‘I love it or list it David Visentin & Page Turner Talk Hilary Farr’s exit, season 20, more (exclusive)

David Visentin returns to Love it or list it up For season 20, but he will have a new Cohost at his side. When the show returns on Monday, April 21st, Visentin is accompanied by Page Turner.

The choice of the casting was made after Visentin’s former Costar, Hilary Farr, announced in 2023 that she would leave the show after 15 years. However, the real estate mogul said he had no hard feelings.

“Hilary and I will be friends forever. I love her,” he said to TV insider. “You can’t work with someone for so long and do not appreciate them as a person.

Turner said that she also “appreciates” how much farr brought the HGTV series before she got out. “Without her I couldn’t sit here,” she admitted.

In the following, Page Turner and David Visentin remember their first chemical test, a preview of the coming season of the beloved show and much more.

Page, tell me a little about the fact that you have been selected for the show.

David Visentin: We carried out a chemical test.

Page gymnast: We carried out a chemical test. But I come with my experience of experience, okay? I actually said: “That sounds like a great opportunity, but I will not audition.” Because I once ran for the council in politics and it was too much. I don’t want to be in a race with someone else. Either choose me or not. When the network offered the opportunity, I fell out of my chair. Like literally from my dining room, on the floor, in the zoom. I thought: “Love it or list it up!? What? It was on forever! “So we went out and did a chemical test and I said:” Oh my god. “First of all, I knew him all my life. What a great guy.” We just met.

David, how were you involved in choosing who would come in and replace Hilary?

Visentin: I had no part in this process. They told me. They called me and said: “Okay, we think that.” The name did not ring immediately to a bell and then I looked and I went: “Oh, okay.” I said, “Yes, it will be fun.”

Gymnast: The name did not ring the bell? I bet it is now ringing a thing!

Page, have you received advice from David?

Gymnast: It was cold turkey. I mean, he’s a nice guy, but there were no tips or something. Do you know what, what tips can there be? The only thing I always felt about the show as a viewer was that it seemed very authentic between David and Hilary. So I come in, even if I had a tip, I can’t give other tips than just come in and be a page gymnast what I am. It was only natural. He said: “Good luck!”

Visentin: It is not your first rodeo. She came in. If you were on TV for a while, you know that you are on this television genre, which works best. And she knows that. She came into one side and did not try to be something other than that, and that is always a recipe for success.

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Gymnast: This is a flagship show. So what would the council be after 19, 20 seasons? “Let’s go back to 2008, side, that suggests that you do it.” I have the feeling that if the network trusted me to carry the legacy of this show with David, there is something you see and we just had to go out.

Visentin: I actually think that less advice is better. When we go through houses for the first time, I don’t want to know anything about the house. I don’t want to see it. I just want to go in and just let it happen.

Gymnast: For me, when I go out with a guy, I don’t want to know about her ex-girlfriend. Just let me be!

How was your dynamic in this first episode and how did it develop?

Turner: It is interesting because I haven’t seen all the episodes. I look forward to seeing how it develops. Our relationship is obviously better in real time, but from the first day it was cool. It felt normal and of course.

Visentin: I think when you meet people, you know if you will enjoy your society. Or if you are not. And I think we both knew that we would enjoy each other. And the rest only develops. The rest just happens. There are some surprises. I said, “Oh, okay, so she reacts to what comes out of my mouth.”

Gymnast: Yes, I watched him for half a life, but he is surprised and shocked because I can throw it back on him again.

Would you say that the dynamics differ from what we saw between David and Hilary?

Visentin: It is different because I spent 17 years with it. So it developed and it will do the same. Hilary and I came to a point where we called ourselves an old couple like people. Page and I are basically in a honeymoon phase of the relationship, so it is a way of expressing it.

Page, you obviously fill a few big shoes. Did you talk to Hilary before you found that you have the position or after you started filming?

Gymnast: I’ve heard that before. I wear a size of 9 louboutin. I go to my own shoes. I would never try to replace someone because I can’t. I wouldn’t even take on this responsibility and I don’t want to. This is a legacy show. I’m not here to delete that, I couldn’t if I wanted to. But I am here to bring your side and bring my experience, bring my design and expand your nerves. That is what I’m doing here. And to continue this journey and this legacy of such an iconic show.

How would you say that after so many seasons you keep things new and fresh?

Turner: I think I shock him all the time. It is a new person. I am a completely new person here and we have new homeowners, the market is different, the designs are fresh. I can really dig into my design bag. These homeowners are different. I needed advice on that.

Visentin: I think as soon as you get to know someone, give yourself permission to express yourself as you want. I am like: “Page, you can tell me something. You can’t insult me.”

Gymnast: What is interesting is that I have never asked for its permission, but thank you for giving it.

She keeps you on her toes.

Visentin: That’s correct. That’s correct. I want to be there. I want to dance. In this way it is more fun.

Is there a certain memory or a specific project from this season that you are enthusiastic about people?

Visentin: They were all really good. There are some really good ones.

Gymnast: Every house was problematic.

Visentin: Joyce and David were really fun because they were basically apples and oranges. They lived in this house north of Toronto, this little Bungalow, this bungalow from the 1970s, which had never been touched for more than 30 years. She grew up in this house. They wanted to be in the city center. So I basically showed them condominiums and town houses because this is all they could afford to be in the city center. So you would choose from two completely different rooms that had nothing to do with each other.

Gymnast: Emotional, Joyce, who grew up in this house, did not want to go because her parents died.

Visentin: And Dave didn’t really want to be there because it wasn’t his house. It didn’t feel like it was his.

Gymnast: So you are dealing with emotions. Then there are a couple in which the homeowners had two home births in the house. More emotions. Then there is a house in which a woman lived there with her first husband, now there is a second husband, he does not have the feeling that this is his house, he starts all of these projects and does not end them. The house has 15 different levels. I can compensate for it or not compensate for it and drop a microphone really quickly. I don’t know. There are emotions and problems everywhere.

Visentin: Oh, and another in whom they did not check the zoning before they bought it and realized that they couldn’t do anything that they originally wanted to do and why they bought the house.

Gymnast: They wanted to add to 1,500 square foot, they couldn’t do it. So we had to find out. There is a lot to find out.

Love it or list it upPremiere of season 20, Monday, April 21, 10/9c, HGTV