Mina Starsiak Hawk admitted that life has been a bit totally different for her since ending Good Bones’ unique run after eight seasons on HGTV.
“Do you miss filming Good Bones,” one fan requested Mina in a Q&A in her Instagram Tales on Sunday, October 13.
“I grew up making Good Bones,” Mina, 39, responded. “I began in my 20s. I flip 40 this 12 months. Most of my grownup life was spent making the present.”
“I miss the actual work,” her response continued. “The enjoyable. The pranks. The wonderful relationships. The experiences I received to have that I by no means would have had if not for the present. 100% I miss it.”
Mina and her mother, Karen E. Laine, waved goodbye to Good Bones season 8 in October 2023. They deemed it the ultimate season, which ended with Mina’s brother Tad Starsiak having his new residence renovated and getting engaged.
Nevertheless, HGTV shocked everybody once they introduced Good Bones can be coming again for a particular three-part season in August.
Within the first episode of the particular season, viewers received to see Mina work on her new lake house along with her husband, Steve Hawk, and a few acquainted faces from the present’s earlier seasons. Within the second and third episodes of the particular season, followers watched as Karen did renovations on her new home in Wilmington, North Carolina. Karen has since put the house up on the market.
Previous to the present’s season 8 finale, Mina revealed that she was embroiled in a rift along with her mother and brother Tad on her “Mina AF” podcast. She defined that she and Karen got here to blows whereas filming the present’s eighth season.
“There have been positively some difficult [moments] as a result of my mother and I have been in a few of the most difficult locations I felt we’ve been,” Mina instructed People in September 2023.
Mina and Karen didn’t work together with one another in any scenes through the particular three-part season this summer season. As a substitute, the main focus was on their respective tasks in numerous states.
The house renovator additionally revealed that she was now not in a very good place with Good Bones’ Cory Miller.
“So, there’s been sufficient questions on Cory that I’m going to attempt to deal with this in a respectful manner once more, understanding that I’ve a platform that he possibly doesn’t have,” Mina stated throughout a podcast episode in December 2023. “Cory and I are not on speaking terms. I’m constructive that there are issues he looks like I did to him, and I’ve identified him since he was 11, and I’ve at all times had a comfortable spot for him.”
Designer MJ Coyle additionally spoke out on the strained dynamic of the cast in season 8 of the present.
“It received to the purpose that our small staff, at that time, we weren’t like even having fun with one another’s firm,” MJ stated throughout an October 2023 look on Mina’s podcast. “We received by means of COVID, we received by means of all of these items, we received by means of all of those seasons and everybody was simply very burnt out. Everybody was sore. Everybody was depressing.”
