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Alumna Has 'Designs' on Stardom
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 10, 2008) − University of Kentucky alumna and Louisville interior designer and builder Tracee Dore was selected as one of only nine designers to compete on the third season of the reality television competition "HGTV Design Star." The show, featuring Dore and eight other designers competing for their own design show on Home and Garden TV, premiered June 8 and runs through Aug. 3.
Dore, a native of Richland, Mich., started her career in design during college when she designed her first home in Dayton, Ohio, for a client of her father's. By the time she was 21, the UK graduate who received a bachelor's degree in interior design, had started her own company, Tracee Dore Interior Design. Today, she is the owner of Tracee Dore and Company, a design and building firm in Louisville. Audiences can find out more about Dore by visiting the show's Web site, which includes a designer profile, pictures and her audition video.
On "HGTV Design Star," host Clive Pearse, who also hosts HGTV's "Designed to Sell," presents the contestants weekly with various design challenges. At the end of the episode, the competitors' work is evaluated by three judges, Martha McCully, executive editor of InStyle magazine; Cynthia Rowley, author and popular designer; and Verne Yip, architect, interior designer and host of HGTV's "Deserving Design." Each episode judges narrow the contestant pool down to the final two competitors, and then audiences are invited to vote for the winner of the third season and a new television program on HGTV. To watch Dore compete, tune in to "HGTV Design Star" Sundays at 9 p.m. EDT, on HGTV (Insight Cable Channel 32).
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