The forthcoming holidays will look a little different for Christina Haack (formerly Hall) this year, but family will always be at the center.
This Christmas marks the first that the HGTV star celebrates since her divorce from estranged husband Josh Hall, from whom she split in the summer, after almost three years of marriage.
However, through it all she has had the support of another ex, her first husband Tarek El Moussa, and the two will be celebrating the holidays together with their kids.
This week, Tarekâs wife Heather Rae El Moussa, while at Kathy Hiltonâs DirectTV Christmas Party, opened up to Us Weekly about her and Tarekâs family plans, which include Christina and the kids.
âWe usually have [Tarek and Christinaâs kids on] Christmas day. She has them [on] Christmas Eve, but [this year] I think weâre gonna spend Christmas Eve together,â she shared, noting it was âone of the first timesâ they have done so.
Christina and Tarek were married from 2009 to 2018, and share daughter Taylor, 14, and son Brayden, eight, plus she also shares son Hudson, four, with ex-husband Ant Anstead, and Tarek shares Tristan, one, with Heather.
They are a month away from premiering their new show, The Flip Off, which was originally meant to include Josh, and the original premise focused on the two couples going head-to-head to see who could best âflipâ a house.
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Josh has since exited the show, and Christina recently said it was a relief. Speaking with Entertainment Tonight about the unraveling of her relationship with Josh and having to work with him towards the end of it, she first shared: âWhen someone is insecure about you and doesnât like to watch you win, that really puts a damper on everything.â
She added: âI feel like I was not shining as bright to try to not make him feel emasculated but who wants to live like that.â
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Plus, on what it was really like to work with him at the beginning of The Flip Off, she admitted: âIt was not fun, to be honest, I did not enjoy filming with him so having split up made this to be honest so much easier and so much better in every, every way.â
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The show has since continued filming without Josh, and Christina, looking back, further said: âThe show would have been hard to film, [there was] jealousy over Tarek,â before revealing that Josh âdoesnât like our dynamic, because Tarek and I have our own dynamic, some could call it flirty, [but] itâs more for me itâs like, a sibling type thing.â
Both Tarek and Heather are on the same page, with the latter even confessing: âI donât want to be mean but itâs kind of nice to see him go.â
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