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Daily Mail
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
HGTV star sparks concern as show Rehab Addict is taken off air after only two episodes
Nicole Curtis's wildly popular show Rehab Addict was pulled from the HGTV lineup after just two of the new season's episodes aired. That move caused fans of the bubbly blonde from Detroit to worry that something had happened to her. But fans need not worry, Nicole pulled the show herself, to give herself the summer off. The HGTV star took to Instagram to explain her decision to her fans why her good friend David Bromstad's Lottery Dream House would be airing in her show's place. Nicole, 48, began by thanking her viewers for making her show debut at number one before she dove into what was going on. 'I made the executive decision to shelf the rest of our new shows until Fall. I appreciate your support and understanding for the late notice,' she began. 'It's just a lot of hours (my hours) to get a show on air and we (my family +me) thought -why are we giving up Summer when we have the ability to do this in the Fall?' she noted. She went on to thank the 'powers that be at HGTV' for being 'receptive to our idea.' The star continued: 'Third, without a doubt, I, truly, am beyond happy with this decision as I just spent the day with a phone that was dead and had no worries about it. 'They are airing Lottery Dream Home in my place. Fun fact, David Bromstead was my pregnancy beach buddy as we were filming and living next to each other in Gulf Shores Alabama for Beach Flip (they just added those episodes to HboMax and Discovery+) So, don't be spreading rumors that he replaced me-I chose it ❤️.' The newest season of Rehab Addict premiered on June 24, only to be abruptly swapped out for My Lottery Dream House after 2 weeks. Rehab Addict first hit the airwaves in 2010 on the DIY Network. The show moved to HGTV in 2014 where it found broad appeal. The new season follows a three year hiatus for Curtis and the show. As for why she took time away, Curtis said she 'had a setback in my life that just rocked me to the core, and it was one of those moments where I thought, how do I get through this one?,' per People. 'I prayed on it and it was just devastating for me. I had to make a decision right there and then like, "Okay, we're going to let this affect us for a very long time, or we're going to pick it up and go"' The HGTV star took to Instagram to explain her decision to her fans so that they are not confused by her good friend David Bromstad's Lottery Dream House that is airing in her show's place She packed up her bags and left Detroit for Corfu, Greece via Paris where she planned to spend only one day. Except, she forgot her wallet and had less than $100 on her. 'I didn't realize until I was up in the air paying for my WiFi that I left my wallet behind,' she said. 'I didn't have a credit card on me. I had $72 of change in dollar bills stashed in my bag. So I landed in Paris without a wallet. I thought, well, you know what? This is it. This is my test. I'm going to figure it out.' Fortunately, a friend was able to transfer her some money via Western Union. 'It was so crazy that I was like, "This was a sign" and I made it through,' she recalled. She made the most of her time in Paris in the meantime. 'I put on my running shoes, I ran all the way around the Eiffel Tower and I biked around the Champs-Élysées. I did everything I wanted to do.' But Curtis never made it to Corfu, an irresistible house rehab project in Wyoming brought her back to the States instead. Curtis spoke to TooFab about returning to the show in the days leading to its premiere last month. 'So we never stopped rehabbing homes. We're always rehabbing homes. And you know, in the past 3 years I developed my production company and we've still been filming and producing,' Curtis explained. 'But it takes a really long time to finish one of our houses. So three years sounds like a lot. 'However, for us, that's about how long it takes you a house, so it all kind of goes hand in hand.'
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rehab Addict Host Explains Show's Abrupt Removal From HGTV Schedule
Rehab Addict's sudden absence from the HGTV schedule is only temporary, host Nicole Curtis has assured viewers. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Curtis explained why Rehab Addict's newest season — which premiered on June 24 — has since been replaced in the 9 pm ET time slot by My Lottery Dream Home after only two airings. More from TVLine HGTV's Battle on the Beach Cancelled After 4 Seasons, Says Co-Host Farmhouse Fixer Cancelled at HGTV, Host Jonathan Knight Says: 'Still Processing the Reasons' HGTV's Married to Real Estate Cancelled After Four Seasons - Read Co-Hosts' Statement 'I made the executive decision to shelf the rest of our new shows until fall. I appreciate your support and understanding for the late notice,' Curtis wrote. 'It's just a lot of hours (my hours) to get a show on air and we (my family + me) thought – why are we giving up summer when we have the ability to do this in the fall? Thank you to the powers at be at HGTV that were receptive to our idea. … Without a doubt, I, truly, am beyond happy with this decision as I just spent the day with a phone that was dead and had no worries about it. 'They are airing Lottery Dream Home in my place,' she continued. 'Fun fact, [Lottery Dream Home host] David Bromstad was my pregnancy beach buddy as we were filming and living next to each other in Gulf Shores, Alabama, for Beach Flip. … So, don't be spreading rumors that he replaced me – I chose it.' Rehab Addict — which began airing on the DIY Network in 2010 before moving to HGTV in 2014 — follows Curtis as she rehabilitates condemned properties and restores them to their former glory. Although Curtis has indicated a Fall 2025 comeback for the series, an exact return date has yet to be shared. The Rehab Addict reshuffle comes amid recent scheduling upheaval at HGTV: Since late June, the hosts of no fewer than five shows at the cabler — Battle on the Beach, Farmhouse Fixer, Married to Real Estate, Bargain Block and Izzy Does It — have all stated their series won't be returning for additional seasons. HGTV has not responded to multiple requests for comment on the apparent cancellation spree. When Is Your Favorite TV Show Back? View List Best of TVLine 'Missing' Shows, Found! Get the Latest on Ahsoka, Monarch, P-Valley, Sugar, Anansi Boys and 25+ Others Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Rehab Addict' Star Nicole Curtis Issues Warning About the Scariest Risks Involved in Renovating an Old Home
Historic-home renovator and 'Rehab Addict' star has issued a serious warning to any budding property restorers about the risks involved in overhauling a much older house, while sharing her ultimate pet peeve when it comes to these kinds of transformations. While the 48-year-old HGTV star appreciates as much as anyone the appeal of an aged abode filled with character, she knows all too well that these properties can often come with plenty of dangerous and pricey pitfalls that the untrained eye is unable to spot—until it's too late. Curtis, who has been rehabbing timeworn dwellings across the Midwest for the past 30 years and has just revived her hit series after taking a three-year hiatus, has seen more than her fair share of DIY woes during her decades-long career. But she confesses that even she is still learning new things with every renovation she takes on, explaining that she is adamant about sharing that knowledge at every available opportunity to help other renovators avoid similar mistakes. To that end, Curtis now includes warnings in her show, including one that highlights the dangers of lead, something that she realized could result in a major issue after a viewer raised concerns about her restoration of old claw-foot tubs. 'I always put a lead warning in,' she explains to 'I learned from a fan that [the] old claw-foot tubs, which we weren't reglazing … that children could absorb lead [from them] when we put them in the bathtub. 'That's really why I started reglazing all of our tubs.' Protecting children, including her own sons Ethan and Harper, motivates Curtis to stay vocal about the downsides of dealing with old building and design materials. 'We've lived around a renovation for many years and I've learned, so I love to pass that education on,' she says. '[With] my first son, I was a young, poor, single mommy juggling 14 different jobs and selling s–t on Craigslist to make ends meet, so we lived through our renovations. 'We always say we didn't have a kitchen, we had a 'bitchen' because we had a bathroom we used as a kitchen while we were renovating the kitchen. I mean, it was just a drywall mess all the time.' Those types of messes are precisely what Curtis now warns others about. 'If you have young children at home, young children and the elderly are very susceptible to mold, asbestos, lead,' she explains. 'I think sometimes you watch TV and you think, 'Oh, well, I'll just go tear out that wall today,' and you have a 6-month-old crawling around the floor and they're ingesting all that, so it's really important for me to be a safety advocate.' Curtis also champions hiring reputable contractors to properly dispose of hazardous materials. 'Finding licensed individuals that are professionals that know what they're doing, that follow safety procedures—we abate our asbestos correctly,' she says. 'We're not taking it out, throwing it in a dumpster. We have a whole team that does that. We have a whole team that does mold remediation. Things like that, I try to touch on it.' In addition to health and safety issues, Curtis is also outspoken when an old home's aesthetics have been updated in a way that ignores its history. 'You know how many people I see buy an old house and they tear all the guts out, they take all the walls out, and I walk in and I'm like, 'Well, if you wanted a house built in 2025, go build a house in 2025,'' she says. One of the biggest issues Curtis has with renovators who totally overhaul old homes is that they often replace quality, custom, original elements with mediocre materials. 'That is my pet peeve because we can't get these materials back,' she says. 'Original tile is one of those things they see a crack and then some yahoo contractor comes in and spends two days demoing and I'm like, 'Man, I could have solved that problem for, like, $50 and a scrub brush.' 'That's the thing that really infuriates me, and so first, I always do a soft approach with education, like, 'This is why I don't want you to lose your original front door—it was handcrafted on site, it's made to fit that old house [so] a new one's just not going to do it.'' Beyond educating others about properly repairing irreplaceable features on her TV show, Curtis admits she regularly speaks up online—and shows no mercy when her advice is ignored. 'You'll always find me on old house [websites],' she adds. 'If someone has a problem, I just type in, like, 'Hi, don't tear it out!' Then if they don't listen to me, I try old-fashioned mom-shaming.' The Michigan native believes her unforgiving approach is how she makes sure the city of Detroit doesn't lose all its old architecture to the recent rash of modern makeovers. 'We've had a tremendous comeback in the last decade, but people are white-boxing our old houses or tearing them down in general, and that's just something that I'm going to continue to fight against,' she says. 'I'm going to continue to be vocal about it, and, you know, that was another reason for us to come back [to TV] because people, if I get quiet, they think they can get away with it. But I'm back, [so] there's no getting away with it.' And there's no getting away with it in other states, either. The Wyoming house that's highlighted on the show this season had been completely updated with contemporary finishes before Curtis bought it, and it became her mission to reverse the renovations once she took ownership. 'After I got there, I was like, 'This would make a great show because it shows everything that I am so against,'' she shares. 'It had every example of a bad flip that you could imagine: The gray engineered floors. The gray crappy carpeting. The drop ceiling. The nipple lights. The ceiling fan. The, like, store-bought cabinets that are just thrown in and none of the pieces are matching. It was all carpeting inside, and it looked so sad.' One restoration at a time, Curtis is returning these old homes to their former glory and inspiring others to do the same. And while she believes anyone can be capable of preserving an old home, she cautions the process requires a ton of patience. 'Old house restoration is not supposed to be fast,' she says. 'If it was supposed to be fast and easy, then our houses would look generic, like a developer flipped it, and like every other house on the block—and we definitely don't want that. 'It's not leaving it to the experts, it's leaving it to the people that like old houses,' she adds. 'So it's one of those things that you've got to remember why you're doing it.' As it turns out, Curtis' passion for old homes is not only her career niche, it's also a personal preference that extends to her family home base in Los Angeles and all the properties in her personal real estate portfolio. 'Of course, we live in old houses! We have a few family homes, but they're all old houses,' she reveals, before sharing just how closely life imitates art. 'They're still works in motion. This is what I do for a living, and I just found some sconces for one of our living rooms that I've been on the hunt for for 20 years! It's just always that [way], but of course, I live in an old house. You wouldn't find me in anything else—ever!' 'Rehab Addict' airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on HGTV and streams the next day on HBO Max and discovery+. 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Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Rehab Addict' Star Nicole Curtis Lays Bare Horrors She Found Inside Disgusting ‘Crackhouse' Renovation: ‘It Was Terrible'
Historic home renovator and 'Rehab Addict' star specializes in reviving old houses that have hit rock bottom—yet even she was left floored by the horrors she discovered inside her latest property project. Curtis, 48, has rehabbed countless dilapidated homes across the Midwest over the past three decades, many of which have been featured in her hit HGTV series, which returned to screens in June after a three-year hiatus prompted by a 'setback' in the host's personal life. In the new season of the show, Curtis pulls double duty overhauling two neglected homes at the same time—despite the fact that they are located 1,500 miles apart. The first dwelling she tackles is in her home state of Michigan, while the other is in Wyoming, marking a first for the home improvement veteran. As one might expect, traveling to each of the abodes adds another layer of difficulty to an already arduous process. However, as it turns out, the distance was the least of Curtis' challenges. Because the home that she was greeted by in Detroit was unlike anything she had ever seen in her many years in the industry, proving to be in such a disgusting state that Curtis jokingly refers to it as 'the crackhouse.' In fact, of all the homes that Curtis has seen and overhauled over the years, she is quick to put the crackhouse at the very bottom of the pile. 'I say I have three bad houses on my list. We had Campbell Street [in] Detroit. That was [affected by] fire, tornado, you know, everything you can imagine,' she says. 'Then I had my hillside project in North Minneapolis, which [had been inhabited by] squatters. And we were working in 22 degrees below zero, we got frostbite. It was terrible. 'Then you come to the crackhouse. And by far, it was [the most] terrible.' Speaking to from inside the crackhouse, Curtis recalls the shocking state the home was in when she acquired it, revealing that trespassers had taken over the place and turned it into a drug den. 'We had people in here; they were squatting,' she says, before detailing evidence of their drug use. 'I mean, you had drug paraphernalia—I'm staring at a closet that we called 'the needle closet' because they just smashed a hole in the door of it and then they would pitch all their used stuff in there, so yeah, it was bad,' she shares. 'The garbage, there's a fireplace behind me, the garbage was piled up higher than that.' Beyond discarded used needles and trash that had accumulated all over the abandoned abode, Curtis reveals sanitation issues were also abundant. 'They weren't using plumbing in the bathrooms, but they were still using the bathrooms,' she explains. Those unbelievably unhygienic conditions rendered Curtis speechless. 'That alone, you know, I can get into old house dirt and stuff like that, but when you get into, like, that kind of stuff, I mean, we thought at the very least they had mechanics, right?' she says. 'Like, who lives in a [house without plumbing?] I don't know why, I was very naive.' And the Detroit dwelling's disarray didn't end there. 'There was no roof! So, like, the water was pouring in,' Curtis adds. These major problems were indeed major surprises for Curtis—particularly because she did her due diligence before buying the property, only for many issues to arise, then worsen, during the lengthy purchase process. 'You know, sometimes when I buy some of these houses, it's a long process,' she explains. 'Especially when we buy something on auction, it can take six months to a year to actually get.' Until ownership is official, Curtis has learned the hard way to leave the homes she buys alone so she doesn't risk losing any part of her investment. 'If anyone knows my history in the city of Detroit, we definitely make sure we have our deeds in a row,' she said, referencing a past experience where she lost out on a huge sum due to a deed mixup. 'So I had acquired this one, and it just was something that I'm like, 'Oh, well, we don't have the deed to it yet,' and until everything [is official], I don't put one dime into it and I don't step foot on it,' she reveals. That said, Curtis didn't expect the Detroit abode to devolve into 'an actual squatters den' during that wait time and was shocked to find out how bad things got there while tending to her other project out of state. 'I had bought this [other] house in Wyoming thinking I had plenty of time to leisurely enjoy Wyoming, and I was out there like two minutes and then we got this call,' she recalls. Curtis has since made ample improvements to the home, but admits that there is still a ways to go to restore it to its former glory. 'It's still bad! I mean, it's not as bad as [it was],' she insists. 'Our houses take years because I'm really a purist about finding authentic pieces, so it's not something you can do very fast because I have to get all these pieces.' Meanwhile, the Wyoming property presented Curtis with its own unique problems. 'Wyoming was, again, I was very naive,' she acknowledges. 'We were two hours from a major store. You forget a supply, you're like, 'I'm going to lose a whole day going back to get it.'' But whether she was dealing with logistical drama in Wyoming, or the overwhelming grunge at the crackhouse, Curtis and her longtime team relied on tried and true methods to work through any new issues at both old houses. 'You know, with any renovation, I always say you got to have patience, you've got to muddle through. 'Some of these people I've known since I was like a teenager—Not saying that there isn't some heated moments, you know? There's a lot of fisticuff moments where we work through it.' 'Rehab Addict' airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on HGTV and streams the next day on HBO Max and discovery+. 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Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nicole Curtis Reveals Why Her Ex-Boyfriend Appears on New Season of ‘Rehab Addict' (Exclusive)
Nicole Curtis works alongside her ex-boyfriend Ryan Sawtelle on season 9 of Rehab Addict 'We were together a long time" and "never really stayed out of contact," she tells PEOPLE Curtis says she enlisted Sawtelle's help since he was located near a Wyoming property she was restoringNicole Curtis has help from a surprising collaborator on the new season of Rehab Addict — her ex-boyfriend Ryan Sawtelle. In the season premiere (airing June 24), Sawtelle works as a carpenter on a Wyoming property from the 1890s that the HGTV star sets out to restore after a poorly executed flip. 'We were together a long time and I was very close to his family,' Curtis tells PEOPLE, explaining why she welcomed Sawtelle on the show. 'So we never really stayed out of contact. Your lives are so enmeshed.' Curtis bought the Wyoming home on a whim online during a chaotic trip to Paris in July 2022, which she says came after a 'setback' in her life. Buoyed by an averted near-crisis after she accidentally boarded the flight without her wallet, she recalls thinking, "'I'm going to knock off all my wish lists tonight," before making the spur-of-the-moment purchase. When she got to Wyoming, she enlisted Sawtelle for the renovation project. Curtis bought the Wyoming home on a whim online during a chaotic trip to Paris in July 2022, which she says came after a 'setback' in her life. Buoyed by an averted near-crisis after she accidentally boarded the flight without her wallet, she recalls thinking, "'I'm going to knock off all my wish lists tonight," before making the spur-of-the-moment purchase. When she got to Wyoming, she enlisted Sawtelle for the renovation project. 'I didn't know anyone in Wyoming, but I knew somebody near Wyoming, and so I gave him a call,' she adds of Sawtelle. 'We just went out there together and checked out the house. It wasn't anything else. There was definitely no reconciliation or 'Maybe this was a mistake not being together.' No, no, no, .... Us going separate paths was a hundred percent the best idea that we ever had.' The former couple began dating in 2018. The following year, the home restoration expert opened up about her relationship with Sawtelle, whom she met after she began following his niece's battle with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), an aggressive brain tumor found in children, via his Instagram. 'My heart is happy and having him near me brings a calm I've never known,' Curtis told PEOPLE at the time. 'Not that it's been easy. Everyone has a great first few months rocking everything they have in common. But after six months, you start digging into the other stuff and you either grow apart or negotiate those differences and move forward. And [you] have to make a decision to focus on the fun.' Curtis, whose return to HGTV comes three years after the spinoff Rehab Addict: Lake House Rescue aired in 2022, is staying mum on whether she's currently dating anyone special. 'I keep my private life private because I think there's been some very traumatic moments in my life that weren't so private,' she says. 'Another lesson learned. I tell people all the time, if you're in my circle, then you know what's going on in my life. Other than that, I stay pretty mute about everything.' Curtis has two sons: Ethan, whom she welcomed in 1997 with her ex Steven Cimini, and Harper, born in 2015, whom she shares with ex Shane Maguire. She went through a very public years-long custody battle over Harper with Maguire and became an outspoken advocate for the rights of breastfeeding mothers. Her decision to continue to breastfeed Harper at age 3 drew criticism from some and became a point of contention in her legal fight with Maguire. The former couple reached a custody agreement in October 2018. 'Our family went through a lot over the years, and so that's definitely something that I have done my best to keep my family out of the public eye and focus on the houses,' she continues. 'That's always where we wanted that focus to be.' The season premiere of Rehab Addict airs Tuesday, June 24 on HGTV at 9 ET/PT. Read the original article on People
