Extreme Makeover Home Edition - Kirkwood 1 of 10


Season 3 - Kirkwood FamilyAired - January 15, 2006

Thanks to their tenacious eleven-year-old daughter, Jael, the Kirkwood family from Port Orchard, WA will receive a new home designed by Ty and the gang of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

One year ago, eleven-year-old Jael Kirkwood completed an application for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for her family, but didnt hear back from anyone. The Kirkwoods gave up, but not Jael. Instead, she tracked down Sweet Alice Harris from a previous episode and asked for advice on how to get her familys application read by show producers. Sweet Alice suggested that she contact herlocal mayor, and thats exactly what Jael did.

Mayor Kim Abel of Port Orchard, remembers getting a call from then 10-year-old Jael and, moved by the girls sheer determination, contacted the casting department on her behalf.

Whats striking is that she almost didnt live to do this for her beloved family: When she was just four hours old, Jael had to have emergency surgery to remove half of her small intestine in order to save her life. She then spent the next several months in and out of different hospitals. At ten months, Jael weighed only 9 lbs.

The Kirkwood family has been through a lot, but the biggest problem theyre facing now is the hazardous black mold that has taken over their house. When their contractor skipped out, the mold moved in. Exposed wiring, open walls and poor ventilation left the Kirkwoods without the much-needed extra space their basement would have provided, and right now all four girls share one tiny room. But the tenacity of one girl will pay off when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, along with local builder Howland Homes, pull together to give Jael and her family the home they deserve.

While the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition design team, contractors andhundreds of workers and volunteers are transforming the Kirkwoods house into a dream home, they will go on vacation to Walt Disney World.

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Channel: People
Uploaded: October 7, 2008 at 9:01 am
Author: uSoBayArea

Length: 00:08:36
Rating: 4.97
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Tags: Pennington Home Twister Ty Family Edition Extreme ABC Kirkwood Makeover

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kingoffrank (November 26, 2008 at 4:56 am)
cant afford it
liz2hang (November 26, 2008 at 3:12 am)
they're selling the house? why? that's so sad to hear.
kingoffrank (November 21, 2008 at 1:25 am)
There selling it now too
Authorata (November 20, 2008 at 4:23 pm)
Wow thats just break my heart...




and the people that put their heart on building that house....T_T
SootAlista7ala (November 20, 2008 at 12:20 pm)
oh man r u serious, that's sad was the quality of the house bad? was it falling apart ?
OnlyTheGrrl (November 17, 2008 at 11:42 pm)
they all had a mic on when they came out, they couldn't be that surprised.
SYDNEYxFERSURE (November 13, 2008 at 11:55 pm)
I live RIGHT DOWN the road from them.xDahh man.its not taken care of.all the plants in the front yard are like, dead. lmao.Jael still goes to my school.
Tanit1000 (November 8, 2008 at 4:33 am)
Ty calls her Sweet Alice Harris.
kclc4evr (October 30, 2008 at 1:21 pm)
what family name is sweet alice?
cartuneslover14 (October 23, 2008 at 1:54 am)
Oh, my gosh...that's so sad to hear. I hate to think what's become of the kids now.
kingoffrank (October 18, 2008 at 12:51 am)
well the house is all brownish now(i dont know how that happend), the grass is all over grown,broken wood frame things.pre much falling apart. and the mom and dad split up so theres not really anyone living in it at the moment
ilargitxo2 (October 17, 2008 at 10:52 pm)
oh, and how do they have it? I mean how the house look?
kingoffrank (October 17, 2008 at 10:49 pm)
the house is just right down the road from me.haha
ilargitxo2 (October 17, 2008 at 3:31 pm)
really? how do you know?
kingoffrank (October 17, 2008 at 1:11 am)
the sad thing is, is that the house looks like shit now. they dont take care of it at all.

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