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15 unusual facts about Extreme Makeover


Dundee, Wisconsin

In the fall of 2006, the ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition traveled to Dundee to build a house for the Koepke family after Matt Koepke was diagnosed with melanoma.

Eric Allaman

Eric has scored over 30 movies and over 500 episodes of television and is best known for his scores to “Legend”, “Battleship Potemkin”, “Latter Days”, “Witless Protection”, “Mike Hammer Private Eye”, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and “Dante's Cove”.

Extreme Makeover

The show's first surgeon was Dr. Garth Fisher of Beverly Hills, California; after the pilot show the first six shows included Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Jon A. Perlman, M.D. FACS, Dr. Malcolm Lesavoy and Dr. Harvey Zarem as part of the original "Extreme Team," along with Dr. Bill Dorfman and Dr. Robert Maloney.

Garth Fisher MD FACS, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, Beverly Hills California, Medical Director of the Biomedical Skin Treatment Institute

Dr. Anthony C. Griffin, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, Medical Director, Beverly Hills Cosmetic Surgery Institute Inc.

Garth Fisher

Garth Fisher, M.D. (born September 1, 1958), is an American plastic surgeon best known as the first doctor selected for the ABC television show Extreme Makeover, so bringing plastic surgery into the public domain through the media.

His recognition as a top surgeon and his exposure from Extreme Makeover have led to a number of media appearances for Fisher.

Gustavo Tamayo

He is currently one of the few doctors that appear in the Colombian second version of Extreme Makeover ("Cambio Extremo: 2").

Hastings, Florida

The town was briefly in the spotlight when the American Broadcasting Company television network show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition featured the Harvey family in a show aired on April 24, 2005.

James C. Christensen

Christensen appeared in an episode of ABC's show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in 2005.

Kevin Rechin

In 2009, he created a mural for a superhero-themed children’s room featured on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Kitchensource.com

KitchenSource.com was featured on two episodes of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for donating ironing and fireplace accessories.

Richard Woolfe

Woolfe's producer credits include: That's Life!, The National Lottery Live, the first £1m Survivor (UK TV series) final, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy UK, Extreme Makeover UK, Gladiators (UK TV series) (executive producer), Don't Forget The Lyrics! (co-executive producer) and the ill conceived Don't Stop Believing (executive producer).

Sabine Pass, Port Arthur, Texas

In February 2006, the team from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (EM: HE) visited the town and rebuilt the Firehouse (which included a new Firetruck worth $400,000), the High School Auditorium and gave dozens of families $350 gift cards from Sears to replace items such as clothes, space heaters, blankets etc., lost due to Hurricane Rita.

Victorian Village

It also the location of Cocoa Manor, once host to filming of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.


Daniel Kucan

Daniel Charles Kucan (born October 16, 1970) is a carpenter, artist, interior designer, actor, writer, and television personality (previously with co-hosts Michael Moloney and Tanya McQueen) on the Emmy Award-winning TV series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Greengrass Productions

It has, over the years, produced miniseries such as Oliver Stone's Wild Palms, game shows such as I Survived a Japanese Game Show, and reality series such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (in association with Endemol USA).

Henry Cejudo

Other appearances include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN’s SportsCenter, Access Hollywood, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Japan’s popular Ninja Warrior television show, in which Cejudo was one of the 100 contestants in the 21st SASUKE tournament, along with Tomohiro Matsunaga, the 2008 Olympic Silver medalist that Henry defeated, and various local news programs across the nation.

Matt Kunitz

In March 2006, Kunitz left NBC Universal and began a new two year overall deal with, reality powerhouse, Endemol USA, producers of Fear Factor, Deal or No Deal, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Big Brother.

Pat Rummerfield

He has appeared on Ty Pennington's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in support of a fellow paraplegic's recovery efforts at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Peter O. Knight Airport

The home was later demolished and rebuilt by ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Ted Constant Convocation Center

Global Spectrum of the Constant Center donated over 2,300 items to benefit local food banks for ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Ty Pennington's Great British Adventure

Ty's Great British Adventure is a British television reality show on Home featuring Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition fame.

University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band

In 2005 the band was featured on the NBC prime time series Tommy Lee Goes to College and in 2007 on ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.