Overview
- Tuesday night HGTV posted a gender-reveal video that lit the 500-year-old French chateau blue as Ian Figueira announced, “It’s a boy,” ahead of the show’s season two finale.
- HGTV first announced Daphne Reckert’s pregnancy on June 2 and the couple told a local outlet in mid-June that the baby was due in a couple of months, which places the likely arrival in August.
- The couple explained the origin of their public nickname “The Figs” in recent HGTV posts and commemorated the milestone by carving and placing a stone engraved “The Figs 2026” at the heart of the terrace.
- Family and close collaborators including Daphne’s grandmother and master craftsman Anthony Raggett joined the gender reveal, and the couple publicly denied circulating twin rumors.
- The Figs finance the costly restoration by renting finished chateau spaces for weddings and shoots so they can keep renovating while planning how to share parenting duties and finish remaining work.