Photo:Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty
Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty
ChipandJoanna Gainesare getting revved up in roller skates.
On Tuesday, the couple’s Magnolia Network announced theFixer Upper: Welcome Homestars are developing a new roller dancing reality competition series for MAX featuring the best of the best in roller skating from across the country.
TheMagnolia founders’new untitled project, which will feature teams from Atlanta, Houston, Las Vegas, Nashville, New York and St. Louis competing for a cash prize, will debut on MAX in early 2024.
“Putting on a pair of roller skates is like reuniting with your childhood. There’s just something about it that appeals to everyone,” Chip and Joanna shared in a press release. “Kids, adults and everyone in between will have fun watching these talented crews come together and skate their hearts out, and we are so excited to bring this nostalgic competition to life.”
Joanna Gaines roller skates on her ranch in Waco, Tex.Joanna Gaines/Instagram
Joanna Gaines/Instagram
Roller skating has long been one of Joanna’s most loved activities.In December 2021, the designershared a postto Instagramshowing off her skills.
“I got a pair of skates for Christmas, and minus the goats and the cattle guard and the manure, I felt like I was back in the roller rink all over again!” Joanna captioned the sweet clip.
Just a month later in January 2022,Joanna posted a silly clip skating around the kitchenin honor of wrapping season 6 ofMagnolia Table.
Chip and Joanna Gaines arrive at the White House for a State Dinner with U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
The author and mother of five shareda videoto her Instagram account that captured her happily rollerskating around her studio kitchen in Waco.
Set toQueen’s1978 hit “Don’t Stop Me Now,” she appeared to be enjoying herself in the clip, zooming down the stairs and all over her kitchen, striking playful poses along the way.
In the Summer 2022 issue ofMagnolia Journal,Joanna elaborated on purchasing her and her daughters a pair of skates for Christmas.
Joanna Gaines shows off her retro skates after wrapping Season 6 of ‘Magnolia Table.'.joanna gaines/instagram
“I was in the middle of my Christmas shopping at the time, and I had just ordered each of our two daughters a pair of roller skates from this retro shop I’d found online,” she says of Ella and Emmie. “Without thinking about it too much, I logged back on and ordered a pair for myself—green with pink laces.”
She said the pair of skates was the perfect embodiment of how to “have more fun.” Since then, she’s laced them up regularly, especially on days when she feels extra pressure.
“Lately, my skates go wherever I go. Days when things feel heavy or hard, I lace them up and stroll around. I’ve worn them while filming the cooking show and around the office,” she says. “Just like with my girls, I can see how it changes the faces in the room. Things lighten up a bit. People do too. There’s a new kind of energy in the air that no one expected.”
“Worry less, skate more,” she wrote. “That’s all I’m after.”
source: people.com
