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Southern Charm star Whitner Slagsvol confirmed he went on a date with co-star Charley Manley and addressed where his feud with Salley Carson began in recent interviews.
Whitner confirmed his surprising date with Charley during a podcast appearance.
“We did have a date that did get edited out,” he told Morgan’s Pop Talks host Morgan Paige. “I shot my shot. It made me look like we only got a rejection, but that’s okay.”
As for what the pair did when they went out, Whitner explained they went to a rooftop bar and had a “nice date.”
“I guess probably a little stilted because it was both of our first times having cameras in our face for a date,” he elaborated, “which is an experience.”
He also revealed that a close producer told him another producer was insisting they needed to get them to kiss.
“He was like, ‘I can’t tell him to do that.’ And I was like, ‘no, you definitely couldn’t have done that.'”
Whitner also spoke to PopCulture.com recently and addressed his feud with Salley.
When Salley appeared on Watch What Happens Live, she claimed viewers didn’t know the “real” Whitner. When he appeared on the show, he responded to her allegation, saying he was vindicated because he didn’t look “messy” throughout the season.
Salley then appeared on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast where she said Whitner was on “his high horse” and added that she hoped he wouldn’t be asked back for another season.
In his conversation with PopCulture.com, Whitner shared that Salley told him her statement on Watch What Happens Live was “just meant [as] objectively, it was early in the season, and you just don’t know him well.”
“Which is well and good, except the entire world took it some other way,” he continued, adding his clapback on Watch What Happens Live was a bit “shady.”
After the reunion, Whitner shared that Salley had asked him what was going on, and he asked her the same.
“We had an unfortunate, I guess you could call it a game of telephone,” he said.
He also shared that he told Salley he didn’t want to “fight” with her and wasn’t going to “mudsling” back in response to her comments on the podcast.
“If you really want to handle it that way, you’re welcome to,” he said he told her. “But I’m not going to litigate who said what or why. I want to be your friend. I enjoyed being your friend last year, and I would like to continue being your friend.”
The duo ended up apologizing to each other for the “out of pocket” things they said, and “hugged and made up and took a shot.”
“We’re in a good place right now, and I hope to keep it that way,” Whitner stated, insisting the pair are “working on [their] friendship.”
Whitner also commented on the reunion, explaining he felt everyone was saying “everything from a good, spirited place.”
“No one’s sharpening any knives with the intention of actually coming for anyone… I think even the other people who I had some commentary for, they had what they had to say back,” he concluded. “They spoke their piece in return.”