Chip and Joanna Ga and the anti-gay ntroversy over HGTV's Fixer Upper, explaed - Vox

Contents:

• ‘PROPERTY BROTHERS’ DREW AND JONATHAN STT ADDRS GAY RUMORS
• IT’S TIME TO PUT THOSE PKY GAY RUMORS TO RT ABOUT THE ‘PROPERTY BROTHERS’
• CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED
• HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!
• HGTV FLIPS FOR GAYS NEW HOME IMPROVEMENT SHOW ‘DOWN TO THE STUDS’ (VIO)
• BENHAM BROTHERS LOSE HGTV SHOW AFTER ‘ANTI-GAY’ REMARKS
• EXPLORG THE TTH: ADDRSG GAY RUMORS SURROUNDG THE PROPERTY BROTHERS
• NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'
• HOW THE PROPERTY BROTHERS BEME YOUR MOM’S FAVORE TV STARS BROTHERLY LOVEAFTER UNTLS RENOVATNS FOR STRANGERS, THE PROPERTY BROTHERS ARE VG YOU TO THEIR HOME. FIRST, THEY DISPEL MORS (THEY’RE NOT GAY!) AND SHARE THEIR SECRETS TO SUCCS.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 7:06PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 25, 2014 5:45AM EST SCRIPPS NETWORKS INTERACTIVEIT’S BEEN 20 YEARS SCE DREW AND JONATHAN STT GOT TO FIGHT.BETTER KNOWN AS THE PROPERTY BROTHERS, THE SIBLGS—TW TANS OF REAL TATE AND SIGN WHO ARE LG AND REVENTG HGTV—CERTALY SEEM TO GET ALONG. THEIR WSOME FORMULA OF JOVIAL TEASG AGAST THE BACKDROP OF MAJOR HOME RENOVATNS HAS MA THEIR DOCKET OF REALY PROGRAMMG THE MOST MASTREAM SUCCS STORY OF THEIR GENRE SCE TLC’S TRADG SPAC AND ABC’S EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDN TOOK OVER THE ZEGEIST A AGO.PROPERTY BROTHERS, BUYG AND SELLG, AND BROTHER VS. BROTHER—AND THEIR PABLE, HOPELSLY ADDICTG HGTV MARATHONS—HAVE ELEVATED THE STT BROTHERS TO REALY TV JUGGERNT STAT, NOT TO MENTN THE DISTCTN OF YOUR MOM’S FAVORE TELEVISN PERSONALI. IN FACT, HGTV HAS ENSURED THAT AT LEAST ONE OF THEIR SHOWS AIRS A BRAND NEW EPISO EACH WEEK OF THE YEAR.THAT MEANS THAT WHEN THEY’RE NOT SPENDG MONTHS TOGETHER CI ALL OVER NORTH AMERI SUTG FOR REAL TATE, RENOVATG HO, AND SHOOTG THEIR VAR SERI, THEY’RE TRAVELG THE GLOBE DOG PRS AND PROMOS. THAT’S A LOT OF TIME FOR BROTHERS TO SPEND TOGETHER. PERHAPS AN IMPOSSIBLE AMOUNT OF TIME, IF THEY DIDN’T GENUELY GET ALONG. IT’S PERHAPS UNSURPRISG TO LEARN, THEN, THAT ’S BEEN TWO S SCE THE TWS OM VANUVER GOT TO A KNOCK-DOWN, DRAG-OUT FIGHT. “DREW WAS BEG ANNOYG ABOUT SOMETHG,” JONATHAN SAYS MATTER-OF-FACTLY, STRAG HIS BRA FOR THE TAILS OF THEIR LAST TIFF. THEY WERE THEIR LATE TEENS AT THE UNIVERSY OF CALGARY. THE TAILS WERE SO SIGNIFINT THAT HE DON’T EVEN REMEMBER THEM, JT THAT, “I GOT SO ANGRY THAT I CLENCHED MY TEETH SO HARD THAT I BROKE THEM.” AFTER A SEARCHG BEAT, DREW ADDS, “AND THAT WAS THE LAST FIGHT WE HAD.”YOU’D THK THAT SUCH A ROW WOULD BE REALY-TV GOLD. BUT THAT’S NOT THE PROPERTY BROTHERS. STILL, OVER THE URSE OF A TWO-HOUR LUNCH NEW YORK CY, A BRIEF STOPOVER ON THE TWS’ DIZZYG TRAVEL SCHLE, I TRIED TO ME TAILS OF MORE DT-UPS BETWEEN THE APPARENTLY FALLIBLE TV HOSTS, THE APPARENT BEANS OF BROTHERLY LOVE.BUT TO NOT AVAIL. NOT DURG THEIR METEORIC RISE THE PAST THREE YEARS, DURG WHICH THEY’VE BEE THE FACE OF HGTV: “THE BLE EQUIVALENT OF BOX-OFFICE MOVIE STARS,” AS HGTV PRINT KATHLEEN FCH PUTS ; “REALY TELEVISN’S CRACK E,” AS WE’VE ONCE SAID OURSELV AT THE DAILY BEAST. AND NOT, EHER, DURG THE MASSIVE RENOVATN OF THE PALATIAL LAS VEGAS HOME THEY SHARE TOGETHER, THE PROCS OF WHICH IS BRAND “THEIR BIGGT REMOL YET” A HGTV SPECIAL, PROPERTY BROTHERS AT HOME, THAT WILL AIR WEDNDAY NIGHT.(THEIR PLUG FOR THAT: “PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ASKG WHAT WE WOULD DO IF WE ULD SIGN OUR OWN PLACE,” DREW SAYS. “NOW YOU N SEE .” AND HOW’D THE CANADIANS END UP VEGAS? “I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A POLE DANCER, AND THIS WAS A GOOD OPPORTUNY,” JONATHAN JOK.)FAY MEMBERS SURVIVG A RENOVATN WHOUT A FIGHT? AS SHOULD BE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR AT THIS POT, WHETHER ’S BUILDG A NEW HOME S CY OR BUILDG A REALY TV EMPIRE, THERE IS ONE, UNSHAKABLE SECRET TO THE STT BROTHERS’ SUCCS: THEY REALLY DO JT GET ALONG.***NOT THAT GETTG ALONG IS ALWAYS EASY.“DREW IS THE MOST PETIVE MAN ALIVE,” JONATHAN SAYS. “IT DON’T MATTER IF WE’RE JT GETTG THE R, HE HAS TO BE FIRST. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU GO ON SOCIAL MEDIA, I HAVE WAY MORE FOLLOWERS THAN HE DO.”DREW, NATURALLY, WASN’T GOG TO LET THAT ONE GO TOO EASILY. “I THK OM PROPERTY BROTHERS, MOST WOMEN OUT THERE LOVE THE GUY WHO GETS HIS HANDS DIRTY,” HE SAYS. “THAT WHY JONATHAN HAS THE LARGER FOLLOWG.” (THE FORMULA OF MOST OF THEIR PROGRAMS HAS DREW DOG THE HOE HUNTG AND JONATHAN DOG THE SIGN AND NSTCTN.) THEN HE THROWS THE RIBBG RIGHT BACK. “BUT I’M THE BANE OF HIS EXISTENCE, THAT HE LOS EVERY PETN,” HE SAYS, ZEROG ON THE HGTV BATTLE OF THE BROTHERS REALY SERI THAT JT FISHED S SEND SEASON THIS SUMMER. “I WON BOTH BROTHER VS. BROTHER SEASONS 1 AND 2.”THEN, AS HE DUTIFULLY, YET EARNTLY, ALWAYS DO, DREW BACK TO A POSIVE PLACE: THE MSAGE. “EVEN AS KIDS WE WERE NEVER PETIVE THE SENSE OF KNOCKG EACH OTHER DOWN, WAS MORE ABOUT HELPG PH EACH OTHER UP.” THANKFULLY, BEFORE THGS GET TOO MDL, JONATHAN CHIM: “THOUGH IF ’S A BOARD GAME OR SOMETHG, I DON’T MD CHEATG TO W. IF WILL PISS HIM OFF.” A HEARTY LGH ENSU.THAT THE TWO HAVE A HEALTHY WORKG RELATNSHIP—AND IMPLSIBLY HEALTHY ONE, REALLY, FOR THOSE OF WHO HAVE BROTHERS—IS PERHAPS OWED TO THE FACT THAT THEY’VE BEEN BS TOGETHER FOR THREE S.THEY WERE JT 7-YEARS-OLD WHEN THEY STARTED THEIR FIRST BS, JAM ENTERPRIS, SELLG HANGERS WRAPPED NYLON—“LIKE YOU’D SEE YOUR GRANDMA’S CLOSET,” DREW SAYS—DOOR TO DOOR. “WE JT GREW AND GREW AND THEN WE ACTUALLY MET A WOMAN WHO HAD A CHA OF AMERIN PARAPHERNALIA STOR JAPAN AND SHE STARTED BUYG THEM BY THE THOANDS,” JONATHAN ADDS.WHEN THEY WERE STUNTS AT THE UNIVERSY OF CALGARY THEY BEGAN READG REAL TATE BOOKS. USG THEIR NEW VTMENT KNOWLEDGE (THE PLEXI OF WHICH WERE EXPLAED TO ME AND PROMPTLY WENT WAY OVER MY HEAD, ILLUMATG JT HOW TRICKY REAL TATE N BE—AND HOW CLEVER THE BROTHERS ARE AT ), THEY BOUGHT A $250,000 HOE FOR JT $250 DOWN. AFTER A REHAB, THEY FLIPPED FOR A $50,000 PROF. THEY WERE 18.WH DOLLAR SIGNS THEIR EY, JONATHAN GOT A GREE NSTCTN AND SIGN, DREW BEME A LICENSED REAL TATE, AND A BS—AND REER EXTRIBLY TIED TOGETHER—WAS BORN.THERE HAVE BEEN TIM OVER THE YEARS, PRR TO THEIR RECENT TV VENTUR THAT HAVE THEM HAPPILY ATTACHED AT THE HIP, THAT THE BROTHERS DID SEPARATE. AROUND 2005, DREW FLEW WT TO PURSUE A REER ACTG WHILE JONATHAN RAN THE BS CALGARY. (IN FACT, BOTH BROTHERS HAVE ACTG IMDB CREDS: DREW ON SMALLVILLE AND JONATHAN ON THE X-FIL.) BUT ULTIMATELY, WAS TV THAT UNED THE BROTHERS AGA. DREW HAD BEEN SENT OUT FOR SOME HOSTG GIGS. PRODUCTN PANI HE WAS WORKG WH DISVERED THAT HE HAD A TW BROTHER THE RENOVATN DTRY. THE RT IS HISTORY.IT’S, OF URSE, NOT JT THEIR BUYG, SELLG, AND SIGN EXPERTISE THAT MAK THEIR SHOWS SO POPULAR. THE ARE GUYS WHO KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOG, WHO HAVE PERFECTED THE BALANCE OF OPEN-BOOK NDOR AND MEASURED LIKABILY THAT IS THE HALLMARK OF CELEBRY SUCCS TODAY’S SOCIAL-MEDIA DRIVEN WORLD.THEY PURPORT TO BE OPEN BOOKS AND GENUELY SEEM TO ENJOY BEG ASKED PERSONAL QUTNS THAT, FOR ONCE, STRAY OM THEIR PERSONAL TAST RATG. WHEN ASKED WHAT’S THE MOST ANNOYG QUTN ABOUT BEG TWS THEY ARE ALWAYS ASKED, JONATHAN DONS A MISCHIEVO GR. “WHEN YOU HAVE SEX DO HE FEEL …?” HE LGHS. DREW SHAK HIS HEAD MOCK DISMAY.AND WHEN I START TO MENTN THAT THE FIRST THG TO SURFACE WHEN THEIR NAM ARE GOOGLED ARE ARTICL ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE SGLE (DREW IS NOT; JONATHAN IS), JONATHAN TERPTS, “I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOG TO SAY, ‘ARE THE PROPERTY BROTHERS GAY?’” HE SAYS. “THAT’S THE NUMBER ONE THG THAT UP.” THEY BOTH LGH, SWEAR THEY AREN’T, AND SURMISE THAT THE SPECULATN BEE THEY HAVE AN EYE FOR SIGN, ARE WELL-GROOMED AND WELL DRSED (DREW HAS OVER 200 SUS HIS CLOSET), AND THE WORLD TRAS STEREOTYP. “IT’S A PLIMENT,” DREW SAYS, WH A SELF-PRETG CHUCKLE THAT BE A REA OUR NVERSATN. “PEOPLE SAY ALL THE BT LOOKG GUYS ARE GAY.” NOT THAT THGS HAVEN’T GONE TOO FAR. “THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO POSTED THE OTHER DAY THAT, ‘THE PROPERTY BROTHERS ARE A LTLE TOO CLOSE,’” JONATHAN SAYS. DREW OWNS: “GROSS.”BUT AS OPEN AS THEY ARE, THEY ARE ALSO BSMEN WHO KNOW THEIR BRAND AND ARE THEIR BT, MOST DILIGENT MARKETERS.FEW QUTNS, NO MATTER HOW FUN AND SILLY, GO BY WHOUT CIRCLG BACK TO THEIR ACPLISHMENTS OR FUTURE PROJECTS. DON’T BOTHER ASKG WHAT KD OF TOLL THEIR BY SCHL TAK ON THEIR LIV. (DREW IS ONLY HOME TWO WEEKS A YEAR, FOR CHRISTMAS.) THEY THRIVE ON PACKED SCHL, THEY SAY, AND TAKE PLEASURE WORKG AROUND THE CLOCK.JONATHAN MAY BE LS ENTHIASTIC ON THAT LATTER POT, TAKG THE OPPORTUNY TO MOCK A RECENT TRIP TO PARIS HE TOOK WH DREW AND HIS GIRLIEND, ON WHICH DREW TOOK A BS LL WH THEIR THE TOP OF THE EIFFEL TOWER. “THERE WAS GREAT RECEPTN,” DREW JOK, ADDG THAT PERHAPS HE AND HIS GIRLIEND, A FELLOW WORKAHOLIC, ENABLE EACH OTHER. “FOREPLAY FOR THEM IS GETTG THEIR EMAILS CHECK,” JONATHAN SAYS.AND WHILE THEY ARE REHGLY NDID AND THOUGHTFUL AND JT GENERALLY FUN, THEY DON’T WANT TO A GOOD THG. ASK ABOUT THE LAS VEGAS-DWELLG, SUPER RICH, SUPER SUCCSFUL BOYS—ONE OF WHOM IS, AGA, FAMOLY SGLE—ABOUT THEIR VIC, AND THEIR ANSWERS ARE DUTIFULLY CHASTE AND PEOPLE-MAGAZE APPROVED.“HNTED HO,” SAYS JONATHAN. “I’M A HEALTH NUT,” DREW SWEARS. SUCH BAD BOYS.THE LIVELIT THE BROTHERS GET THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON IS WHEN THEY START TALKG ABOUT WHAT WAS LIKE WHEN PROPERTY BROTHERS WAS FIRST STARTG OUT. IT WAS AN UNLIKELY SUCCS STORY. HGTV PASSED ORIGALLY. HGTV CANADA PASSED, TOO. AND THEIR RPECTIVE PHYSIL APPEARANC, WHICH HAVE BEE OBJECTS OF FASCATN FOR THEIR LEGNS OF FANS, WERE TRAGIC.“THEY DID JONATHAN’S HAIR UP LIKE A LN MANE,” DREW REMEMBERS, CRGG. “AND THEY DID MY HAIR UP LIKE ROBERT PATTSON. I LOOKED TERRIBLE.”BUT THE SHOW UGHT ON. THEY BEME THE FAC OF HGTV. THE HAIR TAMED SELF; THEIR LOOK BEME MORE FLATTERG.AND THROUGH ALL, THEY NEVER, EVER FOUGHT. PERHAPS A NONFICTN TV CLIMATE RIFE WHOUT HOEWIV FLIPPG TABL, AT BOYS BRAWLG AFTER TOO MANY TEQUILA SHOTS, AND MEMBERS OF AN ALLEGED DYNASTY OF DUCKS TRADG FLAMMATORY ASSERTNS, ’S A CHANGE OF PACE THAT IS AS SATISFYG AS A SUCCSFUL RENOVATN.“PEOPLE HAVE SEEN SIGN SHOWS BEFORE, WH BETIFUL BEFOR AND AFTERS,” SAYS JONATHAN. “SO ’S THE RELATNSHIP. YOU N THROUGH TWO RANDOM HOSTS TOGETHER TO DO A SHOW AND YOU’RE NOT GOG TO HAVE THE SAME RELATNSHIP AS WH SOMEONE WHO SAT ON YOUR HEAD FOR NE MONTHS WHEN YOU WERE THE WOMB.” KEV FALLON
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‘PROPERTY BROTHERS’ DREW AND JONATHAN STT ADDRS GAY RUMORS

HGTV stars Drew and Jonathan Stt have bee thory figur when to home sign and renovatn, but wh the Canadian cuti also earng hunk stat, some fans are more terted their personal liv than some are also wonrg if the two are an terview wh Closer Weekly as part of the Chase Home Lendg event New York Cy, the two opened up about their personal liv addn to talkg home ownership, and revealed they are happy their rpective relatnships and are not gay.

"Good lookg guys wh good lookg signs, they have to be gay!

IT’S TIME TO PUT THOSE PKY GAY RUMORS TO RT ABOUT THE ‘PROPERTY BROTHERS’

And no, they’re not gay. “Good lookg guys wh good lookg signs, they have to be gay!

CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED

But the Ga’ populary — alongsi speculatn about their offscreen relig beliefs and polics — has land them at the center of an anti-gay ntroversy. In particular, their fah and their beliefs on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights have e to qutn due to the anti-gay views held by the pastor of their church. BuzzFeed brought up qutns about the Ga’ pastor and why Fixer Upper never featur gay upl.

HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!

And why hasn’t Fixer Upper ever featured a gay uple while other HGTV shows have — is bee the hosts believe what Seibert preach?

Specifilly, she c Seibert’s ments that most LGBTQ people are LGBTQ bee they were abed, and that he believ ’s possible for gay people to bee straight if they m to dog so:. I’ve worked wh people for over 30 years — I have seen hundreds of people personally change their directn of same-sex attractn om a homosexual liftyle to a heterosexual liftyle. Conversn therapy is banned five stat and Washgton, DC; the Amerin Psychologil Associatn stat that nversn therapy and ex-gay mistry (the ia that sexualy n be changed through relign) n be dangero:.

[S]uch efforts [nversn therapy or ex-gay mistry] have ser potential to harm young people bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay, and bisexual youth is a mental illns or disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. What we do know is that there hasn’t been a gay uple featured on any of Fixer Upper’s 40-pl episos to date (the upl featured also tend to be whe); that fact was the apparent impet for Aurthur’s article.

HGTV FLIPS FOR GAYS NEW HOME IMPROVEMENT SHOW ‘DOWN TO THE STUDS’ (VIO)

Is the lack of gay upl featured on Fixer Upper the Ga’ choice, and if is, then is discrimatn?

BENHAM BROTHERS LOSE HGTV SHOW AFTER ‘ANTI-GAY’ REMARKS

Ameri’s gay muni are bet wh elevated rat of anxiety, prsn, substance abe, and suici. The roundabout logic French — that gay people would be ls sad if they jt listened to God, whom he argu has told people that ’s okay to discrimate agast gay people and make said gay people sad — is really somethg. There’s a b of glossg over of Seibert’s quot about nversn therapy and discrimatn agast gay upl (you n hear those quot full this 2015 sermon he gave rponse to the legalizatn of same-sex marriage), as well as generalizg the BuzzFeed piece wh the claratn that “liberals hate the Christian fah.

As mentned above, 2014 the channel nceled a proposed show, Flip It Forward, bee s hosts, David and Jason Benham, were volly anti-gay.

EXPLORG THE TTH: ADDRSG GAY RUMORS SURROUNDG THE PROPERTY BROTHERS

David Benham spoke to a nservative talk show September 2012 and said, “Homosexualy and s agenda... Gay people: we’re jt like regular people, bee we are regular people. But while I love a good fictnal gay (shout out to the legendary T Andromedon) and a good realy gay (RuPl’s Drag Race), I am nowhere near that flashy and/or fabulo my day-to-day.

That’s what mak the gays of the home-based realy show so revolutnary! And every now and then, you get a gay uple. Real talk: the HGTV shows may be the only shows on TV to show what gay people are actually like!

The episos let gay upl see themselv on TV while buckg all the stereotyp seen on scripted shows.

NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'

The gay episos are diamonds the renovated rough; they’re hard to fd but they she so brightly.

Here are all of the gay episos of HGTV shows rangg om Property Brothers to Hoe Hunters that you n currently stream on Hulu. HGTV ratgs will likely h the roof as the home improvement work breaks ground on s latt offerg — a gay versn of s h show “Property Brothers, ” featurg an explosn of six pack abs urty of s hosts, a married same-sex uple om work recently aired a pilot for “Down to the Studs, ” starrg hbands PJ and Thomas, who refer to themselv as the “Property Lovers.

HOW THE PROPERTY BROTHERS BEME YOUR MOM’S FAVORE TV STARS BROTHERLY LOVEAFTER UNTLS RENOVATNS FOR STRANGERS, THE PROPERTY BROTHERS ARE VG YOU TO THEIR HOME. FIRST, THEY DISPEL MORS (THEY’RE NOT GAY!) AND SHARE THEIR SECRETS TO SUCCS.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 7:06PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 25, 2014 5:45AM EST SCRIPPS NETWORKS INTERACTIVEIT’S BEEN 20 YEARS SCE DREW AND JONATHAN STT GOT TO FIGHT.BETTER KNOWN AS THE PROPERTY BROTHERS, THE SIBLGS—TW TANS OF REAL TATE AND SIGN WHO ARE LG AND REVENTG HGTV—CERTALY SEEM TO GET ALONG. THEIR WSOME FORMULA OF JOVIAL TEASG AGAST THE BACKDROP OF MAJOR HOME RENOVATNS HAS MA THEIR DOCKET OF REALY PROGRAMMG THE MOST MASTREAM SUCCS STORY OF THEIR GENRE SCE TLC’S TRADG SPAC AND ABC’S EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDN TOOK OVER THE ZEGEIST A AGO.PROPERTY BROTHERS, BUYG AND SELLG, AND BROTHER VS. BROTHER—AND THEIR PABLE, HOPELSLY ADDICTG HGTV MARATHONS—HAVE ELEVATED THE STT BROTHERS TO REALY TV JUGGERNT STAT, NOT TO MENTN THE DISTCTN OF YOUR MOM’S FAVORE TELEVISN PERSONALI. IN FACT, HGTV HAS ENSURED THAT AT LEAST ONE OF THEIR SHOWS AIRS A BRAND NEW EPISO EACH WEEK OF THE YEAR.THAT MEANS THAT WHEN THEY’RE NOT SPENDG MONTHS TOGETHER CI ALL OVER NORTH AMERI SUTG FOR REAL TATE, RENOVATG HO, AND SHOOTG THEIR VAR SERI, THEY’RE TRAVELG THE GLOBE DOG PRS AND PROMOS. THAT’S A LOT OF TIME FOR BROTHERS TO SPEND TOGETHER. PERHAPS AN IMPOSSIBLE AMOUNT OF TIME, IF THEY DIDN’T GENUELY GET ALONG. IT’S PERHAPS UNSURPRISG TO LEARN, THEN, THAT ’S BEEN TWO S SCE THE TWS OM VANUVER GOT TO A KNOCK-DOWN, DRAG-OUT FIGHT. “DREW WAS BEG ANNOYG ABOUT SOMETHG,” JONATHAN SAYS MATTER-OF-FACTLY, STRAG HIS BRA FOR THE TAILS OF THEIR LAST TIFF. THEY WERE THEIR LATE TEENS AT THE UNIVERSY OF CALGARY. THE TAILS WERE SO SIGNIFINT THAT HE DON’T EVEN REMEMBER THEM, JT THAT, “I GOT SO ANGRY THAT I CLENCHED MY TEETH SO HARD THAT I BROKE THEM.” AFTER A SEARCHG BEAT, DREW ADDS, “AND THAT WAS THE LAST FIGHT WE HAD.”YOU’D THK THAT SUCH A ROW WOULD BE REALY-TV GOLD. BUT THAT’S NOT THE PROPERTY BROTHERS. STILL, OVER THE URSE OF A TWO-HOUR LUNCH NEW YORK CY, A BRIEF STOPOVER ON THE TWS’ DIZZYG TRAVEL SCHLE, I TRIED TO ME TAILS OF MORE DT-UPS BETWEEN THE APPARENTLY FALLIBLE TV HOSTS, THE APPARENT BEANS OF BROTHERLY LOVE.BUT TO NOT AVAIL. NOT DURG THEIR METEORIC RISE THE PAST THREE YEARS, DURG WHICH THEY’VE BEE THE FACE OF HGTV: “THE BLE EQUIVALENT OF BOX-OFFICE MOVIE STARS,” AS HGTV PRINT KATHLEEN FCH PUTS ; “REALY TELEVISN’S CRACK E,” AS WE’VE ONCE SAID OURSELV AT THE DAILY BEAST. AND NOT, EHER, DURG THE MASSIVE RENOVATN OF THE PALATIAL LAS VEGAS HOME THEY SHARE TOGETHER, THE PROCS OF WHICH IS BRAND “THEIR BIGGT REMOL YET” A HGTV SPECIAL, PROPERTY BROTHERS AT HOME, THAT WILL AIR WEDNDAY NIGHT.(THEIR PLUG FOR THAT: “PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ASKG WHAT WE WOULD DO IF WE ULD SIGN OUR OWN PLACE,” DREW SAYS. “NOW YOU N SEE .” AND HOW’D THE CANADIANS END UP VEGAS? “I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A POLE DANCER, AND THIS WAS A GOOD OPPORTUNY,” JONATHAN JOK.)FAY MEMBERS SURVIVG A RENOVATN WHOUT A FIGHT? AS SHOULD BE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR AT THIS POT, WHETHER ’S BUILDG A NEW HOME S CY OR BUILDG A REALY TV EMPIRE, THERE IS ONE, UNSHAKABLE SECRET TO THE STT BROTHERS’ SUCCS: THEY REALLY DO JT GET ALONG.***NOT THAT GETTG ALONG IS ALWAYS EASY.“DREW IS THE MOST PETIVE MAN ALIVE,” JONATHAN SAYS. “IT DON’T MATTER IF WE’RE JT GETTG THE R, HE HAS TO BE FIRST. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU GO ON SOCIAL MEDIA, I HAVE WAY MORE FOLLOWERS THAN HE DO.”DREW, NATURALLY, WASN’T GOG TO LET THAT ONE GO TOO EASILY. “I THK OM PROPERTY BROTHERS, MOST WOMEN OUT THERE LOVE THE GUY WHO GETS HIS HANDS DIRTY,” HE SAYS. “THAT WHY JONATHAN HAS THE LARGER FOLLOWG.” (THE FORMULA OF MOST OF THEIR PROGRAMS HAS DREW DOG THE HOE HUNTG AND JONATHAN DOG THE SIGN AND NSTCTN.) THEN HE THROWS THE RIBBG RIGHT BACK. “BUT I’M THE BANE OF HIS EXISTENCE, THAT HE LOS EVERY PETN,” HE SAYS, ZEROG ON THE HGTV BATTLE OF THE BROTHERS REALY SERI THAT JT FISHED S SEND SEASON THIS SUMMER. “I WON BOTH BROTHER VS. BROTHER SEASONS 1 AND 2.”THEN, AS HE DUTIFULLY, YET EARNTLY, ALWAYS DO, DREW BACK TO A POSIVE PLACE: THE MSAGE. “EVEN AS KIDS WE WERE NEVER PETIVE THE SENSE OF KNOCKG EACH OTHER DOWN, WAS MORE ABOUT HELPG PH EACH OTHER UP.” THANKFULLY, BEFORE THGS GET TOO MDL, JONATHAN CHIM: “THOUGH IF ’S A BOARD GAME OR SOMETHG, I DON’T MD CHEATG TO W. IF WILL PISS HIM OFF.” A HEARTY LGH ENSU.THAT THE TWO HAVE A HEALTHY WORKG RELATNSHIP—AND IMPLSIBLY HEALTHY ONE, REALLY, FOR THOSE OF WHO HAVE BROTHERS—IS PERHAPS OWED TO THE FACT THAT THEY’VE BEEN BS TOGETHER FOR THREE S.THEY WERE JT 7-YEARS-OLD WHEN THEY STARTED THEIR FIRST BS, JAM ENTERPRIS, SELLG HANGERS WRAPPED NYLON—“LIKE YOU’D SEE YOUR GRANDMA’S CLOSET,” DREW SAYS—DOOR TO DOOR. “WE JT GREW AND GREW AND THEN WE ACTUALLY MET A WOMAN WHO HAD A CHA OF AMERIN PARAPHERNALIA STOR JAPAN AND SHE STARTED BUYG THEM BY THE THOANDS,” JONATHAN ADDS.WHEN THEY WERE STUNTS AT THE UNIVERSY OF CALGARY THEY BEGAN READG REAL TATE BOOKS. USG THEIR NEW VTMENT KNOWLEDGE (THE PLEXI OF WHICH WERE EXPLAED TO ME AND PROMPTLY WENT WAY OVER MY HEAD, ILLUMATG JT HOW TRICKY REAL TATE N BE—AND HOW CLEVER THE BROTHERS ARE AT ), THEY BOUGHT A $250,000 HOE FOR JT $250 DOWN. AFTER A REHAB, THEY FLIPPED FOR A $50,000 PROF. THEY WERE 18.WH DOLLAR SIGNS THEIR EY, JONATHAN GOT A GREE NSTCTN AND SIGN, DREW BEME A LICENSED REAL TATE, AND A BS—AND REER EXTRIBLY TIED TOGETHER—WAS BORN.THERE HAVE BEEN TIM OVER THE YEARS, PRR TO THEIR RECENT TV VENTUR THAT HAVE THEM HAPPILY ATTACHED AT THE HIP, THAT THE BROTHERS DID SEPARATE. AROUND 2005, DREW FLEW WT TO PURSUE A REER ACTG WHILE JONATHAN RAN THE BS CALGARY. (IN FACT, BOTH BROTHERS HAVE ACTG IMDB CREDS: DREW ON SMALLVILLE AND JONATHAN ON THE X-FIL.) BUT ULTIMATELY, WAS TV THAT UNED THE BROTHERS AGA. DREW HAD BEEN SENT OUT FOR SOME HOSTG GIGS. PRODUCTN PANI HE WAS WORKG WH DISVERED THAT HE HAD A TW BROTHER THE RENOVATN DTRY. THE RT IS HISTORY.IT’S, OF URSE, NOT JT THEIR BUYG, SELLG, AND SIGN EXPERTISE THAT MAK THEIR SHOWS SO POPULAR. THE ARE GUYS WHO KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOG, WHO HAVE PERFECTED THE BALANCE OF OPEN-BOOK NDOR AND MEASURED LIKABILY THAT IS THE HALLMARK OF CELEBRY SUCCS TODAY’S SOCIAL-MEDIA DRIVEN WORLD.THEY PURPORT TO BE OPEN BOOKS AND GENUELY SEEM TO ENJOY BEG ASKED PERSONAL QUTNS THAT, FOR ONCE, STRAY OM THEIR PERSONAL TAST RATG. WHEN ASKED WHAT’S THE MOST ANNOYG QUTN ABOUT BEG TWS THEY ARE ALWAYS ASKED, JONATHAN DONS A MISCHIEVO GR. “WHEN YOU HAVE SEX DO HE FEEL …?” HE LGHS. DREW SHAK HIS HEAD MOCK DISMAY.AND WHEN I START TO MENTN THAT THE FIRST THG TO SURFACE WHEN THEIR NAM ARE GOOGLED ARE ARTICL ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE SGLE (DREW IS NOT; JONATHAN IS), JONATHAN TERPTS, “I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOG TO SAY, ‘ARE THE PROPERTY BROTHERS GAY?’” HE SAYS. “THAT’S THE NUMBER ONE THG THAT UP.” THEY BOTH LGH, SWEAR THEY AREN’T, AND SURMISE THAT THE SPECULATN BEE THEY HAVE AN EYE FOR SIGN, ARE WELL-GROOMED AND WELL DRSED (DREW HAS OVER 200 SUS HIS CLOSET), AND THE WORLD TRAS STEREOTYP. “IT’S A PLIMENT,” DREW SAYS, WH A SELF-PRETG CHUCKLE THAT BE A REA OUR NVERSATN. “PEOPLE SAY ALL THE BT LOOKG GUYS ARE GAY.” NOT THAT THGS HAVEN’T GONE TOO FAR. “THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO POSTED THE OTHER DAY THAT, ‘THE PROPERTY BROTHERS ARE A LTLE TOO CLOSE,’” JONATHAN SAYS. DREW OWNS: “GROSS.”BUT AS OPEN AS THEY ARE, THEY ARE ALSO BSMEN WHO KNOW THEIR BRAND AND ARE THEIR BT, MOST DILIGENT MARKETERS.FEW QUTNS, NO MATTER HOW FUN AND SILLY, GO BY WHOUT CIRCLG BACK TO THEIR ACPLISHMENTS OR FUTURE PROJECTS. DON’T BOTHER ASKG WHAT KD OF TOLL THEIR BY SCHL TAK ON THEIR LIV. (DREW IS ONLY HOME TWO WEEKS A YEAR, FOR CHRISTMAS.) THEY THRIVE ON PACKED SCHL, THEY SAY, AND TAKE PLEASURE WORKG AROUND THE CLOCK.JONATHAN MAY BE LS ENTHIASTIC ON THAT LATTER POT, TAKG THE OPPORTUNY TO MOCK A RECENT TRIP TO PARIS HE TOOK WH DREW AND HIS GIRLIEND, ON WHICH DREW TOOK A BS LL WH THEIR THE TOP OF THE EIFFEL TOWER. “THERE WAS GREAT RECEPTN,” DREW JOK, ADDG THAT PERHAPS HE AND HIS GIRLIEND, A FELLOW WORKAHOLIC, ENABLE EACH OTHER. “FOREPLAY FOR THEM IS GETTG THEIR EMAILS CHECK,” JONATHAN SAYS.AND WHILE THEY ARE REHGLY NDID AND THOUGHTFUL AND JT GENERALLY FUN, THEY DON’T WANT TO A GOOD THG. ASK ABOUT THE LAS VEGAS-DWELLG, SUPER RICH, SUPER SUCCSFUL BOYS—ONE OF WHOM IS, AGA, FAMOLY SGLE—ABOUT THEIR VIC, AND THEIR ANSWERS ARE DUTIFULLY CHASTE AND PEOPLE-MAGAZE APPROVED.“HNTED HO,” SAYS JONATHAN. “I’M A HEALTH NUT,” DREW SWEARS. SUCH BAD BOYS.THE LIVELIT THE BROTHERS GET THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON IS WHEN THEY START TALKG ABOUT WHAT WAS LIKE WHEN PROPERTY BROTHERS WAS FIRST STARTG OUT. IT WAS AN UNLIKELY SUCCS STORY. HGTV PASSED ORIGALLY. HGTV CANADA PASSED, TOO. AND THEIR RPECTIVE PHYSIL APPEARANC, WHICH HAVE BEE OBJECTS OF FASCATN FOR THEIR LEGNS OF FANS, WERE TRAGIC.“THEY DID JONATHAN’S HAIR UP LIKE A LN MANE,” DREW REMEMBERS, CRGG. “AND THEY DID MY HAIR UP LIKE ROBERT PATTSON. I LOOKED TERRIBLE.”BUT THE SHOW UGHT ON. THEY BEME THE FAC OF HGTV. THE HAIR TAMED SELF; THEIR LOOK BEME MORE FLATTERG.AND THROUGH ALL, THEY NEVER, EVER FOUGHT. PERHAPS A NONFICTN TV CLIMATE RIFE WHOUT HOEWIV FLIPPG TABL, AT BOYS BRAWLG AFTER TOO MANY TEQUILA SHOTS, AND MEMBERS OF AN ALLEGED DYNASTY OF DUCKS TRADG FLAMMATORY ASSERTNS, ’S A CHANGE OF PACE THAT IS AS SATISFYG AS A SUCCSFUL RENOVATN.“PEOPLE HAVE SEEN SIGN SHOWS BEFORE, WH BETIFUL BEFOR AND AFTERS,” SAYS JONATHAN. “SO ’S THE RELATNSHIP. YOU N THROUGH TWO RANDOM HOSTS TOGETHER TO DO A SHOW AND YOU’RE NOT GOG TO HAVE THE SAME RELATNSHIP AS WH SOMEONE WHO SAT ON YOUR HEAD FOR NE MONTHS WHEN YOU WERE THE WOMB.” KEV FALLON

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