“Trading Spaces” was when many fans first caught sight of carpenter slash designer Ty Pennington.
“It was crazy,” he said during an exclusive interview with The List.
“We had huge crowds that were ending up in cul-de-sacs in neighborhoods all across America.

And I was just going like, ‘Wow!
“Thank God I said no,” he admitted.
“What a huge change my career would have taken.”

Who knows if he would have ever had his successful career on HGTV if he had taken the job!
One could even call him a fan.
“I cannot stop watching that show,” he confessed to us.
“There’s something about it.”
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is streaming now on discovery+.