After HGTVAn effort in 2020 to revive “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” the popular TV series that Ty Pennington originally hosted on ABC from 2004 to 2012, the show will soon return to its first home — but without Pennington.
ABC announced on May 7, 2024, that the show will return to the network during its 2024/25 season, according to Deadline, but a start date was not given. Actress Reese Witherspoon‘s production company is behind the reboot, to be hosted by master organizers and designers Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, best known for their lifestyle brand The Home Edit.
However, many fans of Pennington are unhappy with this change and want the original host back on the show.
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ABCJoanna Teplin and Clea Shearer, new hosts of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” due to premiere in 2024 on ABC
In June 2023, ABC announced that it was developing another reboot of the show with Shearer and Teplin at the helm, per Deadline, but it’s taken nearly a year for the network to greenlight the revamped series for air.
The reboot of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” which ABC called “the most widely recognized home makeover show to ever exist” in a press release on May 7, will follow a formula very similar to the original show, but with a focus on helping the featured families adopt new habits to make their daily lives smoother.
In each episode, Teplin and Shearer, who starred in two seasons of Netflix’s “Get Organized with the Home Edit,” will work with a different family in need and use their design and organization skills to “evaluate and edit every single item they own,” the release said. Working with a team of builders and contractors who will “reconfigure the home based on the family’s lifestyle and needs,” they’ll also show each family how to benefit from the new organization systems in their home.
Not everyone was thrilled about the new hosts, though. Fans of the original version were quick to complain that it won’t be the same without Pennington, who was still featured on the banner of the show’s YouTube page as of May 7.
When the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” Facebook page shared the news about the reboot, one fan wrote, “Loved this programme. Ty made it as good as it was. Not the same without him. Get the original team back.”
Another commented, “If TY isn’t in it forget it! His personality was fun and uplifting.”
Someone else wrote, “What????! You’ve snubbed Ty again? Maybe he turned you down after the last time?? This was my favourite show, but these revamps have been a let down.”
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HGTVHGTV aired one season of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” in 2020 with Jesse Tyler Ferguson as the host.
In 2020, HGTV rebooted the popular series with “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson as the host, as well as help from HGTV stars like Tarek El Moussa and Jasmine Roth, and celebrity guests including LeeAnn Rimes.
Though Pennington also showed up on the revived show as a guest, he told TMZ before it was shown that he was enthusiastic about Ferguson, calling it “one of the best shows ever,” but mentioned that he was probably “too old” for the intensity of the show. Jokingly, he said his advice to Ferguson was, “Rest up!”
The HGTV version of the show aired during the peak of the pandemic, but failed after one season as home renovations came to a sudden stop and filming in people’s homes was not allowed for months.
In March 2024, Pennington — who currently hosts competition shows like “Rock the Block” on HGTV — exclusively told Heavy that, reflecting on the past, he can’t believe what the teams achieved in the early days of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”
“That’s like the Everest of television renovation shows,” he said. “You can’t build a house in 7 days, yet we did it in 6, you know? It’s just insane. It’s funny, I was talking to a couple producers from ‘Rock the Block,’ because it was a real tough challenge this year on ‘Rock the Block’ and I said ‘Yeah, remember, I was on a show where we built a house in less than a week, it’s insane!'”
Pennington will appear next on the fourth season of HGTV’s “Battle on the Beach,” set to premiere on June 3.
