Selling Sunset’s Creator Finally Explains Why Justin Hartley Was Never on the Show

From Cosmopolitan

• You know how This Is Us star Justin Hartley never showed up on Selling Sunset? There’s a reason.

• Reminder: Justin Hartley and Chrishell Stause split up during season 3.

Considering Chrishell Stause spent seasons 1 and 2 of Selling Sunset talking nonstop about her husband, This Is Us star Justin “This Is Us” Hartley of This Is Us, you’d think he’d, like, show up on-set at some point, right? Wrong. And honestly, if I hadn’t seen Justin Hartley in Justin Hartley’s This Is Us, I’d assume he was imaginary. Of course, poor Chrishell did her best to show the world pics of her husband—but he never once appeared on camera. And Selling Sunset creator Adam DiVello finally explained why.

Variety asked DiVello why we didn’t see Justin in early seasons of the show, and it looks like it came down to Netflix and NBC not playing ball. “I think it was just contractual,” he explained. “We certainly asked many, many times. I think it was just his contract with NBC.”

This also explains why Heather Rae Young’s boyfriend, HGTV star Tarek El Moussa, hasn’t shown up on Selling Sunset, although apparently, Netflix and HGTV have since come to an agreement:

“So Tarek is on HGTV, and unfortunately, the networks were not allowed to film together,” Heather explained. “Because they got to film the engagement, Netflix and HGTV came to an agreement that Tarek is allowed to film an episode with me next season.…I’m so excited to have him on camera with me and film with him. We have so much fun together, and we love filming together.”

COME @ ME, SEASON 4.

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