HGTV fans want Chip Gaines to put his money where his mouth is.
The “Fixer Upper” alum, who starred on the popular home renovation show with his wife, Joanna Gaines, between 2013 and 2018, upset fans after he made an “out of touch” comment about money while beefing with college basketball fans on X Wednesday.
As colleges reportedly attempt to poach Baylor University’s head basketball coach Scott Drew, Chip, who is a proud graduate of the Texas university, seemingly implied Drew will remain with Baylor because he’s not money hungry and it’s God’s will.
“Money is boring.. everybody’s got money🙄,” he tweeted in reply to the Barstool Kentucky X account begging Chip, 49, and Joanna, 45, to stay “away from Scott Drew for the next 48 hours.”
“We’ve got God on our side.. ✨😉,” he added.
Fans were unimpressed by his answer and slammed him for being so dismissive about the importance of money.
“Chip Gaines has always creeped me out. How out of touch can you be? I guess his ‘God’ made him filthy rich,” one seemingly disgusted user tweeted.
“Said by someone who doesn’t have to worry about money,” another added.
A third angry fan penned, “Money is boring when you have tons of it, but what about the poor that Jesus championed? What about compassion and trying to help the helpless?”
Yet another angry person wrote, “Man I love your show and all, and I absolutely get joking about basketball – but this tweet is not cool. The majority of people in this country worry about money because they don’t have enough of it.”
Chip — who is worth an estimated $50 million with Joanna, according to Yahoo Finance — took note of the criticism and decided to clap…
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