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Chip and Joanna Gaines are synonymous with “Fixer Upper.”

Could you imagine another couple hosting the super-popular HGTV show?

Chip and Joanna Gaines posing on the red carpet

We can just see Joanna excitedly bringing up the opportunity to Chip at the dinner table.

Afraid of being promised great things that were never to be delivered, he thought they should pass.

And, within a few weeks, the pilot episode was being filmed at their home.

Chip and Joanna Gaines posing together

However, things didn’t go exactly as planned.

Joanna agreed, “Chip and I werehorrible.

Joanna noted in their book that “the very next morning, the houseboat arrived.”

Chip and Joanna at “Silobration” at the Magnolia silos

Millions of viewers tuned in to watch the enigmatic couple renovate homes and have fun as a family.

After being a mainstay on the internet for five years, the couple’s final episode aired in 2018.