Ty Pennington

About

Tygert Burton “Ty” Pennington (born Gary Tygert Burton; October 19, 1964) is an American television host, artist, carpenter, author, former model and actor.
His rise to prominence began with his role as carpenter on the TLC home improvement reality show Trading Spaces (2000–2003), and continued when he hosted the ABC reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003–2012), where he won two Primetime Emmy Awards. Following the show’s conclusion in 2012, Pennington has focused on numerous other projects, including host of ABC’s short lived talk show The Revolution in 2012, TNT’s On the Menu opposite Emeril Lagasse in 2014 and Food Network’s American Diner Revival opposite Amanda Freitag from 2015 to 2016. On September 13, 2017, it was announced that Pennington was joining the revival of Trading Spaces, which began airing on April 7, 2018, on TLC.

Pennington was born Gary Tygert Burton, the son of Yvonne Vickery. Yvonne separated from Ty’s father when he and his older brother Wynn were very young, and spent several years as a single parent before she remarried. Her new husband adopted both boys, giving them his surname Pennington. Ty claims to be of partial Cherokee…