It was time. Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack had been prepared for a change earlier than ending their HGTV collection Flip or Flop.
“They mutually agreed they didn’t wish to go forth with one other season,” a supply completely tells Us Weekly, noting that their contract was up on the present after 10 seasons. “They’re each very busy engaged on their very own initiatives and have lots happening of their private lives.”
The timing “couldn’t be higher for the each of them,” the insider says, including that making it to season 10 was a “actually massive milestone” for the previous couple.
El Moussa, 40, and Haack, 38, made their HGTV debut with the house transforming collection in April 2013 once they had been nonetheless married. They introduced their separation in 2016, finalizing their divorce two years later.
Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack on ‘Flip or Flop.’ TLC
The exes — who share daughter Taylor, 11, and son Brayden, 6 — have since continued their skilled relationship, however confirmed earlier this month that season 10 could be their final as a actuality TV duo.
“Filming Flip or Flop took up numerous time,” the supply tells Us, revealing that the previous spouses “weren’t the happiest on set collectively.”
Because the years went on, El Moussa and Haack would have “disagreements” amid filming, in accordance with the insider. (El Moussa made headlines in July 2021 after stories surfaced that he known as his ex a “washed-up loser” throughout a verbal tiff on set. He addressed the incident in September of that yr, telling Leisure Tonight, “Some selection phrases had been stated on either side,” including that he was “positive” they each “want the entire thing by no means occurred.”)
“As soon as the cameras went away you observed a unique vibe. They simply went their separate methods, did their very own factor, and would communicate to the solid and crew greater than they might one another,” the supply provides.
Their choice to concentrate on their solo initiatives with the community — El Moussa is the star of Flipping 101 and Haack helms Christina on the Coast — has been a welcomed change.
“It’s a aid for the each of them that they don’t must work collectively on set once more,” the insider tells Us. “Now they will focus extra on their spinoffs whereas nonetheless giving the followers what they need.”
Regardless of butting heads on their joint collection, the duo have remained “amicable on the subject of their children,” the supply says.
“They need their children to be joyful and wish to present their children they will make it work as coparents,” the insider explains, including that outdoors of engaged on Flip or Flop and coparenting their children they’re “not concerned in one another’s lives.”
Haack beforehand introduced the “bittersweet” conclusion of the TV present by way of Instagram on Thursday, March 10.
“Subsequent week’s episode of Flip or Flop would be the SERIES finale. I’m full of gratitude to have performed 10 seasons of successful present,” she wrote on the time. “I bear in mind filming the pilot and pondering, ‘wouldn’t this be loopy if is that this really made it to community television?’ And right here we’re, a decade later. … It’s been a wild journey to say the least!!”
El Moussa — who married Heather Rae Younger in October 2021 after two years of courting — shared his personal social media message to the followers on Thursday and thanked them for his or her continued help.
“You guys have been with us by way of all of it — you watched me beat most cancers, you’ve watched the infants develop up into essentially the most wonderful little people, and all the pieces in between,” he wrote by way of Instagram. “However I’m not going anyplace and I can promise that you’re going to love what comes subsequent!”
Following her cut up from El Moussa, Haack married Ant Anstead in December 2018. The pair welcomed their son, Hudson, in September 2019, however known as it quits one yr later.
The Wellness Transform writer moved on with Joshua Corridor and introduced in September 2021 that they had been engaged.
The collection finale of Flip or Flop airs on HGTV Thursday, March 17 at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Diana Cooper
