Designer Superstar Challenge

Designer Superstar Challenge
Designer Superstar Challenge
Format Game show
Presented by Karen Bertelsen
Narrated by Karen Bertelsen
Country of origin  Canada
Language(s) English
No. of episodes 14 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel HGTV Canada
Original run 2003 – 2006
Chronology
Related shows Handyman Superstar Challenge
Superstar Chef Challenge
Superstar Hair Challenge
External links
Website

Designer Superstar Challenge also known simply as Superstar Challenge is a show hosted by Karen Bertelsen on HGTV Canada that has had four seasons. Similar to the American series HGTV Design Star, the show features aspiring interior designers competing in a series of challenges, following which one contestant is named the "design superstar" at the end of the competition.

It is the original "Superstar" themed show on HGTV, and went went on to inspire Handyman Superstar Challenge, Superstar Chef Challenge, and Superstar Hair Challenge.

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Noted contestants

The winner of the challenge is supposed to get their own design TV show on HGTV, although several non-winners have also emerged as HGTV personalities.

Winners

  • Stacy McLennan (2003) went on to host the HGTV show Kitchen Equipped; she now owns her own interior design firm and appears regularly as a design consultant on Citytv's daytime talk show CityLine.
  • Bruno Filipe Teixeira (2006)
  • Karen Sealy is the host of Summer Home, debuting on HGTV in 2011.

Other contestants

  • Cheryl Torrenueva has since been a designer on other HGTV shows, including Home to Go, Rooms That Rock, Restaurant Makeover and Colin and Justin's Home Heist.
  • Andrew Pike worked with Torrenueva on Rooms That Rock, and with Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman on Design Rivals.
  • Ambrose Price was given his own series, The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price, in 2008.

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