photo: Courtesy of HGTV
“In the river flowing right through town, in our people and in our community spirit: There’s just something special about Wetumpka,” says Jenny Stubbs. When talking about the small central Alabama town, Stubbs touts it like it’s her job. And it is: She is the executive director of Main Street Wetumpka, a downtown redevelopment organization. But this passion goes beyond the professional for the eighth-generation native, and when HGTV’s new show
Home Town Takeover premieres on May 2, she’s betting others are going to fall for Wetumpka, too.
photo: courtesy of erin napier
While this isn’t the first love note Ben has written Erin
Home Town fans. After all, it’s hard to believe that the fifth season is officially done filming.
Of course, for Erin and Ben, it’s even more striking than that.
“We made another milestone, @scotsman.co,” she exclaimed in the caption of her post. “In 10 months, we made 29 episodes of 3 different
Home Town series in 2 different states during a pandemic and a pregnancy with the 2 best film and construction crews lead by the best production company (@rtrmedia).”
The 35-year-old mother, wife, designer, and TV star went on to express gratitude for the grandmas in their life who ensured that their daughter Helen was taken well care of throughout it all.
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Erin and Ben Napier have become known to their millions of fans for showing that small town living doesn t have to mean shuttered businesses on Main Street and blocks and blocks of broken down houses. The couple has been renovating homes in their small town of Laurel, Mississippi on their HGTV series,
Home Town, for five seasons, and now the couple has branched out to help the residents of a different small town on their new show,
Home Town Takeover. And, we know what the good people at HGTV were looking for when deciding where the Napiers would work next.
“Home Town Takeover” premieres Sunday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Now that filming has wrapped, Alabama NewsCenter asked the Napiers to elaborate on their time in Wetumpka and share why they hope “Home Town Takeover” resonates with residents and viewers.
Ben and Erin Napier took a selfie in front one of several “welcome” signs in downtown Wetumpka that greeted them and HGTV crews. (courtesy of Ben and Erin Napier)
Alabama NewsCenter: What made Wetumpka stand out from the very crowded field of applicants?
Ben Napier: Honestly, HGTV chose the town, but we know factors like being bypassed by the interstate, loss of young people to bigger cities and struggling to revitalize after natural disaster made it the right choice for the kind of small-town revitalization we are familiar with.