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HGTV host Nicole Curtis
After weeks of speculation about Nicole Curtis’ future on HGTV and concerns about her safety amid crypto posts and a new custody dispute, the home renovation expert has just announced that her “Rehab Addict Rescue” show is over.
Here’s the latest on this new development, which caps an especially turbulent summer for the longtime HGTV host.
Curtis struggled to juggle showtime and parenthood
YoutubeNicole Curtis on “Pickler & Ben” in 2019.
Curtis rose to fame with her home renovation show “Rehab Addict,” which aired for ten years on HGTV and DIY Network until fall 2018. Meanwhile, according to People Magazine A years-long custody battle over her youngest son finally came to an end when she and former Shane Maguire finally reached a 50/50 custody agreement in October 2018.
Exhausted and stressed, Curtis decided to take a two-year hiatus from television, telling people, “I’ve had ten years of very chaotic days. I didn’t want to go down that road again. I’m so focused now on remembering where I want to be, and what important in my life, and what are my priorities.”
She returned to HGTV in January 2021 with the premiere of “Rehab Addict Rescue,” Which included eight one-hour episodes that helped clients whose home renovation projects have grown quite a bit. After the premiere aired, HGTV released a press release calling it “the ratings winner live.” The show ended in March 2021 and viewers eagerly awaited the news of the second season.
In May 2022, HGTV announced that Curtis would soon star in a spin-off series called “Rehab Addict Lake House Rescue,” chronicling the restoration of a 1904 lakeside cottage she bought in her hometown of Lake Orion, Michigan. Hours before the premiere scheduled for July 13, fans were stunned when Curtis suddenly announced that the show wouldn’t debut that night, vaguely writing that she was pushed to the brink mentally and physically.
Heavi has since learned that July 13 was also the date for a Los Angeles court hearing in a renewed custody dispute; Nearly four years after finalizing a joint custody agreement, Maguire now alleges that Curtis has repeatedly violated custody arrangements. No progress was made on July 13, so they will now face off at a hearing this fall.
Two days after that session—and HGTV’s sudden withdrawal of her show—the star fled to Paris to get her groove back. A week later, she revealed on Instagram that “due to health issues, physical (not psychological), I wasn’t able to be on a work site for the usual 16-22 hours” to finish the show, promising viewers that it would start as soon as she could be ready.
Curtis announces the end of the show after another hidden post
Curtis spent most of August in Lake Orion, after making a surprise trip there to help local residents protest the development of a new building on the lake’s shore. I decided to stay. On August 6, she posted on her Instagram Stories that the lake house is finally over. She has since shared several photos and videos from inside the renovated home, and has also hinted that the “Rehab Addict Lake House Rescue” show will air in September.
On August 18, two days before her forty-fifth birthday, published From a new undisclosed location – with a picture of her on the shore of another lake with mountains behind.
Curtis wrote, “My Grams would say ‘what’s going on with grin-eating.’ I, oh, I just bought an old house…in the mountains—I got up, I jumped a plane, I drove 1,000 miles and I said, yeah.”
Fans were congratulated but also confused, with many asking if she meant she said “yes” to a proposal. Some also guessed that she was in Utah, where she spent time and where one of her ex-boyfriends lives. Curtis didn’t respond to any fan comments on the post, but on August 22, she was posting again from Michigan with surprising news about her show.
“Therefore, I gave up on #rehabaddictrescue,” she wrote. On her Instagram Stories. While it was fun and rated great… I kept thinking why would I put energy into homes that aren’t mine.”
In the following story, with a video of a wood-panelled room with a deer’s head attached to the walls and horns on the walls, she wrote, “And I needed to go back to ‘home’ and build a place for me to feel at peace with my children.”
She then shared a video of herself walking the steps of a “tree house” that she explained she built “entirely from scraps from my projects over the years or second hand purchases.” “The Lake househgtv will come back to me it’s free,” she continued, apparently confirming that the lake house show would continue, but that future seasons of “Rehab Addict Rescue” would not be.
In the following story, she shared a video of two kids on a swing, one of them — likely her seven-year-old son Harper, covered in large paper cutouts — and another little girl in full view. She wrote via the video, “I’ve been called ‘crazy’ for not making the most of my TV career, and putting my family first over the years. I’ll take that, my memories for money any day.”
Above a picture of the cottage on the lake, with two children sitting on the stairs – but their faces covered in leaves – I wrote, “Nothing is perfect here including me; this is a mess. My lake house wasn’t built for hgtv, but I share it (not my kids)” To give you all a respite…”
“From that misconception,” she continued, writing on the next indoor video, “that your life would be perfect—from that noise. #rehabaddicthgtv No glamor, no glamor, I’m just being me and making you feel like you’re not the only one.”
Curtis also shared a photo of a yard full of building materials, saying her kids are sleeping amid the noise of the ‘yard team’ because they ‘grow up in big cities’. In addition to Harper, who she shares with Maguire, Curtis is also mother to 24-year-old Ethan with ex Steve Cimini.
HGTV did not respond to a request for comment. website It appears that the late-night reboot of “Rehab Addict Rescue” will air on several dates in September, but there is no mention of the series featuring the lake house.
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