Fans were shocked when Christina Hall and ex-husband Tarek El Moussa announced they would be teaming up with their respective spouses Josh Hall and Heather Rae El Moussa on HGTV's new show, “The Flip Off.” But Christina told Yahoo Entertainment that the competition show makes sense now that they're “definitely” on friendly terms.
“I started for a lot of reasons, I'd been flipping houses for a long time and I took a bit of a break and then Josh and I started flipping houses in Tennessee and it was really fun,” she told Yahoo Entertainment while promoting “Christina on the Coast,” which returns Thursday on HGTV.
Christina, 41, and Tarek, 42, renovated homes on “Flip or Flop” for over a decade, and though they split in 2016, they continued working together until the series ended in 2022. Christina, who married her husband Josh that same year, explains that the pair began discussing “what it would be like to bring back a home improvement show.”
“When I was talking to the network, they said that competition shows are doing really well right now, so I had an idea in my head: What would that be like? Josh and I told Tarek and Heather about it, and they were on board. So we pitched the idea to the network, and they were like, '100 percent for it,'” she continued. “And now here we are.”
Christina, Heather, and Tarek have made headlines with bold promotions for The Flip Off, which is set to debut in early 2025, some of which parodied the reported tension between the trio in the past. Christina detailed how the trio came up with the creative idea.
“my [promo] The idea was, as Heather and I often say when we're talking, 'Oh, they're so similar and Tarek has a type,'” Christina said. “So our joke is, [was to] We use that to our advantage and just take what people say about us and throw it back in a humorous way.โ
Christina laughs that some of the “weird” videos “weren't my ideas.”
For now, viewers can watch the designer renovate her Southern California estate on Christina on the Coast, and when the fifth season premieres, fans will get to see the designer renovate her childhood home.
“This is definitely my favorite episode of the season,” Christina said, describing the experience as “so much fun” despite being nervous about having both her parents as clients. “We have very different tastes; my parents are a lot more traditional, so I was a little nervous, but surprisingly it was so easy.”
“Christina on the Coast” premieres July 11 on HGTV.