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Chip Gaines Defends Having A Gay Couple On New Show
For some quick context, Chip and Joanna — who have been married since 2003, and previously hosted the popular HGTV show Fixer Upper — are devout Christians. Back in 2016, viewers learned that the pastor of their evangelical and mission-based church appeared to be against same-sex marriage. This raised doubts about whether an LGBTQ+ couple would ever feature on Fixer …
Read More »Chip Gaines pushes back at critics of gay family on new show
Chip Gaines had a few select words after Samaritan’s Purse founder Franklin Graham publicly criticized his and wife Joanna’s new HBO Max show for casting a same-sex couple with twins among the three families who are featured. Graham, who is the son of evangelist Billy Graham, wrote Saturday on X that he found it “very disappointing” to hear that Jason …
Read More »Chip Gaines Addresses Backlash Over Magnolia Network Reality Series Featuring Gay Couple: "Love One Another, It's Not Difficult" – Deadline
Chip Gaines Addresses Backlash Over Magnolia Network Reality Series Featuring Gay Couple: “Love One Another, It’s Not Difficult” Deadline Chip Gaines responds to criticism about ‘Back to the Frontier’ casting CNN Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show features a same-sex married couple. Some Christians are ‘disappointed’ Yahoo Chip Gaines defends decision to include gay couple on ‘Back to the Frontier’ show NBC News Gay …
Read More »Chip Gaines defends decision to include gay couple on ‘Back to the Frontier’ show
Television personality Chip Gaines defended the inclusion of a same-sex couple in “Back to the Frontier,” a new show featuring him and his wife, Joanna, about families who give up technology and try to live as homesteaders did in the 1800s. The show features married couple Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs and their 10-year-old twin sons, sparking backlash from prominent …
Read More »Chip Gaines defends gay couple on new show after backlash
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Monday, July 14, 2025 The “Fixer Upper” couple discuss how divorce was never an option for them as their new network is soon to launch on July 15, 2021. | Access Hollywood YouTube Screengrab Christian reality TV star Chip Gaines has defended his newest television series, which features a same-sex couple, saying it is …
Read More »Why Are Evangelicals Mad at Chip and Joanna Gaines?
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Discovery America’s premier purveyors of shiplap and open-concept living have found themselves in hot water with the Christian right. Chip and Joanna Gaines, the former king and queen of HGTV and now the rulers of their own Magnolia empire, have spent the past few days on the receiving end of some good old-fashioned Christian …
Read More »Evangelical HGTV Stars Chip and Joanna Gaines Blasted by Christians for Gay Casting in ‘Back to the Frontier’
Christian hardliners have turned on HGTV’s evangelical stars Chip and Joanna Gaines for casting a same-sex couple in a new series where families live as the pioneers did in the 1800s. Back to the Frontier premiered last week on the couple’s Magnolia Network, the cable network they co-founded with Warner Bros. Discovery. Among the couples featured on the show are …
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