Heather El Moussa, Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack.Photo:Tarek El Moussa/Instagram
Tarek El Moussa/Instagram
Heather reads a fan’s query abouther and and Christina’s similar appearances, asking Tarek, “How do you tell them apart?” Turning to her husband she asks, “Honey, I don’t know, how do you?”
Tarek replies “Oh easy, shoes.” The two women point out that they have a lot of the same shoes, which could potentially cause confusion.
Tarek, who also clocked the potential for a double meaning, cuts in, “I didn’t want to say that because I’m gonna get in trouble.”
Tarek and Christina’ssplit after seven years of marriageinvolved aharrowing incident during which Tarek fled their home with a gun and Christina called 9-1-1.He would later enter rehab and brieflylived in a halfway house. However, the co parents — they share daughter Taylor, 14, and son Brayden, 9, — continued to work together,filming several seasons ofFlip or Flopeven after they finalized their divorcein 2018.
Theirdynamic was playfully combative, with the exception of oneleaked incident in which they got into a screaming matchon set.Tarek later apologized, saying he deeply regretted the outburst.
AfterTarek met Heather in July 2019, she and Christina also clashed on occasion. A blow up during which the twogot in each other’s faces on the sidelines of Brayden’s soccer gamemade headlines in 2022.
Over the years, it seems some of those old wounds have healed andthey’ve become successful co-parents. While promotinghis memoirFlip Your Lifein 2024, Tarek told PEOPLE thathis and Christina’s relationship was “better than it’s been ever, since the separation."
The originalcouple-versus-couple concept ofThe Flip Offstill played on Christina and Tarek’s rivalry. It was intended to pit the El Moussas against Christina and her third husband,Josh Hall, before their surprise split in July 2024.
After Josh filed for divorce on July 15, 2 months after the series was announced and had already begun filming, it became 2-on-1.
Despite jokingly stressing their advantage, Tarek and Heather publicly expressed their support for Christina when her personal life was thrown into chaos again.
“We’rehere for anything she needs, honestly,” Tarek toldAccess Hollywoodon a red carpet in December 2024. “I know there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world between the co-parenting, but at the end of the day, we’re actually friends. We take care of each other, we’re really supportive.”
While they’re all still fiercely competitive in the show’shouse flipping showdown, the three have been very close for months leading up to the series premiere on Jan. 29, and after.
Theyspent Christmas together at Christina’s Newport Beach mansionwith their blended family. (Christina also shares son Hudson London, 5, with her second husband Ant Anstead, and Tarek and Heather are parents to son Tristan, 2.) They also frequently filmed the show in one another’s homes, andwent live on Instagram as a triofrom Christina’s on the night of the premiere.
Heather Rae El Moussa/Instagram
During the live,Heather accidentally called Christina’s house “our house.”
Tarek read a fan comment encouraging them to “just go your separate ways,” and replied, “What do you want me to do? I got two kids with her [motioning to Christina]. I got one kid with her [motioning to Heather]. I’m stuck in the middle!”
“We have children!!” Christina added with a laugh. “We’re stuck together forever!”
source: people.com