Erin Napier Shuts Down Divorce Rumors With Ben Napier: 'It's Upsetting'
Erin Napier is setting the record straight by shutting down rumors she and husband Ben Napier are headed for divorce.
The Home Town star shared a post via Instagram denouncing articles that alluded to the pair potentially splitting up.
“Can’t believe I even have to say this but NO, the click bait articles that we are splitting up are not real, y’all,” Erin, 39, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Monday, July 7. “They are AI generated in India or something and don’t even make any kind of sense. Y’all are smarter than this.”
In a second Instagram Story, Erin continued, “And please don’t ask about it in front of our babies. They don’t understand what ‘online fake news’ means and it’s upsetting.”
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The couple share two children, Helen, 7, and Mae, 4, who were born in January 2018 and May 2021, respectively.
Erin and Ben, 41, first met in 2004, when they were students at Jones County Junior College in Mississippi. They walked down the aisle in 2008. Nearly a decade after they wed, they launched their first HGTV series, Home Town, in 2016, and fans have been falling in love with their adorable relationship ever since.
“Erin and I always say communication is a key element in a happy marriage,” Ben told Us Weekly in March. “The vast majority of our job is a director saying, ‘Hey, that just happened — give me some thoughts on it.’ We ping-pong off each other.”
“We’ve been together longer than we’ve been apart,” Erin told Us. “We learned how to communicate together. It’s effortless now.”

Additionally, they landed the spinoff show Home Town Takeover in 2021, taking them across the U.S. to revitalize various communities. Season 3 of the series saw the couple travel to restore the town of Sebring, Florida. Ben also starred in his own woodworking spinoff, Home Town: Ben’s Workshop, from 2021 to 2022.
Erin and Ben have made it very clear that they enjoy working with one another, addressing misconceptions about couples arguably spending too much time together.
“Some people say, ‘Oh, I could never work with my spouse,’ but it may be that you’ve never actually tried,” Ben said. “If you go to your parents’ house and you’re only there for a couple days, you tend to start getting on each other’s nerves, but if you’re together for an extended period, you move beyond that, and you get into this groove together.”
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Erin further commented on her unbreakable bond with Ben in a subsequent Instagram post after the interview.
“I think the best way to find happiness in your marriage is to serve one another,” the home designer wrote on the social media platform in March. “Never stop talking. Pray together. Show each other so much grace. Be on the same team. We only have 20 years of practice, and we are not experts, but it’s worked for us every time.”
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