His rise to prominence began with his role as carpenter on the TLC home improvement reality show Trading Spaces (2000–2003), and most notably for his work as host of the critically acclaimed ABC reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003–2012), for which he earned international recognition as an advocate for volunteerism and helping others.\n', '

Following the show\'s conclusion in 2012, Pennington has focused on numerous other projects, including host of ABC\'s short lived talk show The Revolution in 2012, TNT\'s On the Menu opposite Emeril Lagasse in 2014 and The Food Network\'s American Diner Revival opposite Amanda Freitag from 2015 to 2016. On September 13, 2017, it was announced that Pennington had signed on to join his former cast members for the reboot of Trading Spaces, which is scheduled to air on TLC in 2018.\n', '

Pennington was born in Atlanta, Georgia as Gary Tygert Burton, the second son of school psychologist Yvonne Burton. Yvonne separated from Ty\'s father when he and his older brother Wynn were very young, and spent several years as a single parent before she remarried. Her new husband adopted both boys, giving them his surname Pennington. Ty is of partial Cherokee descent.\n', '

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