The Biggest HGTV Feuds: Rivalry, Competition, and Scandal

Feel-good content has an underbelly full of drama. At least that is the case for HGTV, which has a lot of behind-the-scenes drama between the network’s biggest personalities. From falling-outs to divorces, some of the best shows fall victim to on-set drama.

Most of “Flip or Flop” host Christina Hall and Tarek El Moussa’s relationship played out on TV for fans. The two married in 2009, but fans of the HGTV series didn’t meet the couple until 2013. At the time, El Moussa and Hall had a toddler and would welcome their second child two years later.

But this ending wasn’t as clean as El Moussa and Hall attempted to make it seem. TMZ reports that in July 2021 the co-hosts got into a screaming match on set, with El Moussa referring to his former spouse as a “washed-up loser” while comparing her to his new wife, Heather Rae Young from “Selling Sunset.”

“Good Bones” co-stars Mina Starsiak Hawk and Cory Miller had a falling out after their show wrapped in October 2023. On her “Mina AF” podcast, Hawk revealed that she and Miller, who acted as the project manager on the Indianapolis-based HGTV show, are no longer on speaking terms.

According to Hawk, she and Miller are no longer speaking after filming eight seasons of “Good Bones.” “It’s a super bummer because I have, historically, had a great relationship with Cory,” Hawk said on her podcast. “And when things end particularly like they did, you know, people’s colors just show a little more, which is a blessing because then I have the choice to make a different choice. And so, that’s what I did.”

Alison Victoria and Donovan Eckhardt got into a whirlwind of drama during the filming of their show, “Windy City Rehab.” The Chicago-based show filmed Victoria hitting her breaking point with Eckhardt, who got his developer’s license suspended in 2019.

After the Chicago Buildings Department issued orders against developer Donovan Eckhardt and Alison Victoria to stop working after multiple building violations, Victoria couldn’t move forward with Eckhardt.

Speculations about a possible feud between Drew and Jonathan Scott and Joanna and Chip Gaines sparked in 2017. Many fans interpreted a comment Drew made to the New York Times about Joanna and Chip declining an appearance on a “Property Brothers” spinoff series as a dis toward the real estate twins.

Speaking of the “Fixer Upper” hosts and real-life couple Chip and Joanna Gaines, the two were hit with a lawsuit from former business partners John Lewis and Richard Clark. Lewis and Clark claimed that they were misled by the Gaineses and manipulated into selling part of their business before “Fixer Upper” became popular.

However, the biggest scandal to hit the “Fixer Upper’ co-hosts was the revelation that guests on the show were told to buy a house before filming ever began. This information came to light when Season 3 guest David Ridley made a guest appearance on Fox News to talk about the filming process.

David and Jason Benham were about to become HGTV stars in their own right with their show “Flip It Forward.” Why doesn’t this show ring a bell to you? Because it never aired. After the Benham brothers’ father Flip was exposed for his extreme anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ beliefs, as well as David’s anti-queer comments made at a prayer rally outside a Democratic National Convention in 2012, the show was quickly canceled.

To end this list are our favorite brother duo, the “Property Brothers.” While they are portrayed as sweet-natured on their show, reports surfaced that Jonathan Scott was involved in a bar fight in Fargo, North Dakota, in 2016.