Tarek Gustave El Moussa (born August 21, 1981) is an American real estate investor and TV personality.

[1] The pair found success flipping houses as an alternative to their previous business of selling real estate, which took a hit during the 2008 economic crisis.

[2] Tarek Gustave El Moussa was born on August 21, 1981, to a Lebanese Catholic father, whose family migrated to Egypt, and a Belgian mother, whose maiden name is Arnould,[3] in Long Beach, California.

[5] He had a lucrative career selling real estate until the 2008 economic crisis, when the business he shared with his then-wife, Christina Haack, began to struggle.

A Flip or Flop viewer, nurse Ryan Read, "noticed that at certain angles, at certain times, it just caught my eye that Tarek had a lump on his throat"[16] and contacted producers.