SC couple get new home on latest ‘House Hunters’ episode on HGTV. Here’s when to watch

Justin and Raven Fox recently moved from the Upstate to the Midlands to start new jobs.

He was entering the family medicine residency program at Lexington Medical Center and she was going to work for the Darla Moore School of Business at USC as a freshman advisor.

They needed a house.

They looked up Realtors and saw how highly-rated John Covington was and then someone recommended him.

But then came an interesting prospect. Two people said check into applying to be on the program House Hunters. One of them was Kalisha Bruster, a friend of Justin Fox from his hometown Spartanburg. Last year, she sold a house to her niece and her niece’s husband on House Hunters. Fox also went to school with the niece, Ashley Wingo.

“Small world,” Justin Fox said in an interview Wednesday.

He felt they had an interesting story to offer the show.

The new episode is set to air at 10 p.m. on Monday.

He was raised by a single mother, who told him he had to work hard in school to go to college. He earned a scholarship to Harvard.

Then he went back home for medical school at VCOM-Carolinas.

Raven Fox, from Gaffney, earned a bachelor’s degree from University of South Carolina Upstate, a masters of educational leadership from North Central University and is studying for a PhD.

“Dr. and Dr.,” she wrote on her USC webpage.

She worked as a math teacher before joining USC.

They also own a winery. One with a twist.

They make muscadine wine in a renovated garage in Spartanburg. No grapes.

It’s a recipe Justin Fox’s father, Jesse Watkins, gave him during a phone call from prison, where he is serving a sentence for murder.

They call the business Elwood Wines, named for his father’s middle name, with a tagline “prison wines.” It has a higher alcohol content than grape wines and has a more fruity taste., Fox said.

Fox had two goals when he started the winery. He wanted to make money for the Boys and Girls Club, now known as Kids Upstate. And he wants to launch an effort to prove his father did not kill a cousin.

Craig White disappeared in 1990 after having an affair with Watkins’ fiancé, according to court records. His body was never found. Seventeen years later, Watkins was indicted based on witness statements that White was last seen with Watkins, who was found guilty in 2009. His conviction was upheld on appeal.

The Foxes are no strangers to attention. The vows Justin Fox wrote for their wedding in April went viral on social media.

“This guy is different,” Raven Fox said in a video on TikTok.

He put a piece of a chipped tooth in her engagement ring from when she didn’t quite make a jump over a creek. He announced it as part of his vows.

So, it’s probably not surprising that they were accepted for House Hunters.

They can’t say much before the show airs on HGTV Monday, but Covington said he showed them three houses in the price range of $250,000 and $300,000 in the Columbia suburbs. They needed a separate building for winemaking and to be close to their jobs.

Covington’s advice to anyone wanting to go on the show: bring extra clothes and shoes and prepare for 10-hour sessions over five days.

The Foxes are hosting a program watch online, beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, in which they will discuss the experience.

And show off which house they bought.