When HGTV star Christina Haack appeared as a guest on SiriusXM’s “Jeff Lewis Live” on January 30, 2025, she was accompanied by her new beau, businessman Chris Larocca, who sat in-studio throughout the interview. But it wasn’t the first time Larocca had been there.
The CEO of Network Connex was also with Haack during her first time on the show on January 10, Lewis revealed during her latest appearance. But back then, Haack — who’s still embroiled in a nasty divorce from her third husband, Josh Hall — pretended Larocca was her business manager to avoid rumors of a new romance.
Haack and Larocca are clearly no longer trying to keep their romance a secret, though. In addition to talking to Lewis about her new relationship on his January 30 show, the Daily Mail and Page Six published photos of Haack and Larocca kissing outside of Los Angeles restaurant Baltaire hours later.
Christina Haack & Her New Beau Wanted to Reveal Their Relationship ‘On Their Terms’
Known for his blunt questioning, Lewis — who will appear as a judge on Haack’s new show, “The Flip Off” co-starring her first husband Tarek El Moussa and his second wife, Heather Rae El Moussa — didn’t shy away from asking Haack about her relationship with Larocca during her January 30 appearance.
“Are we going to keep Chris around?” he asked. “I happen to really like him. He’s handsome. Should we talk about what happened last time, when you brought him as your manager and you got mad at me?”
Haack laughed and said she wasn’t mad at Lewis, but admitted that she and Larocca were frazzled after her January 10 appearance, when they were still trying to keep their romance under wraps. Haack explained that as she posed with Lewis for photos after that show, Larocca got a call from a reporter at The Daily Mail, asking about their relationship. Later that day, the outlet published leaked photos of the couple attending a holiday party and reported that they’d been dating “for months.”
When frequent “Jeff Lewis Live” guest contributor Mercedes Javid asked Haack why she and Larocca had been keeping their relationship under wraps, Lewis said, “They were hoping to come out on their terms.”
The “Christina on the Coast” star then explained, “Yeah, I mean, just because someone is, like, in the media doesn’t mean that everyone gets to have that information. Like, some things are allowed to be private if you want them to be until, you know, they’re not. It’s not like we’re super excited about it going public, right?”
“When the media gets a hold of something, it’s weird,” Haack continued, adding that she gets followed by paparazzi. “It’s like, they just make a big deal about things and try to, like, dig around … and it’s just, like, sometimes nicer just to have something for yourself.”
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Though Haack said she tried to keep her romance with Larocca quiet, they have not shied away from spending time with friends and family, including a recent dinner with Lewis, the host said on his show.
While promoting the debut of “The Flip Off,” which premiered on January 29, Tarek El Moussa told Access Hollywood, “We all went to dinner, are we allowed to talk about that?”
Shocked that he disclosed that, Haack laughed and said, “The four of us had drinks together. I wanted them to meet in advance of, you know, stuff in the press.”
“I feel like we had a lot of fun together,” Heather chimed in, adding, “We were there for like two-and-a-half hours.”
“Yeah, and I almost knocked myself out on the heat lamp,” Tarek quipped.
Though Haack and Larocca’s relationship seems to be blossoming, she assured “Access Hollywood” she won’t be getting any more tattoos, given the lengthy process she’s gone through to remove tattooed tributes to Hall since they filed for divorce in July.
“I’m not doing any more tattoos, ever again,” she declared. “So, we’re done with tattoos.”
Haack has also connected with Larocca’s mom, she revealed during her January 30 appearance on “Jeff Lewis Live.” While sharing that her new beau changed his company and LinkedIn profile picture as soon as media outlets started reporting on their romance, Haack said the updated photo was a big relief to everyone, “including Chris’s own mother, who’s like the nicest woman ever.”
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