Extreme Makeover: Home EditionIs Back! Get a First Look at the Beloved Series' Revival (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

It’s time to break out their tissues again!

The beloved home renovation seriesExtreme Makeover: Home Editionis officially making its return on Thursday, Jan. 2, and PEOPLE got an exclusive first look at some of the heartwarming scenes viewers can expect to see in the upcoming season.

This time around, the show will seeThe Home Edit’s Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplintake onhosting dutiesas they transform the homes — and lives — of families facing hardships.

And of course the emotions that come with every episode are front and center: Clips of deserving families with shocked and tearful expressions on their faces pan onto the screen as they see their new homes for the first time.

“This was more than justExtreme Home Makeover,this was extreme life makeover,” one homeowner says summing it up as the video comes to an end.

After it was announced that The Home Edit founders would be taking on hosting duties for the series (which is returning to its original network on ABC), PEOPLE spoke to the two abouthow they were feeling ahead of joining the franchise.

“We are just the most grateful. I don’t even know how we got here, honestly,” Teplin said at the time, adding that it was an “opportunity of a lifetime” for them both.

Shearer echoed that it’s a “pinch-me kind of situation,” especially being able to connect with families who may have faced scary health situations following her own2022 breast cancer diagnosis.

“It’s such an iconic franchise,” Teplin continued. “And then not only is it the one deserving family, but it brings the whole community together in such an unbelievable, just compassionate way.”

“I think we’re going to be crying,” Shearer added. (She was right.)

Extreme Makeover: Home Editionpremieres Thursday, Jan. 2 and will be streaming on Hulu.

source: people.com