Shep Rose’s ex-girlfriend Sienna Evans shared new details about their relationship as well as her previous dating app “match” with his co-star Whitney Sudler-Smith.
On February 19, the Bahama-based beauty queen posted a series of TikTok videos to set the record straight with “Southern Charm” fans after she was accused of using the Bravo TV personalities to get on the show.
In the videos, Evans claimed she barely spoke to Sudler-Smith and had no idea of his connection to Rose or “Southern Charm.” She also downplayed the fact that her grandmother was a fan of “Southern Charm” and said Rose’s role on the series didn’t “move the needle” in any way for her to date him.
Sienna Evans Explained How She Met Shep & Whitney
In one of several TikTok videos, Evans set the record straight with fans amid her portrayal on the show. “There have been a lot of mistruths… and I kind of think it’s time for me to talk about it,” she said of her interactions with Rose and Sudler-Smith.
In her first TikTok video, Evans, 26, explained her initial attraction to Rose, 44, when they matched on the dating app Raya.
“Shep and I did meet on Raya. And at the time his profile just made him seem like a Southern boy who liked to fish,” she said. “And he messaged me, and he was like, ‘Oh you’re from the Bahamas. I always go to the Bahamas, I love the Bahamas.’ And I was like ‘Oh he’s cute’ or whatever. And that’s how we met. And then he followed me on Instagram, and we started talking on Instagram and that’s kind of how things started.”
In a second video, Evans claimed that Rose reached out to her with an invitation to meet him in Charleston, South Carolina. But she claimed she declined his invitation because she had never met him in person. She told Rose he was welcome to come to the Bahamas any time. They ultimately moved their communications off Raya and onto Instagram and exchanged phone numbers. Evans reiterated that at this point, she still had never watched an episode of “Southern Charm.”
She also addressed rumors that she reached out to Sudler-Smith on Raya before she met Rose. Evans posted a screenshot of her brief exchange with Sudler-Smith on March 20, 2023, in which they exchanged hellos and that was it. “He wasn’t even a connection of mine, he direct-requested me and said, ‘Hi, how are you?” and I answered, ‘I’m good, how are you?’” Evans shared of the 56-year-old businessman. “That is the extent of the communication that I had with Whitney, first of all.”
She noted that when she traveled to Charleton to meet Rose months later she didn’t even recall her previous interaction with Sudler-Smith and that it was Rose who reminded her about it. “I looked on my messages and I was like, ‘Oh, he’s a catfish. He looks nothing like this in real life,’” she said of Sudler-Smith. “So yeah, that is how we met. And that is first, me dispelling this whole thing about me reaching out to Whitney to be on the show or whatever. That is totally untrue.”
In part 3 of her spiel, Evans acknowledged that she found out that her grandmother was a fan of “Southern Charm” but it didn’t affect anything because she was already talking to Rose on the phone by that point. Evans said she had no interest in being on the show and didn’t care at all that Rose was on a reality TV show.
Shep Rose Declared His Love for Sienna Evans
Fans got a glimpse of Evans’ romance with Rose on the 10th season of “Southern Charm” in epiosdes filmed in both Charleston and the Bahamas. Evans appeared in scenes shot in mid-2024 at Rose’s house and at a party with the rest of the cast. But she didn’t seem into Rose when the cast arrived to visit her in the Bahamas later in the season.
Rose opened his heart to Evans in an awkward scene shot during the trip to Nassau.
“Sienna, obviously, we both came out of the gate awfully hot. It was very passionate and wonderful and we have a lot of fun,” he said. “And then it got hotter and heavier as far as what we were saying to one another. And I thought that maybe, like the universe had brought us together. We would have these beautiful kids who are smart and they would be connected to nature and the ocean. And we would just live all over the world and have adventures. This was in my mind stuff.”
Evans admitted that she had no idea that Rose was thinking of their relationship like that.
“I was,” he replied. “I know you made my life better. You made me want to be a better man. I’m wildly, wildly attracted to you. And I am actually in love with you. I don’t want to put you on the spot. I just I don’t even know where we stand.”
Evans noted that they had never defined their relationship and they agreed to “hold” things there for the moment. It is unclear exactly when Rose and Evans ended their relationship later in 2024.
During a December 2024 appearance on the “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast, Rose admitted he and Evans took “ a little break” in their relationship after they had an argument over travel. They reconnected a month later but ultimately split for good. “She was a very interesting girl,” Rose said of the model. “I really liked talking to her and spending time with her. And we had a lot of very lovely, tender moments, and it was not for nothing. I mean, don’t believe everything you see on TV.”
