Paige Hemmis Early Life

Born on March 17, 1972, Paige Hemmis (originally Huff) was raised in Wisconsin for the first few years of her life. Early on, she moved to California where she attended a religious primary school. She would then attend a private college prep school, Chaminade, and be admitted into UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara) where she majored in both Psychology and Theology. While in college she would also become an EMT and teach at the school, working primarily in First Aid and CPR. Hemmis earned both Bachelor of Arts degree at her alma mater in 1994, and 5 years on started her own wedding planning business, “Simply Elegant Weddings”. Things went pretty well, but she figured instead of just helping people in love tie the knot, she’d also like to make sure their future houses were homes and thus went into the real estate business, where she would become quite successful indeed. By 2004, Hemmis decided to switch gears again and drop her businesses and try to make it big in the TV world. To these ends, she found a way to become a designer, carpenter, and co-host on the incredibly popular show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Paige Hemmis on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Paige’s gamble to sell her businesses and go onto Extreme Makeover: Home Edition turned out to be a great success. Costarring in a total of 97 episodes, Hemmis helped turn houses that were subpar into amazing homes with her costar, Ty Pennington. She would be on the show from the very first season until the very last in 2012, often providing unique insight and being a bit of a wild card on the construction yard. During her work on the show, she did notice that she was of a rare breed; that is to say, she noticed there weren’t many women in the business of home building. Thus, even early on in her career, she began to focus on how to include women in renovation and building. To these ends, Hemmis wrote “The Tuff Chix Guide to Easy Home Improvement”, and Tuff Chix, Inc. with the hope to give women the equipment and know how they would need to participate in such fulfilling work.

Throughout the show, Hemmis often showed her humanitarian side alongside the rest of the crew and participated in a good deal of charity work which she still champions in 2017. These causes have included Helping a Hero, Heroes at Home, Habitat for Humanity, and the Innovative Giving Foundation to name a few.

What’s Paige Hemmis Doing Now in 2018- Recent Updates

For Paige Hemmis, 2017 is looking as bright as ever. Even though Extreme Makeover: Home Edition had its series finale nearly half a decade ago, Hemmis has kept at similar projects like her current show Home and Family, where she is shown as a Lifestyle Design Expert. This show appears on the Hallmark channel. She has also recently branched into the entertainment business with her Tuff Chix brand too, though details on new projects have yet to be made public. Lastly, she still holds her license as a Real Estate Broker and has more than a dozen properties, as well as several on the flipper’s market. In anything, one can expect to see Paige Hemmis in the real estate, lifestyle, and development game for 2018 and beyond.

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Since the end of Extreme Home Makeover, Harris has moved over the Hallmark Channel, and gone back into doing real estate. What else has she been doing these past few years?

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Paige Hemmis neé Huff was born on March 17, 1972, in Wisconsin. She moved to Lancaster, a suburb of Los Angeles, when she was a kid, and attended UC Santa Barbara. Hemmis graduated in 1994 with a BA in Pyschology and Theology. She married Russ Hemmis sometime in the 90s, and began working as a real estate agent and wedding planner.

Before Extreme Home Makeover premiered, Hemmis was in an episode of Monster House. The Discovery Channel reality show documented the themed remodeling of a house in five days. Her role there inspired her to audition for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and she was given a role as part of the remodeling team, working mostly with Paul DiMeo.

Hemmis was on ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover for the entirety of its ten season run, from 2003 until 2012. During that time, she appeared in several other shows, most notably in ABC’s The Superstars. The show paired her with athlete Bode Miller as they competed against other teams. She and Bode took second place.

Outside of television, Hemmis worked with the Starkey Hearing Foundation, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and Habitat for Humanity. She also created Tuff Chix, Inc. She noticed there weren’t any lines producing tools and products for women, so decided to fill that gap. Tuff Chix released several lines of pink, lightweight, small tools, which continue to be marketed and sold. In 2005 she divorced her husband. The next year she published The Tuff Chix Guide to Easy Home Improvement.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was dogged by controversy through its run, but was a very successful show. ABC created multiple spin-offs, and most of the tenured hosts were able to go on to work on other TV shows. For Hemmis, this meant moving to the Hallmark Channel.

What’s Paige Hemmis Doing Now in 2018 – Recent Updates

Since the end of Extreme Home Makeover, Paige Hemmis has become a regular on the Hallmark Channel. Mostly, she shows up on their Home & Family program, where she discusses the latest trends in home design. Specifically, she talks about the changing trends in how new homes are built, such as how the “living room” has changed through the years.

Last spring, she got married to Jason Short, a singer in the Australian popera group ARIA. Their wedding was turned into a two hour special for Hallmark. Most recently, Hemmis was in the news for selling her home in Lancaster, California. The sale was newsworthy not just because Hemmis had remodeled the home in 2014 after water damage from a utility leak, but because she used the property to house her grandmother, who moved from Florida to be nearer Hemmis’ aunt.

Now, Hemmis lives near Universal Studios, where her segments for Hallmark are filmed. When she isn’t on Hallmark (which is almost daily,) she’s working to promote her Tuff Chix brand, and other efforts to demonstrate women can be just as involved in remodeling as men.

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