Paige Davis is back on TLC’s Trading Spaces after being fired from the show back in 2005.  The home make-over show drew in 9 million viewers an episode at it’s peak.  TLC management however decided to fire Davis and go in a new direction.  After disastrous ratings, they are turning back to Davis to help save the show from cancellation.

When new management took over at TLC last year, one of their first priorities was revitalizing Trading Spaces, which at its peak drew as many as nine million viewers and was consistently Saturday night’s top-rated cable show.

Brant Pinvidic, TLC’s new senior vice president of programming, decided the only way to save the franchise was to get Davis back in the fold. It wasn’t easy. “We felt like the bad boyfriend who had dumped her at the prom,” Pinvidic says, “and now we’re asking for a second chance.”

It surely is a sweet vindication for Paige.  Hopefully she is being financially rewarded in a large way for coming back and for TLC having the gall to fire her three years ago.  Good luck to Paige and welcome back to Trading Spaces.

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