Oh, Fart Knockers! Nicole Curtis has Stepped in It Now - Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 9a

(Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 9 - February 11, 2026)

Into my laying out of background that led to me renovating my houses on television, I learned season nine of Rehab Addict would run episode one on February 11^th. This caused me to think, Great news. That’s fortunate timing, since the show’s host is a significant part of my attempts at explaining how and why I ended up on the tube. But then yesterday news about the cancelation and removal kept running across my phone.

Nicole Curtis and I have never spoken, at least not directly. I don’t know what her life is like; single mom, businesswoman, TV producer, published author, home improvement royalty. I certainly do understand what it’s like to write, to avoid overusing the same words or typing something unique or clever more than once. But more significantly, comparing that to speaking on camera, I absolutely know how it is having a microphone under your shirt for long days. Tiresome weeks of talking, talking, talking, and having people listening and recording come along with wearing dual hats of renovator and communicator as you work, mind racing at ridiculous speed. I’m sure being a producer with other unknowns attached only adds to brain clutter.

This is far from excuse making for Nicole Curtis. Yet due to long days mic’d up for the dusty cameras, embarrassed at tripping over my own tongue, I can once again relate. In that TV remodeler mode, there is a drive to deliver for the producers while simultaneously thinking toward the post-production phase. With this comes awareness to provide material for the next team, perhaps for an introductory sequence like Rehab Addict when the home renovator is at the top of the stairs questioning a decision to cover up pickets. “Oh, fart knockers!” would have been a nice little nugget, but instead it came out as the N-word and the rehab addict is paying a huge price for it right now.

Besides having a mom, wife, sister, and cousins who are really strong women, I’m a girl dad. And good or bad, I see women through men’s eyes. It’s impossible for me to overlook how they get judged by a different tape measurer than us dudes. And to me, this situation with Ms. Curtis is starting off as a fresh example.

I saw the clip and to call it racial slur usage seems heavy handed. It’s clear she recognized how words spilled from her mouth intolerably. She didn’t excuse herself. She didn’t laugh or shrug. She seemed to feel bad and regretful right away.

No one that I know of says what Nicole Curtis said. Yet I’ve certainly heard attempts to avoid profanity in the form of goofy curses like “fart knockers,” or “fart nuggets.” That’s more plausible and I’d like to believe that was what she was trying to get on film; something cheeky, rather than something disrespectful. That’s more on brand for the blonde renovator.  

In depth insight here is beyond me. And yet I do know a bit more than most, that Nicole Curtis has broken some hearts in TV land, had to say no behind the scenes when submission may have been expected. More than this being an example of racism, it seems like an attention-grabbing effort that’s backfired horribly or perhaps a move to knock the rehabbing queen off her throne.

(Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 10 - Coming Soon)