By Kayla DeKraker
HGTV star Jenny Marrs took a firm stand against false stories and AI-generated content circulating online about her and her husband, Dave Marrs.
“Hi friends! Quick reminder that anything posted on Facebook NOT on my official page is most likely completely and totally made up,” the FIXER TO FABULOUS star began a recent Instagram story, talking about misleading articles and manipulated images about her and Dave on social media. “I post on my page here on IG and typically share to my FB page. There are lots of fake pages pretending to be me or ‘news outlets’ or pages pretending to be HGTV. They are not us. HGTV would never post anything personal about us either!”
Marrs shared a few of those fake images to her stories to explain, one of which had Dave in a hospital bed, and another that showed Dave crying.
“These are fake news pages and AI GENERATED photos! This is not a real photo of Dave,” she emphasized. “THIS IS AN AI PHOTO. And no, Dave has not been hospitalized. I have had several friends check in after seeing [these] weird articles. He’s sitting next to me drinking coffee in front of the fire right now.”
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Marrs concluded, “Rule of thumb: if I didn’t share it, assume it’s a lie and if it’s a really horrible photo (usually of me crying), assume it’s AI. I’ve never posted a crying photo. And never would (for clicks). But that’s what these sites do!”
The Marrses aren’t the only celebrities dealing with fake AI photos.
Earlier this year, FAMILY FEUD host Steve Harvey and others called on congress to take action.
“It’s freedom of speech, it’s not freedom of, ‘make me speak the way you want me to speak,’” he said. “That’s not freedom, that’s abuse. And Congress has got to get involved in this thing, because it’s going to end up hurting them, too.”
Besides dealing with AI drama, Marrs is doing her best in this season to be intentional about her time and mission. In a recent post to Instagram, she shared with followers that her family took a special trip to Italy to reset.
“After a year of immense loss and grief for our family, we have chosen to be more intentional than ever with our most precious resource: time,” she began.
“We knew that going to the place that brings us immense joy, surrounded by dear friends who feel like extensions of our family, with the everyday pressures of life stripped away, was the perfect way to close out 2025 and fully embrace the new year.”
She concluded, “We nourished our bodies with real food, savoring the meals and the deep conversations. We soaked in the immense beauty of the landscape, snapping photos as cascading rays of sunlight painted the valley with a golden warmth.”
While fake content spreads on the internet, let’s all be intentional with how we live and spend time with those we love.
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