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Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Christina on the Coast Among Latest HGTV Cancellations (Report)
Another HGTV series has reached an abrupt end: Christina on the Coast has not been renewed and will not be returning to the cabler, according to a report from US Weekly. (TVLine has reached out to the network for confirmation.) Christina on the Coast is hosted by Christina Haack, who got her start on Flip or Flop with then-husband Tarek El Moussa. (The couple divorced in 2018.) In the show, Haack and her team, including fellow designer and project manager James Bender, transform outdated properties into dream homes by incorporating functionality and modern amenities, such as open floor plans, custom storage solutions, coveted indoor-outdoor living areas and spacious primary bedrooms featuring spa-inspired bathrooms. Season 5, which premiered a year ago, opened with Haack navigating 'her most challenging — and personal — client and project yet' as she renovated her childhood home for her parents. More from TVLine Casting News: Queer Eye Alum to Host HGTV Series, Steve Howey Goes Off Campus and More Queer Eye Ending With Season 10 Rehab Addict Host Explains Show's Abrupt Removal From HGTV Schedule There is currently no word on whether Haack's other series, Christina in the Country, will suffer the same cancellation fate. According to the same report, The Flipping El Moussas will also not be returning to HGTV. That series, which premiered its second season in late December, followed 'real estate power couple' Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussae as they grow their working relationship as flippers while juggling the addition of a rambunctious toddler to their busy family on the Coast and The Flipping El Moussas are but the latest of several HGTV series to recently reach their apparent ends at the network. Earlier this summer, the hosts of Farmhouse Fixer, Married to Real Estate, Bargain Block and Izzy Does It all stated their shows would not be returning for additional seasons. Thoughts on these cancellations? Drop them in the comments below. Best of TVLine 'Missing' Shows, Found! Get the Latest on Ahsoka, Monarch, P-Valley, Sugar, Anansi Boys and 25+ Others Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Block 2025 introduces two big twists as Channel 9 celebrates milestone
Get ready, because it's almost time to judge other people's design choices and consider whether you should finally renovate your bathroom. That's right, The Block is gearing up to return for its much-anticipated twenty-first season. Following the release of last month's teaser trailer, Channel 9 has revealed everything you need to know about the upcoming season. This includes information about the premiere date, the teams, the location, the hosts and judges, and two massive twists set to rock the competition. So, get your hi-vis and hard hat sorted; here is everything you need to know about The Block 2025. RELATED: The Block fans notice odd detail in new trailer for 2025 season: 'Irresponsible' The Block's Dan Reilly drops major news about 2025 season: 'Amazing' MAFS' Dave Thomas Hand confirms appearance on The Block 2025: 'Super fun' The Block 2025 is set to premiere Sunday, July 27, at 7pm on Channel 9 and 9Now. This marks the first time in eight years that the reality show won't premiere in August, meaning that the auctions will likely take place at the end of October rather than the beginning of November. As always, it's expected that episodes will air on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for 13 weeks. The Block 2025 is set in the country town of Daylesford, Victoria, which is where last year's season was meant to take place before production was forced to relocate due to permit issues and complaints from locals. Daylesford, located about 80 minutes from Melbourne, is known as one of Australia's top weekend getaway destinations and the capital of spas and mineral springs. This season, the teams will have to build their homes from scratch for the first time in the show's history. The houses are exactly the same in layout and size, and have been once again designed by The Block's longtime architect, Julian Brenchley. In another major twist, the teams will not be allowed to work on their homes throughout the night, and the building site will be locked each evening. This emphasises the importance of time management; otherwise, some rooms may not be completed on time. There will also be a purpose-built Sponsor Village on-site, transforming the way sponsors interact with the reality show. In a surprising change for the series, this year's season of The Block won't feature any contestants from New South Wales. The purple team has also been removed, leaving the five official team colours as orange, blue, green, red, and yellow. Team Orange is geologist Han, 29, and social media and marketing analyst Can, 31, who are a couple from Western Australia. Team Blue comprises dance teacher Em, 33, and engineer Ben, 32, who are a married couple from Victoria. Team Green is made up of barber Robby, 37, and hairdresser Mat, 41, who are best mates from South Australia. Team Red consists of a married couple, Britt and Taz, both 30-year-old police officers from Western Australia. Rounding out the cast is Team Yellow, which includes plumber Sonny, 44, and dental practice manager Alicia, 42, a married couple from Queensland. The Block 2025 will once again be hosted by Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, with Marty Fox, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer returning as judges. Dan Reilly continues in his role as sole foreman following Keith Schleiger's exit last year. 'Since all the houses have identical layouts, it really comes down to the contestants' own creativity where they'll have to think outside the box to catch the judges' eye for a win,' Scott Cam said. 'They have to produce something spectacular from week one.' Shelley Craft remarked that the unique twist of the houses being new builds will ultimately help the contestants, adding: 'Rather than a dirty, grubby, messy start where they had to demolish a room and rebuild it in a week, coming into a clean frame is a much better mindset to be in.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Block (@theblock) The Block's executive producer and creator, Julian Cress, said in a statement that this year's teams have brought the show back to basics. 'What the audience can expect this year is what I would call a classic Block series,' he said. 'We have a really diverse cast of hard-working people who are very competitive, engaged with their design, and of course, we will have some highs and lows.' SHOP: 🧽 Aussie mum's $6 solution to most hated household chore: 'It smells incredible' ☀️ Tax laws to burn Aussies on summer essential: 'Many of us struggle' 💄 Aussie brand's 'near perfect' dupe of $70 cult product wows for half the price This year's season will also celebrate the show's 1,000th episode, making it the third Australian reality show to reach this milestone after Big Brother and MasterChef.
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eva Amurri on Being Susan Sarandon's Daughter + Why She Quit Acting (EXCL)
Eva Amurri may have started out following in the footsteps of her mom, Susan Sarandon, as an actress, but since 2015, she's been primarily devoted to her lifestyle blog, Happily Eva After, and has won over a loyal audience for her honest takes on home design, fashion, beauty, relationships and motherhood. In her latest project, Amurri is taking her passion for design to the next level as she documents her process of renovating a Connecticut home from the ground up in a new online series. With The Westport Project now streaming on YouTube, the multitalented actress-turned-influencer sat down with Woman's World to discuss her foray into home renovation, finding work-life balance as a busy mom of three and the ways her famous mom has inspired her. Eva Amurri: I've had my brand, Happily Eva After, for a decade now, which is wild. Through the process of creating this online world, I realized a lot of what I've been doing in terms of marketing could be applied to real estate, because there's so much competition and a lot of what sells homes is actually about lifestyle. My business partner, Chris O'Dell, is the contractor who renovated my last home for two years, so that's definitely a make-it-or-break-it experience. You either come out of that hating each other or loving each other. We found all these ways that our values aligned, and he always had this dream to build an innovative home in Westport, which is a beautiful beach town. We purchased this property that's a complete teardown, but it gave us the opportunity to create a spec home and test out a lot of things and bring our different areas of expertise together. It's been really freeing in a lot of ways, because designing your own home, you can almost get too caught up in it. Being in the entertainment industry for so long, I've been around the luxury price point and had experience with designers, but what I want to do is mix that elevated style with the practicality that families need, and I want to do that all under the umbrella of a net-zero wellness-focused home. I think that the family that moves in is going to be very lucky, and to be honest, I'm envious! Our web series has something for everyone. It's not just for home renovation buffs. There's a reality show component that's like Fixer Upper meets Southern Charm, and you can get to know us. You can see the building of the house, but you can also see the Westport lifestyle and me interacting with my family. EA: I was acting for 15 years, but I was very unfulfilled. I actually felt like the industry was slowly killing me. It's not an easy place to be a woman. When I had my daughter, I suddenly realized that it would be really disingenuous for me to tell her to find fulfillment and do what makes her happy and respect herself but then not be that example for her. I wanted to live those words of advice, so I knew something had to change. I had to make a list of things that I enjoyed to figure out what my next steps would be. My now ex-husband looked at the list and said it looked like a lifestyle blog. At the time, I wasn't an expert at anything online. I had no idea how to code or blog or anything like that. I had this new baby at home, and I'd always loved writing, entertaining, design, crafting and cooking. My ex was like, 'You already do all these things. Why don't you start writing them down?' So I did, and it was a wildly uphill journey. I'd be trying to use Photoshop and doing YouTube tutorials until 2 a.m. and then press one button and everything I'd been working on would disappear, so I'd be sobbing in front of my computer and then my daughter would wake up early in the morning. It was definitely not glamorous in the beginning. I kept sharing, and I was consistent with it, and then I started writing longform pieces on topics that were a bit more taboo at the time. When I started, it was still the world of perfect little squares on Instagram. I started talking a lot about the hard parts of parenting and marriage and being a woman and mom guilt and sex after giving birth. Then I had a miscarriage, and I wrote about it publicly. That was when I noticed that my voice in this space was unique, and I've stayed true to myself throughout these 10 years. After a couple years blogging, the monetization and brand growth came and I signed with an agency, and the influencer boom happened. All throughout that process, I kept thinking that I wanted to create something concrete, so from there, I had an in-house lifestyle line for a while, and I launched my couch collection with Benchmade Modern last year. I've been looking for a way to meld my past life as an actress and my current life as a creator into one, so it's been really fun to do that through my new show. EA: Anyone who says that work-life balance is possible is lying. It's not entirely possible. I recently heard a quote about how we have all these balls in the air all the time, but some of them are glass and some of them are plastic, so you need to identify which of those you can't drop, and which of those you can afford to drop. That really resonated with me. I try to be gentle with myself and know that it's not going to be perfect all the time. There will be some months that lean more towards work and some that lean away from that. I'm a perfectionist. I'm the oldest daughter of seven kids, so you can imagine how type-A I am. I'm working on letting go, because there's no perfect mother and there's no perfect family, and all of us are just doing the best we can. I think now that my kids are getting older they've internalized that a lot more as well, and I'm proud that they see me working and doing what I love while also being their mom. EA: I've gotten back into playing tennis regularly. I played as a teenager and let it go, but recently, I've been playing weekly with a group of women for an hour and a half. It's been so fun to have that social aspect, and I just turned 40, so I'm trying to be consistent with exercise. I'm very independent. Having a big family, my concern has been maintaining the alone time that recharges me. My husband is great about helping me find those pockets of time where I can get away for a walk or grab a coffee or go to the beach. I love reading and I almost never have time to read recreationally. Having an hour on a Saturday morning while my husband plays with the kids in the yard and I sit in bed with a cup of tea and my book is unreal. That's my idea of self-care. EA: A lot of the stereotypes around that exist for a reason, but there's a spectrum within the experience of living in the public eye. It can be quite humbling, and if you use it as an opportunity to keep great people close to you and see who your true friends are, it can be a way to grow and keep a safe community for yourself. In a lot of ways, I'm lucky to be doing this job now, because I'm so comfortable in front of the camera. If anything, being in the public eye has shown me, and is now showing my kids, that nobody really knows everything about you. People have the lens that they see you through, and there isn't much you can do to change that. It's all about knowing your truth and experience and knowing that people's perceptions of you will come and go, but nobody really has your number the way that they think you do. EA: She always showed me that it's possible to be a mom and do what you're passionate about and work outside of home. I feel fortunate that I was able to see my mom have this big career while also having such a close relationship with her kids, and I think that gave me the confidence to do that same thing. Obviously my mom and I are in very different businesses now, but having her as an example has really made me a lot less hard on myself, because I've seen another woman go through the trials and tribulations of being a busy working mom. One thing that I really admire about my childhood was that my mom would always make every single holiday and experience so special. She went all out and was always there, even if she was filming on nights and weekends. Our house was always the place where everything happened. It was so magical, and I cherish all those memories. I've recreated that with my own family. I love hosting, and a large part of my lifestyle brand was born out of that experience and the joy of gathering people and the beautiful memories that it creates. I come from a blended family, and now I have a blended family of my own. Having people come together in a mishmash modern family way was always happening when I was growing up, and now that's very much the case in my own family. Ever since my ex-husband and I split up, we've continued to spend holidays together with the kids, and now his girlfriend comes along, and my siblings from both sides with my mom and my dad come together to visit. I think it shows my kids that love is what makes a family, and that it's important to stay flexible. EA: I would tell myself to take more risks. I was always so worried about trying things that I didn't know I was going to be successful at. I wish that I had pushed myself outside of the box more. I was concerned about being financially independent from a young age, and then I became a mom before I was even 30, so everything suddenly felt much heavier and more important. I wish that I had left the acting industry sooner and had the courage to stop doing something that wasn't fulfilling me. When I was younger, I saw myself as needing to have a more stable world. Looking back from 40, I can see that I really didn't, and I wish that I had given myself the grace of making a few more mistakes. Read on for more exclusive celebrity interviews! Jenna Johnson Chmerkovskiy Reveals Mental Health Journey and Fitness Secrets (EXCLUSIVE) Queen Latifah on Happiness, Health and Rediscovering Life at 55: 'This Is Just the Beginning' (EXCLUSIVE) Carnie Wilson's Guilty Pleasures: 'My Favorite Thing is Getting That Bra off and in My Jammies' (EXCL)
News.com.au
06-07-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Unfinished, unliveable: Abandoned Sydney homes sell for millions
It's half a home for nearly three times the typical price – a partially built house in Sydney's south is set to go to auction after the owner pulled the plug on a major renovation midway through the project. The house on Queens Rd in Connells Point is expected to sell under the hammer for over $4 million – well above the current median Sydney house price of $1.55 million. The rear of the property has had half of its roofing stripped, and the central garden looks like the set of a home renovation show, with a scrapheap of building materials scattered around. The house is the latest in a recent string of neglected Sydney homes to attract massive prices – many selling after scheduled renovation works were abandoned. These sales have come as builders continue to grapple with rising materials and labour costs, which has often meant many approved building and renovation projects are no longer feasible. Selling agent for the Connells Point property Rami Abdallah of Prestige Property Group said there was a reasonable level of interest in the incomplete home with Georges River views. Mr Abdallah said the home's rugged appearance is the result of a scrapped renovation. '(The owner) literally half knocked the house down, you can see from the photos,' he said. 'He was originally going to renovate and then just sat on the block of land for a couple of years and now he's decided to sell it off.' Mr Abdallah said the estimated sale price is based on the home's development potential and location near Moore Reserve. 'To me, all evidence is pointing towards a circa $4 million (sales) mark,' he said. A similarly dilapidated home was sold last weekend for over $1 million at 685 Princes Highway, Blakehurst. Belle Property St George sales partner Patrick Wedes said the property was unliveable when he first began preparing it for selling in October last year. 'It was in no state of being habitable,' he said. 'You couldn't live in it and you couldn't rent it to anybody. 'We've got holes in walls, holes in ceilings, we've got powerpoints hanging off the walls. 'None of the kitchen or bathroom facilities work. 'The power is working on the top half of the home, but not the bottom.' Mr Wedes explained that the homeowner had been admitted to a nursing home, resulting in the property becoming worse for wear over time. 'He had been involved with the property, from what we understand, since the late 60s,' he said. 'It would have been no doubt a very stately home in its time.' Mr Wedes said there were a total of 41 bids on the property which ended up selling for $1.6 million dollars. According to Mr Wedes, the property would cost at least $600,000 at trade price to refurbish, or between $1.3 and $1.5 million to rebuild.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Bargain Block's' Keith Bynum Slams HGTV After Show's Alleged Cancellation: 'Some of the Worst People I've Ever Encountered'
HGTV's Keith Bynum shared his thoughts about the alleged cancellation of his series, Bargain Block, in a recent Instagram post Bynum, 38, said that the television industry is 'full of some of the worst people I've ever encountered' in his June 22 post Bargain Block initially premiered on HGTV in 2021 and followed Bynum and his partner, Evan Thomas, as they restored properties in DetroitBargain Block's Keith Bynum isn't holding back when it comes to how he feels about his show's alleged cancellation. The HGTV star recently shared a message with fans announcing the end of his home renovation series — which he costarred in with his partner, Evan Thomas — after four seasons. In a June 22 Instagram post, Bynum said that he came across 'some of the worst people' he has 'ever encountered' while working in television. 'Happy Sunday!!' Bynum, 38, began the message, which was paired alongside a carousel of recent photos from his life. 'The last six months have been a pretty wild journey,' he continued. 'Our entire business and lives have been put through the ringer at the hands of a giant corporation, yet we persist lol. Though you may not be seeing us for much longer on HGTV, we're excited that we've built such an amazing base of followers and we're very excited about the future.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Keith Bynum (@keithbynum_) is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! He added, 'Everyone always told us TV is a fickle world and they are very right. TV is full of a lot of great people, but it's also full of some of the worst people I've ever encountered. Evan and I have always tried hard to stick to what we know and what we're good at, which is being ourselves. We love you all and we're very excited to announce what's next soon!' PEOPLE reached out to HGTV for comment regarding Bynum's post on Thursday, July 3, but did not receive an immediate response. Bargain Block premiered on HGTV in 2021, and the series followed Bynum as he paired his design knowledge with Thomas' carpentry skills to restore abandoned properties in Detroit. The pair specialized in curating 'stylish starter homes for first-time homebuyers,' according to the show's synopsis Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Keith Bynum (@keithbynum_) Bynum shared a follow-up post on June 26 in which he spoke of "letting go" of "anger and hurt." HGTV star Egypt Sherrod, whose show Married to Real Estate was also recently canceled, responded to the post, voicing words of support. 'Indeed it is!! Anger and hurt are part of sitting in the ashes, a necessary and understandable part of the process,' she wrote. 'But once we clear the rubble, we can build back better!!! Onward and upward my friend. The world is still watching and cheering us all on!!" Read the original article on People
