Ant Anstead, Christina Haack. Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images
Tarek El Moussa and Heather El Moussa joked that Ant Anstead wanted to rekindle his romance with Christina Haack — despite dating Renée Zellweger — because he helped her win on The Flip Off.
During the Wednesday, February 26, episode of the hit HGTV series, Christina, 41, was “feeling fabulous” about coming out on top in the last challenge.
“That is what happens when you rig games,” Tarek, 43, said, to which Christina fired back, “I didn’t rig. I can’t control what [Ant] does.”
Heather, 37, suggested that Christina and Ant, 45, were “flirting.” Tarek had a different take on the situation, adding, “I think he is just trying to win you back.”
Christina Haack and Ant Anstead‘s onscreen reunion allowed the former couple to candidly discuss their tumultuous relationship over the years. After her divorce from Tarek El Moussa, Christina, 41, found love with Ant, 45. The pair got married in 2018 and welcomed their son, Hudson, one year later. But in 2020 the duo called it […]
Christina disagreed with both of them. “No. I think he is just jealous of our relationship [and] that he got taken off the group texts,” she quipped.
Ant threw viewers — and Us — for a loop when he appeared as a guest judge on The Flip Off. The reunion between him and Christina came more than three years after their divorce was finalized. Initially, Ant appeared to be impartial but by the end of the episode, he made it clear that he was always going to choose Christina.
“You and I will be connected forever because we have a child so ultimately I have to stand by the mother of my kid,” Ant, who shares 5-year-old son Hudson with Christina, explained earlier this month. “It is not going to be something you want to hear but unfortunately it puts Christina and me on the same team forever. Because of that, this judge is swayed and she’s on my team and you guys lose.”
Christina and Ant found love after her divorce from Tarek. The pair got married in 2018 and welcomed their son, Hudson, one year later. But in 2020, the duo called it quits, finalizing their divorce the following year and going through a legal battle over their son.
“Ant and I split up when Hudson was 1 and now he is 5. Between the time of his first birthday and fifth, we did not communicate a lot,” Christina explained. While she moved on with Josh Hall, Ant started dating the Zellweger, 55.
Christina credited her 2024 split from Josh, 44, for helping her reconnect with Ant.
“After Josh and I split up, I went over to his house to pick up Hudson and he gave me a huge hug. We hadn’t hugged in years and he said, ‘I am so sorry for everything you are going through and I am here for you no matter what you need,’” she explained. “It was a very nice moment and we had a very long talk after. We decided to put all the BS aside and be good coparents.”
Later in Wednesday’s episode, Christina opened up about her difficult split from Josh, saying, “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. 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 to find out how tense the situation would be.
“It is crazy. He wants to retire off me,” she claimed while speaking to a friend on the show. “If I would have understood the repercussions of all of this, I would have gotten a prenup or I would have never married him.”
Christina noted that she couldn’t wait for the divorce to be done. “He thinks all of this is his even though I bought this before our marriage,” she added. “He is just going to steal it all.”
She continued: “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.
Josh previously slammed mentions of him on the show after he left one episode in. “TFW you can’t get enough ratings with celebrity 🏠designers so you manufactured drama with me, a nobody. @hgtv, you’ve changed,” he wrote via Instagram in January, to which Christina replied via her own Story, “Manufactured?! Pretty sure no one at Hgtv told you to be rude to me. … That was all natural.”
The Flip Off airs on HGTV Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET and is available to stream the same day on Max and Discovery+.
