The decision to endFlip or Flopwas a long time coming, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Now, a source tells PEOPLE that the show’s end, while announced abruptly just a week before it was to happen, was no surprise to those in the know.
“The writing has been on the wall for a while,” the insider explains. “It was not sudden.”
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Flip or Flopfollows formerly-married couple El Moussa, 40, and Haack, 38, and their house flipping projects. The series is currently airing its tenth season, which premiered last year.
Though the show primarily followed the former couple’s business together, it also often documented how they navigated their changing relationship and co-parenting their two children, Taylor, 11, and Brayden, 6, after theirsplit in 2016.
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Continuing to work together years after their split, however, became “too intimate” for Haack and El Moussa, a source previously told PEOPLE.
“Tarek and Christina are generally cordial. They’re co-parenting and nothing gets in the way of that,” the source said. “The show was just too intimate of a setting at this point and it was time to close that chapter.”
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A blow-up on set last summer also brought tensions between the exes to light.
In July 2021, PEOPLE confirmed an incident in whichTarek screamed at Haack on set. He unleashed a verbal tirade, reportedly comparing her to his now-wife Heather Rae El Moussa and calling her a “washed-up loser,” according toTMZ, who first reported on the incident.
A source later told PEOPLETarek was “super remorseful"that he “lashed out,” but noted, “They’re exes who share a history and children and a workplace, but outside of coparenting, they’re not friends.”
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Both Haack and Tarek have moved on to new relationships since they went their separate ways.
Haackbegan datingCelebrity IOU: Joyridehost Ant Ansteadin October 2017, and they got married in asurprise backyard ceremonyat their home in December 2018. They welcomed a son, Hudson London, now 2, butsplit less then a year after his birth in September 2020. Theirdivorce was finalizedin June 2021.
In July 2021, PEOPLE confirmed thatHaack was in a new relationshipwith Josh Hall, an Austin-based realtor. The pairannounced they are engaged in September.
source: people.com
