Oprah Winfrey is talking to another famous couple tonight. Super Soul: Chip and Joanna Gaines: Magnolia will air today on Discovery + and will be available as a podcast on March 17th.
In it, the Top fastener Powerful couple talk about the price of fame, with Chip admitting that he “lost part of me” to fame in a promotional clip for the talk.
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“I found out that fame is just, your life is the same, you are the same and everyone has an idea of what it is, only more people know your name,” said Chip. “And I think that if you don’t know who you are when the fame thing comes, you get lost.
Oprah then asked, “Did you all start feeling this or did you know you were grounded before the fame thing came?”
Chip used the question to praise his wife, Joanna. “I want to speak for Jo, because she would never say things like that, but she is incredibly wise, incredibly grounded – all the things you just described are who Joanna is.”
He added: “Really what happened – and it was the truth for Jo and me – it wasn’t a big deal for her, but for me to become famous, I lost a part of me that was really … it was sad,” he admits. “I would say it took me a year or two while I was still filming to try to deal with what exactly I was missing.”
The couple recently returned to action after a hiatus. They left their Top fastener program on HGTV in 2017.
Winfrey asked why they left. “There were countless things,” said Joanna. “On my side, when you’ve been shooting for four or five years, you start to lose the ‘why’. Now it’s just like we’re showing up. I think that in the end we lost strength, we lost the purpose of that. We wanted to wake up every day and say that’s why we’re doing this. It almost looked like it was wagging its tail and controlling us. “
Originally, the couple’s Magnolia Network was to take control of Discovery’s DIY Network on October 4, 2020, after a brand overhaul, followed by the launch of a direct-to-consumer product at a later date. When the coronavirus pandemic hit and ended all Hollywood production, the launch of the linear network was postponed. Meanwhile, Discovery launched its SVOD Discovery + platform last month as the pandemic accelerated the shift from traditional media companies to streaming as a leading distribution method.
The Magnolia brand has been an important part of the Discovery + line with views of many of its original series, led by the new season of Gaines’ success Top fastener.
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