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Paige DeSorbo explained why she didn’t want to be a part of Summer House‘s upcoming spinoff in an interview on Wednesday.
While also opening up about dating away from the cameras of reality TV, addressing rumors of a cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2, and sharing if she considered the “Bethenny Clause” prior to her exit from Summer House, Paige, 32, dished on Andy Cohen‘s financial advice, admitted to having fears about not being taken seriously, and revealed what’s next in her career.
“[I felt like that would be] the [just-graduated] senior coming back to high school, flinging her keys around. I’m like, ‘Not yet. Maybe you guys do a season, but I don’t think it’s for me right now,’” Paige explained to TZR on October 8 of not wanting to appear on the spinoff.
She also felt like if she were to join the show, she’d be taking a spot from “a girl that should be starting out her career in the same way I did when I was 25.”
“There will always be reality TV, if there really is a time in my life where I’m like, ‘What about waking up with cameras again?’ I don’t see it for right now, but you have no idea what life is going to be … It truly is a full-time gig … [And] there was always an expiration date,” she continued.
Still, it felt “so weird” moving on from a series she was part of for seven seasons.
For now, Paige is enjoying her time off-screen, especially when it comes to dating.
“It’s so interesting to get out of Summer House and to know I’m going to date someone and the whole world isn’t going to be like, ‘I don’t love it,’…It feels like what dating at 32 should be,” said Paige, who has been linked to Joe D’Amelio since January.
“Being in a relationship on reality TV is not for the weak, and there is a reason why the majority of couples on reality TV end in divorce. It is one of the hardest things ever. And if you can survive it, God bless. I could never. I can’t. I couldn’t,” she noted, seemingly giving a nod to her past romance with Craig Conover, 37.
As for her potential role on The Devil Wears Prada 2, Paige couldn’t say much.
“If I didn’t sign an NDA, and if I was approached to do something in the capacity of Devil Wears Prada, it would be my childhood’s full-circle moment … This encompasses who I am at my core. It’s a pillar of my personality. So if they were to have reached out and asked me to be a part of it, yeah, I would say that I would cry,” she teased.
Then, when asked if she’d considered the Bethenny Clause, which would allow Bravo to take a percentage of her earnings from any non-TV business she launched on the show, before announcing her departure from Summer House in June, Paige revealed that “everyone has the Bethenny Clause.”
“Contracts are so intense and so scary … It’s kind of like when you think of a prenup — you’re doing it preemptively to protect what you have. But Bravo is also not a bitter jealous ex trying to be like, ‘Well, actually, b*tch’…So no, it wasn’t a factor,” she shared. “In terms of Daphne, I don’t think they have any claim. Now, if I become a billionaire…”
Amid her time on Summer House, Paige said Andy was always encouraging her to “have things outside of Bravo.”
“In earlier seasons, he’d be like, ‘You’re saving your money, right? And you’re making good financial decisions and you’re building things outside of it?’ It would be like seeing your dad and him being like, ‘And let me see your report card,’” she reasoned.
While Paige made a point to expand her career beyond Summer House, she often worried about being taken seriously.
“When I first started seeing our episodes [with the reaction] being like, ‘You’re just so lazy,’ I was devastated … I truly was so upset about it. I feel like if I didn’t immediately lean in and act on it, I could have not been taken seriously at all,” she explained.
Luckily, through the years, Paige learned to make light of the hateful comments she often received.
“Sometimes people can say a hate comment, and I have enough self-awareness where I’m like, ‘They absolutely ate with that,’” she admitted. “I wore an outfit to the TIME100 Creators gala — this gorgeous pink outfit — and someone was like, ‘OK, it’s kind of giving penis.’ I’m like, ‘Wait, she’s spot-on.’ I had to return it. I was like, ‘I’ll never wear it again.’”
As she looked ahead, Paige revealed her future plans with Hannah Berner, 34, and their Giggly Squad podcast and brand.
“Doing our live show, we’re scripting that … We wrote a book. We can write what we think is funny. I feel like in 2025, there are no boundaries anymore,” she explained.
Also during the interview, Paige named Victoria Beckham, 51, as her biggest role model in business.
“She’s an inspiration career-wise in how she was like, ‘… and I’ll pivot. I can wear a little Gucci dress and hold a microphone, but I can also give you the best silk cami you’ve ever seen in your life,’” she noted.