Paige Davis is moving back to TLC's "Trading Spaces." The Broadway actress and TV host will return to the once-popular home makeover series beginning in January, the network said in a statement Thursday.In 2005, TLC announced Davis would no longer host ``Trading Spaces'' and transitioned the series to a host-less format.
Davis had perkily hosted the show, which features neighbors swapping homes and redecorating a room, since 2001. Besides ``Trading Spaces,'' she's also appeared on Broadway in the musicals ``Beauty and the Beast'' and ``Chicago.''
``Trading Spaces'' will now be produced by A. Smith & Co. Productions, the TV production company responsible for Fox's ``Hell's Kitchen'' and ``Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.''
The series was formerly produced by Philadelphia-based Banyan Productions.
The new season begins shooting this month and will be filmed entirely in high-definition. Designers Doug Wilson, Laurie Hickson-Smith, Frank Bielec and Hildi Santo-Thomas will also return to the show, alongside carpenters and other designers to be announced later.
Mindy Paige Davis (born October 15, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), billed as Paige Davis, is an American actress best known as a host of the reality television series Trading Spaces.
In 2001, Davis became the host of the TLC cable-TV network's redecorating television series Trading Spaces, replacing Alex McLeod. Also that year, following her divorce from Benson, Davis married actor Patrick Page, with whom she appeared in Beauty and the Beast. Davis and Page's wedding was featured on the TLC series A Wedding Story. TLC dropped Davis in January 2005 to revamp the show with a host-less format.
In summer 2006, Davis was a contestant on the CBS television series Gameshow Marathon, in which celebrities participate in recreations of classic game shows with their winnings going to charity. The following year, she played the title role in the national touring production of the Broadway revival Sweet Charity, through the end of its scheduled run on August 12, 2007. TLC announced in November 2007 that Davis would return as host of Trading Spaces in January 2008.
