It’s finally official–I’ll be interviewing Season 5 contestants of HGTV’s Design Star after they’re booted from the show each week!  If you can’t wait for the season to start, you can satisfy your Design Star jones by reading up on the interviews I conducted last season with all of the finalists and judges:

Candice Olson (Judge)  The last thing I expected this stunning, refined, polished (albeit funny) woman to open up about…would be boobs. And nudity.

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Vern Yip (Judge): Vern dishes on what he doesn’t want to see Design Star contestants do.

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Genevieve Gorder (Judge): Dear Genevieve chats about pretentious interior designers and shopping at discount stores.

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Antonio Ballatore (Winner): HGTV’s first bad boy.  (You can also read my other interview with Antonio here.)

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Dan Vickery (2nd Place)

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Lonni Paul (3rd Place)

Torie Halbert (4th Place)

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Jason Champion (5th Place)

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Nathan Galui (6th Place)

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Jany Lee (7th Place)

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Tashica Morgan (8th Place)

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Jan Guerin (9th Place)

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Amy Sklar (10th Place)

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NataLee Callahan (11th Place)

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Season 5 of HGTV’s Design Star premiers Sunday June 13th at 9pm Central.