‘Flipping Out’ Jeff Lewis Says Living Spaces Fired Him, Jokes About Depression

Jeff Lewis is apparently out of a job. On Saturday morning, the Flipping Out star tweeted that furniture company Living Spaces has fired him. He joked whether he should take Advil for his depression and attached a photo of an Advil bottle, with pills spilling out on the counter, next to a martini. His hashtags for the tweet made clear that he believes that he was done wrong.

Many of Jeff’s fans replied to the tweet to tell him that he’s better off without the furniture company and that they won’t be buying furniture from them anymore. Several people also wrote that Jeff was clearly set up to fail, in particular by the actions of Channa.

On a recent Flipping Out episode, Jeff was shown setting up a catalog photoshoot for Living Spaces, who hired him to be its creative director. When it came time to shoot, Jeff and his team realized that many of the things that they brought to use as props for the shoot weren’t there. Living Spaces employee Channa, who was supposed to bring the items to the shoot, repeatedly responded that she didn’t have them. The fact that it wasn’t the first time that things have gone missing prompted Jeff and his team to wonder if they were being purposefully sabotaged.

“Channa doesn’t care about my shoot and she’s either doing this deliberately to sabotage me or she’s just completely forgetful and inefficient, so either way I don’t want her there.”

In her blog post covering the episode, Jeff’s assistant, Jenni Pulos, implied that Channa wasn’t pleased about Jeff taking her job.

“Busy bees in Brentwood / Living Spaces Designer Channa / Sharing what was once her job alone with Jeff / Jeff gets the cover and the first half of the catalogue / And the back page / What did she do with the accessories?”

Later on in the episode, when Jeff was notified that Channa was mad about being called out, Jeff seemed pleased and joked that he needed to push more buttons.

Jeff Lewis certainly isn’t afraid of calling people out, whether on Flipping Out, another TV show, or on social media. As the Inquisitr reported in July, Jeff called out former The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville for throwing wine at him during their joint Watch What Happens Live appearance months earlier. Immediately after that episode aired, Brandi claimed that it was all a joke to shock Andy Cohen and viewers and that Jeff was in on it. Yet on his follow up Watch What Happens Live appearance, this time with Jenni Pulos, Jeff said that the wine toss definitely wasn’t planned and that “the whole thing was upsetting.”

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