From fixer-uppers to falling in love! Celebrity couples are a staple on home renovation shows, from Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines to Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young).Chip and Joanna, for their part, rose to fame in 2013 when HGTV premiered Fixer Upper.
The reality TV series centered around the married couple’s construction and design business — featuring lots of shiplapped walls! — around their local town of Waco, Texas.“One thing Jo learned from Chip is you have to take risks or you don’t get anywhere.
They’re opposites that work really well together,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly of the Magnolia Network founders’ secret to a successful marriage. “Chip’s the creative one, she’s the practical one who’s good at organizing.
He gets an idea for a project and she’ll bring it down to earth and do the math and they’ll come up with a plan and a budget.”Fresh off the initial Fixer Upper success, Chip and Joanna — who share five children — saw their Magnolia boutique grow before opening up other businesses including a real estate agency, an interior design firm and a restaurant.
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