Kahi Lee (born 30 December 1979) is an interior designer and television host. She was born in Washington, DC to Korean parents and raised in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
Kahi has appeared as an interior design expert and television host on Design on a Dime on HGTV, [1] Merge on Lifetime Network, Renovate My Family on Fox, The Ultimate Gamer on Spike TV, FreeStyle on HGTV, My Celebrity Home and What I Hate About Me on Style Network. [2]
Kahi is also a contributing design expert and "buddy" on the Daytime Emmy Award winning Rachael Ray (TV series). Kahi has also made guest appearances on The Early Show on CBS, The Tyra Banks Show and G4's Attack of the Show among others. In 2011, she host the reality competition show "The Apartment". [3]
Kahi Lee married Jeff T. Thomas in 2010. The couple has a daughter (March 2013) [4] and son (2017). [5]
Tiffani Amber Thiessen is an American actress and television host, who starred as Kelly Kapowski on NBC's Saved by the Bell (1989–1993), as Valerie Malone on Fox's Beverly Hills, 90210 (1994–98), and as Lori on Netflix's Alexa & Katie (2018–2020). Thiessen has also starred in other TV series such as Fox's Fastlane (2002–2003), ABC's What About Brian (2007), and USA Network's White Collar (2009–2014), as well as in a number of TV movies, and she has also appeared in several films, such as Son in Law (1993), Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (2000), Hollywood Ending (2002) and Cyborg Soldier (2008).
Jamie Paul Durie OAM is an Australian horticulturalist and landscape designer, furniture designer, television host, television producer, and author of eleven books on landscape architecture, garden design and lifestyle. He is the founder and director of a design company PATIO Landscape Architecture and Durie Design and also is a 2008 Gold Medal winner at Britain's prestigious Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show in Chelsea, London for Australian Garden and designed by Durie. As of 2018, Durie has hosted more than 50 design shows around the world.
Thom Filicia is an American interior designer, known for his role as an interior design expert on the American television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. He is also a co-author of a book based on the show.
Genevieve Gorder is an American television host and interior designer. She most recently hosted Bravo's Best Room Wins. Previously, she hosted Stay Here on Netflix, Genevieve's Renovation, "White House Christmas," and Dear Genevieve on HGTV and judged HGTV's Design Star. She currently resides in Manhattan with her daughter, Bebelle.
Cathy Hobbs is an American television host, interior designer and lifestyle expert based in New York City.
HGTV Star, named HGTV Design Star for the first seven seasons, is an American reality competition show that premiered on July 23, 2006, on the cable television network HGTV. Clive Pearse served as host for Seasons 1-4, then judge Vern Yip served as host for Season 5, replacing Clive Pearse. HGTV'D host Tanika Ray served as host for Season 6 and Design Star Season 1 winner David Bromstad join the show as a mentor. Bromstad later return not only as mentor but as host, replacing Tanika Ray, for the remainder of the show including Design Star:All Stars, even though Tanika Ray announce as host for Season 7. Vern Yip, Genevieve Gorder, and Sabrina Soto currently serve as the show's three judges. Candice Olson served as a judge for seasons 4 and 5; starting with season 6, a third rotating judge was brought in to fill the spot left by Olson. Previous judges include Cynthia Rowley, a designer of fashion and home accessories; and Martha McCully, Executive Editor of InStyle magazine.
David Reed Bromstad is an American designer and television personality. In 2006, he became the winner of the debut season of HGTV Design Star. He has hosted a number of HGTV shows, including Color Splash, Beach Flip and My Lottery Dream Home.
Designer Superstar Challenge also known simply as Superstar Challenge is a show hosted by Karen Bertelsen on HGTV Canada that has had four seasons. Similar to the American series HGTV Design Star, the show features aspiring interior designers competing in a series of challenges, following which one contestant is named the "design superstar" at the end of the competition.
Kenneth Brown is an American interior designer and decorator.
Dvira Ovadia is a Canadian television personality and an award-winning/celebrity designer. She is best known as winning the 2007 show called From The Ground Up with Debbie Travis season two. The show aired on Global TV May 31, 2007. The show was re-aired on HGTV Canada in the spring of 2008. In spring of 2008, the show was also airing in the United States on the Fine Living Network, Sunday nights at 10EST. Dvira Ovadia is also known for her weekly syndicated column which appears in many blogs which readers often write in to have their decorating questions answered.
Jillian Harris is a Canadian television personality and interior designer. She is best known for appearing on the television series The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Love It or List It Vancouver. She has also appeared on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Canada's Handyman Challenge, and The Bachelorette Canada.
Matthew Finlason is a designer, art director, and producer of film and television projects. He is the host of HGTV's television series The Stagers.
Love It or List It is a home design TV show currently airing on HGTV, W Network, and on OWN Canada, and is the original show in the Love it or List It franchise. The show is produced by Big Coat Productions and premiered as a primetime program on W Network on September 8, 2008, and has since aired on OWN Canada as well as HGTV in the United States. In September 2014, the show began filming in the United States in North Carolina.
Hilary Farr is a British-Canadian designer, businesswoman, television host and former actress. She is known as the co-host of the HGTV and W Network television series Love It or List It with David Visentin. She is president of Hilary Farr's Designs, established in Toronto and in New York City.
Lauren Laniece Lake is an American family lawyer, author, interior designer, real estate developer, background singer, legal/relationship/life consultant, guest host, television judge, and talk show presenter.
Nicole Gibbons is an American interior designer, television personality, founder of the startup Clare, and design blogger. She is best known as the founder of the decorating and lifestyle blog So Haute, and for her frequent television appearances. She currently appears as a design expert on Home Made Simple, a home improvement reality show on the Oprah Winfrey Network. She is also the founder of Nicole Gibbons Studio, LLC, which specializes in high-end residential and commercial interior design. She splits her time between New York and Los Angeles, California.
Tiffany (Moulton) Brooks is an American interior designer and television personality. In 2013, she was crowned the winner of the competition show HGTV Design Star.
Krista Leigh Watterworth is an American interior designer television personality who has hosted several HGTV shows such as Save My Bath and Splurge and Save. She has also appeared as an interior design expert on the Food Network show Restaurant: Impossible and the DIY Network show The Vanilla Ice Project.
Timothy Paul Jasper "PJ" McKay and Thomas McKay are a couple who are internet celebrities, YouTubers, television personalities, remodelers, and interior designers, best known for their eponymous YouTube channel as well as their TV show "Down to the Studs" on HGTV about renovation and interior design.