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For regular viewers of HGTV,Mike Holmeshas been part of the web connection’s television landscape for decades.
Read on to discover the untold truth of Mike Holmes.
A pilot was shot, and producers evidently liked what they saw.
In 2001,“Holmes on Holmes"made its debut on HGTV Canada.
As Holmes' television reach grew, so too did the trust he engendered.
In 2012, he took the No.
3 spot on Forbes' list of the most-trustworthy celebrities (viaYahoo!
Discussing making it onto Forbes' list in an interview withReader’s Digest Canada, Holmes was characteristically humble.
“I’m just some contractor from Canada,” Holmes said.
“I guess it means that people believe in what I believe in.”
As a2009 press releaseexplained, the magazine was set to launch that November throughout Canada.
“It’s the magazine I was searching for and couldn’t find.
So, I had to make my own magazine, and Make it Right.”
As the rep told the Star, the subscription money went directly to the publisher, not Holmes.
“Mike feels terrible about it,” said Drozdov.
“But it’s not his fault … he didn’t get any of that money.”
“He loves reggae music,” Holmes' son, Mike Holmes Jr., toldHGTV Canada.
Holmes himself revealed this fact in a 2012 interview withThe New York Timesfocusing on his favorite books and music.
A profile inThe Globe and Mailnoted that his truck was “filled with reggae dance CDs.”
Holmes reiterated his love for the Jamaica-birthed music genre in an interview with Canada’sWheelswebsite.
Holmes declared, “I love reggae.
I know people do not expect that people think I’m a rock-and-roller, but I’m not.”
From there, the shows came fast and furious, starting with 2013’s"Holmes Makes It Right.
However, that’s not to say there weren’t a few bumps along the way.
Holmes' instincts were on the money.
That message is one that he’s never stopped trumpeting.
Television, he insisted, is “not who I am.”
As a result, all of his recent series have included daughter Sherry and son Mike Jr. “It was phenomenal,” Sherry told theThe Times Colonistof her experience building a house with her dad.
“I would do it again in a heartbeat.”
He’s an old-school kind of guy.
‘Do it right the first time.’
‘Don’t take sick days.’
‘Work it off.'”
They do this by surprising “deserving people by transforming their spaces.”
For Mike Holmes, that area is his garage.
“Some people have a meditation or yoga room I have my garage,” Holmes told Canada’sNational Post.
“To me, it’s the same thing.
I can go out there, have a beer, and Zen out for a bit.”
Then again, Holmes’ garage isn’t exactly typical.
Holmes admitted that his first impulse was to think that designation was “pretty ridiculous.”
As he ruminated on it, however, Holmes' mind opened.
“But the more I thought about it, the more I like it,” he explained.
Then there’s hisworkwear collectionand his own nationwidehome inspection businessin his native Canada.
In his podcast’s freshman season, Holmes covered a range of different topics, includingsinks and faucetsandelectrical safety.
Inone episode, Holmes welcomed a “building biologist” to discuss how to build healthy homes.
