When a man suspected of drunk driving smashed through the front wall of their home in Waco, Texas, early Saturday morning, Kelly Downs and her husband, Ken, were sleeping in the master suite towards the rear of the house. The couple were unharmed, but according to Kelly, the violent incident was a long time coming.
“It’s like the Wild West here. There’s been a lot of commotion coming from the bars and the store across the street,” she told the Waco Tribune of the neighborhood the couple moved to a year and a half ago. They had been selected to appear on HGTV’s hit show Fixer Upper, a dream for Kelly who was an avid viewer and a big fan of Joanna Gaines’s design style, according to an interview in local magazine, Wacoan. Now, she says, “This is a Fixer Upper gone bad.”
“It’s been a problem from the beginning,” Kelly told the Tribune. “We feel deceived by the city of Waco and [Chip and Joanna Gaines’s firm] Magnolia Realty.” A representative for Magnolia declined to comment on the Downses’ statements.
She details that the she and her husband, who married in 2013 and moved to Waco specifically because of the opportunity to live in a Magnolia-designed home, found the area far from welcoming. “We have been intimidated and harassed,” she said. “There’s a big problem…
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