HGTV’s Rehab Addict Canceled After Nicole Curtis Used Racial Slur While Filming

People ^ | 02 12 2026 | Ingrid Vasquez

[yesthatjallen]

HGTV's Rehab Addict has been canceled after its star, Nicole Curtis, was caught using a racial slur while filming the series

A video of Curtis using the n-word while filming the show was posted by Radar on Wednesday, Feb. 11, the same day it was set to return

"Not only is language like this hurtful and disappointing to our viewers, partners, and employees - it does not align with the values of HGTV," the network said in a statement to PEOPLE

SNIP

---

TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: buhbye; cancelculture; hgtv; ingridvasquez; nicolecurtis; people; racialslur; rehabaddict

[yesthatjallen]

The slur she used was 'fart n-word'. She said the phrase in frustration while trying to take down some deconstruction material.

[Blueflag]

have to say, I have never heard of fart-n@@@$.

Is that a thing? I certainly couldn’t even imagine how to use it in a sentence.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Sometimes there is only one right word for a situation. They shouldn't penalize
her for partaking of the fullness of the English language, her blood inheritance.

[LouAvul]

I don’t use that word but don’t really get upset at the concept since blax use that word like it has no meaning. If the word is so hurtful they wouldn’t be saying it. And since they’re saying it in normal conversation it’s clearly not hurtful. No sympathy. Period.

[yesthatjallen]

"have to say, I have never heard of fart-n@@@$."

I never heard that cuss phase either. I don't know how or why she put these two words together.

MAYBE if I hit my thumb with a hammer I MIGHT say 'FART'? But why the other and why did she link them?

Weird phraseology.

[Psalm 73]

Have watched this show for years - she's very entertaining.

But she wasn't CALLING anyone that word, she was just using it as an expletive. Not smart on television, but shouldn't be career-ending.

[Tell It Right]

For me the comparison is not how often blacks say the n-word, but how often they say racial slurs against whites.

[Lockbox]

If she had only used the politically correct term “fart-Multicultural“ we wouldn’t have to deal with this.

[albie]

She said fart and then N?

[Vision]

Society is no longer run by adults, sometime to keep in mind.

[albie]

And there we have it. One word and a career is ended, she’ll be doxxed and ridiculed and hounded. Unbelievable

[FirstFlaBn]

She should have told the execs she was an aspiring rapper and all would have been well.

[woweeitsme]

I’m guessing she probably meant to say “fart knocker”, like Beavis and Butthead used to say and it just came out wrong.

[Leaning Right]

> I hope she sues their asses off. <

Unless she has some special protection written into her contract, she has no case. HGTV is a private company.

Having said that, this incident is (of course) yet another example of a double standard.

[bk1000]

I am fed up with th “n-word” nonsense.
Blacks use it with impunity. Many cannot complete a sentence without including it. Whites didn’t use it all that much, at least where I grew up in the Deep South. Frankly, we didn’t talk about them nearly as much as is thought. We didn’t, because mama taught us not to say it because it was rude. Now we have “The N Word”. Some whites, particularly liberals, reel in shock at the very utterance of anything that even sounds like it. It is unbelievable that there exists such a cudgel. The “hard R” is a non starter. The idea that blacks can’t be racist is BS.

[FreedomPoster]

That puts it quite well for where I am at.

Don’t really care about any of the pejoratives the Left uses against us, either. Other than to call them out for using them to further stochastic terrorism.

[DAC21]

“And there we have it. One word and a career is ended, she’ll be doxxed and ridiculed and hounded. Unbelievable”

Her show is usually filmed in Detroit. Often buying some completely dilapidated turn of the century home and turning it into a very nice home and helping to rehabilitate neighborhoods of color. Yeah, probably no coming back from this in that town. If she is in fact good at what she does in terms of rehabilitation / remodeling of homes she will need to find a new city, but her TV career is over.

Strange timing in that the wife just played one of her shows from our saved YouTube TV library a couple days ago. We had been fairly regular watchers of the show over the years but I thought it may have been canceled previously, as we hadn’t seen it in a while, apparently not.