HGTV’s Flip Or Flop Was Filled With Behind-The-Scenes Scandals

The first of Tarek El Moussa and Christina Hall’s run-ins with the law happened in 2017 when a North Carolina man claimed that the pair owed him $37,800 for past work. Per TMZ, the man alleged that he once worked for El Moussa’s company to find homes for the couple to flip on the show but was never paid a single cent. While the two stayed silent throughout the ordeal, a source close to them told E! News that the plaintiff’s assertions were unwarranted. “It’s an absurd claim, and has no merit. Tarek and Christina have never met him,” they noted.

Two years later, the duo once again got entangled in legal issues when they were found to have endorsed real estate classes that turned out to be scammy. At the time, the FTC filed a restraining order against Zurixx, LLC, the company that was selling the seminars, for enticing unsuspecting folks into taking the classes, only for it to extort them for more cash. “From start to finish, these defendants used the promise of easy money and in-depth information to lure consumers down a path that could cost them thousands of dollars and put them in serious debt,” the FTC noted in a press release. Despite their previous endorsement of the courses, the “Flip or Flop” hosts failed to issue a statement, with HGTV taking the lead in addressing the issue instead. “HGTV, its sister networks, and its parent company are neither associated or affiliated with Zurixx, nor are we involved in any of our talents’ personal business associations with Zurixx,” they wrote, according to Fox Business.