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Mina Starsiak Hawk, Mom Karen E. Laine Return in New GOOD BONES Spinoff

Mina Starsiak Hawk, Mom Karen E. Laine Return in New GOOD BONES Spinoff

By Movieguide® Contributor

Mina Starsiak Hawk and mom Karen E. Laine are back for a GOOD BONES spinoff after a falling out on the original show.

“HGTV announced on Wednesday, July 15, that the mother-daughter duo will star in a special limited season of the long-running series, which wrapped an eight-season run in 2023,” PEOPLE reported.

The spinoff will show the mother and daughter while they work on separate projects in separate states. Starsiak Hawk will renovate her Indiana lake house for her family of four. Laine will work on her retirement investment, a bungalow on the beach in North Carolina.

“The next two episodes, which are each an hour long, will see Laine face ‘challenges at every turn’ while purchasing her 120-year-old beach house,” PEOPLE said.

Starsiak Hawk said there’s a “great community” near her lake home.

“It’s this place that I can see in my mind that’s going to be for my family, but also for my extended family to make these new, amazing memories,” she explained. “I have so many friends that I hear tell great stories about growing up at their grandparents’ lake house and running around in the woods and building forts and just being kids, and I want that for my kids.”

Movieguide® previously reported on Starsiak Hawk’s renovations:

The lake remodel will take place in two parts, beginning with the home’s main interior areas and finishing with the basement and backyard.

“What I know right now is [the] first phase we are filming for a two-episode spinoff, and it’s been really fun so far, because Steve’s involved a lot, the kids are there a lot, [Good Bones head designer] MJ [Coyle] and [construction coordinator] Austin [Aynes] are there for demo,” Starsiak Hawk explained. 

“And it just kind of feels like getting back to when I started, and it was just really fun and everything was joyful,” she continued. 

The show will release on HGTV on Aug. 14. At 9 p.m. ET, per TODAY. It’s not clear whether the show is actually a continuation/mini-season of GOOD BONES, as House Beautiful reports, or whether it’s a spinoff, like PEOPLE and other sources reported, with the name yet to be announced.

Starsiak Hawk said on her podcast that tensions were high with her mom and brother, Tad Starsiak, in the last season of GOOD BONES.

She and her mom “do not talk,” and “haven’t in a long time.”

Some people judge her for “not forgiving and forgetting because it’s family, and blood is thicker than water.”

But “Those people can think what they want, but it’s so complicated,” she added.

For her, another show where she and her mom are directly involved in the same projects would need to have a “healthier” balance.

“I just think it would be a really bad decision for me, like, mentally and emotionally, let alone financially, to kinda get back in that place,” she said of going back to the normal GOOD BONES model.

“I said, ‘There’s not enough money in the world that would put me in the place I was a year ago, Because it was that bad,” she said, before she changed her mind. “That’s probably a lie. If someone was like, ‘I’ll give you a million dollars an episode,’ and I had to go back to that place for a year, but I’d be set for the rest of my life, maybe that would be worth it.”


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