The playful bickering between DeRon Jenkins and Web page Turner was a giant aspect that saved “Flip or Flop Nashville” followers coming again. However the backstory to that dynamic was difficult. Turner and Jenkins had been co-stars however had been additionally beforehand in a relationship. Which may clarify why they had been among the many HGTV {couples} with the worst on-screen chemistry. However followers had been into it. “If that is what divorce seems to be like for them, I am all for it. What we see between them is respectful and easygoing,” one viewer argued on Primetimer.

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The previous NFL player-turned-contractor and the true property agent had been tasked with replicating the success of the unique “Flip or Flop” spearheaded by Christina Haack and Tarek El Moussa, who had been married however divorced throughout their time on the present. Whereas Haack’s and El Moussa’s divorce ultimately led to the present’s cancellation after 10 seasons, Turner and Jenkins averted that situation by already being exes. That is how Turner made her case when HGTV was auditioning for {couples} to host the spinoff.

“My concept wasn’t something the manufacturing firm/community was on the lookout for, however I assumed I’d shoot my shot! So I wrote a brief therapy about my ex-boyfriend — DeRon Jenkins, who’s a contractor — and I noticed that we ‘labored nicely collectively’ — we simply did not ‘work nicely collectively,'” she informed the Grit Day by day in 2019. The present was cancelled after two seasons, however Turner went on to host “Repair My Flip” and “Love It or Listing It.” Turner and Jenkins show exes can generally depart the previous behind.

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Web page Turner and DeRon Jenkins’ optimistic relationship could recommend their break up was all roses and unicorns. It wasn’t. The truth is, it took them some time to reconnect as associates and be capable of embark on their enterprise partnership collectively. “After the traumatic breakup, sure, there was time in between,” she informed Individuals in 2019. “Pay attention, I’ve tales.” Jenkins and Turner met greater than a decade earlier than the 2018 premiere of “Flip or Flop Nashville,” when he labored because the builder in one of many houses she was displaying to a consumer.

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They dated for 5 years. “However then our relationship modified, and we did not work as nicely collectively in that capability,” Turner informed HGTV. The breakup was painful, however, as she put it to Individuals, “Are there ever actually any good breakups?” So after that they had time to course of their harm, they selected to deal with the positives. “One factor we did nicely was generate income collectively,” she stated. It additionally helped that the connection ended with respect. “We did not have this big blow up the place we simply stopped talking and all that drama,” she informed Us Weekly.

As a result of they had been within the enterprise after they met, Turner and Jenkins knew one another’s potential. “We really feel like we each are on the prime of our craft. We work nicely collectively so far as trusting. I do know what she’s gonna do, she is aware of what I am gonna do. Our expectations of one another are very real looking,” Jenkins stated.

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