London-born Ed Sanders brings his skills in cabinet-making and acting to ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
Ed studied carpentry in a technical college in the U.K. He specialized in advanced joinery and high quality finishing carpentry. In between classes, he performed in theaters and appeared in television commercials. He continued balancing his acting and working at construction sites, a practice, he says, which would always keep his feet firmly on the ground.
Ed appeared in the lead role of Eddie Moliano on the U.K. TV series Dream Team, a drama about a premiership soccer team. He also hosted several …read more

ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is popular for its concept of choosing a deserving family and building a new home for them in one week. A team of talented designers travel with the show to provide direction for furnishing and decorating the home.
This week, at the Nickless family home in Holt, Michigan, the design team was composed of host Ty Pennington, Paige Hemmis, Michael Moloney, Ed Sanders and Rib Hillis. They are the team who worked with Mayberry Homes and teams from Michigan State University to make the home modern, comfortable and beautifully decorated.
Here are some …read more

Here are some of the photos I took at the site of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Holt, Michigan yesterday. Landscaping has started, and most of the work on the home’s exteriors is done. Volunteers and the design crew were working on the inside of the home, installing plumbing, doors, floors and closets.
The new home of the Nickless family as it looked on Wednesday morning:

The crew of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have got house building down to a science. Yesterday, there was nothing but rubble at the site.
Today, this was what I saw:
 
24 hours after demolition, there’s an actual house standing on the site!
It was a hive of frenetic activity; there were people doing something or other everywhere. There were more volunteers, more spectators, more trucks and buses coming and going.
(10-01-08 Update) Schedules: Spectators are welcome to visit the site. Shuttles will be available on Thursday, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., from the K-Mart parking lot on South Cedar …read more