How 'HGTV's Ty Pennington's Near-Death Experience Changed His View on Life (Excl

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00:00 HGTV's OG Ty Pennington. He's opening up exclusively to our Dieter Behar about his 2023 health scare

00:08 that saw him going from the Barbie pink carpet to the ICU.

00:11 We were very concerned when you posted that you had been hospitalized. You nearly died?

00:17 I had this abscess back in my throat. I woke up, I couldn't breathe. I drove down the hill to the

00:22 hospital like four in the morning and the guy says, you know, I'm just like, hey can you give

00:26 me a steroid to like help shrink the swelling? He goes, well what if it's more than that? What if you

00:31 close up and you can't breathe? I'm like, oh my god. He goes, yeah I think we need to fly you to

00:35 Denver. It was like very dramatic. Yeah and I woke up and I had a tube in my throat. The takeaway from

00:41 Ty's near-death experience, as he puts it, listen to your body when it's trying to tell you something.

00:46 Did that experience change at all the way that you live? Absolutely. Wake up, live every single day

00:53 to the fullest. It's time to start doing everything. That everything includes returning

00:58 tonight for season five of HGTV's Rock the Block. For the first time, four losing teams return for

01:04 a rematch. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You gotta trust our property, sir. Realtors will come in and whoever

01:14 basically gets the highest estimated value wins Rock the Block and gets their name on the street

01:19 sign. All four waterfront homes are in Treasure Island, Florida and we got an exclusive sneak

01:25 peek of each team's $250,000 makeover. I find that I really produce the best art when I'm stressed

01:34 and when I have time constraints. Rock the Block? Yeah. Our temperature controlled wine cellar is my secret hiding space.

01:41 You can keep 150 bottles chilled. Florida ceiling cabinetry here. We have freestanding 30-inch fridge

01:48 and separate freezer, a ton of storage. We have a lot of stairs so you know you can pull into your

01:54 garage and just unload your groceries into the lift. It is six weeks of chaos, pressure, humidity, mud,

02:03 mud, sweat and eventually beers.

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