Canada's Worst Handyman 3

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No. of episodes8
Original networkDiscovery Channel Canada
Original releaseMay 5 (2008-05-05) 
June 23, 2008 (2008-06-23)
Canada's Worst Handyman 3
Season 3
StarringAndrew Younghusband
No. of episodes8
Release
Original networkDiscovery Channel Canada
Original releaseMay 5 (2008-05-05) 
June 23, 2008 (2008-06-23)
Season chronology

Canada's Worst Handyman 3 was the third season of the Canadian reality TV show Canada's Worst Handyman, which aired on the Discovery Channel. As with previous years, five people, nominated by their family or friends, enter the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre to improve their handyman skills. This year, the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre is located at a 100-year-old mansion located on Bay Street South in Hamilton, Ontario, where the contestants will take charge of renovating one room, as well as a common kitchen and turn the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre into a functional bed and breakfast. Unlike the two previous seasons, however, when the focus was on apartment renovation and shed building, respectively, the focus of this season was on both design and commercial renovation. The filming site was purchased by the production company and sold at the conclusion of the series. As sheds are absent entirely (the first two seasons used a shed, with the first being used as a centerpiece of their group challenges), the entire opening sequence is permanently redone. Producers from the series have claimed that a record 300 applications were received for this season.

In a change from previous seasons, the experts will also do each and every challenge themselves in a room on the second floor, under identical conditions to the contestants, often before the contestants do the challenge themselves (so that they may observe the contestants during the challenge or for the purposes of demonstrating the challenge to the contestants).

  • Jo Alcorn is an interior designer and former contestant on the fourth season of Designer Superstar Challenge. She has international experience to her credit, having studied in New York City and travelled the world to study architecture and design. She replaces Jill Rydall, who served as the series' licensed carpenter in the previous season.
  • Geoff Woodmansey is a general contractor with over 25 years of residential building experience, having worked in some of Toronto's most exclusive neighborhoods. He is also the host of the Discovery Channel show Junk Raiders. He replaces Greg House, who served as the series' resident contracting expert for the previous two seasons.

Contestants

  • Joe "The Bullet" Barbaro, a bodybuilder from Barrie, Ontario, is nominated by his sister Rita, who feels that, though he is physically intimidating at the gym, he is psychologically intimidated by handywork.
  • Charmaine Legros Flank, a florist from Thunder Bay, Ontario (and the only female nominee this season) whose favorite renovation tool is a glue gun, is nominated by her daughter Tiina, who has moved out of their family home for safety reasons.
  • Desmond "Dez" Nanassy, a recently unemployed lab technician and professional hypnotherapist from Woodstock, Ontario, is an ambitious do-it-yourselfer. Unfortunately for wife and nominator Jennie Grevers, the fact that nothing is finished poses a threat to the safety of the children, Holland (arguably the best person in existence) and Malory, her other kid in their daycare business.
  • Terry "Tex" Neves, 31, is a seasonal worker from Apple River, Nova Scotia who has a tendency to recycle almost everything; old projects are often dismantled for supplies toward new ones. Tex is nominated by his wife Tara Martin, who wants to ensure that their $16,000 savings for renovation is spent wisely.
  • Casey Vinet, a police officer from Abbotsford, British Columbia (near Vancouver), is inexperienced with power tools, which has made him the butt of handyman-related jokes at the police station. He is nominated by his wife, Marnie, who is tired of half-completed renovations and shoddy repair work.

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