Shep Rose: American television personality (born 1979)

He is best known as a main cast member on the Bravo reality television series Southern Charm and the spin-off RelationShep.

Shep Rose
Rose in 2024
Born	William Shepard Rose III (1979-09-27) September 27, 1979 (age 44) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Other names	Shepard "Shep" Rose
Education	Hilton Head Preparatory School Episcopal High School
Alma mater	University of Georgia Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management (MBA)
Occupations	Television personality businessman
Years active	2014–present
Television	Southern Charm RelationShep
Parents	William Shepard Rose Jr. (father) Frances Rose (mother)
Relatives	Meta Cantey Boykin Rose and William Shepard Rose (paternal grandparents) Mary Boykin Chesnut (great-great aunt) B. Boykin Rose (uncle) Truman McGill Hobbs (maternal grandfather) Edith Cummings (great aunt) Marcie Hobbs (cousin)
Family	Boykin (paternal) Hobbs (maternal)
Signature

William Shepard Rose III was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 27, 1979, as the second of three children to William Shepard "Rip" Rose Jr. (born March 1948), a lawyer of the United States Department of Justice, and Frances John Rose (née Hobbs; born July 1952), a housewife and patron of the arts. He has an elder sister, Katherine Cummings Trotter (born February 1977), and a younger brother, Whitaker Boykin Rose (born July 1983), both lawyers. His family moved to Sea Pines, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in 1981, when he was a year old.

Education

Rose went to Hilton Head Preparatory School, a private school, and Episcopal High School, a private college-preparatory boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia.

Rose graduated from the University of Georgia with his undergraduate degree in business in 2002. He was a member of the Chi Phi (ΧΦ) fraternity. He graduated from Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management with his Master of Business Administration degree in finance in 2009.

Rose started his career in his early 20s, working as a real estate agent while he was living in Dubai. He was forced to quit in 2008, during the Great Recession.

Television

Rose started his television work on the Bravo reality television series Southern Charm as a main cast member from the first season. The first season started on March 3, 2014.

Rose appeared 15 times on the pop culture-based late-night talk show Watch What Happens Live! with Andy Cohen. His first appearance was with his Southern Charm co-stars Cameran Eubanks and Thomas Ravenel, and went on tv on April 7, 2014.

Rose appeared on the web series Shepic Fail. The series is about Rose, his Southern Charm co-star Craig Conover and Hunter Gardner. The series started on November 23, 2014.

The third spin-off from Southern Charm, RelationShep is about Rose too.

Businesses

Rose is the owner of The Commodore, a bar and grill in Charleston, South Carolina. The restaurant opened on April 27, 2016. He is also a co-owner of two establishments: The Palace Hotel and The Alley, both in Charleston.

Rose and his friends Jason Benjamin and Claude Pope started the coastal wear line, Shep Gear, on June 30, 2016. He started a line of t-shirts inspired by some of his Southern Charm co-stars.

Acting

Rose started acting with the role of Paramedic #2 in the action-thriller film Reprisal, starring Bruce Willis and Olivia Culpo. The film was released on August 30, 2018.

Other ventures

Rose started a podcast, Enough About Me with Shep Rose, on June 1, 2019. The podcast stopped on October 9, 2019.

Rose started a blog, Charleston GRIT.

Rose became a stand-up comedian on April 23, 2018.

Rose wrote a book about himself: Average Expectations: Lessons in Lowering the Bar (ISBN 978-1-9821-5980-1). Simon & Schuster published the book on March 16, 2021.

Rose lives in Isle of Palms, South Carolina.

Rose was the announcer for the Charleston RiverDogs at a baseball game on May 1, 2018.

Rose is a member of the Union Club of the City of New York's Jupiter Island Club, a private social club in Jupiter Island, Florida.

Family

Rose is related to the Boykin family – the family of which the Boykin Spaniel, the South Carolina state dog – is named, through his father. The family became known after founding Boykin, South Carolina in 1755. He is a grandson of Meta Cantey "Pete" Boykin Rose (1924–2011), a socialite, and William Shepard Rose (1922–2004), an international businessman in the steel industry. His great-great aunt, Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller; 1823–1886), an author, was included in the PBS Civil War documentary. He is a nephew of B. Boykin Rose, the first South Carolina Department of Public Safety director.

Rose is related to the Hobbs family through his mother. The family became known after building the railroads out of Chicago during the 1800s. He is a grandson of Truman McGill Hobbs (1921–2015), a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, and Joyce Hobbs (née Cummings; 1927–2020), a philanthropist. His great aunt was Edith Cummings (1899–1984), the first female athlete to be featured on the cover of TIME magazine in 1924. He is a first cousin of his Southern Charm co-star Marcie Hobbs.

Rose is an uncle of five: Louisa Trotter, Rosie Trotter and Boo Trotter, through Katherine and his brother-in-law John Scott Trotter, and Mimi Rose and Whitaker Boykin Rose Jr. through Whitaker and his sister-in-law Tiernan Ely Rose.

Rose comes from old money. He has "a couple" of trust funds. He has an estimated net worth of $4 million, as of October 2023. In 2019, Rose and his friend Tony Brown got a French Bulldog named Lil' Craig (born September 12, 2018). He named it Craig after his Southern Charm co-star Craig Conover. The dog has an Instagram profile.

Relationships

Rose was in a short relationship with Danni Baird, before their castings on Southern Charm. He was linked to Chelsea Meissner in 2016.

Rose was in a relationship with orthodontics assistant Taylor Ann Green between March 2020 and July 2022.

Politics

Rose endorsed Republican candidate John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election. He endorsed Libertarian candidate Governor Gary Johnson in the 2016 United States presidential election. He endorsed Democratic candidate Joe Biden and South Carolina Democratic candidate Jaime Harrison in the 2020 United States presidential election.

Rose shut down the 19th Treasurer of South Carolina and his former Southern Charm co-star Thomas Ravenel via Twitter in October 2020, after Ravenel's public support of the 45th President of the United States Donald Trump. He has called Trump supporters "rats [who] stayed on the ship".

Rose is the founder of a charitable trust. He donates to numerous charities every December.

Rose supported the David M. Carmines Memorial Foundation in 2017. The organization was started in memory of his childhood best friend Andrew Carmines' brother who died by cancer in 2001.

Rose raised 25000 $ for the people of the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

Rose was arrested over 10 times.

Rose faced criticism in August 2019, after he posted a video to his Instagram Stories in which he could be heard mocking a homeless woman who was collecting cans on the street in East Village, Manhattan. At first, he did not want to say sorry, but he did four days later. He also deactivated his Twitter account and took a break from the social media platform.

As himself

As an actor

RelationShep
Genre	Reality television
Starring	Shep Rose Sarah Steinberg Brien Perry Brad Ashten Lauren Parkinson Boone Platt Jennifer Swirtz Charlie Haakenson Landon Clements Cameran Eubanks
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producers	Aaron Rothman Irad Eyal Peter Scalettar Michael Meinecke Kate Fisher
Running time	43 minutes
Production company	Haymaker Productions
Original release
Network	Bravo
Release	December 4, 2017 (2017-12-04) – January 15, 2018 (2018-01-15)
Related
Southern Charm

Overview

RelationShep was announced as the third spin-off from the Bravo reality television series Southern Charm on April 27, 2017. The series follows Shep Rose, his producer and some of his friends as he looks for love. The name of the series was inspired by Rose's nickname, which was given to him in 2003 by his ex-girlfriend.

The "first look" trailer was released on August 17. The official trailer was released on October 30. The series premiered on December 4.

The series was produced by Haymaker Productions with Aaron Rothman, Irad Eyal and Peter Scalettar serving as executive producers. Sarah Steinfeld and Pamela Gimenez served as co-executive producers.

The series was later canceled.

Cast

• Shep Rose
• Sarah Steinfeld, producer
• Brien Perry, Shep's friend
• Brad Ashten, Shep's friend
• Lauren Parkinson, Shep's friend
• Boone Platt, Shep's friend
• Jennifer Swirtz, Shep's friend
• Charlie Haakenson, Shep's friend
• Landon Clements, Shep's friend
• Cameran Eubanks, Shep's friend
• Bella Clark, potential date
• Priscila Montemore, potential date
• Peyton Pritchard, potential date
• Kylie Boyd, potential date

Episodes