Ever since the in 2023 after eight seasons, viewers have wondered if would return to TV.
Now, she’s weighing in.
and her mom, Karen E. Laine, co-hosted the HGTV show, which followed their business, Two Chicks and a Hammer, Inc. Laine retired from the company in 2019 but continued to appear on the show.
Starsiak Hawk answered several fan questions in the June 3 episode of her podcast, including the one on every fan’s mind: Would she take part in another TV show if the opportunity presented itself?
“I would love to,” she said. “I would love to if I could find a way to do it with a balance that was healthier.”
Starsiak Hawke said that she “loved for the most part making TV when it was fun, when it was good,” but that the two seasons of “Good Bones” were “really, really hard emotionally and mentally, financially and physically.”
“I was starting to feel the weight was all on me at that point — the financial weight, the weight to hit the deadlines. It was all really wearing on me. I was trying to come up with a way to move forward that was going to be more sustainable for me,” she said.
She said the “stakes” of the show were unbearably high: “It was all my money. It was my family’s money. It was my business’s success.”
This might make for TV that “rates well,” but it got to the point where she “couldn’t handle” it.
“The reality was that I was getting to the point where I couldn’t handle the stakes, I couldn’t handle the projects, I couldn’t handle the risk,” she said.
“What was going on for me was broken. My part of the puzzle was broken. Maybe it wasn’t for the other people who were involved in the show for a variety of reasons. It wasn’t their properties, it wasn’t their business. It was still able to be just fun,” she said.
Starsiak Hawk isn’t ruling out a return to television one day, but any potential project would have to feel right to her and fit certain criteria.
“Trying to figure out what show could maybe be made that fits where I am at my life right now with also what’s going to rate with also what’s reasonably affordable to make is very up in the air,” she said.
added that someone recently pitched her a show idea that “leans back into the older ‘Good Bones’ model.”
As much as some fans might love a “Good Bones” reboot, Starsiak Hawk wasn’t sold on the idea — even if it came with a high paycheck.
“I just think it would be a really bad decision for me mentally and emotionally, let alone financially, to get back in that place,” she said.
“There’s not enough money in the world that would put me in the place I was a year ago. It was that bad,” she said, adding later, “There’s no realistic amount of money that I think would be worth it to struggle as hard as I was struggling. And I think that’s very hard for people to understand — how much I was in a really bad place.”
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