There was one thing particular about Christina Corridor and Tarek El Moussa once they began internet hosting Flip or Flop on HGTV again in 2013, and audiences stayed tuned into their home flipping dynamic for a full 10 seasons earlier than they shut the door on that chapter final yr. Whereas many have been shocked by the announcement that Flip or Flop was ending, it was in all probability extra stunning that it made it that lengthy within the first place, resulting from its hosts breaking apart 4 years in, and Corridor lately opened up about what it was wish to movie along with her ex-husband for thus lengthy.
The El Moussas went by means of some powerful instances within the early days of Flip or Flop, and Tarek admitted he “hit all-time low” as he battled most cancers and a again harm. It didn’t get any simpler for them personally, as they break up in 2017 earlier than divorcing in 2018, and the host of Christina on the Coast and Christina within the Nation — each of which have been simply renewed by HGTV — defined how she and her ex-husband made it work. She informed US Weekly (by way of Deadline):
There have been arduous, tense days, however it wasn’t a actuality present based mostly on a wedding; it was nonetheless in regards to the homes, in order that made it simpler. We needed to present up, do our jobs after which went dwelling and didn’t have to speak to one another.
Whereas their relationship — and due to this fact the strain between them — was definitely a facet of Flip or Flop, it was finally a house renovation present. It doesn’t matter what was occurring between her and Tarek El Moussa, Christina Corridor may at all times flip the main focus again on the work after which stroll away on the finish of the day. She was not required to get on digital camera and discuss in regards to the state of their relationship, as she may need been on a distinct form of actuality present.
That doesn’t imply that their private points by no means brought on issues on set although. In 2021 it was reported that Tarek El Moussa went on a tirade towards Christina Corridor, with El Moussa reportedly calling his ex-wife a “washed up loser” and saying his then-fiancée Heather Rae Younger (now his spouse) was richer and warmer than Corridor. The exes additionally allegedly needed to movie scenes individually a number of instances, or take a day to chill off earlier than returning to set.
Such a scenario may solely final so lengthy, so it truly is smart as they every moved on of their private lives that their skilled lives would additionally begin to take completely different paths. Flip or Flop had grow to be “too intimate” of a setting for the place they have been with their new companions, they usually’ve each moved on to new exhibits with their new spouses.
Josh Corridor seems on his spouse’s HGTV sequence Christina within the Nation and Christina on the Coast, which airs at 9 p.m. ET Thursdays, and the primary season of The Flipping El Moussas, which stars Tarek and Heather Rae, wrapped on the community in April. You can too catch Christina Corridor on the Barbie Dreamhouse Problem, which airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on HGTV, and keep watch over our 2023 TV schedule for all the different upcoming premiere dates.
