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‘Zillow Gone Wild’ homes are going on HGTV next month

Zillow Gone Wild will premiere on HGTV on May 3 at 10:30 p.m., providing viewers tours of 'exceptionally weird, wacky and wild properties.'

'Zillow Gone Wild' host Jack McBrayer in front of a home
Jack McBrayer, known for playing the eclectic Georgia-born NBC page in "30 Rock," will host the show. HGTV

By Victor Stefanescu

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The wild homes dotting Zillow Gone Wild social media accounts include a goth-looking mansion in Atlanta, a home outfitted with a ball pit in Colorado, and a $10 million Michigan castle that includes what looks like a drawbridge.

Soon these types of out-of-the-ordinary houses will be on cable. 

Zillow Gone Wild will premiere on HGTV on May 3 at 10:30 p.m., providing viewers tours of the “exceptionally weird, wacky and wild properties that sellers put on the market every day,” a press release said. There will be nine weekly episodes.

“Zillow Gone Wild will crisscross the country to find quirky houses, including the Berkeley, California, home designed by a jazz musician that features wall-to-wall gold accents and a pair of gold saxophone exterior columns or the historic New Orleans property that boasts a parlor lounge brimming with eclectic Big Easy charm,” the release said. 

Jack McBrayer, known for playing the eclectic Georgia-born NBC page in 30 Rock, will host the show, which will feature the histories of these “non-traditional homes” and the backstories of the buyers and sellers invested in them. 

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The cable home improvement and real estate channel will rank the homes based on qualities such as creativity and name one the “wildest” during a season finale on June 21. 

HGTV will automatically enter viewers who vote for their favorite home during the finale and correctly guess the winner into its Wild and Win Contest with a $25,000 prize. 

“Everyone loves to scroll endlessly, looking at all the pretty houses for sale online,” McBrayer said in the release. “But I’m on a mission to find out the story behind America’s strangest and most extraordinary homes. I want to meet the owners and, most importantly, see for myself what’s inside.”   

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