extreme makeover
| 12:31PM 2/19/2010
You aren't the only one feeling the pinch. In an exclusive interview with WalletPop's Jason Cochran, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's resident carpenter, Paul DiMeo, reports that the tough times have hit his popular ABC show, too.
One of the first things to change was the size of the homes. In...
| 12:00PM 10/16/2009
Paul DiMeo is the staff carpenter on ABC's long-running tearjerker real estate hit Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and he knows a little something about building cool stuff in a crunch. For seven seasons now, he's swept into the lives of needy or deserving American families and granted them the...
| 6:30PM 7/27/2009
Victor Marrero was kissed by the gods of reality TV. After he and his Camden, N.J. rowhouse were depicted, roaches and all, on a February 2007 20/20 piece about his poor city, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came a-calling. It was a whirlwind: by August 2007, he and the two of his five sons who...
| 1:00PM 12/10/2008
People magazine and all the other celebrity gossip magazines have never been so invested in real estate news as it has during this recession -- they could keep alive a whole sections on celebrities with money troubles (they're just like us!).
Celebrity Foreclosures
Judy Vardon, who...
| 8:00PM 10/17/2008
As the foreclosure casualties from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition keep mounting, I keep wondering if host Ty Pennington is going to be hauled in front of a Congressional committee sometime soon like the heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Of course, the hit ABC show is only trying to do good, but...
| 2:30PM 7/30/2008
It seems like we're going to see a lot more headlines like the one yesterday on one of the homes fixed up on Extreme Makeover ending up at a foreclosure auction (dramatically on the steps of the local courthouse in Georgia). Maybe it's only logical, given the mission of the show to fix up houses...
| 4:15PM 3/04/2008
This post is part of our series on people, places and things that have found new life in 2008.
Silicone breast implants, after falling into disfavor in the early 90's on claims that they caused various diseases including cancer, are back. In their latest incarnation, a safer fourth-generation...