Get ready to move that bus ( again ) ! Builder Wendell Holland and designer Arianne Bellizaire share details on what ’s change about the revamp nursing home restoration series .
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A few geezerhood have pass ( 13 to be precise ) since family first wake up to a bunch of multitude in strong hats and news show that they ’re get a firebrand new home within three days . Extreme Makeover : Home Editionis officially back — and the serial has undergone a major revamp itself .
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The New and ImprovedExtreme Makeover: Home Edition
Originally hosted by Ty Pennington during its original political campaign on ABC from 2004 to 2012 , the show has two new emcee , a professional designer , and a builder , all working as a team to make family ’ dreams come honest . And this time , they ’re throw certain they can sustain them .
After the first iteration of the series ended , it faced unfavorable judgment for bequeath the recipient role of the unexampled homes with sky - eminent property taxes and no tools for maintaining its shiny new features . This time , they ’re introducing a segment foretell The Home Edit , led by organisational pro Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin ( founders of the global lifestyle brandThe Home Edit ) to “ thoughtfully design and tailor each home from the inside out . ” Along with constructor Wendell Holland and couturier Arianna Bellizaire , they ’re make certain kinfolk are set up for success long after the cameras stop rolling .
“ We fuck that there ’s a encumbrance of what the house is not doing for the family , and how we can help oneself use our design and construction to do that , but I did not appreciate that in some case , there would be a financial core on the family because of the fresh gift we ’ve give them , ” Bellizaire says . “ And we were capable to have partner — Virtual Horizon Bank , community partners — to actually put together a home plate store for each of these syndicate to help set off the price of this unexampled gift we ’ve given them , so now we can make certain it stays positive and does n’t feel like it ’s a new matter for them to worry about . ”
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One part of the show that ’s here to stick : the heartwarming second . Holland and Bellizaire sat down to chew the fat about the friendly relationship they organise throughout cinematography , what it was like to make an entire home base in three days — even during hurricane — and what they ’re most unrestrained for witness to see .
Get to Know Designer Arianne Bellizaire and Builder Wendell Holland
If you ’re a fan ofSurvivor , another iconic series , you might know Holland from not only competing on but winning season 36 . He ’s also the father and top dog designer of Beve Unlimited , a Philadelphia - base custom furniture party specializing in reclaimed Natalie Wood , and has come along on a range of HGTV display .
However , this is Bellizaire ’s first maraud into telly . As the CEO and creative director behind her own design firm , Arianne Bellizaire Interiors , she constitute herself taking claim about joining the dramatis personae without knowing it was forExtreme Makeover .
“ When I got the call that I made the cut , I was floored , because it was not on my keno add-in at all , ” she says . “ I will tell you from the moment that that decision was made and we all occur together , we have been inseparable as much as we can [ being ] in unlike place . I mean , it ’s really beautiful , the friendly relationship and the regard that we have for each other professionally , and it ’s a delicacy when we get to see each other . ”
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Even through Zoom , you’re able to feel the appreciation and manage from both Bellizaire and Holland , a bond that acquire from influence on such an worked up labor together .
“ I ’m a softy — like , I might shed a footling tear if we ’re talking to a family that I really tie in with , ” Holland says . “ And that ’s what we do . We touch base with these families , and because I have a handsome heart , and I want to help masses just like Ariana , just like Clea and Joanna — it just felt like the complete show for me . ”
What to Expect This Season
The Team
It take a leak mother wit that the four principal team member ( Bellizaire , Holland , Shearer , and Teplin ) catch near — they had to stick to a strict schedule , get to know new kinsperson , create entire house , and even weather someextremestorms . When a hurricane hit Texas on a building day , Holland was out of doors on the job web site lease TV and hyping everyone up .
“ You do n’t get more utmost than this , ” he says . “ We are working 24 hours to build this home with something on schedule — every 15 minutes there ’s something happening . ”
To shake out any cheek about being on TV , they bonded over music , create a playlist and trip the light fantastic around . grant to Bellizaire , the destination was to “ show up and just be ourselves and be the fomite for the story . ”
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The hard part about being on the show ? say adieu to each other . They described the ending of shot as like leaving the best friends you made at summer camp . Now , they bet forward to see each other whenever they can , even if it ’s just doing a video call together .
“ The last shoot in L.A. , I ’m just like , ‘ Oh , gosh , what am I gon na do ? ’ ” Holland says . “ We ’ve been through so much , not only with ourselves , but then with all these menage we touched , and now it ’s all over . It was just such a dream , and it was such a beautiful thing , and highs and lows regarding emotions that it just was so hard to leave everyone on that last day . ”
The Edit
After the original show cease , it was clear something had to change to help the syndicate stay afloat and function . That ’s the idea behind The Edit , a new element led by Shearer and Teplin . The span walks through the menage with the family and help them get free of what ’s not function them , putting functional system in position , from every closet to every drawer . This not only leave alone them with the pecker they need but teach them how to use them . Holland calls this the mettle of the series .
“ I do n’t desire multitude to lose that , ” Bellizaire say . “ I remember that is incredible for anyone to wrap their head around . They can take the air in this house and it is move - in ready , and it has the organisational systems to countenance them to continue to keep the infinite organized , clear , minimal so they do n’t get that cloggy feeling any longer . ”
The Families
All of the anecdote Bellizaire and Holland share connect back to one major theme : The focus is on the families .
“ We came into it as we would be the secondary , and the families would be the poor boy , right ? ” Bellizaire say . “ And I think that ’s the way that each episode unfold . ”
While the duet does n’t spend as much time with the kinfolk as Shearer and Teplin , they ’re the ones who strike hard on the threshold and spend time with the minor during thehome tours , play game , doing basketball game drills , and capture to know them . They also learn about their needs before design and decorating the homes so they can give them something personalise .
“ In the end , these families have so much on their plate — they’ve pass over to us that genial load , and because they ’ve done that , we can be nimble , ” Bellizaire state . “ Our hope is when they take the air in , they say something like , ‘ How did you do it ? ’ … That ’s what we ’re working toward . It ’s a lot of pressure . I retrieve that ’s what we hold on our shoulders . But because of how we ’re built , we take that challenge on readily ; we ’re excited that we can do that for them . ”
get to reveal the house — ascertain the reactions and even tear — made it sink in that they were change people ’s lives . In one episode ( Holland say you ’ll know when you see it ) , a father broke down when they revealed a built - in wall of family memento . As a father himself , he say he felt especially moved by the dad ’s emotions at how they were able to provide this surround for their kids and observe them flourish .
“ I recollect the reveals are so powerful because by the clip the spectator see them , they have fallen in love with the family , ” Bellizaire says . “ So it ’s not just like , ' Oh , that ’s a coolheaded matter . ' It ’s like , ‘ Oh , I bonk what that ’s run to do for them because I ’ve learned their story . ’ ”
Extreme Makeover : Home Editionpremiered on ABC on January 2 . catch new episodes every Thursday on ABC at 8 p.m. EST , or pour them on Hulu .
