HGTV couple Jen and Brandon Hatmaker’s 2020 split and subsequent divorce rocked both of their worlds.
Former Your Big Family Renovation host Jen stunned fans in July 2020 by announcing that her family was “in a moment with no handbook and without a single clue how to navigate this privately, much less publicly” as she split from Brandon after 26 years of marriage. (Brandon and Jen wed in 1993 and share five grown children: Beth, Ben, Gavin, Remy, and Caleb.)
“We are real people managing this in our real life in real time, and we are doing the absolute best we know how to do,” she wrote via Instagram at the time.
Jen later alleged in her 2025 memoir, Awake, that the end of her marriage was precipitated by her discovery that Brandon was having an affair. Brandon publicly apologized for hi