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As Austen, 38, who was fresh off a split from Audrey Pratt, mentioned that he wasn’t looking for someone new, Whitner Slagsvol, 36, accused Salley, 31, of flirting with him, and Shep Rose, 45, suggested she wanted everyone in her web, Salley confirmed she “really [liked]” Austen as she gushed over his dad bod.
“Anytime I’m with Austen, I’m flirting with him,” Salley noted on the February 11 episode of the Southern Charm: After Show, as Craig Conover, 36, agreed that the two of them were “always flirting.”
Then, after Madison LeCroy, 35, said Salley and Austen “act like they like each other,” Molly O’Connell, 38, said Salley gets “googly eyes” when Austen is around.
“I really like him. Leave me alone,” Salley replied. “I haven’t seen him naked. I want to see him naked … I love a dad bod. I don’t like a chiseled [man] … let me snuggle that little dad bod of yours. I want to put my freaking face on your big belly.”
“You’re so like, girly,” Molly went on.
“When I get around him, I am,” Salley clarified.
Elsewhere, after Rodrigo Reyes, 41, noted that Salley was “throwing those crumbs,” Austen said that a new romance wasn’t on his radar.
“I just broke up with someone that I care about a lot. On top of that, there’s Salley, who I know has all sorts of plans to like … it’s flattering, right? But, like, is it what I need right now? No,” he stated. “The worst piece of advice is, like, going to, like, get underneath of someone else.”
“That is not what I’m trying to do, but if she throws a compliment or two my way, I’m like, ‘Oh, thanks,’” he added.
As for Whitner, he recalled Salley flirting with him amid the cast’s trip to his family’s estate.
“That’s Salley. At this very trip, Salley was riding around with me the next morning as I was checking on cabins, and literally, on the porch in my cabin, rolled into my arms, [and] was like, ‘I just feel so comfortable around you.’ So that’s par for Salley’s course,” he noted.
Also weighing in, Shep added, “[Salley] wants everyone to sort of be wrapped up in her web.”
Southern Charm season 11 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.