Christina Haack was free to say whatever she wanted about estranged husband Josh Hall after his exit from The Flip Off.
Before the HGTV series premiered, Christina got her start on Flip or Flop with then-husband Tarek El Moussa. The former couple worked on the show during their marriage — which lasted from 2009 to 2018 — and after their divorce was finalized.
Christina subsequently moved on with Ant Anstead, which led to them collaborating on Christina on the Coast before their relationship fizzled out. After her divorce from Ant, Christina moved on with Josh. She filed for divorce in July 2024 and has since been dating Christopher LaRocca. In her professional life, Christina remained on The Flip Off after Josh exited the show.
“It’s much easier to film with someone when you don’t have to go home with them. It’s not usually a good idea to film with a spouse,” Christina exclusively told Us Weekly in January 2025 about working with Tarek and his wife, Heather El Moussa. “Josh was very hard to film with. He didn’t get it.”
She continued: “He’d always get upset with me, like, ‘Oh, my gosh, you did this’ or ‘You did that.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m making a TV show.’ Ultimately, it was better that he left after episode one because the show would’ve sucked.”
Christina confirmed to Us that calling off the show was never on the table.
“This isn’t Josh’s show. No one’s going to miss that he’s not in it,” she continued. “Josh is not a TV host, he’s not a house flipper, he’s not a designer. He was just my husband in it. With Tarek, we built everything together, and I still have respect for him. I have no respect for Josh.”
Josh addressed his departure with an Instagram Story post in January 2025, which read, “TFW you can’t get enough ratings with celebrity 🏠designers so you manufactured drama with me, a nobody. @hgtv, you’ve changed.”
In response, Christina replied via her own Instagram Story, “Manufactured?! Pretty sure no one at Hgtv told you to be rude to me. … That was all natural.”
Keep scrolling for the shade Christina has thrown at Josh:
Acknowledging the Truth
“When I met Josh, my name was still Christina El Moussa on everything,” Christina, who was married to Tarek from 2009 to 2018, recalled in January 2025. “Josh did not like that and he was all about me becoming a Hall.”
Before Josh left the show, his tense relationship with Christina was featured on screen. The duo broke up before the premiere came to an end.
Pulling Back the Curtain
During the January 2025 premiere, Christina got real about what was taking place behind closed doors, telling Tarek, “Everything since 2016 has been so hard and so horrible. There are so many good things but there are so many bad things. It has really taken a bad toll on me and I feel like I try to hide it and pretend I am not affected. But then I do more stupid things to make myself feel better and I keep getting into things too fast that I know aren’t right.”
Christina told Tarek that she and Josh had officially split following a huge “blow up.”
“The kids literally asked me to leave,” she said about her and Tarek’s two children, daughter Taylor and son Brayden. “They told me he’s not nice to me. Why would I stick around?”
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On Her Own
Christina was thrilled to not have a partner on The Flip Off, saying during a February 2025 episode, “I never said I had a partner from the start. Well, I had one. But he doesn’t count.”
Trying to Move On
“While construction is happening at my flip, I have to deal with some real life stuff. I own a home in Tennessee and for the past couple of years, Josh and I had spent a lot of time there,” she explained in a February 2025 episode. “With everything that is going on and the fact that I am not spending any time there anymore, I decided it was time to get all of my stuff out of the house.”
Christina was surprised at the turn her divorce proceedings took, adding, “It is crazy. He wants to retire off me. If I would have understood the repercussions of all of this, I would have gotten a prenup or I would have never married him.”
While filming her show, Christina was looking ahead to her future.
“He thinks all of this is his even though I bought this before our marriage. He is just going to steal it all,” she claimed. “He will make me these offers. He just made me another one and it is so confusing for me why someone would want to do that to me. Especially someone who didn’t have to work for a few years taking this much advantage of me. Literally the last offer he made I thought was asinine — the next one is worse.