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Southern Charm fans are in luck, as season 12 premieres on November 12, 2026.
The trailer was recently released, and last night at Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea Awards, an exclusive new preview for the show was shown.
“What’s up? Why do you look so sad?” Austen Kroll asked Salley Carson in the clip.
“I was talking to Venita… Okay. …about how you went on some dates with Allie,” Salley, 31, replied. “But you wined and dined her, and you gave her that opportunity, and you didn’t give it to me. And I just… I like… it makes me wonder why. Do you hear what I’m saying?”
“Of course I do,” Austen, 39, told her. “There’s no like, proper and right answer other than like… I just like where we are.”
After the awards show, an after-party took place in New York City.
While there, video footage surfaced of Austen dancing with Summer House star Lindsay Hubbard.
As can be seen in the clip, Salley did come over and dance with them as well, and the trio seemed to be having fun together.
On the Sex Unlocked podcast that Salley co-hosts with Lala Kent, the topic of Austen and her recently came up.
“I don’t know that that’s the move,” Lala said about a hypothetical romance between Salley and Austen, via @vanderpodrecaps on Instagram. “I think that might really f**k your world up.”
“I mean, nothing’s going on sexually with me and Austen,” Salley later claimed, acknowledging a new mystery man that she was seeing did have a right to worry about them.
“No, but you woke up naked next to Austen,” Lala replied.
Salley did admit this was true.
“And I understand why [the new man] feels unsafe. [Austen] yelled at me. Saturday night, we all went out to watch football, and he, like, yelled at me,” said Salley, who shared that they had been taking shots. “I didn’t even know what he was yelling about. Like he just didn’t make sense. And then he left me at the bar. And then he texted me, and he was like, ‘Come over. Like I’m feeling distraught.’ So I, like, went over there,” Salley continued. “I [had] texted Austen and I was like, ‘You yelled at me at the bar.’ And he said, ‘What? Salley, I can’t handle football Saturdays.’ … He’s like saying he gets too drunk. And I was like, ‘I’m not mad at you.’ And then he said I’m sorry.”
She noted that Austen then stated that they were getting “dangerously close” to how they previously were before they “had talks about defining our friendship.”
“[He said], ‘We’re starting to toe the line again, and I don’t want to f**k up our friendship,’” she noted. “And I’m like, same. And we haven’t kissed or done anything, but … he was like, ‘We’re getting back to [a place] where the guy that you liked didn’t want to date you because of how close we were.’”
Salley stated she didn’t recall what guy Austen was referencing.
“But like, there have been guys in my life that are like, ‘You and Austen are too close, I can’t handle that.’ And like, so me and Austen wouldn’t hang out one-on-one. But we’ve gotten so close in our friendship again to where we’re, like, hanging out one-on-one again,” she said. “But, like, nothing happens.”
“Nothing’s going to happen with me and Austen, like, anytime soon,” she concluded. “Or maybe not at all. I just love having him in my life as a friend.”