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Kortney Wilson Kortney Wilson (born February 8, 1979 as Kortney Galerno) is a Canadian actress, country music singer, real estate professional, designer, and television presenter, best known as cohost with her former husband Dave Wilson of home renovation progra ...

, who were

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ians and television personalities in

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. They are now TV presenters on the HGTV program ''

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'', having given up their music careers. They operate a business that flips (buys, renovates and sells) houses, the basis for the television program. The Wilsons announced they were separating after 18 years of marriage on December 19, 2019.

History

Dave, from Ottawa, Ontario, and Kortney, from Ayr, Ontario, separately moved to Nashville and signed solo deals with Lyric Street Records. While neither artist released an album for Lyric Street, Kortney charted two singles on the ''

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as Kortney Kayle. Kortney also made several appearances on the soap opera ''

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''. The pair met and started a family after they were both released from the label in 2003. They began performing together as The Wilsons in 2006. In 2009, they became the stars of ''Meet the Wilsons'', an eight-part, half-hour series directed and edited by Bill Filipiak airing on CMT in Canada. The show debuted in the

in December on CMT with a four-episode marathon. The duo's first single, "Stick Together", was released in August 2009. The Wilsons released their first album, ''The Wilsons'', for

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in June 2010. They later lost their recording deal and turned to renovating and flipping houses in Nashville, and this led to them starring in the reality television series ''Masters of Flip''."Canadian country musicians look to real estate". ''

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'', May 8, 2015. The series runs on

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in North America but is also shown in numerous other countries. In 2020, their new series ''Making It Home With Kortney And Dave'' premiered on HGTV Canada, where Dave and Kortney Wilson help homeowners create strategic moves with their money using their flipping expertise.Greg David
"Preview: Kortney and Dave pay it forward in Making it Home"
''TV, eh?'', January 20, 2020. The show lasted one season before being rebranded ''Making It Home With Kortney And Kenny''.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

References

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