MAY 15th (two hour special 7-9pm)
on ABC (channel 7 for most of us).
It's finally almost here!!!!
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Next Episode:
Sunday, May 15, 7/6c
'Vitale Family'
In two back-to-back episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, a small two-bedroom house on Long Island, New York is transformed into a magnificent 2400-square-foot home for a young widower with three toddler sons.
THE Long Island cop whose home was rebuilt by 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' earlier this spring will get a two-hour episode May 15.
John Vitale, 32, a Suffolk County cop with three small sons, lost his wife to leukemia last summer. The family savings, which were intended to renovate the house, went for doctor bills. It was a rare springtime trip to the East Coast for the makeover show, especially at a time of year when the weather was so unpredictable.
ABC officials did not provide details about the inside of the home — but when work was done, the tiny, 900-square-foot house had been blown out to 2,300 square feet.
While the family was away, the community held a fundraiser for the cop and his family at the town's fire station, where neighbors and local businesses raised more than $125,000 to help him get back on his feet.
More than 3,000 people — including neighbors, friends, strangers, bagpipers and drummers from the Suffolk County Police Officer's Emerald Society Pipe Band — turned up in a cold rain to see the Vitale's reaction to their new home when they were brought back from a week-long vacation.
Catastrophe struck the family soon after they moved out of their North Shore home and temporarily set up living quarters with wife Anne-Marie's parents to make way for the original renovation.
Anne-Marie was only 28 when she died in August 2004.
The cop and his sons have been living with his in-laws, sleeping on couches and mattresses, since then.
For more info:
www.annmarievitale.com www.alure.com
