Nischelle Turner opens up about ‘Secret Celebrity Renovation’ on CBS.
(CBS) – The surprise is finally out tonight on CBS as Secret Celebrity Renovation makes its series debut at 8/7c, also available to stream with Paramount+ or the CBS App. Secret Celebrity Renovation, hosted by Nischelle Turner, gives a look behind the curtain at some of sports and entertainments’ biggest names as they surprise some very special people from their upbringing with an incredible home renovation. CBS’ Matt Weiss spoke to Nischelle Turner about tonight’s premiere and what to expect from the show’s heartfelt first season. MW: Hello Nischelle, nice to see you! Secret Celebrity Renovation debuts tonight at 8pm on CBS and Paramount+. What can you tell us about the premise of the show? NT: It’s a renovation show with the biggest heart you will ever find. The guilty pleasure of seeing your favorite A- list celebrities, trying their darndest in some of the episodes to help out with a renovation for their loved ones. It’s a really good look at celebrities that we love that we’ve never seen before, I call it pulling back the veil, because I’ve been covering entertainment for the longest time and I interview so many celebrities and you love them but you’re always getting a really put together package. You’re getting them as their best selves. Well, in this series, you’re getting them in their most vulnerable spaces. You’re getting them with their origin story in their hometowns, with their families who sometimes don’t care if they’re Wayne Brady “The Triple Threat”. They know little Wayne Brady, who would run around the house or whatever. We’re really getting to see them in spaces and meet people that we’ve never met before and really tell their stories of how they became the people that we love. So many times, that involves that person who made THE difference in their life. That person who believed in them when nobody else did. That person who saw the superstar in them when we did not, or no one did. They’re getting the chance to say thank you to that person. I think we all have that person in our life who sent us on a different trajectory, just because they believed in us. They did something for us, they took us in, that we would love to say thank you to. You’re getting to see that play out in front of you every Friday night. MW: It’s an awesome concept, I’m not going to lie though when I first saw the title for the show, I thought it was like a nice version of Punk’d where you were going to surprise them with renovations to their own houses.
