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On 3/20/2022 at 10:35 AM, CrazyInAlabama said:
There was a local contractor who built a subdivision with hundreds of houses, and you could purchase all of the furniture, for the living, dining, three bedrooms, and you chose from three different color themes. I think the furniture, and any upgrades were put in the mortgage, and you could substitue a big desk for a second guest bed too. The builder also owned the furniture store, so he was filling a homebuyer's needs, and making a nice profit too. I wonder how many people saw the decorating, and furniture the previous staging companies used to use, and wanted that look?
I was looking at this season's Avocado house with Izzy, where they added the putting green. The white and bright blue kitchen back splash is the worst tile they've ever used. I can't believe they didn't have to give a credit to the buyer to have that tile ripped out, and replace with something decent.
That was horrible and she kept saying it was great for their Mid century look. It looked almost nautical.
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On 3/19/2022 at 8:24 PM, deirdra said:
I like Jeff and Izzy and it was nice seeing them making decisions themselves - basically telling T&C what they thought was best to do and T&C saying OK. With T & C spread so thin, they probably left most things up to J&I and phone conversations when we weren't watching.
With the ages of Christina's kids, they are probably at three different schools with different after-school interests, and in Southern CA there is a lot of driving in bad traffic. To handle all that plus two different businesses at fourth and fifth locations would make me want to say - no more!
She has it easier than most mothers. She is not primary custody . Tarek and Ant have those kids all the time so she has plenty of free time. She is always taking off to somewhere with the new fiancee.
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2 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
The stagers they used until a couple of seasons ago, (the twin sisters who worked in L.A. and I saw them staging some Palm Springs houses a few years ago also) were great, matched the furniture size to the house, coordinated colors and really did a good job. The stagers they've used for the past couple of seasons aren't as good, they just throw the same furnishings in every house, nothing coordinates, or adds to the house.
Agree. Something really changed. Is that what it was? I can see the difference. Nothing wows you.
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On 3/10/2022 at 9:46 PM, Ohmo said:
I completely agree with this, and I don't think that's what they fully understand. HGTV is very duo-oriented: Ben and Erin, Jonathan and Drew, Egypt and Mike (one of my new faves), Brian and Mika, etc. etc. In fact, I think Tarek and Christina had a lot to do with that concept, even after their divorce. Tarek or Tarek and Heather is not the same as Tarek and Christina. I think that their solo shows have been propped up by the fact that they continued to do F&F. No matter the reason, if the fact that F&F is ending is because they can't stand each other, I think they're about to see how much that's going to cost them. I also think that viewers had accepted that they had divorced and moved on. From a viewer standpoint, F&F in its current state seemed to be accepted and liked as much as when they were a couple.
Wonder how Izzie and Jeff feel about this turn of events?
I like Egypt and Mike's show alot. They are a great looking couple and boy is he handsome. They have that it factor. I thought Tarek would contine and just give Jeff or Izzy more camera time. Bring in different designers and see who he has a good connection with. She is going to try to do something with her new fiancee. He just follows her around anyway and I thing we will be seeing them do renovations of her Tenn vacation home. They have been flying down there pretty regularly. I don't watch her show.
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On 2/7/2022 at 12:44 PM, Kiki620 said:
Christina's absolute repulsion over walls is borderline phobic. Good Lord, woman, what did a wall ever do to you?? Was she bullied by a wall in High School? Have her heart broken by a wall in College? Have a quickie marriage, baby and divorce by one......oh wait, that was Ant!
I think something that shows how completely limited she is as a "designer" is her inability to acknowledge or recognize any other style outside of her gray and white box. What if she had a client who enjoyed defined and separated spaces? Could she work with them? Could she design within four walls? Recently, there was a house (sorry, can't remember which one, the episodes tend to run together for me) that wasn't that bad. In fact, it just looked like a dated, cute, little Grandma house inside. She acted like she was going to vomit. Did she ever have a Grandma? Or know a person who liked to collect older things and preferred a warm and cozy space as opposed to modern design? When she walks into those types of homes it's like she's personally offended by them. Highly. I wonder if she visited someone in real life with a house like that, would she be so disgusted or would she be able to cover it up?
I hate when they remove all the walls and just throw a little round table somewhere in the space and call it a dining room. It looks ridiculous. I think they use really cheap looking stagers in general and it also looks hideous when your tiles in the kitchen are the same on the fireplace and in the bathroom. Like WTH.
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On 2/16/2022 at 9:46 AM, CrazyInAlabama said:
I'm watching the reruns on HGTV this morning. I just watched the mid-century modern (mcm), Cliff May house, from last season I think. I was appalled at the staging, that was just generic flipper staging that fit in any house they do on this show. I didn't see any MCM in the finishes, or design. The cement look tiles in the kitchen back splash were not MCM or anything resembling that.
Their staging or whoever they use is horrid and cheap looking. Of course she walks in and says oh how "cyute".
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On 2/5/2022 at 1:44 PM, CrazyInAlabama said:
Or if Heather's too busy with her Selling Sunset (I hope I got the name right) and her other professional projects, maybe Tarek and Robert (the one who teamed with him on a hoarder house for Robert's first flip), or a couple of other part time team members.
I think Christina's talked about some major health issues recently, so I'm hoping all of that resolves quickly, and completely for her.
For someone who complains about auto immune diseases she drinks too much alcohol. Every pic she takes of herself is with a glass of wine in her hands.
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On 3/18/2022 at 12:11 PM, sempervivum said:
They also tore out all the sumptuous landscaping fronting that cement wall in the backyard, and replaced it with the usual stiff, wide-spaced row of grocery store chrysanthemums.
Heather has no edge; I think what I liked about Christina was the way she clashed with, and mocked Tarek. Also, I can't imagine Heather showing up to 'work' in jeans and sneakers, as Christina used to before she and Tarek split.
When she was with Tarek she used to show up in high heels and dresses and walk the site. It was ridiculous.
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On 3/17/2022 at 9:48 PM, sempervivum said:
Just saw the finale show. I don't really follow what's happening with Christina, so it was the first time I've seen her fiance (who looks a lot like Tarek). Apparently, they're living in Tennessee, so that seems like a logical reason to quit the partnership with Tarek right there.
I did wonder what the custody arrangements are like for those poor kids (hers and Tarek's, that is). She certainly has disrupted a lot of lives.
They live in the OC. She just bought a 10 million dollar home at Dana Point. She also has joint custody with both Tarek and Ant. She is not the primary. The house in Tenn is a vacation home she bought for 2 million when she was visiting her friend Cara. She met her fiancee there. He was living in TX with his wife . He filed a quickie divorce in March of 21 and presto engaged to Christina 6 months later. They go to Tenn alot and I think what they are doing is renovating that home and she has him doing the show with her for COC. I think her new angle is for them to be on a show. She says he is a realtor but go ahead and try to find an active realtor named Josh Hall. He goes where she goes. He is like the house boy. And if you see him standing next to Tarek they look nothing alike and half of his body is covered with hideous tats all over his chest , 1 arm and 1 leg.
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On 3/20/2022 at 9:34 PM, Ohmo said:
Because they (and by they I mean Tarek) never wanted to pay for them.
That was years ago, but I remember him saying that on-camera at some point.
Apparently in Ca refrigerators are considered an amenity and not a neccessity so they are not required, even in apartments.
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7 minutes ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
Yes, the huge fight with Tarek was when she announced she smoked Bufo Toad toxin, to relieve her anxiety, and change her entire life (no, I'm not kidding, she said it got rid of years of anxiety, and it's highly illegal too), before she went out with her fiance the first time. They showed some F or F shows from early seasons, and she looked so much healthier then, she's looking smaller and smaller with the last few seasons, and doesn't look like the same person.
She met her new one when she bought the house in Tenn. She was down there visiting her friend Cara who she did that Wellness Book with(think Cara dropped her-she was bad for business with the toad crap). He was still living with his wife in Tx in Feb and moved out, filed for divorce and is engaged to Christina 6 months later. I have no doubt her angle is to do shows with him. Agree she looked so much healthier years ago. She looks anorexic now and no I am not picking on her. It just happens to be true.
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On 3/19/2022 at 2:27 PM, Rootbeer said:
T&C Construction and their joint realty closed around the time of their divorce, several years ago, Tarek started up his own business buying houses that need work and flipping them. He also owns his own realty and owns a lot of rental property and a company which manages it. The last several years, none of the houses have been purchased by T&C Construction and we haven't seen their real estate sign, either, because both are out of business.
Speculation is that the homes they've been renovating on the show are from Tarek's flipping business, which seems likely.
Obviously, the whole last scene of the show was staged to present a plausible reason why the show will not be continuing. The entire bit was scripted as was Tarek's shocked reaction. Just a month or so ago, it was announced that it was renewed, so something happened since then. Maybe it is that Christina wants to focus on 'designing' homes for people who already live there and not for flips; but, since she really wasn't doing any flips except for the houses she filmed for the show the last few years; there is obviously more to it than that. For that matter, how hard was it for her to 'design' the flips they showed when all the houses had one of the same 3 or 4 cabinets, half dozen tiles and 2 paint colors? They used the same stuff again and again, probably because they got a deal on it, not because Christina actually went to the tile store and picked it out. I think, most likely, they really don't much like working together, they don't really get along on set and they're both busy enough with other stuff that they've decided that it's not worth the aggravation to continue.
She has been flying to Tenn alot with the new fiancee. I bet they are filming her Tenn home and renovating it with him in the show. He doesn't seem to have a job. and I think she is angling for them to do something.
On 3/19/2022 at 11:32 AM, Rightside said:Christina told Tarek he would still see her at soccer.
They would always say that they had so many flips going on at once. And I thought they filmed a few of them for HGTV.
What happened to their business together? Wasn't it called T&C Construction or something? The "For Sale" signs they put always were for their own real estate company.
Tarek doesn't need Christina to continue flipping houses. Is he now solo?
Juast bring on Izzy or Jeff.
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On 3/17/2022 at 8:26 PM, Gam2 said:
I always thought that they were both reading lines off of a teleprompter, especially Christina. She was so phony in her talking heads not to mention her hair, teeth, false eyelashes, etc. There didn’t seem to be one authentic thing about her.
I bet she is doing filming at her Tenn home she bought and will drag the new fiancee on the show and she wants them to be the it couple. She has been flying down there quite alot and he doesn't seem to have a job. They say he does real estate. Go ahead, try to find him as an active realtor in California or Tenn. I have always thought she was a phony. It is all her little fan girls that tell her how wonderful she is. She is in to all that hocus pocus, wearing crystals, having a wizard, all that new age crap.
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2 hours ago, Suzywriter said:
Henna on Jenny makes her more wrinkly.
It just shows how wrinkly her hands really are but hard to see since she s so pale. This won't last. He isn't going to stay with Grandma.
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7 minutes ago, goofygirl said:
Not one thing!
Apparently having friends is bad. He is supposed to sit there and be miserable while she is in the US..
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1 minute ago, sainte-chapelle said:
“ I’m scared he might not get the visa” and you are doing everything you can to support him right Ari? Oh wait….
I can't stand her. She brought her ex to Ethiopia and thought that was perfectly normal.
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2 minutes ago, Elodia said:
Oh yes...and the praises Danielle always gets when she posts something about doing homework with the quints. For example: "You're a rock star mom!!!! Not many could have accomplished everything you and your hubby have". - WTF? They "accomplished" what they have by pimping out their kids and having lots and lots and lots of help.
I haven't watched the show the last few years. It was entertaining to watch the kids when they were little and they were doing what little kids do. Now it is all staged and I don't find it entertaining at all. They use the kids for a paycheck. How many times can you drag out the Hazel eye story or Danielles latest illness? I never could stand Adam and Danielle is right there with him now. Both are so materialistic.
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On 10/8/2021 at 3:13 PM, ChristmasJones said:
I thought they both looked really good in the talking heads throughout this season. I was trying to figure out if those were shot before or after the trip to Turkey.
Once they did the reveal for Florian, I thought their faces looked much worse than they did in the THs. Maybe with a lot of eye makeup it will look better though. I really preferred their noses before the surgery. The new ones looked too small and were giving me Michael Jackson vibes.
I also was reminded of that guy who was going to marry the twins in Australia. Can't recall which show that was. When Florian was hugging and kissing both of them at the airport I thought maybe they should just share him. That would make a great reality series. I don't think these two could handle it though.
I actually find them very entertaining and this has become one of my favorite series. I like how they have fun with each other.
From that clip posted above from the trailer of their other reality show, WOW their faces look SO different!!! Omg I could not believe how much different they look.
IMO they haven't looked good in years. They look like cartoon characters and the cousin of Betty Boop and Jessica Rabbit. Nothing appealing about them in looks or personality. They both come off as so desperate. I stopped watching the first year. Is Darcy still crying?
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On 9/15/2021 at 2:11 AM, Elodia said:
She wants to show her fans that she is just like all the other working moms. "See? I'm just a normal hard-working all-american-mom and if I can do this, you can do this too". And I think the believes this crap.
They do. I remember posting that they had already bought the new house and them going back to the mold house was just a story line. The fan club all attacked me saying I didn't know what I was talking about when you could look it up in the property assessments that it was purchased already. Unnbelievable to me how gullible some of their followers are.
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On 9/22/2021 at 1:26 PM, CrazyInAlabama said:
Heather's also a working real estate agent, in addition to her reality show. I really like Heather, she seems much nicer than Christina.
Also, after the divorce, Tarek did a lot of dating, but Heather is the first one that I think has a real relationship with his kids.
Unlike you-know-who's Daddy of the month club.
My guess is that Christina has a team that does everything but the on camera stuff on her show, barely shows up on F or F. Then, there's her Wellness show on Discovery +, I don't know if it aired or not, but I'm hoping it stays on D+ when it does, and not end up on HGTV or other cable channels.
On her Discovery + she is no longer on speaking terms with Shannon, the blonde friend who did her hair and makeup. She doesn't address it when people ask.
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On 9/20/2021 at 7:01 PM, Hpmec said:
Christina's priority seems to be Christina. Her new kid unfriendly house is a good reflection of that. Hudson would appear to be mostly with Ant, so he's well taken care of. The older kids are like a couple of ping pong balls bouncing between parents and parents' ever changing partners and houses. The last thing they need is to now have to adjust to living with another man so soon after Ant became history. Christina is doing them no favors. Kids need stability, not an ever changing cast of characters married to mom.
You are not kidding. That pool is dangerous for Hudson and it sits on a ledge with no fencing. Thank God Ant does have him most of the time. Now she has this guy living in her house and it appears he has no job. It has to be confusing for these kids.
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On 9/20/2021 at 5:41 PM, Rightside said:
He has made his tatoo artist a millionaire!
His tats are God awful, A giant bull head?
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On 9/10/2021 at 2:36 PM, Shelbie said:
I loathed the backsplash. It looked like they ran out of the dark colour and slapped on the white.
I didn’t mind that they couldn’t take out the soffits. No one can reach the cupboards that go right to the ceiling anyway.
I was kind of surprised that the couple didn’t spend the $ 12000.00 to remove the wall or the $ 11000.00 to remove the soffits. Her clients generally seem to go way over budget in order to achieve their “vision”.There are no words to explain that horrendous backsplash. I can't figure out who would do that and think boy that looks good, It looked like little flame shapes coming from the dark backsplash. It was so awful and an eyesore.
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34 minutes ago, edie3 said:
I guess she will have to hire a hunky "farmhand" to take care of the goats and chickens. Next thing you know she will be in a Hallmark movie. You know, California beach girl who sages meets a Tennessee flannel wearing farm hunk. Tempers fly at first, then one snowy Christmas, the power goes out and...
According to the Sun the new boyfriend was still living with his wife until the end of Feb and then got some quickie divorce that went through by May. Yeah thats a catch Christina. Now it looks like he is back in California with her and who knows if he even has a job. The wife had to vacate the home they shared in Austin, Tx and it sold just recently.
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Agree with everything you said. I think she has been filming in Tenn and renovating her vaca home and she is involving the new fiancee in her show. I think she wants a show with those 2. You are right it looks like he doesn't do anything. He is on her schedule. Tarek is the brains behind the business so i think he will come up with something.