Olivia Flowers on Southern Charm Firing, Update on Kathryn, Shep

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Fans are anxiously awaiting news about season 10 of Southern Charm. However, one face they won’t be seeing in the cast photos is Olivia Flowers, as she won’t be returning. Now, Olivia is opening up about her time on the show, being fired, and much more in a new episode of the Two Ts In A Pod podcast with Tamra Judge and Teddi Mellencamp. 

As fans will recall, Olivia wasn’t on Southern Charm for very long. In fact, she was only a cast member for seasons eight and nine before being let go ahead of season 10. 

One of the first things Olivia discusses in the interview on Two Ts In a Pod is her relationship with Austin Kroll and the misconception that she was picked to be on the show because of it. 

She tells Teddi and Tamra, “That is such a misconception. People thought I just dated him to get on the show, and I was like, I take great pride that I didn’t have to date someone to get on the show.”

The conversation then switches to Olivia no longer being on the show and how she is dealing with the dismissal. Both Teddi and Tamra share their stories of not being asked back to their respective shows. 

Olivia explains, “I mean, I talked briefly about this, and I mean, I definitely didn’t see it coming.”

She goes on, “I think I just thought, you know, the season before was a strong season, as miserable as it was, and so I definitely was thrown off by not being asked back.”

Olivia continues, “But the thing that threw me most was the conversations I was having with the production company, not Bravo, but the production company. Like you know you don’t live in Charleston; you’re not doing this, like kind of making it like it was something I did or didn’t do.”

Olivia then discusses losing her brother while filming the show but continuing to work. 

She says, “I went through the worst thing in my life on camera and showed up for work. I continued to do it. Right in the middle of filming, my brother passed away, and I mean it was like right in the middle.”

She then shares, “That was going on. It was like I got a break. I got like a week with my family and whatnot, and then it was like someone pressed play on production, like okay, now we’re back here, we’re back. We got to talk about Taylor and Austin. I felt like I was sleepwalking like I don’t even remember it. Like I’m trying. I’m like, with all this trauma, and then I have to sit there and be mad at Austin. Like it was just a mess.”

Olivia also shared that she didn’t get to see her family during this time because of the filming schedule with the show. Additionally, she had hesitation about not filming the show because she didn’t want the cast to discuss her brother dying on camera if she wasn’t there. 

They then asked Olivia who she had heard from since it was announced she would not be returning. According to her, “Just the ones that I’m like close with, which would be Leva and Benita, and then like Craig and Shep.”

The hosts then ask her for an update on Kathryn Dennis. She says, “Catherine’s good. Yeah, she we were. Actually, I was filming some behind-the-scenes stuff for this website.”

She continues, “She just has such like a fun, goofy side and it’s just a shame that you don’t see that side of her. And she doesn’t do press or interviews or anything like that, so like you really do just see like the headlines and whatnot.”

They ask her if she considers Kathryn a true friends, and Olivia says yes. In fact, she says that Kathryn warned her she’d see who her real friends are now that she’s no longer on Southern Charm.

The discussion then shifts to whether Olivia would return to the show if she was asked back. She responds by saying, “Yeah, definitely. I enjoyed the whole process. I really did. And, like I said, I was bummed not to be asked back. “

They then ask about Shep Rose‘s sobriety. Of course, Olivia isn’t around him a ton since she’s not filming, but she does share some insight. 

She says, “You know what I mean? I don’t know. I haven’t been obviously in like around filming, but like every time I talked to him, he’s good, and you know, I’ve seen him out a few times, and I have not seen the like drunken, crazy shit.”

Tamra and Teddi then wonder when season 10 will begin airing. Olivia responds, “I don’t know, y’all. I’m so out of the loop.”

She continues, “But if I had a guess, like just thinking about the timing of it, December January makes sense.”

From there, the hosts ask about Austin and if Olivia ever thought she would go the distance with him. She responds, “I don’t think so, because like nobody in my life felt that way. Everyone in my life is very much like Olivia is having fun with Austin, like we’ll let them do that, and so I could tell it like people around me weren’t rooting for their relationship.”

She goes on, “I don’t think I thought like long term he was it. It was fun and I enjoyed it for the time being.”

Olivia is then asked if she thinks Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover will ever get married. She says she believes they will and also shares that Paige is one of the people she has heard from since being fired. 

Finally, they ask what she has coming next. Olivia says, “So right now I’m working on it’s a like a web series. I’ve partnered with a really great production company here in Charleston. I actually got the idea when I was on Southern Charm. There are so many behind-the-scenes moments or just things that weren’t ever aired, like really fun things that were captured in a funny way, yeah, all of it that you would never see aired. And I remember being on Charma like someone just needs to have like a b roll camera going for this whole process.”

She says they are currently thinking about calling the show Off Season.