HGTV Pulls ‘Flip It Forward’

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HGTV has decided not to go ahead with a reality show featuring twin brothers David and Jason Benham after controversial anti-gay remarks attributed to the brothers surfaced this week.  

The show, Flip It Forward, was to star the Benham brothers as real-estate experts looking to flip fixer-upper homes. But Tuesday the website rightwingwatch.org printed anti-gay remarks made by David Benham in 2012 during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. in which Benham decried “homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation” as well as “demonic ideologies taking our universities and our public school systems.”

On Wednesday, HGTV released a statement saying only that “HGTV has not decided to move forward with the Benham Brothers’ series.”

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R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.