Kyle Cooke and Craig Conover are officially making summer fun again after seemingly making amends following their rift over their drink company investments.
“By the way, sew what 🤷🏼♂️,” Cooke, 43, wrote via Instagram on Friday, June 5, while sharing a laugh with Conover, 37, and Austen Kroll.
The caption is a reference to Southern Charm stars Conover and Kroll’s South Carolina bar, By the Way, and Conover’s Sewing Down South business where he sells pillows and merchandise that celebrates his love of sewing.
In one photo, the trio — all of whom star on Bravo TV shows — are laughing and smiling at some kind of outdoor party in Seabrook Island, South Carolina.
The Summer House star can be seen holding onto Conover, who is standing in the front of the picture with a drink in hand, while Kroll, 38, pointed at the duo’s rekindled friendship.
The second picture showed the guys goofing off next to a boat filled with ice and drinks, enjoying the sunset.
Kroll reposted Cooke’s Instagram post on his own Instagram Story, adding Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town” to celebrate the big moment.
“Okay. Thank you. We needed this 🙌,” one fan wrote in the comments section.
Another user replied, “NOW THIS JUST MADE MY DAY! The boys are back 🔥🙌 let’s go!”
A third fan quoted Cooke’s iconic Summer House quote in the comments, writing, “Summer 👏should 👏be 👏fun. Craig & Austen? Absolutely Fun🙌.”
The trio’s reunion holds a lot of weight among Bravo fans after Cooke and Conover feuded in 2024 over the alcohol businesses — and after Conover and Kroll had a rocky season of Southern Charm earlier this year.
As a refresher, Cooke launched his alcohol brand, Loverboy, in 2018, with his estranged-wife, Amanda Batula, and longtime friend Carl Radke joining the team in different capacities over the years.
Five years later, Conover, who has known Cooke since 2018 and crossed over to Summer House several times before and after his romance with ex-girlfriend Paige DeSorbo, got into the canned cocktails game.
Conover announced in April 2024 that he had become an investor in Spritz Society. While Cooke claimed there was “no bad blood” between them, he confessed to Andy Cohen in May 2024 that it “rubbed me the wrong way” when Conover told him about his work with a competitor.
Conover told Page Six at the time that before working with Spritz Society, he “offered to buy” into Kroll’s beer company, Trophop, but his costar allegedly declined his offer. Conover also alleged that he would have “loved to invest” in Loverboy, but it was not an option.
Cooke, however, claimed in June 2024 that he told Conover he wanted “to put an offer on the table” and possibly “counter” Spritz Society’s offer to invest, but Conover told him it was “too late.”
“To be honest, I kind of feared that this would impact our friendship because this has been my blood sweat and tears for the last five years,” Cooke said on the “Trading Secrets” podcast of his dynamic with Conover, who he also starred on Winter House with for multiple seasons.
Cooke exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2024 that the pair had mended fences.
“Ultimately, I cherish friendship above everything else and I think that’s why I was hurt. But [Craig and I are] good. We’re good,” he said.
However, months later Conover and Cooke’s friendship took another hit when the Southern Charm cast and the Summer House stars took sides in his and DeSorbo’s late 2024 split.
“I actually texted him when they broke up, just checking in, saying, ‘Hey, I’m sorry. I know we had a rough year, but I was rooting for you guys and I’m here if you need me,’” Cooke claimed to Us in March 2025. “He not only did not respond, he just unfollowed me after the outreach. You only do what you can do.”
Conover and Kroll, meanwhile, found themselves at odds once again on season 11 of Southern Charm over a variety of issues. At the reunion, which aired in March, the longtime friends agreed to give each other “space” as they “relearned” how to be friends.
Friday’s hangout, however, appears to show that not only have Cooke and Conover mended fences, but Conover and Kroll are back on good terms.
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