“He’ll Never Be the Man I Needed”: Taylor Ann Green SLAMS Ex Shep Rose as Incapable of Settling Down, Accuses Him of Chasing Nostalgia, Partying, and Running From Real Love
After navigating a tricky season as exes, Taylor Ann Green and Shep Rose both entered season 10 of Southern Charm in new relationships.
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Shep Rose, 45, shared that he met then-girlfriend Sienna Evans on a dating app.
“I was enthralled with her,” Rose said in a confessional interview. “Basically, I just think she’s so sexy. There’s nobody else that looks anything like her, and I think the whole country of The Bahamas would agree since she is Miss Bahamas [World].”
He thought Green’s boyfriend Gaston Rojas, who appeared on Southern Hospitality, looked like a “villain from The Bourne Identity.”
Meanwhile, Green described her relationship with Rojas, 32, as “night and day” from the one she had with Rose.
“Our relationship feels more like a partnership,” she said in an on-camera interview. “Gaston really makes me feel like I am good enough and that’s different for me.”
Rose also saw Evans, 26, as a very different woman than Green and called the pageant winner “very smart and driven and independent.”
“She’s a lot of things that Taylor wasn’t, even though she’s younger, as far as just having your own thing going on and being a big baller,” Rose told the cameras.
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Rose tells PEOPLE he “was definitely thinking about long-term” with Evans.
“She's from The Bahamas and she's like, ‘Why don't you just move to The Bahamas?’ And I was like, ‘Huh. Maybe what I'm supposed to do in this life is to open up a beach hotel on a white sand beach and have babies,’” Rose says. “It's funny how we can all fantasize about these different realities.”
While Rose acknowledges that “the white picket fence in the suburbs probably isn't going to happen” for him, he doesn’t want it to, either. Still, he does think that marriage and kids might be in the cards for him.
“I'm looking forward to that, but I know I'm not going to rush that,” Rose says.
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But having dated Rose for two years, Green doesn’t feel so sure that Rose can get there.
“I think he's very nostalgic when it comes to the idea of wanting to settle down or have a life partner, someone you trust and your best friend,” she tells PEOPLE. “I just don't think that he's capable of that. But if he does find that one day, that's great. I hope the best for him. I'm glad it's not me.”
Green says she feels “happy that things happened the way it did” and finds herself “in such a better place” now with Rojas. And she wouldn’t have gotten there had she not set boundaries with Rose such as blocking his number, which he confronted her about in the Dec. 5 premiere.
“I don't remember blocking him, but I guess I did,” Green says. “I blocked and deleted his number. It was probably a drunken block, but he had been trying to contact me in the past, and I just find that disrespectful to me and my relationship, especially when last year I had a hard time creating those boundaries and moving forward.”
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Green believes “there's no reason” her and Rose need “to be best buds” following their breakup.
“He just wants to [say], ‘Oh, we had a great run. It was fun,’” she continues. “It was actually very taxing on my end. I was very hurt and broken and I acted out in ways that I never would. And so I’m trying to create that boundary for myself as I'm dating someone new. I'm not only respecting my boundaries, but I'm respecting this relationship.”
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Rojas hosted Thanksgiving for Green, her family and family friends, and they’ll spend Christmas together in Florida.
The reality star also teases that she and Rojas, who have been together for over a year now, started “talking about the next steps” in their relationship.
“Every decision that he makes, I'm priority,” Green says. “I take precedence and I'm always like, ‘I really appreciate that. I want you to do what you want to do. But I appreciate that because I've never had that in any of my relationships.’ It's nice to have that feeling like I'm important in his life.”
But don’t expect to see too much of Rojas on this season of Southern Charm.
“He really wants nothing to do with the show,” Green says. “I know we've seen him on Hospitality a little bit, but he was in between jobs when he was doing that, and he was like, ‘I didn't really have anything to lose. I don't care.’ But now that he is secure in his job and he's working hard, that's one of his primary focuses.”
#Breakingnews Gia Giudice was suddenly expelled from school, other schools also refused to accept her...
Gia Giudice's long-time dreams of attending law school have been put on pause indefinitely, and she recently shed new light on the decision.
After The Real Housewives of New Jersey daughter graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in criminal justice in 2023, she started studying for the LSAT. But Gia has since pivoted and started to focus on her career in influencing.
Gia also just launched her podcast, Casual Chaos, where she explained why she is no longer pursuing becoming a lawyer right now.
Teresa Giudice's oldest daughter revealed in her debut episode on March 24 that around her junior and senior year of college, her influencing career picked up, which brought her new opportunities she couldn't refuse. "Starting to become more active on social media did not deter my love for the law, but it did deter my focus to becoming a lawyer," she admitted.
"If my heart was fully set on becoming a lawyer, I would have had to give up social media, give up everything I was doing, and honestly give up the money coming in. I'm just being real with you," she continued. "So at that point, I was like, 'Am I really going to stop all of this right now?'"
"Don't be mad at me, guys, for not becoming a lawyer. I still love it," she admitted, noting that the opportunities in influencing are "endless."
"It was either, 'Let's make money and have a really good time' or 'Spend four more years in school and be in debt,'" she continued. "It just didn't make sense."
Gia Giudice opens up about studying for the LSAT
Although Gia really loved studying criminal justice and was "good at the work" in school, studying for the law school entrance exam was hard on her. "The LSATs were hard," she admitted. "Like, I was actually driving myself insane. I was studying for a year and a half, spent over $5,000 on tutors."
Studying became even harder for her because of her flourishing social media career. "My tutor literally looked at me one day and said to me, 'If you are not 100 percent invested in this and 100 percent in the game, you could not become a lawyer,'" she recalled. "Because going to law school, studying for your LSATs, it's a full time job."
Would Gia Giudice ever go to law school?
Although her dreams of becoming a lawyer are on pause until further notice, Gia has not yet given up on the idea of attending law school eventually, even if that means becoming a lawyer later in life.
"The chapters not closed," she admitted on the podcast. "I can always pull a Kim [Kardashian] and go back to law school, do it part time. And I know a lot of moms that do that, as well. They're in law school right now, part time."
See what else Gia had to say about the "hard times" her family has faced during the debut podcast episode.
