Many fans of HGTV star Kim Wolfe have wondered what the heck happened to her show, “Why the Heck Did I Buy This House?” The designer and former “Survivor” winner has just confirmed the series is the latest HGTV series not returning after two seasons.
Wolfe, who also appeared on 2024’s “Battle on the Mountain” and “100 Day Dream Hotel,” announced via the San Antonio Express News on February 16, 2025, that she’s “officially said no to season 3” of her series. The driving force behind Wolfe’s decision, she said, was to spend more time at home with her husband Bryan Wolfe and their three kids — son Michael, 11, daughter August, 9, and son Walt, 8.
Kim Wolfe Says Filming With HGTV Took Her Away From Her Family Too Much
Wolfe lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her family and runs her interior design and decor business there. But filming her series and additional HGTV competition series often took her away from home, she told the San Antonio Express News.
Realizing that “this time is so limited with them,” she said she realized she was “focused on making homes for other people and simultaneously neglecting my own.”
Wolfe told the outlet she felt like she’d lost several years of her kids’ growing up as she filmed eight home makeovers across 24 weeks for her series, which premiered in 2022.
“We looked to find a way that we could make it work,” she said of continuing the show. “And it’s just not the format of filming the show. There came this real clarity after season 2 that this was just not something that I could continue to do.”
Kim Wolfe’s Series is Latest HGTV Show to End After 2 Seasons
HGTVThe second season of “Why the Heck Did I Buy This House” debuted in late December 2023, six months after it was originally scheduled to debut. But she told TV Insider at the time that she’d learned her lesson during the first season to expand her team to be more efficient.
“In season one, it was me, one other girl, and Bryan, she said. “In season two, we had a team of 10 people. We had seven builders in season two rather than two. It enabled everything to run so much more smoothly.”
“Why the Heck Did I Buy This House” is the latest HGTV show to go under after two seasons.
After starring in two seasons of “Rico to the Rescue” in January 2023 and January 2024, star Rico León told social media followers that he does not plan to be back for another season. In the comment section of an Instagram post he made on August 20, a fan asked him whether he’d be returning for a third season and he replied, “good question. Would take a lot lol” On the same post, someone else asked, “Is Rico to the Rescue coming back or not?” and he answered “nope”
Nearly a year after the second season of Ben and Cristi Dozier’s show, “Building Roots,” premiered on HGTV, the couple announced in early September that their series is over, too. In an Instagram post, the couple revealed that they “won’t be producing any new seasons” and will focus their energy on their renovation work and entrepreneurial endeavors in southern Colorado.
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HGTV Star Confirms Her Show is ‘Officially’ Over