Christina Haack is feeling light as a feather.
While promoting her new house-flipping competition show The Flip Off, the HGTV star said she was more than happy to film the series solo after splitting from her ex Josh Hall, who had been her personal and professional partner.
“It’s so much easier without somebody else bothering me,” Haack said during Tuesday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show. “I don’t have to ask approval from anyone. No one’s, like, weighing me down.”
When The Flip Off was first announced in May 2024, Haack was slated to team up with then-husband Hall to face off against her ex-husband Tarek El Moussa and his wife, Heather Rae El Moussa, as they renovate and resell houses. But after a tense start to production culminated in Haack and Hall breaking up, she decided to continue the show alone.
According to Haack, that was ultimately for the best.
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“So you don’t feel any disadvantages at all?” host Jennifer Hudson asked.
“No, I think I have an advantage,” Haack replied with a smile.
Hall filed for divorce from Haack last July, after nearly three years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. Haack also filed for divorce, and the contentious ongoing split has at times spilled into public view.
Hall and Haack previously shared the screen on Flip or Flop and Christina on the Coast, but as the two-hour Flip Off premiere will show, Hall would only last a single episode.
As for Haack’s relationship with the El Moussas, she described their dynamic on the show as “friendly competition.”
“It’s friendly fighting,” she insisted on JHS, while Tarek jokingly turned to the audience and quipped, “It’s not so friendly over here.”
Explaining the competition show’s origins, he said that Haack “was talking smack saying she could beat me in flipping houses, so of course we all knew that wouldn’t happen. So obviously if she’s going to challenge us to a flip-off, we’ve got to document it, right?”
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While all three stars admitted to being competitive, they also pointed out a tendency to gang up on one member of the group.
“We pick on him a lot,” Heather Rae said of her husband, who nodded in agreement.
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“It’s nonstop,” he said of the women teasing him. “The second all three of us get together, [Haack] will start picking on me and I’m thinking Heather’s going to jump in and defend me. Next thing I know they’re in it together, picking on me.”
“He’s an easy target,” Heather Rae said with a shrugged.
In addition to being costars, the trio are co-parents. Haack and Tarek El Moussa share two kids from their marriage, which ended in 2018. (She also has a child from a previous marriage to Ant Anstead.)
How does doing a show together affect their role as parents? “It kind of blends together,” Haack said. “Because the point is it’s better for the kids when everyone is getting along, and we genuinely are, and we’re genuinely having so much fun doing the show.”
The Flip Off debuts Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on HGTV. Watch the video above for more from Haack and the El Moussas.
Christina Haack, star of HGTV’s hit show “Christina on the Coast,” recently opened up about her experience filming “The Flip Off” without her ex-husband Josh Hall. In an interview with People magazine, Haack revealed that working on the show was “much easier” without Hall by her side.
Haack and Hall split in 2021 after less than a year of marriage, and the two have been embroiled in a contentious divorce ever since. Despite the challenges of navigating their personal lives, Haack explained that filming “The Flip Off” without Hall allowed her to focus on her work and the projects at hand.
“It was definitely a different experience without Josh there, but I have to say it was much easier in many ways,” Haack said. “I was able to really immerse myself in the renovations and the design process without any distractions. It was a refreshing change of pace.”
Haack also shared that she is excited for fans to see the upcoming season of “The Flip Off,” which is set to premiere later this year. “I think viewers are going to be blown away by the transformations we were able to make on this season,” she said. “I poured my heart and soul into these projects, and I can’t wait for everyone to see the final results.”
Despite the challenges of filming without her ex-husband, Haack remains focused on her career and her passion for design. And with the success of “The Flip Off” and her other projects, it’s clear that Haack is on the right path to building a bright future for herself.
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