Article: Ty Pennington: `Trading Spaces' carpenter and a whole lot more.

Byline: Mary Beth Breckenridge

Life can be so unfair.

One minute you're gloating over the chance to interview home-improvement heartthrob Ty Pennington. The next, you find out you have to do it by phone.

Oh, the cruelty.

Pennington is the tousle-haired carpenter on The Learning Channel's decorating hit "Trading Spaces," the hip guy with the low-slung tool belt and the goofy expressions who's as comfortable with a skateboard as a pine board. He's got the devilish attitude and disheveled good looks that females flock to, judging from the teen-age girls and grown women who reportedly throng outside the carpentry area during the on-site ...

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