Chip Wins is a self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur who has helped make his hometown of Waco a tourism hotspot by being the face of several under-brand businesses. Magnolia along with his wife Joanna. Best known for his role on the lifestyle reality series Fixer Up , he wrapped the 5th ^and final season in 2018 only to announce in an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that aired in November 2018 that she in the early stages of discussion of launching Magnolia Network under parent channel of Discovery .

Born name

Chip Carter wins

nickname

Chip

Sun sign

Scorpio

Place of birth

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Residence

Waco, Texas, USA

nationality

training

Chip’s family moved to Dallas, Texas when he was a child, where he graduated from Grapevine High School . After high school, he began a career as a baseball player. He represented Northlake College in Irving, Texas for one year.

To join the Baylor baseball team, Chip transferred to the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University for a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Although he was not selected for the college athletic team, he graduated in 1998 with a major in marketing and launched a number of ventures.

occupation

Entrepreneur, Author, Real Estate Agent, Lifestyle Reality TV Star

family

• Father – Robert Kenneth Gaines aka Bob (Owner of Floor Business)
• Mutter – Beverly Gayle Gaines alias Gayle
• Siblings – Shannon Braun (4 years older sister)
• Others – Bob Braun (brother-in-law) (Senior VP Sales & Business Development at Homecare Base), Taylor Braun (niece), Jackson Braun (nephew)

Manager

Chip is managed by –

• Bill Stankey, Westport Entertainment
• Loeb & Loeb LLP (law firm)
• Brock Murphy, PR-Direktor, Magnolia Market
• John Marsicano, Magnolias

Build

Athletic

Height

5 feet 10 inches or 178 cm

weight

76 kg or 167.5 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Chip Gaines dated –

1. Joanna Gaines (2001-Present) – Although Joanna and Chip attended the same university, they never met because their enrollment years and undergraduate degrees were different.
   Chip first spotted Joanna in her family photo, taken by her father at his Flintstones tire shop. Oddly enough, he knew intuitively that one day he would marry Joanna when he saw the picture on the wall. He started visiting the Flintstones shop frequently, until one day in 2001, he got lucky and ran into Joanna. Chip struck up a conversation with her, claiming he recognized her from the Flintstones commercials in which Joanna acted as a model for her father’s business.
   Joanna took time to open up about Chip, dating him and eventually connecting with him about shared beliefs and values. After two years of marriage, the couple wed on March 31, 2003 at the Earle Harrison home in Waco, Texas. Together they have 5 children – son Drake Stevens (born May 2005), daughter Ella Rose (born October 2006), son Duke Camden (born May 2008), daughter Emmie Kay (born February 2010) and son Crew Gaines ( born June 2010) 2018).

race/ethnicity

White

hair colour

Hellbraun

eye color

Blau

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Low-set hooded eyes with drooping eyelids
• Robust appearance
• Natural buff forearms by handwork
• Usually wears a hat

brand promotion

Chip typically endorses brands associated in some way with real estate, such as:

• Wayfair Furnishing & Decoration Company (2015)
• Fun-Gi Gaming company that creates a computer game called House Flip starring Chip and Jo (2016)
• Kilz paint, primer and cleaning agent manufacturer (2017)

However, he avoids direct brand advertising, preferring to promote his own business activities indirectly supporting local/nearby suppliers and small businesses.

In October 2017, Chip formed a brand partnership with Ziel Shops to promote her new home and lifestyle brand, Heart & Hand, a sub-brand of Magnolia .

Chip, along with his wife Joanna, is also the face of his other ventures, some of which –

• Magnolia market in the Silos shopping center
• Silos Baking Company
• Magnolia Realty
• Magnolia Seeds & Supply
• Magnolientisch (Restaurant)
• Magnolia Warehouse Shop
• Magnolia House and Hillcrest Estate (holiday homes)
• Magnolia Journal

Religion

Christianity

Known for

Co-hosting the reality series, Fixers Up , for 5 seasons (56 episodes) with his wife Joanna, which is based on the flipping of homes of people living in the Waco, Texas area and aired on HGTV Network

First TV show

Chip made his TV show debut as the host of the series Fixer Up in 2013.

Personal trainer

Chip was a baseball and football player After high school, his primary interests were construction and home improvement. In October 2017 he met professional runner Gabriele Grunewald aka Gabe in Central Park, NYC where she shared her story of training and going through 4 cancers.

This meeting inspired Chip to host the inaugural Silo District Marathon, Half Marathon and 5K in Waco, Texas. It also inspired Chip to renew his relationship with sports. He hired Gabe as his personal running coach who planned his weekly training schedule in preparation for the upcoming May 2018 marathon. He completed his first run in a time of 5:21:54 and managed to raise $250,000 for training for the Brave Like Gabe Foundation, which provides all proceeds to cancer research.

Chip takes care of 60 animals living alone on a 40 acre farm with his family. There’s plenty of room for fresh, organic produce and free-range eggs, which form the staple of their meals at home. He especially likes a hearty breakfast, which he cooks himself for the whole family. It usually consists of pancakes, eggs and bacon.

Since Chip and his wife don’t cook every day, their Magnolia Table Restaurant and Healthy Meal Food Trucks at Magnolia Market offer a wide variety of nutritious and fulfilling dishes. He doesn’t like the popular healthy breakfast of avocado toast.

Chip Gaine’s favorite things

• Sandwich – His recipe for a ham sandwich with Swiss cheese and horseradish mayo
• Meal O f The Day – Breakfast
• Meal – Chicken Steak
• Ice Cream Flavor – Rocky Road
• Handy Tools – Square layout tool, 5-in-1 paint scraper, flashlight, stain-resistant primer
• Power tool – chainsaw
• Place to shop – auctions (This is also his guilty pleasure.)
• Room in his house – His sons bedroom

Chip wins facts

1. Chip’s first project was a lawn mowing business, which he started in his sophomore year, followed by a washing and folding business.
2. For a short time he sold firecrackers on a roadside.
3. He turned his first property around after he finished investing in college in 1998 using the savings from his previous entrepreneurial ventures. Chip sold the renovated property after 6 months and the profit he made matched the annual profit from his first business.
4. During the first 2 years of his marriage, Chip was constantly being nagged by his father-in-law to get a real job. He was so broke that Joanna could search for essential supplies with only the cash he carried in his pocket. The couple renovated properties together on a reasonable budget and often defaulted on payments to suppliers.
5. Living and caring for a 40-acre farmhouse was Chip’s secret passion, derived from a grandfather’s ranch ownership in Wichita Falls.
6. Cows, chickens, pigs, goats, turkeys, horses and dogs live on his farm. Chip gets up at 4am every morning to take care of her.
7. Despite their large net worth, Chip and Joanna avoid hiring help from their home.
8. The chores on the farm and construction are physically demanding, but Chip not only finds them therapeutic, but believes that entering into them gives him a constant sense of pause.
9. After shooting their fixers up as a pilot, the production company was impressed to see that Chip and Jo had a really high threshold for mayhem, which became a source of great content for all future episodes.
10. Chip and Jo don’t own a TV. They watched episodes of their own show at their boyfriend’s house on date nights.
11. He used to give Magnolia Joanna blooms during the first few months of their courtship, which became a symbol of inspiration for them as a couple. Chip likes to plant a magnolia tree in front of every home he renovates, and magnolia trees also surround the retail locations.
12. Joanna almost ended her relationship with Chip after 6 months of dating, leaving her to run his then-ill-managed business to tend to disgruntled customers and writing checks while he attended a 3-month Spanish immersion program in Mexico. Chip had to cut his trip short after 2 weeks.
13. Chip’s secret talent is that he can juggle and likes to make elaborate speeches like a trainer in a locker room.
14. He is co-author of the book The Magnolia Table (2016) and the author of the national bestseller, Capital Gains: Smart Things I Learned from Doing Stupid Stuff (2017).
15. Visit the Chips Company’s official website, Magnolia @ magnolia.com.
16. Follow Chip Gaines on Twitter and Instagram.