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Christina Haack Says ‘The Flip Off’ Is ‘So Much Easier’ Without Ex Josh Hall ‘Weighing Me Down’
Christina Haack (formerly Christina Hall) is feeling free on The Flip Off without ex Josh Hall.
“It’s so much easier without somebody else bothering me,” the Christina on the Coast star, 41, said of her upcoming HGTV series on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday, January 28. “I mean, I don’t have to ask approval from anyone, no one’s, like, weighing me down.”
The Flip Off follows two teams of house flippers as they each find, purchase and renovate a house to compete for the biggest financial gain. In addition to Christina, The Flip Off stars her first ex-husband, Tarek El Moussa, and his wife, Heather Rae El Moussa, with Christina’s second ex-husband, Ant Anstead, also set to appear. Josh, 44, was previously slated to star as Christina’s teammate, but he exited the home renovation show in July 2024 after they both filed for divorce.
Host Jennifer Hudson asked the Flip or Flop alum if she felt disadvantaged by not having a teammate anymore. However, Christina felt quite the opposite.
“No, I think I have an advantage,” she explained.
Christina previously opened up about how Josh was “very hard to film with” on The Flip Off, which is set to premiere on Wednesday, January 29, prior to his departure from the show.
“He’d always get upset with me, like, ‘Oh, my gosh, you did this,’ or ‘You did that.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m making a TV show,’” she told Us Weekly in an interview published on January 9. “Ultimately, it was better that he left after episode 1 because the show would’ve sucked.”
The reality star admitted that filming the series “probably just sped up” her split from her estranged husband, as she claimed that The Flip Off brought out Josh’s “insecurity.”
“If I would laugh at Tarek, I would get the silent treatment for a week,” Christina continued. “Somebody with more confidence would be able to say, ‘This is my wife, but yes, she does this for TV. She was filming with Tarek when I met her.’ There was a rationale there that didn’t make sense. You know what you signed up for. I’m your wife, and I’m choosing you, but you’re choosing to make my life harder over insecurities.”
Josh has also spoken out about the alleged drama between him and his estranged wife on set, claiming in a January 6 Instagram Stories post that the tension was “manufactured” by HGTV.
“[That feeling when] you can’t get enough ratings with celebrity designers, so you rely on manufactured drama with me, a nobody,” he captioned a screenshot of an article teasing a “tense fight” between him and Christina. “@hgtv, you’ve changed.”
However, Christina quickly clapped back on her own Stories, writing, “Manufactured?! Pretty sure no one at Hgtv told you to be rude to me … That was all natural.”
The Christina in the Country star shared a photo of herself crying in her car and added the caption, “This was taken June 21, 2024. After one of my shoots with Josh. This is ‘real’ and a reminder to myself that I deserve better.”
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