Shortly after Christina Haack and her third husband, Josh Hall, split up, fans noticed that she had started interacting with her second husband, Ant Anstead, on social media again. At the time, it wasn’t clear exactly how or why they had started communicating. In a recent interview with Us Weekly, however, Christina opened up about how her split from Josh helped repair her relationship with Ant.
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Christina started dating Josh shortly after her split from Ant Anstead.
Christina and Ant tied the knot in 2018 and welcomed a son together in 2019. In 2020, they announced their separation. The year in which Christina began dating Josh Hall – 2021 – is the same year in which Christina and Ant finalized their divorce. In July 2024, Josh and Christina filed for divorce after less than three years of marriage.
She and Ant didn’t really talk to each other while she was with Josh.
In an interview published in January 2025, Christina hinted at the impact her relationship with Josh had on her relationship with Ant.
“When Josh and I split up, I hadn’t really talked to Ant in years,” Christina explained to Us Weekly. Admittedly, she worried about how Josh would react when both she and Ant attended their son Hudson’s sports games. “The whole time I was with Josh, I would worry (thinking about how) Hudson’s sports (games) are coming up, we’re going to have to be on the field together, how’s Josh going to handle it?” Christina told the magazine.
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After her split from Josh, things began to change.
After Christina and Ant split up, they didn’t even follow each other on social media for some time. Not long after Christina and Josh parted ways, Christina and Ant appeared to start following each other again.
They also tagged each other in posts about their son and seemed friendly with each other on social media, causing some fans to wonder what had changed between them. Based on Christina’s recent comments, it seems as though their relationship started to improve pretty quickly after Christina’s split from Josh.
“(After Josh and I broke up) I was dropping Hudson off at Ant’s house, and he gave me a big hug and was like, ‘I’m here for you and I’m so sorry you’re going through this,'” Christina told Us Weekly. She added that her second husband told her Josh was “the source of the problem” between them and the reason he “couldn’t communicate” with Christina. Now that she and Josh are no longer together, she told the magazine that she and Ant are “back on track.”
Christina has also said Josh seemed jealous of Tarek El Moussa.
Before their split, Josh and Christina were working alongside another one of Christina’s exes on The Flip Off. Previously, Christina hinted at Josh being jealous of her first husband, Tarek El Moussa. “He doesn’t like our dynamic, because Tarek and I have our own dynamic, and some could call it ‘flirty,'” Christina explained.
During the recent Us Weekly interview, Christina revealed that Josh would stop talking to her if she laughed at something Tarek said. “If I would laugh at Tarek, I would get the silent treatment for a week,” she told the magazine.
Josh was hard to work with, according to Christina.
She also described Josh as “very hard to film with” because “he didn’t get it.” “He’d always get upset with me, like, ‘Oh, my gosh, you did this’ or ‘You did that,'” she told Us Weekly. “And I’m like, ‘I’m making a TV show.'”
Ultimately, the fact that Christina, Tarek, and Heather El Moussa had to move forward with The Flip Off without Josh was not a problem, she explained. After all, Josh was “just (her) husband.”
“No one’s going to miss that he’s not in it,” Christina told the magazine. “Josh is not a TV host, he’s not a house flipper, he’s not a designer. He was just my husband in it.”
