![]() ![]() Contrary to Home Improvement, when Allen was interviewed by Nintendo Power and asked if he could make a video game, Allen proposed one about aspects of carpentry, and the end scene would be the player being featured on Bob Vila's Home Again. Vila also appeared on three episodes of the situation comedy Home Improvement during 19 as himself on Tool Time, the fictional show within the sitcom, where main character and cable TV host Tim Taylor (played by Tim Allen) saw him as a rival, and made futile attempts to outdo Vila. The partnership broke down in 2006, after a dispute between him and the company. įrom 1989 onward, Bob Vila appeared in Sears commercials to promote the Craftsman tools brand. His series ran for 16 seasons in syndication before it was canceled by distributor CBS Television Distribution due to declining ratings the series remains in reruns and on streaming service PlutoTV. He was replaced by Steve Thomas.Īfter leaving This Old House, Vila became a commercial spokesman for Sears, and beginning in 1990, he hosted Bob Vila's Home Again (renamed to simply Bob Vila in 2005), a weekly syndicated home-improvement program. In 1989, he left the show following a disagreement arising from his involvement with outside commercial endorsements for New Jersey–based Rickel, and the subsequent retaliatory pulling of underwriting by Rickel's competitor, Home Depot, and lumber supplier Weyerhaeuser. On This Old House, Vila appeared with carpenter Norm Abram as they, and others, renovated houses. ![]() Vila was hired as the host of This Old House in 1979, after receiving the “Heritage House of 1978” award by Better Homes and Gardens, for his restoration of a Victorian Italianate house in Newton, Massachusetts. After graduating, he served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, working in Panama from 1971 to 1973. Vila graduated from Miami Jackson High School, and studied journalism at the University of Florida. When Vila was a child, his father built the family home by hand. Vila, a Cuban-American, is a native of Miami, Florida. Robert Joseph Vila (born June 20, 1946) is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House (1979–1989), Bob Vila's Home Again (1990–2005), and Bob Vila (2005–2007). ![]()
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