Paige DeSorbo Dresses Up Her Cat as a Panda After Boyfriend Craig Conover's Claims the Bears 'Aren't Real'

Mar. 15, 2025

Paige DeSorbo pictured alongside her cat Daphne dressed up as a panda.Photo:Jamie McCarthy/WireImage; Paige DeSorbo/Instagram

Jamie McCarthy/WireImage; Paige DeSorbo/Instagram

Paige DeSorboisn’t the only one who gets dressed up in her household!

On Tuesday, Oct. 29, theSummer Housestar, 31, posted two adorable photos on her Instagram Stories of her cat Daphne wearing a panda costume., likely in preparation for Halloween on Thursday.

“Mood,” DeSorbo captioned the first snap of her feline friend sitting on a cream couch. In the second shot, Daphne sprawls out on the sofa while still wearing the costume.

In July, the fashionista introduced her pet to the world in avideoposted on TikTok. “Meet Daphne,” theGiggly Squadpodcaster captioned a clip of herself snuggling Daphne and holding her up to the camera while sitting on her bed.

Daphne’s panda costume dress-up session comes months after DeSorbo’s boyfriend,Craig Conover, confessed that he doesn’t think the black and white bears are real.

Paige DeSorbo’s cat, Daphne.Paige DeSorbo/Instagram

Paige DeSorbo/Instagram

Conover, 35,made the confession during season 9ofSouthern Charmwhile on aboys' trip to Linville, North Carolina, with his costars.

“Do you think panda bears are real?” Conover asked the group while they were on a party bus. “I really wanted them to be real.”

“Pandas are f—–g real, due,” repliedJarrett “JT” Thomas.

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Craig Conover and Paige DeSorbo.Charles Sykes/Getty

“Just for s—- and giggles, why aren’t they real?”Rodrigo Reyesthen asked Conover.

“There’s just no evidence of it,” Conover said, laughing a bit.

“Pandas definitely aren’t real,” Conover later told producers in a confessional interview. “They are people in panda suits.”

Paige DeSorbo’s cat. Daphne, dressed as a panda.Paige DeSorbo/Instagram

Last month, a zoo in China went viral for its attraction, which featured a pair ofChow Chow dogs painted to look like pandas.

According toCNN, a video showing the pups at the Shanwei Zoo in China’s southern Guangdong province was shared over 1.4 million times.

In the clip, whichmultiple outletsposted on TikTok, two dogs wander around an enclosure and pant with their tongues out.

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Conover is known for sharing his thoughts onconspiracy theorieson Bravo’sSouthern Charm, including his belief that “hiccups come from the fact that we evolved from fish, and we used to breathe underwater, and they forget that we are not fish.”

Earlier this year, Conover appeared onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenand listed thetop five conspiracy theorieshe believes are real.

“It’s about the pyramids. The Egyptians found them, they didn’t not build them,” he said. “They’ve been here a lot longer than we think. We don’t have the technology even today to build them.”

source: people.com