By Page Six | Created at 2026-10-07 06:44:40 | Updated at 2026-10-07 08:23:57
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It looks like Austen Kroll and Salley Carson’s will-they-won’t-they romance will continue into “Southern Charm” Season 12.
In an exclusive clip from the hit Bravo show’s forthcoming season, which premiered live during Tuesday night’s Virtual Reali-Tea Awards, Carson asks Kroll why he “wined and dined” another woman.
“Why do you look so sad?” Kroll, 39, asks as he approaches Carson, 31, at a party.
The “Sex Unlocked” podcast host — who also works as a spine surgery robot operator — says she was talking to co-star Venita Aspen about the fact that Kroll had gone “on some dates” with another woman.
“You wined and dined her,” she adds. “You gave her that opportunity, but you didn’t give it to me, and it makes me wonder why.”
Kroll explains that there’s “no proper and right answer” to Carson’s question other than to say he “[likes] where [they] are.”
Carson first set her sights on Kroll in “Southern Charm” Season 11, while he was still dating his then-girlfriend Audrey Pratt.
At the time, she joked that she would hook up with Kroll the day that he and Pratt broke up.
When the couple did eventually decide to part ways, it wasn’t long before Carson and Kroll shared their first make-out session on a cast trip to Mexico.
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At the end of the season, it was revealed that Carson and Kroll had been “hanging out” and “making out” ever since filming wrapped, though Kroll later claimed on “Watch What Happens Live” that he and Carson were not as “actively hot and heavy” as she made it seem on her “Southern Charm” press tour.
Kroll revealed the real reason behind his hesitancy to make Carson his girlfriend during the Season 11 reunion, with Madison LeCroy saying he was looking to date someone “a little more tamed down” who “didn’t run the streets” as much. The Trop Hop Beers founder infamously referred to Carson as a “bar rat.”
It’s no secret that Carson has a robust dating history — after all, she has an entire podcast with “The Valley” star Lala Kent dedicated to dishing on her sex life.
Carson has famously had flings with “Southern Charm” OG Shep Rose, “Southern Hospitality” star Joe Bradley, “Summer House” villain West Wilson and “McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys” star Steven McBee Jr.
She was most recently linked to “Summer House” veteran Kyle Cooke after he confirmed that they had hooked up during the “In the City” reunion.
“Southern Charm” Season 12 premieres on Thursday, Nov. 12 on Bravo.
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