A Couple Who Appeared On Fixer Upper Revealed Just How Real The Show Actually Is

a couple who appeared on fixer-upper revealed just how real the show actually [Music] is but before we start please make sure to subscribe to m r tv and hit the bell so you never miss any upload from us also leave a like right now whether you're a big fan or a casual viewer everybody knows about fixer-upper's easy to like star hosts chip and joanna gaines and like everybody else you'll probably have one pressing question are they for real well wonder no more as folks who have appeared on the series have come forward about their experiences on set and tantalizingly they've revealed a secret that chip and joanna gaines can no longer deny as much as they might like to try yes in june 2018 country living magazine got the lowdown from someone who had actually been on an episode of fixer-upper photographer rachel white and her husband luke featured on season three of the smash hit hdtv offering as avid followers of the show may still remember and they had some stories to tell rachel actually knew the hosts before her tv appearance too she had worked for magnolia chip and joanna's company she had even been the gaines employee while season three of the show was being produced what's more everyone involved rachel luke joanna and chip were all alumni of baylor university in waco texas so if anyone knew the host's dirty secrets it was going to be them rachel and luke had in fact been acquainted with joanna and chip before the pair had become famous and the photographer offered country living a glimpse of what the pair were like off camera she said joanna can be more reserved when she's in work mode while chip is pretty much always extroverted and down to chat with anyone he's around so one aspect of the show that apparently was real was the chemistry between the gains in the couple's 2016 book the magnolia story joanna wrote one pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time me and chip spent together the better our relationship was sweet right joanna went on i think a lot of couples feel the need to get away from each other now and then to take little breaks and they come back after a girls weekend or a guy's fishing trip or something all refreshed and happy to reconnect because they missed each other we were just the opposite and still are so far so good but what about the juicy details well rachel explained that she and luke had actually mulled over potentially appearing on the show before the first episode had even aired she told country living we knew that the house we were in at the time wasn't our long-term home and we were trying to decide whether or not to move before or after baby number two the photographer went on we started looking at houses online and we found a few fixer-uppers that were options i knew i did not want to buy one unless we could get magnolia to do it i wasn't interested in renovating anything ourselves then a couple of months after sending in their application rachel and luke were in front of the fixer-upper cameras this put them in the perfect position to find out the gains a secret but of course the pair weren't the only people to be looking for a new home on the series nor have they been the only ones to tell all in february 2016 jamie ferguson who had appeared on the episode a big fix for a house in the woods spoke to blogger rachel teodoro about her own time on the show and for her part jamie had nothing but praise for chip and joanna chip is 100 a goofball she told teodoro jamie pointed out that he must make hard work for the show's editors having to decide what moments of hilarity to keep in the final cut jamie also explained to teodoro i was in awe of joanna during our real estate filming day because she was constantly thinking about different cool things about each house i think she's just immensely gifted at what she does and that's not all she had to say when jamie was asked about the unrealistic show budget she said i can only speak for our experience but the budget is definitely real and the cost of the house itself of course the amount of work the house needs is a big factor but as with most places prices can vary significantly across waco depending on the area neighborhood or even the street of the property you're viewing still jamie revealed you don't get to keep all of the furniture seen on screen a lot of it is just for staging although the furniture is offered to the clients but how could you possibly choose what to keep and what to let go of jamie said we had to decide what we really loved because our budget at that point was pretty spent jamie added joanna gifted some of the music room items that she had custom made for kyle so special still not every fixer-upper client has left so content in november 2016 a man called david ridley the first bachelor to be a client on the show took his own thoughts about it all to the media and what he had to say was eye-opening speaking to fox news david alleged that the part a fixer-upper where chip and joanna choose from three possible houses was all faked for the cameras he told the broadcaster you have to be under contract to be on the show they show you other homes but you already have one after they select you the show's staff send your house to chip and joanna and their design team the fox news journalist added in their report a close look at the show's application seems to corroborate david's claim some questions on the application imply that in many cases applicants for the show have either already purchased or at least selected their future homes without the help of the gains pair the application also includes a portion where homeowners are told to upload photos of the home the fact that many homeowners featured on the show have already honed in on or purchased their houses without the help of the gains seems to be an open secret the writer continued a waco tribune herald article from back in 2014 when the show first hit the air described how various couples featured on the program already own their homes the show's application is in no way trying to conceal that many applicants may already have a home the waco tribune herald piece did indeed mention that at least one fixer-upper participant had already purchased their home it also featured a quote from chip himself who said the program is going to show people what's possible in their own backyard i pray to god that other people take this leap of faith because it's worth it in response to david's claims though hgtv ended up releasing a statement this read pixar upper fans enjoy the series because it focuses on the playful banter between chip and joe their home renovation expertise innovative design tips and families who get the help they need to transform a fixer-upper into the home of their dreams and although the last episode of fixer-upper aired in 2018 the show hadn't ended because of any allegations of fakery rather chip had thought it was time to move on apparently one tweet of complaint from a customer had been the final straw the message directed at chip had read it's been three weeks and i still haven't gotten my wreath what's up in his 2017 book capital gains smart things i learned doing stupid stuff the tv star claimed that this grievance had changed everything for him this meant ultimately that he decided to quit fixer-upper chip wrote in the book suddenly filming the tv show looked like the job that had seduced me into giving my precious time that i had always promised would be reserved for my true loves my family and my business how had this side gig found its way to competing with the very things that meant more to me than anything else in the world chip subsequently concluded that fixer-upper was consuming his life he added so much time has been allocated to filming that the details of the business were slipping we had been driving so hard for so long and i had this sense that if i kept my foot on the gas we might be headed for disaster but even after fixer-upper came to an end people were still interested in what had gone on behind the scenes and could have been potentially fabricated to make for good tv that's where rachel came in and the former employee of the games decided to tell country living magazine everything she knew rachel explained to the publication we were unique in that we lived in the home for five weeks before renovations began so that was interesting and we basically lived as nomads for the entire time the house was being renovated we slept in 17 different beds in four months it was an adventure nonetheless she added it was uncomfortable at times because we like most people aren't used to having cameras around us rachel went on but what happens really is real the producers might have you repeat things a few times and they might film things multiple times from different angles but the reactions and conversations are real the hard thing is remembering what you said before when asked to repeat it before the episode's filming rachel and luke apparently had to create a budget the photographer revealed you have to sign off on your budget at the beginning and we actually didn't have any surprises come up during filming the budget goes toward your wish list but the design team will also make decisions about what you think the home needs to be a tv worthy renovation and reportedly joanna requests pinterest boards from her clients rachel added to country living i put a white house with gray shutters on my pinterest board and they really went with that concept we were also unique in that luke and i both created pinterest boards so joanna had the challenge of making us both happy however something else rachel revealed may have come as a surprise to fans apparently she and luke had only actually met joanna face to face on two occasions throughout the whole process yet the host had frequently been in touch to keep the couple informed of what was going on and altogether rachel was very happy with the work done on the show rachel concluded overall we were pretty hands off and fully trusted chip and joanna our only real desires were that the exterior of the house be painted white that the kitchen was light and airy and that there was some element of mountain ruggedness to satisfy luke they gave us all that and more we were pretty set on the house we now live in but they did show us two other homes like you see on the show and we considered the other options that were shown to us rachel continued even though i had seen our home before our official tour with chip and joe my negative reaction to how it looked was genuine i was seriously hesitant that they would be able to make the house look good the country living writer then asked rachel how legitimate the show's reveal day was and while the photographer responded that she had indeed closed her eyes while being driven up to the house she continued i snuck a peek to see if the house was white and i was able to see that it was so i could rest easy and the rest would be smooth sailing yes both the reveal day and the tearing down of the big poster captured genuine reactions according to rachel she added how it happens on tv is how it happens in real life at this point in filming she and luke had been escorted from room to room to see what they thought an element of the process that the photographer has described as a sensory overload rachel said they film you walking into each room then they have you talk about your first reaction and they might film you walking into the room again having to focus on one room at a time is hard because you want to just see it all she also admitted that before the cameras had started rolling she tried to practice looks of surprise and rachel did spill at least one secret that fixer-upper fans may not know not all of her house was fixed up she said magnolia only renovated the parts of our house that were seen on the show as well as one additional bedroom we did the other two bedrooms and bathrooms ourselves after moving in in an effort to save money in hindsight we should have had chip and joanna do it all rachel was also asked whether or not she and luke got to keep the furniture seen on the show this was apparently among the most frequent queries she had fielded following her tv appearance and she replied i think it's so funny because you wouldn't want to get rid of all your furniture they give you an itemized list of how much everything costs at the end to see if you want to purchase things at a discounted price so while things behind the scenes might not be exactly how they appear on the screen they are pretty close to reality and at least one of chip and joanna's clients seem happy in her 2016 interview with rachel teodoro jamie described the experience of being on fixer-upper as wonderful even so in 2018 chip told cowboys and indians magazine that the show hadn't felt real enough for him he went on the more stage something becomes the more required something becomes it boxes me up and i felt like toward the end of the fixer-upper journey i felt caged and trapped the tv star continued joe and i couldn't figure it out i mean why you're getting to have all this fun right but it's like if i put a camera in your face and said hey say something funny or if i put a camera in your face and say hey be smart i just struggled with that environment especially at the end of it but not all is lost for the fans of fixer-upper and the gains family you see chip and joanna announced in 2018 that they would be creating their own lifestyle network magnolia tv is set to appear as far as everyone knows sometime in 2021 and that's definitely exciting news for those who love the couple's own chirpy brand of reality television [Music]