Christing Haack is breaking her silence about how stressful it was to work with ex Josh Hall on early episodes of “The Flip Off.”
The former couple were supposed to co-star in the new HGTV series alongside Haack’s first ex-husband, Tarek El Moussa, and his wife, “Selling Sunset” alum Heather Rae El Moussa.
But Hall filed for divorce from Christina Hall, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to documents obtained by TODAY.com.
“We only filmed together a few times and it was not fun, to be honest. I did not enjoy filming with him. Having split up made this, to be honest, so much easier and so much better in every way,” Haack told Entertainment Tonight.
By the time Haack and Hall began shooting the series, Haack knew their marriage was in trouble. “I’d been telling him that things were bad for at least a year. Probably 18 months,” she told ET.
As for why the couple had a rough time on the set, Haack blamed insecurity.
“When someone is insecure by you and doesn’t like to watch you win, that really puts a damper on everything,” she explained. “I feel like I was not shining as bright to try to not make him feel emasculated.”
She also claimed that Hall struggled with “jealousy over Tarek,” alleging Hall didn’t like the “dynamic” between Haack and El Moussa, who rose to fame together as the married stars of HGTV’s “Flip or Flop” and continued to be co-stars after their divorce.
“It’s just better now,” Haack said of Hall’s exit. “The show would have been hard to film. The whole thing just would have been not as fun.”
Haack’s comments come nearly two months after she joked about being a “third wheel” to Tarek and Heather El Moussa in an HGTV promo video for “The Flip Off.”
The video shows Tarek and Heather El Moussa holding hands as the song “Me, You and Steve” by the comedic music duo Garfunkel and Oates plays in the background.
“I can’t believe that it’s finally me and you and you and me, just us,” the lyrics say while the couple smiles.
When the next lyric, “And your friend, Steve!” plays, Haack jumps up from behind the pair.
The trio previously filmed a promo video making fun of the similarities in Haack and Heather El Moussa’s appearances.
Haack and Tarek El Moussa, who married in 2009 and announced their split in December 2016, share two children, daughter Taylor and son Brayden.
Haack was also was married to British television presenter Ant Anstead from December 2018 to September 2020. The former couple share a son, Hudson, who was born in September 2019.
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