Ty Pennington Has a New Lease on Life Following Near-Death Experience

Published on March 6, 2024

Ty Pennington has shared his new outlook on life following his 2023 health scare. The television personality, who currently hosts HGTV’s renovation competition series “Rock the Block,” was hospitalized last year and forced to undergo emergency surgery after suffering a throat abscess. In a recent interview, the 59-year-old told Entertainment Tonight that the experience has inspired him to “live every single day to the fullest.” “It made me realize you just don’t know when your timecard’s gonna get pulled,” he said. Mr. Pennington’s near-death experience occurred just days after he attended the “Barbie” premiere in Los Angeles on July 9. The author and design guru said he woke up at four in the morning on July 11 and “could barely breathe.”...