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 …
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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 …
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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 »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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