{"id":369102,"date":"2025-12-25T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369102\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:40:15","slug":"why-erin-ben-napier-wont-be-hosting-home-town-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369102\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Erin &#038; Ben Napier Won&#8217;t Be Hosting &#8216;Home Town Takeover&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tErin and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ben-napier\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ben-napier\" data-tag=\"ben-napier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Napier<\/a> have hosted the past three seasons of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/home-town-takeover\/\" id=\"auto-tag_home-town-takeover\" data-tag=\"home-town-takeover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home Town Takeover<\/a> since the popular Home Town spinoff launched in 2021. But they say they won\u2019t be able to host the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe couple <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/interviews\/ben-erin-napier-new-home-town-spinoff-coming-shocked-to-hear-why-other-celebs-will-host\" target=\"_blank\">tells Cinemablend<\/a> that that they are not \u201clegally allowed\u201d to host the entire upcoming season of Home Town Takeover. For the first time, the show will be filmed in Canada, and they cannot, by Canadian law, host. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOur production company is Canadian. The people who make our show, they\u2019re passionate about this Canadian takeover,\u201d Erin tells Cinemablend. \u201cBut, because we are Americans, we are not legally allowed to host the show. We can only be in it as, like, guest stars.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, a Canadian broadcast show has to be hosted by Canadian talent,\u201d\u00a0adds Ben.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReportedly, the law stems from the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/modernization-broadcasting-act\/highlights-policy-directions.html#a2d\"> Online Streaming Act<\/a>, which focuses, in part, on broadcasts being able to \u201cmaximize its use of Canadian creators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPer the show\u2019s logline, \u201cBen and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/erin-napier\/\" id=\"auto-tag_erin-napier\" data-tag=\"erin-napier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erin Napier<\/a>, along with members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hgtv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hgtv\" data-tag=\"hgtv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HGTV<\/a> family, lead a major overhaul to revitalize a small town by renovating the homes of the town\u2019s changemakers, businesses and community spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tErin notes she has never been to Canada and is \u201cexcited to go\u201d, thinking \u201cit would be magical in the summer.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBen tells the publication the new main hosts have been chosen and he and Erin approve. \u201cWe know who it is and I can say we really like them. It\u2019s another husband and wife team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStay tuned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0A5A4333-Napiers-Holiday-Hot-Pics.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erin and Ben Napier have hosted the past three seasons of Home Town Takeover since the popular Home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[181103,88,181104,113651,181105],"class_list":{"0":"post-369102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ben-napier","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-erin-napier","11":"tag-hgtv","12":"tag-home-town-takeover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}