Joanna and Chip Gaines have very specific roles in their business and personal lives. He handles the construction side of their fixer-upper business while she’s in charge of the decorating. However, her husband went rogue and bought a mansion without consulting her first. Now, she has to clean up the mess. Keep reading for all the details on the incident that made her the “maddest” she’s ever been at her husband.
Joanna Gaines Admits Anger After Husband Secretly Buys Mansion
Chip and Joanna Gaines were renovating homes in their Waco, Texas, hometown when HGTV took notice. Their popular Fixer Upper debuted in 2013 and had numerous spinoffs. They left the network in 2017 to focus on their family and launch the Magnolia Network. The longtime couple shares five children. It’s a lot of work.
The years of renovating took a toll and they took a break to regroup. Now they’re back with a brand-new show that came out of a tough time in their relationship. Joanna Gaines detailed on Kylie Kelce’s podcast how her husband going behind her back made her the angriest she’d ever been with him.
“Kylie… probably the maddest I’ve been at Chip,” Joanna Gaines said. “I think people really think it’s a shtick. Fixer is like, ‘Chip bought a thing and Jo has to fix it and she cries.’ I’m like, he is a sneaky butt.”
The couple usually make decisions together when choosing their next fixer-upper project. But this time, he went out on his own and purchased a 15,000-square-foot mansion in Texas. “He bought this house three-and-a-half years ago because he said he got a good deal,” she said. “He did not bring me into this corner when he was deciding on buying this 15,000-square-foot house because he got a good deal.”
Joanna Gaines put her foot down and refused to touch the house for three years.
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Joanna Gaines eventually gave in and intervened on the vacant property. “Three years later, I’m in the business and I’m running the place. I’m like, the carrying cost on this house… we have to sell it now. So, I was like, ‘Okay, Chip, we’re going to do a fix. I’m going to step in. No one has wanted this for three years,’” she explained.
She called the project the “biggest fixer” they’ve ever done. And the cameras were there to film the whole thing. The mansion’s renovation plays out on Fixer Upper: Chip Bought a Mansion. The six-part series premieres on Magnolia Network and HGTV on December 27, 2026. The home is reportedly now listed for over $7 million after Joanna Gaines worked her magic. Tune in to see how it all happened.
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