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Shep Rose and Taylor Ann Green are navigating post-breakup territory when Southern Charm returns for season 9 on Sept. 14. The explosive season 9 trailer, which focuses on the rumors surrounding Taylor and Austen Kroll, solely complicates issues additional for Shep, 43, and his ex. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Shep about the place he stands with Taylor, 28, right this moment.
“It’s good. I select to take the excessive highway as a lot as I can on this life, and I care about her so much. I all the time will. And I feel that’s mutual,” Shep advised HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “Now, we haven’t actually gotten into one another’s non-public lives so far as different companions or whatnot or relationship scene. That’s in all probability good for now. I hope at some point we might. I’m nonetheless shut together with her dad and mom. I textual content together with her mother from time to time, and I textual content with Taylor, too. She’s an enormous motive of the mosaic of who I’m. She’s a significant piece of that quilt, you already know, and I respect that and love that. I might by no means flip my again on her. I might give her the zebra shirt off my again.”
Shep Rose’s ex-girlfriend, Taylor Ann Green. (Bravo)
Given the drama that inevitably unfolds this season, what about his friendship with Austen, 36? “It’s clearly totally different, however there’s some similarities there, too,” Shep mentioned. “I don’t need to throw that away. I imply, Lord is aware of I’ve made some errors previously with regards to the alternative intercourse… It’s kind of reside and study and regulate however don’t burn down the village. That’s how I really feel about it.”
While Taylor is seeing somebody new, Shep may be very a lot nonetheless single. “I’ve been on some good dates and met some actually attention-grabbing folks from totally different locations. Not inside Charleston, that’s for positive.” The bestselling creator added that he needs to be “as respectful” as he can towards Taylor. Shep famous {that a} “severe relationship” isn’t on the “speedy horizon,” however he’s not ruling it out perpetually.
Season 9 may also function new additions: Rodrigo Reyes, Rod Razavi, and J.T. Thomas. From the footage proven within the trailer, issues get very heated between J.T. and Austen.
“He and Austen actually butt heads this season, and he calls Austen out on his bulls**t,” Shep revealed about J.T. “He is available in weapons blazing. It’s type of enjoyable to observe as a result of I wasn’t in his crosshairs that I do know of. He provides one thing, and I feel you’re going to be considering what he has to say in a variety of totally different conditions.”
Shep Rose and Craig Conover in ‘Southern Charm’ season 9. (Bravo)
These new forged members have been added after the departure of Southern Charm vet Kathryn Dennis. Shep admitted that it was “proper” for Kathryn, 32, to step away from the present.
“I felt like we have been type of working in circles with Kathryn, and that’s not a knock on her,” he advised HollywoodLife. “Maybe it’s an affirmation that she wanted to step away as a result of it was like Groundhog Day. Same previous points, and we needed to tiptoe round a few of them, too, as a result of a variety of them are authorized. I take care of her vastly, and I need the very best for her. But stepping away, it felt somewhat like the proper factor to do even on our aspect.” Southern Charm will air Thursdays on Bravo.
First seem at ‘Southern Charm’ Star Shep Rose on His Status With Ex Taylor Ann Green: I’ll ‘Never Turn My Back on Her’ (Exclusive)
