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- "The Flip Off" premiered on HGTV on Wednesday.
- Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa compete in opposition to Christina Haack within the present's house-flipping contest.
- The premiere featured loads of drama, from reno stress to rigidity between Haack and Josh Corridor.
After months of anticipation, HGTV's "The Flip Off" premiered on Wednesday.
The present sees exes Christina Haack and Tarek El Moussa of "Flip or Flop" fame compete to see who can take advantage of cash from a home flip.
They had been every set to crew up with their new spouses for the present, and Tarek El Moussa accomplished the collection together with his spouse, Heather Rae El Moussa. Haack, nonetheless, took on the problem alone after her cut up from Josh Corridor in July 2024.
The collection premiere was stuffed with actual property and private drama because the contestants secured properties for the present and Haack's marriage to Corridor ended.
Learn on to take a look at probably the most dramatic moments of "The Flip Off" up to now.
At the start of the episode, Haack and the El Moussas attend a soccer recreation to assist Haack and Tarek El Moussa's son, Brayden.
Haack and her ex-husband began chatting about enterprise on the sidelines, and she or he talked about that some house-flipping initiatives she and Corridor took on in Tennessee weren't going effectively.
"So, you wanted the grasp there," Tarek El Moussa mentioned. "I wasn't there that will help you guys. For those who guys need, for those who pay for my aircraft ticket, I'll go make it easier to guys."
Haack disagreed and requested about his real-estate initiatives, which he additionally mentioned had been troublesome due to rising rates of interest. He implied that Haack couldn't have identified about that with out him.
"Oh god. You act like I've by no means flipped a freakin home," Haack mentioned. "Are you able to present some respect to your older youngsters's mother?"
The pair and Heather Rae El Moussa agreed to compete in "The Flip Off" shortly after.
As a part of the competitors, every crew was given every week to discover a house to flip for the collection.
Haack and Corridor thought they discovered the proper house on their first day of looking out, placing in a proposal on a property and even taunting the El Moussas concerning the discover.
Simply two days earlier than the deadline to discover a house, they found a lien was positioned in opposition to the home, which meant they couldn't purchase it throughout the wanted timeline.
They discovered one other property to renovate earlier than the deadline was up, however it added stress to the method for the pair.
Corridor and his father accomplished the demolition portion of his and Haack's flip as a substitute of hiring a crew, each to economize and since Corridor mentioned he enjoys demos.
Amid the mission, Corridor spoke to his father about El Moussa's strategy towards flips, as El Moussa doesn't do a lot of the handbook labor for his initiatives.
"Tarek, he says, 'I'm not helpful. I'm not getting soiled. I'm not sweating,'" Corridor mentioned.
Corridor then FaceTimed El Moussa, and when he answered, El Moussa seemed to be sitting on a sofa.
"After I was a rookie flipper, I used to do the work, too," El Moussa responded. "Once you're a professional like me, you get to take a seat on the large sofa."
El Moussa taunted Corridor, saying Haack would go over finances and "mismanage" their flip.
"Get out right here, act like a person, and placed on a shirt that's not $700, and it can save you cash on demo," Corridor responded.
In a single scene of the premiere, Corridor and Haack mentioned the competitors whereas driving to the property they're flipping.
Corridor mentioned he would do "no matter it takes to win" and added, "Halls rule." Haack didn't instantly reply, which appeared to worsen him.
"Bear in mind, you're a Corridor now," he mentioned. "Don't get confused on this competitors about what your final identify is."
"After I met Josh, my identify was nonetheless Christina El Moussa on every little thing," Haack instructed producers in a one-on-one interview. "Josh didn’t like that, and he was all about me changing into a Corridor."
The scene in the reduction of to Haack and Corridor within the automobile. Haack acquired confused when Corridor talked about one thing a couple of billboard they handed, which led Corridor to name Haack "impolite" and say he wished she would "shut up" and that she was "pissing" him off.
Talking to producers, Haack mentioned Corridor had been "a bit moody currently."
"Josh is aware of that Tarek and I’ve a historical past," she mentioned. "I'm certain a few of it’s the stress of the competitors."
HGTV shared a shorter model of the automobile clip forward of the premiere, and Corridor responded on his Instagram story, saying it was "manufactured drama." In response, Haack then shared a photograph of herself crying, which she mentioned was taken after one in every of her days filming with Corridor.
You may learn extra about their cut up right here.
Later within the episode, Haack invited Tarek El Moussa to her house, the place she instructed him that she and Corridor had cut up up after a "blowup over nothing."
"Issues with Josh have been unhealthy for a very long time. Not simply kinda unhealthy, like unhealthy," she mentioned. "The youngsters actually requested me to go away. They instructed me he's not good to me."
"You make him very insecure," she instructed El Moussa. "Each time we might barely joke at soccer or if I laughed at you, he, like, wouldn’t communicate to me for 2 to a few days. I’d get the silent therapy."
"He doesn't like me," Haack mentioned of Corridor. "He calls me cocky. He thinks I'm boastful once we each know I'm not cocky or boastful. I simply do work."
Haack then acquired emotional, reflecting on how troublesome her private life has been since she and El Moussa separated in 2016.
"I really feel like I attempt to cover it and act like I'm not affected, however then I simply do extra silly issues to attempt to make myself really feel higher," she mentioned via tears. "And I simply hold doing it. And moving into issues too quick that I do know aren't proper."
El Moussa instructed Haack to not be laborious on herself, and so they each apologized for the ache they prompted one another over the past 9 years.
In the course of the competitors, Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa mentioned their design plans for his or her kitchen and residing space, with the previous "Promoting Sundown" star displaying her husband samples of the cupboards she deliberate to make use of within the kitchen.
Tarek El Moussa requested to see choices, however his spouse instructed him she had already made her choice, saying, "I don't want your determination."
"Wow, you don't want my determination," he repeated. "Wow."
He additionally questioned his spouse's intention to "take dangers" with their design, and she or he replied that she didn't need it to be "boring."
"It's Heather's home," she mentioned. "And yours."
"Identical to our son. It's Heather's son. And mine," Tarek El Moussa mentioned as his spouse laughed. "This home is yours. And mine."
Heather Rae El Moussa additionally grew to become annoyed when her husband prompt a tweak to her imaginative and prescient for the fireside.
"You're upsetting me. You're upsetting me," she mentioned. "I’m so stressed. You don't even perceive. Everybody's gonna be speaking smack about me in opposition to her."
In an interview with producers, she then mentioned that she needed to show to Haack that she was simply nearly as good a designer as she was.
As Haack's kitchen got here collectively, she realized the spot the place she initially supposed to place her pantry seemed misplaced.
"With all of the divorce drama, I ignored a significant flaw within the kitchen cupboard design," she mentioned. "My authentic plan known as for the pantry to be on the left aspect of the kitchen. However now, I believe we have to transfer it to the suitable so we will open the area up."
Nevertheless, the change made her need to add extra counters and cupboards to the left aspect of the room. Her counters had been being delivered the subsequent day, so she wasn't certain she may make the change occur.
Fortunately, her provider had the extra counters, so Haack's imaginative and prescient got here to life precisely as she pictured.
Haack confronted one other hiccup throughout judging. She poured ice water down her sink as her kitchen was being evaluated, not understanding the drain wasn't absolutely connected. Water ended up everywhere in the flooring, and the visitor choose for the episode, Heather Dubrow of "Actual Housewives of Orange County," dinged her for the mishap.
The El Moussas received the kitchen problem, although Dubrow mentioned she most popular Haack's design.