Ty Pennington is known as the ruggedly handsome carpenter on Trading Spaces, the DIY show that sparked the inner designer in fans around the world.
After 20 years of being on TV, fans are now suggesting the DIY TV personality get a makeover of his own.Born Gary Tygert Burton, Pennington, now 58, is a shameless jokester who loves performing for Instagram, frequently posting comical videos of his mad (bad) dance moves, many of them his new wife can be heard giggling in the background.
Pennington, the self-proclaimed jack-of-all trades, is a born entertainer. A former model, who was once the face of J-Crew, said he planned on being a graphic designer and worked in construction to pay the bills while he was in art school.
After a near-fatal car accident, when he was 27, killed his modeling career, he took it as a sign to shift into carpentry.
“Overnight my career seemed to explode… but alas, fate had other plans. Only one week later I would be in a horrible car accident,” Pennington writes. “I hung up my one decent head shot, picked up my trusty tool bag and went back to construction and carpentry. 9 years later I would get a call to audition for Trading Spaces… and the rest is history.”
Pennington was introduced to Hollywood as a set designer for the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas, starring Nicholas Cage. But it was his role as a builder on Trading Spaces–the show that disrupted conventional concepts of home renovations–that launched him into stardom.
When he left Trading Spaces, Pennington went on to host Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003 to 2012), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards...CONTINUE READING