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Shane Tallant

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Meet Emmy Award Winning
Host of HGTV’s #1 Rated
“Designed to Sell”

Key design and real estate tips to make your house “designed to sell”. You will hear behind the scenes stories about this Top Rated Show and learn ideas for your home to gain maximum resale appeal.

Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:00 PM

& Friday, Feb. 20 at 3:00 PM 8:00 PM

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As seen on

Cox Communications

Channel 59

   

   Shane comes to the Home and Garden Show with a great energy to share ideas and insight on staging a home for maximum sales value. Designed to Sell shows how to turn a tired house into a showpiece by giving sellers a $2,000 budget and a team of experts to transform their house into the hottest property on the block. Find out if all the hard work pays off with the ultimate goal: a bigger bottom line. Chock full of interior-design ideas, home improvement tips and real estate insider secrets, Designed to Sell has something for everyone.

     Born a true "Tallant", this Pittsburgh native and successful host is living up to his namesake, and hosting the highly acclaimed "Designed to Sell" on HGTV.

     Shane Tallant's TV career began in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Penn., as an entertainment reporter for the local CBS/UPN affiliate. As his career flourished, he made the move to San Francisco to host the WB's The Mixx, a popular entertainment news program. During his time on the West Coast, he landed exclusive interviews with many Hollywood A-listers such as Robin Williams, Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. Along the way, Shane snatched an Emmy award for Best Program Host in 2005 and was selected by the Oxygen Network as one of the Top 3 Up and Coming Entertainment Reporters in the US and Canada. He attended Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Fla., and currently resides in Virginia.

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Since November 2006 when Jamie Durie was announced the Oprah Show's Landscape Designer and Garden Expert, Jamie has become a hit in America. He has been a frequent guest on Oprah.

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HGTV’s New Star from Down Under

and Host of

"the Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie"

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Jamie will feature ideas on how to create the ultimate outdoor experience in your own backyard.

Sat. Feb 20 at 3:30 PM & 6:30 PM

and Sun. Feb 21 at 2:30 PM

In 2007, Durie began Hosting the popular "Victory Garden" on PBS Television.

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Jamie Pioneered the Outdoor Room writing several books ...

Born in northern Sydney, Jamie Durie spent most of his childhood in the mining town of Tom Price in north Western Australia. Like most Australians, he loves the outdoors, and his deep connection with nature guides him in creating the ultimate outdoor living spaces. His inspiration comes from the vast natural beauty of the Australian landscape, extensive international travel and a passion for Eastern culture and lifestyle through his Sri Lankan heritage. He successfully combines these elements to create his own unique style and approach to garden design.

As seen on

Cox Communications

Channel 59

    The Rising Australian Star has taken America by storm. First, frequenting Oprah as her Landscape & Garden expert to Hosting PBS’s “Victory Garden”. Now he'll be discovered by more Americans. On New Year's Day, Jamie introduced the “Dream Home” for a three-and-a-half hour special on HGTV. He launched his own weekly show “Outdoor Room” and before that, he co-anchor coverage of the Tournament of Roses parade. And no, he hasn't seen the rose parade before; they don't have anything like that in his native Australia.

     Jamie has been to much of the world. Durie was recently in Tokyo, where he's planting one of the gardens for an exposition. In his series opener, he includes footage of the Bali gardens that inspired a California project; other episodes include Mexico, Italy and Thailand.

      He has Sri Lankan roots, but grew up far from the classic garden spots. “I got very interested in seeing how my mother was able to grow roses in the desert,” he said.

      That was in Tom Price, a West Australian town of 2,700. There was beauty nearby (including the Karajini National Park), but this was a harsh, iron-ore mining town. Durie saw the difference flowers could make and has made that his career. “It's my passion, to connect people to the outdoors,” he said. “I want people to fall in love with their gardens again.”

       Back in Australia, he's been an author, a “Dancing With the Stars” contestant, a garden-show guy and one of the speakers trained by Al Gore's “climate change ambassador” program. In America, adding an HGTV series was complicated, with two separate projects each week. “I'm literally running from one site to another,” Durie said. “It's a very strange situation for me.” The fun part comes when he can stay for a while and dig into the dirt. “That's when I'm really happy.”

   In addition to being an award-winning designer and TV host, Jamie also is an advocate for preserving our natural surroundings and environmental future. He trained with former Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Change Ambassador and regularly participates in environmental lectures around the world.