. I was cheering as she finally chose the latter.
It never ceases to amaze me that you guys want a guy with a six figure income for Bravo, who is buying houses as investment properties to “stop being so lazy” and to go to work for someone else.
I can only assume you to be jealous of his good fortune. I never hear anyone say that Travis, or Shep, need to go get a job.
Not a peep outta me!! I want Craig just as he is! Come to Momma!
But unlike TRav or Shep, that money isn’t going to be there for Craig forever. When the show ends, he’s going to need something to fall back on because he doesn’t have family money waiting for him. I like him, but I certainly don’t fault Naomie for wanting him to live up to his potential and stop playing like the other guys always do.
I’m sorry that things went south (pardon the pun) for J.D. and Elizabeth. I’m not sorry for Craig and Naomie foundering. Regardless of who was the bigger contributor to the negativity, they were just mismatched.
Thanks for this ending.It could have been worse.
Seems it is a pattern. Go to counseling cause your miserable, then solve nothing, then….have a Bravo wedding!!
Um, Craig has a darling cat, likes to sew, garden, & do crafty home improvement projects. He is also into fashion and modeling – when not engaged as a lawyer. I’m with SLM, 20 or so years ago I would have been all into that for a hot minute, too… Sorry he and Naomie parted ways, but who didn’t see that coming. The big questions: Will Naomie still be a cast member? Will Elizabeth still be a cast member? Will SC need new cast members? Will Thomas and JD be “all the single Daddies?”
Elizabeth will most likely not be on the show. Naomie may be off as well. Southern Charm is trying to pare down on payroll.
Taking people off the payroll makes sense. Guess the ratings are heading down south. Landon plus maybe JD and his wife and then Naomie. WHo is left? Not many cast members. . WHitney is boring. Patricia is getting nowhere without Landon. Ravenal and Katherine…is a joke. Shep is moving on… Savanna show …too scripted. This show is dying a slow death. WHen you trim too many branches off the tree it dies.
Ratings are through the roof. This show has many more seasons left. They are trying to copy the show in other cities but that has not worked. This show is here to stay. This is also why Craig doesn’t need to worry about “getting a real job” anytime soon. He’s investing in real estate and if he keeps doing what he is doing he will never have to “get a real job.”
I bet Craig becomes a real estate attorney. Makes sense with his property investments. All the sewing and gardening was a cover for Craig studying for the bar. Doubt people want to see him with his nose in a book as a storyline. He and Naomi weren’t a match, so what.
Shep is the wastrel…drunk most of the time and living on “family” money. I don’t find him charming and believe we’ll see him in rehab unless he went over the break. I like Craig….because he has so many interests and can indulge them without holding down a regular job. And if he never practices law, he has the degree and can work many places with that. I’m glad Landon and Naomi are done. Elizabeth was a nice person, I’ll miss her.
And Patricia, who I used to find amusing, is a big trump supporter. #unfollow!
The cat is Naomie’s ?
Tamara, you did a blind item a long time ago about what I believed to be about this show. It was about something that happened after a reunion that shocked you and I felt at the time it had to do with Craig but you never stated what it was. Does this sound familiar? Still dying to know!
I knew as soon as Craig bought “the rental house” that he was planning his & gizmos escape. Congrats to him say I. Naomi was a complete bitch to him. That was not storyline, that was true colors & glad he got out before a child got involved in the mix. May he & gizmo have a fabulous martha stewart lifestyle collecting Bravo checks. I just hope they don’t bring in Naomi for “drama” next season. Girl, bye!
They weren’t a good fit for each other. Naomi is driven and goal oriented, and wants to be with someone who has a job and career goals. Craig is content with his Bravo check and has no interest in any situation that requires him to answer to anyone, or show up somewhere at a fixed time 5 days a week. I bet he uses the excuse that if he has a job, he won’t be available for filming. He’s lazy and unmotivated and covers it with excuses about being an entrepreneur yet is making little effort to actually do anything towards that plan.
I like Naomi way more than Craig. Bet she’ll be happier and more successful than Craig when she’s his age.
One person’s career goals might be a situation that requires him/her to answer to others, and show up at a fixed time 5 days a week, while another person’s career goals might be to be his/her own boss, set their own hours and answer to no one but themselves. If he has the financial means to do the latter, why should he do the former? In my opinion, it takes more discipline and effort to be your own boss and call your own shots. Not everyone is a follower who longs for others to tell them what to do. Good on Craig. May he prosper and do his own thing at the same time.
I was wrong about Craig’s age. He was born Feb 1989, so he’s 28.
I hope Naomi returns for next season.
He was dating way out of his league. He has zero ambition and is happy to do gardening and sewing all day long. I would of dumped him ages ago. Props to Naomi for putting up with him that long. I wonder who got the cat?
He has a six figure income, multiple financial investments, and a very low cost of living and he’s twenty something years old and just got his law degree and passed the bar.
Yep. So lazy that Craig. How dare he have time for his hobbies like gardening, and sewing and fixing up the house he lives in.
He’s stood by Kathryn as her last remaining supportive cast member despite her numerous fuckups, he stay behind with Shep when he was too shitfaced to fly and embarrassing the hell out of him in the airport, and is a good friend.
He’s totally the worst 20 something in the world! Why doesn’t he just get a job.
You guys are fucking idiots. Or REALLY REALLY Jealous.
Please tell me about the other cast mates that have jobs. Pehaps you believe Cameron is making her money as a real estate agent. Name me ONE SINGLE PERSON with a job on the whole show. I’ll wait.
I am Team Crag along with Tamara. I love the softer sides of him, that he talks to Gizzy and sews unashamedly. I think there was a level of discomfort between him and Naomi that would never go away. She wanted to change him and as a veteran of many relationships I can tell you that you can’t change someone who doesn’t want to change. And, why would he want to change? He’s a good man, speaks his mind and isn’t overcome by his own good looks. Rock on, Craig!
I totally agree with TT on Craig.
He is what I would call a “Renaissance man “…some one with a wide field of interest and can perform well in any of them..
I have had a very talented and successful male friend like this for 40 years, …but they can not ‘ be pushed’ into settling into ‘one thing’ or anything unless they themselves decide to dedicate themselves to that one thing.
Craig showed a lot of compassion for people, animals, causes…..”if’ he chose to practice law I could see him as an environmental or some kind of cause lawyer ..using the law to be a crusader.
I thought Naomi was a bit too “Stepford wife” .for him…she wants the conventional, with the conventional trappings…like she told him….get a good job and money so we can travel and have things. The more she pushed him the more he turned off and dug into all his other interest.
Naomi may regret losing Craig one day, Renaissance men can become wildly rich if they decide making money would make pursing all their other varied interest easier.
I think Craig is pretty awesome and it seemed to me Naomi doesn’t appreciate him for who he is. IMO he’s the only decent one if the bunch. Funny how he gets ragged on the most.
Team Craig here but I do like Naomi too. I guess the relationship just ran its course. One good thing came out of it – Craig quit going to bars and staying out late every night trying to pick up women. And he did get to know and live with Naomi’s cat Gizmo. I wonder if he will have visitation rights or try to find a “Gizmo” of his own? I hope Craig stays on “Southern Charm” for the sake of viewers but I think Craig would be better off if he relocated to LA or NY. Charleston and South Carolina aren’t really a good fit for him.
The one who gets ragged on the most is usually the one everyone else on the show is insecure about. It makes them uncomfortable that Craig is not a conformist, so they perceive that as a threat and go about trying to change him so they are more comfortable. Naomi – go find a traditional man who will buy you things, travel with you, and cheat on you. That is your comfort level.
Team Craig. If Craig and Naomi are still friends, I envision frequent Gizmo and Craig play dates.
I had wondered about the status between these two when naomie posted pictures on Instagram of her moving into a lavish apartment this summer. There was also hardly any pictures of them together, which made me sad I was stalking a tertiary reality star’s instagram.
I liked naomie – she seemed to have a long term career goals that she was working toward through school and she did Craig an incredible favor by providing a stable environment for him to complete law school/bar exam. Regardless of how financially set up Craig is through the show, I can’t help but wonder how much it ate at him not to keep prioritizing other things above such a big milestone. I don’t doubt she motivated him to see law school/the bar through. It’s a shame that they got through that stressful time, only to break up.
That said, it also seemed a little bit like naomie wanted some of the reality show spotlight and that might have been why she put up with/initially reconnected with him. She was incredibly classy about it – do not get me wrong. Thinking back to a few seasons ago, their relationship seemed to move very quickly, unless they were dating on the dl season 1 (I think he mentions her in season 1, when she still might have been in college? – I binged watched the seasons out if order this summer, hence why I picked up on it), and (in my biased opinion) she is so young (ie under 25) to have been to have been shacked up with anyone. Not that it’s wrong, it’s just a big step. Bottom line: they were probably both taking advantage of each other.
I hope some of their nasty fights from last season were manufactured – I could see both sides, but it was a really bad look for both of them.
Another commenter mentioned hoping a blind item from earlier this year would be revealed (kathyrn’s dirt?), So I’m wondering how that plays into this news.
I hope they both do well – I cannot tell you how endearing naomie’s no nonsense attitude about grad school or Craig’s gardening was to me! Hopefully Craig’s sartorial choices will be less Italian drug dealer (tm Cameron) now that he’s single.
They were a mismatch. I believe he said nasty things to her because she constantly berated him, complained and tried to make him into someone he wasn’t. She made him out to be the bad guy in the relationship last season (only admitting later in the season that she said rude things too). Craig does need a strong woman to guide him but Noami was too young and didn’t understand how to be a partner yet.
Love Craig or Hate Craig, the issue I have with him is he lied for at least an entire season about already graduating law school! Then drug Naomi into it and had her cover for his lie. Sorry dude I’d be out! I don’t give a flying fig newton how much money a dude makes a year you can be pulling in 8 figures a year, you lie and make me part of it, I’m outty!!! You want to sew and garden all day while you’re studying for the bar, cool beans, just do not lie. I cannot stand liars. Hitting road bumps along life’s road is normal, we all hit them. Tell the truth. I think I would like Craig more if he just simply said “I got off track and didn’t finish my final paper so I can’t sit for the bar until I finish it.” Not spent an entire season telling his friends he was studying for the bar, having Shep witness him sending an application to sit for a test he wasn’t even eligible for taking yet. I can’t stand Craig because in my eyes if he lies about something so big he surely is likely to be lying about other small things.
I actually really like both Naomi and Craig, and agree they just aren’t a good match. I think what concerns me about Craig isn’t really who/what he is now… it’s that there is a very fine line between a Craig and a Shep. I also feel like we’ve seen a different Shep emerge from the beginning of the show – he started out seeming (of course, who knows) like a renaissance man with mailbox money but really well read with interesting work investments and hobbies, and now he’s just a washed up party boy lost in Neverland. I can image that when you’re making crazy money by simply existing it’s fun to have the time to really get into hobbies, but that freedom can be hard to manage and some people need structure to avoid becoming a waste of space. I hope it doesn’t go that way for Craig… maybe this is why he went ahead and passed the bar. But sure, if someone offered me a chance to coast for a few years I’d put the 9-to-5 on hold and learn how to garden and sew too! On Naomi’s side, I bet she’s seen so many ne’er-do-well guys in those rich southern circles and is probably sick of it, but homegirl needed to break up with Craig if she didn’t like the way he spent his time. No excuse for berating your +1 like that!
There is a HUGE character issue! That he LIED about graduating when asked point-blank and he LIED about the bar! Didn’t he give Shep a fake envelope to mail in his license request????
And then Naomi admitted that she knew the truth and lied “for him” or “with him”. Either she has a bad character herself, or she did so against her better judgement and it wore away at her. That could explain why she was so passive aggressive. She was angry about lying for him.
Somebody here said he’s skilled at so many things.
hmmmm…..his passions seem like hobbies to me.
He is not particularly skilled at sewing. Even with the built-in monogram feature, his cat didn’t really look like a cat.
He followed a YouTube video to refinish his floors. I don’t recall seeing how those turned out, but to be a skilled carpenter is going to take a LOT of repeating the skill, and probably learning with a more experienced partner who has seen the various situations (types of wood, or too thin to sand down or termite damage or whatever).
The gardening~ well, has he stuck with it? What did he grow? and how did it turn out?
You seem to be judging someone’s character you do not know anything about. I’m guess you don’t have a post graduate degree or know anyone who has one. When you complete your classwork, you still have a paper to write. That doesnt mean you are not finished with the classes. Also, it is not a character flaw not to share that you are working on your theses or dissertation with you coworkers. It is none of their business.
Your post tells me a lot more about your character, than Craig’s,
Craig is the only reason I watch the show. He’s the only one that doesn’t act like a stuck up asshole. Naomi is a huge snobby bitch!
That cracked me up when you said Bravo should just open a rehab for Southern Charm so it doesn’t interfere with their filming schedule! Sorry to hear Craig and Naomie didn’t work out, but they weren’t a good match. When is Relationshep airing?