This story discusses the season finale of The Flip Off, which aired on March 5, however incorporates NO SPOILERS about which workforce received the house-flipping competitors. The six-episode season is on the market to stream with a Max subscription.
HGTV followers have been aware of Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack for over a decade now, so in fact once we discovered that The Flip Off was coming to the 2025 TV schedule, our essential focus was on the awkward premise of pitting the exes in opposition to one another. However how did Heather Rae El Moussa really feel about it? The Promoting Sundown veteran spoke candidly about what it was like doing a present with the bickering exes and the dynamic of their blended household.
The Flip Off was not initially supposed to be a three-person present. Tarek and Heather El Moussa have been alleged to face off in opposition to Christina and Josh Corridor, however that every one modified when the Halls filed for divorce and so they determined to proceed manufacturing with out Josh. That meant Heather was left to take care of the previous spouses by herself, and she or he spoke candidly together with her girlfriends on the March 5 finale “The Closing Flip Off” about what that was like for her, saying:
It’s like they’re so aggressive with one another usually. They combat like they’re brother and sister. I’m all the time mediating issues. Tarek was all the time saying, like, ‘You guys will get alongside. I do know you guys effectively, and I do know you’ll get together with one another,’ and we truly do. Her and Tarek had large points, particularly after I met them. They have been nonetheless, like, they hated one another. So it was navigating how I got here into the image.
It seems like that aggressive spirit that we see between Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack is a part of their dynamic even when the cameras aren’t rolling. It’s fairly humorous that the house-flipper knew that Heather Rae would get alongside together with his ex. Forward of the present they leaned into how a lot the blonde designers resembled one another, and we’ve seen this season on The Flip Off that their style in design is uncannily comparable.
Whereas it could actually’t be straightforward to be the center man of their squabbles, Heather El Moussa informed her pals she actually respects the way in which Christina Haack welcomed her in as a co-parent when she and Tarek began courting in 2019. She mentioned:
What I actually admire about her is that she let me are available and be a stepmom. That’s an enormous factor to me, as a result of as a mother it could be actually onerous to have one other girl elevate my youngsters, proper?
The previous Flip or Flop stars have two youngsters collectively — Taylor, 14, and Brayden, 9 — whereas Tarek and Heather share 2-year-old Tristan. Christina Haack additionally shares 5-year-old Hudson together with her second husband Ant Anstead.
Along with being stepparents to one another’s youngsters, Heather Rae El Moussa mentioned she and Christina Haack have been in a position to workforce up in opposition to Tarek (as demonstrated on the finish of The Flip Off), persevering with:
What’s humorous is that we are likely to, like, as a result of she begins choosing on Tarek, after which I begin choosing on him too. It’s enjoyable. I’m not gonna decide on Christina, and she or he’s not gonna decide on me, so we activate him. He will get all the eye.
It was candy to see how the El Moussas supported Christina Haack via her divorce from Josh Corridor, and I really like that the blended household has discovered a strategy to dwell and even work collectively. That’s fairly a state of affairs for Heather to have put herself in, and we’ll need to see if there are extra competitions to come back between her husband and his ex.
Within the meantime, you’ll be able to take a look at Tarek and Heather sans Christina on The Flipping El Moussas, with new episodes airing Friday nights on HGTV and streaming the following day on Max.