HGTV’s newest star has a famous beau and millions of fans

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HGTV has just unveiled its newest host who is already a star on social media

A new HGTV show is about to debut with a social media superstar at the helm. Home in a Heartbeat With Galey Alix is ​​set to premiere on April 10, 2023, starring 29-year-old Galey Alix, a Wall Street executive whose mind-blowing weekend design projects have attracted millions of loyal followers on TikTok and Instagram.

Alix – full name Galey Alix Gravenstein – works weekdays as Vice President and Regional Director at Goldman Sachs in Florida, according to her LinkedIn profile. But her claim to fame is what she does on the weekends, transforming clients’ spaces with her design crew and sharing the results in fast-paced, upbeat videos on social media, where she has nearly five million followers who love to see their quick design transitions from “before” to “after”.

But it’s not just Alix’s renovations that have made her so popular. Fans also love how openly she opens up about her struggles with an eating disorder, mental health issues, and her heartbreak over a broken engagement weeks before her wedding — all of which she told Forbes In early 2021, she sent them spiraling. But with her first TV show set to premiere and a year-long relationship with the former NFL player and popular “Bachelorette” grad Dale Moss Alix says she now sees that her pain has led her to her passion and purpose.

When Alix first shared in September 2022 that she had signed on to star on her own HGTV show, she was wrote on Instagram“I don’t know much, but what I learned from this experience is that if you ever feel like life is burying you…there’s a good chance you’re just a seed being planted…me.” built this business to see families smile when I surprise them because it makes me feel alive again.”

Galey Alix asked fans to name her new HGTV show

Alix believes her fans are the ones who made it possible to land a show on HGTV, so after announcing the upcoming series, she gave them the chance to submit a name for it. In an Instagram post on March 15, when HGTV announced the premiere date, Alix revealed in the comments section that “Home in a Heartbeat” came from one of “maybe 10,000 replies” she went through.

Alix also shared HGTV’s social media announcement on her Instagram Stories on March 15, writing, “Sh*t just got so real.”

She added: “I will read EVERY comment on this post! Would love to know if you like our show name! I’m so excited that one of YOU came up with this!!!!”

In a press release about the new series, HGTV said that in each of the eight episodes, Alix and her team will “work relentless hours completing stunning home renovations that will cater to these families, all chosen from their massive social media fanbase, the boost they needed.”

For example, in the premiere episode, Alix will help a family reeling from the loss of a loved one transform their “underutilized living and dining room into a luxurious and cohesive space,” according to the publication.

“To pull off these projects in a weekend, my team and I spend months planning, ordering, and building,” Alix said in the press release. “These families mean everything to us. It takes a lot of late nights, talent and courage, but giving these families their ‘home in a heartbeat’ is well worth it.”

Alix recently told her followers She’s executive producer on the show and involved in the editing, which means the series will feature the kind of instant transformations that fans love to see in her videos.

But filming an HGTV show is a lot more pressure, she revealed in an Instagram story in October he wrote: ‘Sometimes I get hives during installations now that we’re filming a show. It’s a lot of extra pressure and all my planning has to be perfect to pull off a surprise renovation in a weekend.”

“I’m human and I haven’t figured it all out yet, but I’m trying,” she continued. “And I will keep trying as long as this fuels my heart and I can be with my team.”

Galey Alix says she’s leaning on boyfriend Dale Moss

Alix and her boyfriend of almost a year both know the pain of broken engagements. On the The Talking Out Loud Podcast with Denae Mercer in February 2021, Alix openly shared that in 2019 she confessed to her fiancé that she had been hiding an eating disorder and needed his support to find professional help. He felt blindsided and upset that she hid her struggles from him and ended their engagement, she said, which devastated her.

In the meantime, loud people, Moss met hairstylist Clare Crawley, a former contestant on ABC’s The Bachelor, in July 2020 while he was appearing on her season of The Bachelorette. The two quickly fell in love and left the show engaged just 12 days later. The couple had many ups and downs during their relationship, including a widely publicized break in early 2021, but finally split in September.

Until June 2022, Us Weekly reports that Moss was dating Alix after they were seen together his TEDTalk in May, He talked about how you can make a difference with your skills. He attempts to do so as a Special Olympics Global Ambassador dedicated to creating opportunities to raise the voices of underrepresented individuals.

As a matter of fact, deadline announced in February 2023 that he will begin filming The Best Of Us: Extraordinary Champions, a series that will follow athletes as they train and compete in the 2023 Special Olympics World Games in Berlin, Germany.

Also in February, Moss – who played as an NFL wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears, per his site – gushed to us weekly about how supportive Alix is ​​with his career and confirmed they were together for almost a year.

“She is the most gifted, hardworking and beautiful woman inside and out,” he said. “And she has supported me every step of the way in everything I have done. Knowing what it’s like and having that kind of support and someone by your side is definitely something special.”

On the day that HGTV announced the upcoming premiere date of Home in a Heartbeat, Alix said posted a photo of her kiss with Moss on her Instagram Stories and shared how much he supported her during the filming of her show.

“You came into my life when it was super quiet,” she wrote. “And now it’s not like that anymore. It’s actually the opposite. It’s the most stressful, scary, sleepless, utter exhaustion, no time for “us” living in the moment. And you’re still here.”

“I didn’t have that last time,” she continued. “Thank you for being the most patient, kind and unwaveringly supportive partner. ILYF.”

HGTV’s “Home In A Heartbeat” premieres April 19 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.