'Home Town' Stars Ben And Erin Napier Call 'Fixer Upper's Chip and Joanna Gaines Their 'Lovely Mentors'
Ben and Erin Napier are the new stars of the HGTV show "Home Town," and after watching their show, audiences are reminded of another couple from a different show - Chip and Joanna Gaines of "Fixer Upper."
This comparison is something that the Napiers welcome, especially since they look up to the Gaines. "Chip and Joanna have been absolutely lovely mentors to us," Erin told Fox News. "We're in this really weird adventure, this same crazy journey... We're all doing our different thing, and our separate thing."
Their show has done really well since it debuted on March 21. It had the second highest-rated series premiere in history after "Fixer Upper." Whereas the Gaines couple takes on dilapidated houses throughout central Texas and transforms them into amazing homes, the Napiers focus on restoring historic homes in their Mississippi town.
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But their love for remodelling is not the only thing the Napiers have in common with the Gaines. "We care about home and we care about, you know, showing people in America that...home is the most special place in the world, wherever that home is for you," Erin explained.
And like the Gaines, Ben and Erin are also Christians who do not shy away from talking about their faith. "God has been so very good to us: not because of the show, not because of the way our town is blossoming-those are fruits, but not the blessing itself," Erin earlier wrote on her blog.
"The blessing is this: He's given us clarity of purpose, He's given us passion, and He always puts the people and things in our path we need at the very moment we need them, and not a moment before. The ground is always there for the next step when we have the faith to keep walking without seeing it will be there to catch us."
