On a recent episode of the Bravo reality show “Southern Charm,” which chronicles a wealthy group of friends in Charleston, S.C., star Shep Rose complains about his love life to co-star Cameran Eubanks.
“I hooked up with a girl … she won’t bang me unless I date her, which I don’t even know what that means,” he says. “I haven’t gotten laid in a few weeks.”
“It’s called commitment!” Eubanks replies.
For Rose, 37, that’s somewhat of a foreign term. The party-loving bachelor spent his 20s and early 30s — and four seasons of “Charm” — on a seemingly never-ending bender of booze and babes, hitting up the bars and picking up pretty young things and their tabs with his wealthy parents’ money.
But now, Rose, a 6-foot-5 blond who usually dresses sloppily and frequently boasts about his “dad bod” on Instagram, says he’s looking to settle down.
“Certainly, you start saying to yourself, ‘Maybe it’s time to not be single and running around and start being accountable to somebody else,’” Rose tells The Post from Charlotte, N.C., where he was spending the holidays with his family.
Rose’s search for love is the subject of a new spinoff, “RelationShep,” which premieres Dec. 4 on Bravo.
The show finds him traveling around the country looking for love and bringing worthy prospects home to Charleston, a la “The Bachelor.”
One of the cities in which he looks for love is New York, where he says he enjoyed the variety of women.
“There’s someone for everyone,” Rose says. “If you have a very obscure type, you can find that [in New York].”
‘A lot of people wake up one day, and maybe it’s pressure from their family, and say they’re gonna marry the next person they date. I think that’s a recipe for disaster.’
One type he’s not looking for: Airheads.
“There’s this disease in America — maybe all over the world — where parents are telling pretty girls, ‘You’re pretty, you don’t have to worry about being smart,’” Rose says. “I’m like, ‘No! If you study, the world will be at your feet.’”
Women from unstable families also need not apply.
“If a girl says, ‘Oh, yeah, you know, my mom married five times,’ I’m just like, ‘Oh God, I just don’t need to get involved in that,’” he says.
Ms. Wrong aside, Rose says he did manage to meet Ms. Right on the show.
“I can’t talk about it specifically, but she’s fantastic,” Rose says.
While he’s in no rush to be spawning little Sheps, he definitely wants to have kids.
“I love kids — I’m a kid.”
For now, Rose is enjoying his new relationship and taking things as they come. He’s working on his one-year-old clothing line, Shep Gear, and he has some advice for other long-time bachelors who might feel forced to commit.
“Don’t settle down, settle up,” Rose says. “Don’t sell yourself short … A lot of people wake up one day, and maybe it’s pressure from their family, and say they’re gonna marry the next person they date. I think that’s a recipe for disaster.”
Rose hopes “Southern Charm” fans see a different side of him on his spinoff. At heart, the playboy says he’s really just a sweet romantic.
“I try to be as nice as I can to everybody on the show.”
He’s particularly happy for “Southern Charm” castmates Kathryn Dennis and Thomas Ravenel, the notoriously contentious on-again-off-again May-December couple with two kids.
While he can’t confirm that they’re back together, he hints at it.
“They’re in a much better place,” says Rose. “I saw them the other day and they were laughing together — it’s nice seeing them happy.”