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Thursday 3 augusT 2023

With two HGTV shows, Christina Hall finds success in going solo

By ALICIA RANCILIO we’re filming six straight
Associated Press days, we’re filming very
HGTV star Christina Hall long days, doing six hous-
promises not to judge your es. Then there’s something
home if you invite her over. called B stories and it’s a
“There’s literally zero judg- background story of the
ment,” the TV personality show. Those are long days
said during a recent inter- and I’m not going to lie,
view. “Unless you live in a when I get back home I’m
hoarder house or it’s real wiped out. My schedule in
gross or dirty, I’m not going California is a bit easier.”
to care. I’ve lived in differ- Both “Christina” shows have
ent types of houses and been renewed for new sea-
places and situations.” sons. Hall has also consid-
As the star of two shows ered expanding her work
on the network, “Christina to encompass a “Christina
on the Coast” and “Chris- Coast to Coast- type show”
tina in the Country,” Hall because, “we can go any-
has a talent for looking at where” but hesitates from
a floorplan and picturing thinking too much about it
what could be changed to because she’s busy as is.
make a space more func- “Logistically, why it works in
tional. Tennessee is because we
She enjoys renovating This image released by HGTV shows Christina Hall host of the home improvement series “Christina have a home there. We
homes more than choosing in the Country.” have clothes there. I don’t
decor or staging for pro- Associated Press pack. We just go,” she said.
spective buyers. Flop,” showing the process tor and former police offi- ville. The TV personality says Hall says a challenge of
“I like doing the big proj- of buying, improving and cer.Her husband is featured there’s “a misconception” her job is “everyone wants
ects,” Hall explained. “I like selling a home for profit. on the shows and Hall says, that she spends more time the same look, especially in
taking down the walls and The two divorced in 2018 “I think his answer would there than she actually California.”
I like figuring out floor plans but continued to work to- be it took a minute” to get does. “Houses have certain ar-
and how to make some- gether until 2022 when “Flip comfortable on camera. “I When she takes her kids to chitecture,” she explains.
thing more functional. I love or Flop” aired its final epi- feel like it might be weird to Tennessee, it’s a getaway. “Unless you’re re-doing the
choosing kitchen material, sode after 10 seasons. be thrown in with me be- “When we go there, we architecture, you can’t
but I don’t love choosing Hall first’s solo TV ven- cause it comes naturally mostly cook at home, have have a midcentury mod-
furniture.” ture was “Christina on the and I’ve been doing it for a quiet time and we’ll be on ern house and then inside
Hall began her professional Coast,” now airing its fourth long time.” our property,” said Hall. make it a farmhouse.”
career in real estate, where season. On the show, Hall He looks back at old epi- It also serves as the back- She’s also noticed a differ-
she met her now ex-hus- balances solo projects with sodes and is like, ‘Oh, gosh’ drop for “Christina in the ence in aesthetics working
band Tarek El Moussa. After her home life in Newport and cringing.” Country.” While filming in on her two shows. “’Coun-
spending a few years flip- Beach, California. She’s a The Halls also have a vaca- Tennessee, “We’re packing try’ is more feminine overall,
ping houses, they got their mother of three and is re- tion home in Franklin, Ten- it in,” explained Hall. more wallpapers, textures,
own HGTV series “Flip or married to Josh Hall, a real- nessee, a suburb of Nash- “We go next week and a bit more glam.q

Striking writers and studios will meet this week to discuss restarting

negotiations

By ANDREW DALTON requested a meeting on Fri- “We’ll be back in commu- further information,” the of talks with either guild,
AP Entertainment Writer day to discuss the resump- nication with you some- email read. “As we’ve said a spokesperson for the
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Union tion of contract talks. time after the meeting with before, be wary of rumors. AMPTP in an email said only
leaders told striking Holly- Whenever there is impor- that “We remain commit-
wood writers Tuesday night tant news to share, you will ted to finding a path to mu-
that they plan to meet with hear it directly from us.” tually beneficial deals with
representatives for studios The AMPTP has not yet both Unions.”
to discuss restarting nego- made a similar overture Talks between screenwrit-
tiations after the first official to union leaders for Hol- ers and their employers col-
communication between lywood actors, who have lapsed on May 1, and the
the two sides since the been on strike since July 14. first of the two strikes that
strike began three months “I had hoped that we have frozen production in
ago. would already have had Hollywood began a day
The Writers Guild of Ameri- some kind of conversations later.
ca sent an email to mem- with the industry by now,” Issues behind the strike in-
bers saying that the head SAG-AFTRA Executive Di- clude pay rates amid infla-
of the Alliance of Motion rector Duncan Crabtree- tion, the use of smaller writ-
Picture and Television Pro- Ireland told The Associated ing staffs for shorter seasons
ducers, which represents Press Tuesday. “Obviously, of television shows, and
major studios, streaming Adam Shapiro poses on a picket line outside Netflix studios on that hasn’t happened yet, control over artificial intelli-
services and production Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Los Angeles. but I’m optimistic.” gence in the screenwriting
companies in negotiations, Associated Press Asked about the prospect process.q