The four design pros are serious about winning, but when the cameras stop rolling, it’s a different dynamic all together.
Monday’s premiere episode saw Ford, 38, walk away with the win for the master suites round, but Victoria harbors no ill will. In fact, she says. “I’ve always coveted Leanne’s designs. So to be able to see what she did, and also what the other girls did, it’s very, very cool.”
Despite forming a close friendship with the other three designers, “I was there to win,” Victoria says.
“I felt an immediate connection with this new ROOM8 rollout. I just thought the concept was brilliant, the name was brilliant and the fact that I could actually mentor the winner and have this opportunity that I got early on in my career and be able to give it back to somebody is pretty cool,” Victoria says. “For me, it was a win-win-win.”
“It’s brilliant because we’re thinking about who’s traveling, and who’s traveling are millennials,” she says.
While talking to PEOPLE, Victoria also gave some hints about the second season of her showWindy City Rehab, which ran intopermitting issuesover the summer as they filmed season 2.
“If anybody thought it was hard to build in Chicago from season 1, wait until you see season 2,” she says. “You get to see the real challenges and the rewards.”
The Chicago Department of Buildings notified Victoria and her cohost Donovan Eckhardt that they would beunable to file new permit applications. The city also moved to suspend Eckhardt’s real estate developer license and general contractor license for one year.
“It’s never easy to build,” Victoria says. “Talk to any real developer and see how the building process goes. It’s very, very difficult.”
The Chicago native promises the next season will follow her journey working and building in the city when it premieres in mid-2020. “That’s my real life,” Victoria says. “It’s really not a show I created. It’s my life and then a show that follows it. It’s going to be unreal.”
source: people.com
