Salley Carson might talk about her ex-fiancé on Southern Charm — but she’s no longer communicating with him.
“We do not have any [communication],” Salley, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, February 24, while promoting the Bravo series. “He’s blocked.”
Salley went on to reveal that her ex-fiancé, Avery Bucholz, “definitely reached out when he found out I was on the show.”
She recalled Avery being “worried that my whole story line was going to be about him” after joining Southern Charm for season 10, which premiered in December 2024.
Salley noted that her story on the series does “not” revolve around her former fiancé, declaring, “You’re out of my life. You can stay out of it.”
From the moment Salley made her reality TV debut on season 26 of The Bachelor, her ex-fiancé has been a topic of conversation.
Salley was engaged to Avery shortly before leaving to film the ABC series in September 2021. Eagle-eyed fans noticed that in August 2021, Salley was at her bachelorette party in Mexico. The following month, they were broken up and she arrived at the Bachelor Mansion in Los Angeles to try and win Clayton Echard’s heart.
Michelle Watt/Bravo Salley Carson’s broken engagement has been making headlines since she joined The Bachelor in 2021 — and now her ex-fiancé is a topic on Southern Charm. “I’m getting my girls taken out,” Salley, 30, told fellow season 10 newbie Molly O’Connell on the Thursday, January 30, episode of Southern Charm, referring to her […]
During the January 2022 premiere, Salley met Clayton, 31, before the official limo entrances. She revealed that she called off the engagement due to “lack of trust” and confessed that she wasn’t sure she was ready for The Bachelor. (She filmed the meeting one day before she was supposed to marry Avery.)
Salley decided to leave before the rest of the women arrived, eliminating herself from The Bachelor. She gave the franchise another shot in October 2022 during a short-lived stint on season 8 of Bachelor in Paradise.
During her time on BiP, Genevieve Parisi questioned Salley for seeing her ex-fiancé prior to showing up in Mexico. Salley explained at the time that she worked with Avery and wanted to have a “conversation with him out of respect” before she left for the show.
(L-R) Ryan Albert, Taylor Ann Green, Salley Carson, Madison LeCroy, Rodrigo Reyes, Shep Rose, Austen Kroll, Craig Conover, Venita Aspen, Jarrett Thomas, Molly O’Connell and Leva Bonaparte on ‘Southern Charm’ Michelle Watt/Bravo
Salley made her Bravo debut during season 2 of Southern Hospitality, which aired in 2024. She appeared on two episodes of the Southern Charm spinoff before moving over to the flagship series for season 10.
During the January 30 episode of Southern Charm, Salley revealed that she was planning to get her breast implants taken out. She said that she got a boob job “when I was with my ex-fiancé” partly because she “thought that was what he liked.”
“It’s not like my ex-fiancé told me, ‘Your boobs aren’t good enough.’ Or anything like that. He never did,” Salley told the cameras. “But the girls he was giving attention to had bigger breasts and didn’t look like I looked.”
She confessed that the situation “somewhat made me insecure” at the time, and after regaining her confidence she wanted them out.
“I am happy that I opened up about it, and I think it’s good for other women to hear that,” Salley told Us of the vulnerable moment. “I think that there’s a lot of women out there that struggle with insecurities and maybe boyfriends or fiancés or husbands that make them feel insecure.”
Salley said she spoke her “truth” during that episode and has since successfully had her breast implants removed.
“I feel better for it,” she said, noting, “I just was very much not myself when I got them in the first place.”
According to Leva Bonaparte, Southern Charm season 10 is going to be messy due in part to newcomer Salley Carson’s drama with Taylor Ann Green. “It does seem like she has it out for Taylor,” Leva, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, December 5. The reality star noted that Salley — who fans might […]
She recalled making the decision to get the removal after getting back on her feet following her broken engagement. “One day after I kind of found my independence again and my career was going great, and I just bought a house in Charleston, and I just was like, ‘These are not me anymore,’” Salley continued. “I just felt confident in my own body and just wanted to take him out.”
Now that she’s happier with her body and overall life, Salley told Us she is done with her ex-fiancé — and doesn’t plan on ever looking in the rearview
“There’s just not a world that I would film a reality TV show with my ex-fiancé,” she said with a laugh. “Literally never. I would definitely remove myself from that situation.”
Southern Charm airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
