For some fast context, Chip and Joanna — who’ve been married since 2003, and beforehand hosted the favored HGTV present Fixer Higher — are religious Christians. Again in 2016, viewers realized that the pastor of their evangelical and mission-based church seemed to be against same-sex marriage.
This raised doubts about whether or not an LGBTQ+ couple would ever function on Fixer Higher. Amid the discourse, HGTV mentioned in a statement, “We don’t discriminate towards members of the LGBT group in any of our exhibits. HGTV is proud to have a crystal clear, constant file of together with individuals from all walks of life in its collection.”
In the meantime, Chip and Joanna denied anti-gay allegations throughout a 2021 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.