Quick Thoughts #1 How I Know Chip Gaines Is A Fraud.
HGTV's Chip Gaines, and his wife Joanna, have a house flipping show called Fixer Upper.
They have a hokey folksy farm life style, and they try to portray that in themselves.
They say folksy homespun things, they have a farm with animals, they appear a lil bit naive or aloof, and they have 4 kids who eat ice cream on the porch and they say they dont have a Tv, plus the Christianity.
Its adorable, and I used to love them...
If they are on, I flip on thru and dont stop, I dont buy their merchandise or read their magazine.
WHY?
Its not the homophobia or the sex scandal of their alma mater Baylor University that they refuse to acknowledge
(Note: They have tons of Baylor Sports Department workers on the show, making me give a side eye.) although that is part of it.
Its the FRAUD...
Today I was cleaning my bathroom and laundry room and I left Fixer Upper on after Flip or Flop.
They were showing Season 1 Episode 7 and they were talking about adding shutters on barn door wheels to the windows and Chip, with total seriousness tells Joanna that when he was a kid they strapped metal wheels like that to their shoes and went roller skating!
COME ON CHIP! YOU CAN BE FOLKSY WITHOUT LYING!
You are trying too hard.
Chip? I am around 10 yrs older than you both and the above picture is my roller skates from when I was in my early teens. The wheels lit up. We had technology! You and Joanna werent poor, you could afford a pair of roller skates or the roller blades that your era had. You arent from the 1950s. You grew up in a city called Waco, not a rural town with a population of 100 and one stop light.
Im sure HGTV has made you play up your hokiness and folksy language, but in the end it will bite you in the ass, when all the other lies and things you hide from your fans start being uncovered. Ive seen too many Blind Items on Blind Gossip that have to be you, to think you arent hiding something.
Everyone hides things.
Why not just be honest from jump?
Or would being honest not be as profitable?
Why are these folksy hokey people so damn appealing as role models ?
Why do people think they are honest?
Why do people fall for the fantasy time and time again?
And lastly
Why do the Role Models allow themselves to be painted as angelic only to inevitably fall from grace a few years in?
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