Wendy Wolfe is back in front of the cameras
Stoney Creek resident, local realtor and former CHCH personality is the host of a reboot of Property Virgins on A+E.
It was a whirlwind return to television for Wendy Wolfe.
Wolfe, who is known to CHCH viewers as a former sports and entertainment reporter and occasional anchor, had earned her real estate licence and was busy building her business last summer.
“I used to own a gym on Dundurn Street and a former client there sent me a casting call for Property Virgins. She said she thought I would be perfect for it.”
So Wolfe pulled together an audition tape right at the deadline. She got called to Toronto to do a mock walkthrough of a home with a couple.
“They really put me through my paces. They asked a plethora of questions that I had to answer under pressure on camera.”
Wolfe then met with executives at Cineflix Productions and three weeks later got a call that she’d landed the hosting gig. Within a month, filming was underway.
Wolfe, who lives in Stoney Creek, filmed 20 episodes of the series, in which she takes real estate newbies to visit several properties that fulfill their often lengthy – sometimes unreasonable – wish lists to various degrees.
It’s a reboot of the series that debuted in 2006.
Wolfe, 55, has had an eclectic and “unplanned” career path. She’s been a payroll accountant, a bartender, hosted and produced TV and radio shows, was the general manager of a Burlington restaurant, worked as a DJ and led fitness classes and owned a gym.
She’s been in real estate since 2018.
“When people say they can’t do something… don’t ever tell me can’t. I have done just about everything.”
Wolfe joined CHCH in 2000 to host The Hype, short entertainment segments that ran during the Young and the Restless.
From there, she started covering entertainment on the news and she made a point of following videographers on assignments to learn camera work. She was then tapped to produce a half-hour sports show on Sundays with sports anchor Bubba O’Neil.
She left CHCH in 2007.
After stints with other brokerages, Wolfe joined Keller Williams Realty in August 2023. That’s also when she started shooting Property Virgins but she couldn’t say anything about that until the show premiered on A+E at the end of March.
Each 30-minute episode took five days of shooting in communities all over southern Ontario, including Hamilton, Waterdown and Stoney Creek.
“The couples on the show were not obligated to buy something I showed them but everyone did. It was a blast to find homes for first-time buyers who really went into it not knowing anything about the real estate market.”
Property Virgins airs on Saturdays with back-to-back episodes at 12 p.m. on A&E’s Home.Made.Nation block. Episodes are available on demand and to stream on the A&E App, AETV.com, and across major television providers’ VOD platforms the day after broadcast.
