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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 4:45 am
ABC fires Ty Pennington, producer from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC has fired Extreme Makeover: Home Edition host Ty Pennington and his producer because of events that transpired at a New Orleans shoot last week. While workers installed drywall in a home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Ty put on a yellow raincoat and hat, tripped the house’s fire prevention sprinkler system, and ran through the house screaming, “Oh my god! Look out! Here comes Hurricane Ty! Craaazy!” Later, he submerged himself in a kiddie pool and screamed, “Oh, you babies! Water’s fun!” During the reveal of the house’s new kitchen, the family’s 14-year-old son said on camera, “I’m just happy to not have to live in a shelter anymore.” Ty’s producer pulled him aside and whispered in his ear, “That is not why you are happy, you little ingrate. You are happy because you have a brand-new kitchen courtesy of Sears. Sears! Now try it again.” Then she kneed him in the balls, turned to the camera crew, and said, “Oh, yes, tears! Action!” Reached for comment, the producer said, “What was I supposed to do? Those pedophiles at Idol got the rights to Daniel Powter’s ‘Bad Day,’ so how else was I going to make the audience weep? Besides, no one even looked at or said the brand name of their beautiful new toaster oven. Can you blame me?” The network has placed increased pressure on the show to up the drama in recent months, and has done its part to maintain viewers’ interest in the hit show by scheduling new episodes every nine weeks. The network would only say in an official statement that Ty left for “personal reasons” and to “pursue other opportunities” and that “ABC wishes him the best in his future endeavors back on cable.” Off the record, an ABC executive said, “In no way do we condone the actions of Ty or the producer, although we do recognize that this episode placed special challenges on the production crew. By the time it airs, it’ll literally be months after Hurricane Katrina, and most Americans have already taken the President’s advice to not let the terrorists win by dwelling on the fact that their government failed them. Instead, people are now focused on more important news, such as the fact that their daughters might go missing during spring break.” The family, brought in from Minnesota because producers realized that people in the hurricane-ravaged areas only look good on TV from helicopters, declined to comment except to say that they were grateful to the show for helping them realize that what was really missing in their post-hurricane lives was a new set of Craftsman tools. APRIL FOOL'S!!!!!!!! http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 7:41 am
Annie, you shouldn't have added the bottom lines!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 8:47 am
Again, I cried like a baby! When the parents saw the little shadowbox with William's things in it, that was all it took!
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Starshine40
Member
07-30-2002
| Friday, April 14, 2006 - 10:29 pm
I was so touched by the high school drama kids doing their monologue in the theater back home. I believe it really helped them. The fire dept was nice too. Good to see these small towns getting some help also.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, April 17, 2006 - 4:15 am
I loved the hand print tile in the center of the house and then the hand print picture above the parents bed! Beautiful!
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Luvmom
Member
10-17-2000
| Sunday, May 07, 2006 - 5:37 pm
What is it about Fabio that makes some of us women(Including me) go gaga?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, May 08, 2006 - 6:11 am
I swear those boys last night looked like grown men lol. And cute men too.
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Spoton
Member
09-16-2005
| Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 5:23 am
I just can't hold this in any longer!!!! Since I am anonymous on this board, and you don't know where I specifically live - (and mostly because I can't tell anyone here yet!!) - Extreme Makeover - Home Ed. is doing a house in my "town" soon - and the cool part, for me, is that the carpenter they are using on the job is the one who is building my house right now!! That alone made my respect for the show shoot way up, as he is such a great guy - does great work. I don't know anything about the family yet - It is supposed to be made public soon, so I can check out the location. I'm excited about being able to see EMHE at work, and I'm thrilled for my carpenter, "Mr. X" for this opportunity!
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 9:34 am
How exciting Spoton!! You will be in on the ground floor and can let us know what it is really like and just how good a job they really do - and what happens to the family after!!!!
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Spoton
Member
09-16-2005
| Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 1:50 pm
I hope the carpenter still has work to do at our place after they are finished at EM-HE so I can get the inside scoop.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 2:00 pm
Wow how exciting Spoton. Yep we'll want to know everything whenever you can reveal.
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Beruthiel
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 6:41 am
Texannie, that was downright diabolical! I haven't been here for ages, and the first thing I saw when I clicked on the page was the headline - I was so shocked I went for a cigarette before I read the rest of it, and realised I was being had, ROFL! I'm never gonna quit smoking at this rate! Spoton, looking forward to hearing all about what happens. :-)))
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Texannie
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07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 9:05 am

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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 7:22 am
I thought the show last night was amazing. Watching it, you couldn't help but wonder why one family would have to go through so many terrible things. Yet, they still had such great spirits. I especially admired the strength of the mother. All those electronic computers and devices will make such a difference in their lives. They did a great job on the house.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 8:32 am
yep, watching made me feel pretty petty for thinking things in my life were bad! i just alternately smiled and cried throughout the show.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 9:02 am
I really like many elements of this show, but, and this is going to be a deal breaker for me...I can not stand either the redundancy or the smarminess. It is so overwrought that it grates. And it doesn't have to be that way. The producers could tell the story, move the show along, show things that are integral to the show without all the silliness. Silliness=grabbing football players off the side of the road and the constant repetition. Gosh, I am feeling puckish today. Sorry!
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Spoton
Member
09-16-2005
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 10:40 am
Update on the EM-HE filmed in my area. They did the build last week (supposed to air in November). I don't know much about the family, other than their home burned down and the family of five has been living in a camping trailer for a long time. The setting is rural farm - very pretty - large classic red barn and other outbuildings. My carpenter and crew worked on it - they will be working on our house next week. My husband's company also worked on it - He didn't even tell me until the last weekend!! LOL! What a good little secret keeper! They do the "dirt" work - had crews on it 24-7, literally. We saw one shot of the finished house - WOW! I was hoping they'd keep in the spirit of a classic farm house, and they did, well, a huge, gorgeous farm house! It is 2 1/2 stories, white clapboard. Has a double porch in the front (two "layers" - upper and lower), which doesn't so much look like an Iowa farm as it does a southern mansion. But still has a lot of the classic style of a farm house. I'll let you know as (if) I get details.
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Spoton
Member
09-16-2005
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 10:41 am
Er - I made that sound like my husband OWNS the company - he is a worker-bee, not an owner!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 11:43 am
Spoton please post a reminder in November. How kool is that.
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Spoton
Member
09-16-2005
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 2:27 pm
I'll try my hand at a link - Here is the web site with the completed house and the family's story. Really quite a good, complete site - I'm impressed! Extreme Home Iowa
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 4:28 pm
Spoton, Wow - that house is amazing. It's huge. That's really wonderful that your husband was a part of it. I'm looking forward to seeing that episode.
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 6:13 am
What an amazing house! It looks like the house they used for the show Dallas.
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Stopjustwatchin
Member
08-19-2005
| Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 6:06 pm
OK...tonight's episode was great! Such a great and well-deserving family. However, I have one question about the end of the episode -- was it just me or did it look dark when they were in the backyard with the football field? If you were going on what they said earlier in the episode, you don't see dusk but for a couple hours around 3 am. So, are we to assume that they were out back doing that shoot at 3 am?
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Monday, September 25, 2006 - 7:30 am
I missed the backstory on the family - is she a widow with 8 kids and helping an ill man with 3????
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Sewmommy
Member
07-06-2004
| Monday, September 25, 2006 - 8:13 am
Here's the story http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/bios/401.html The man is her brother. She was raised ina biracial family.
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