Mindy Paige Davis born October 15, 1969, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an American actress best known as a host of the reality television series Trading Spaces.
In 2001, Davis became the host of the TLC cable TV network redecorating television series
Trading Spaces, replacing Alex McLeod. Also that year, Davis married actor Patrick Page, with whom she appeared in Beauty and the Beast. Davis and Page wedding was featured on the TLC series A Wedding Story.
TLC dropped Davis in January 2005 to revamp the show with a hostless format. There was some media speculation that TLC decision was in part motivated by Davis appearance in TV Guide wearing nothing but wallpaper and her performance of a faux striptease in a Broadway Bares charity event.
The New York Post had reported in its Page 6 column that Davis exposed her thong and permitted onlookers to touch her body. Davis responded to the story on the TLC message boards, writing that she had been dressed in a very modest, almost demure, yellow dress, cut to my sternum.
She acknowledged that she had flip skirt for a second and said that she kept all of her clothes on at all times. She went on to characterize the article as rumor and exaggeration in its description of the event. The Post responded after Star magazine published three pictures of the event in their July 2, 2004, issue, noting that the photos showed Davis in poses that appeared to confirm the Post version of the story.
Both Davis and the network insisted there was no connection between the controversies and the format change, which the network described as a decision to take the show in a new creative direction. Davis subsequently signed a multiyear agreement with television syndication company King World Productions to develop new scripted and reality programming, including a deal to costar in a daytime television program with interior designer Nate Berkus, but nothing came to air.
TLC announced in November 2007 that Davis would return as host of Trading Spaces in January 2008, along with others formerly associated with the program. Reports on the announcement published in the New York Post and in Davis hometown paper the Philadelphia Inquirer remarked on the earlier bad press in 2005, with the Post commenting, Apparently, that new creative direction has done an aboutface, and the Inquirer quoting a network vice president who does not know the specifics behind the perky Davis firing, but called it shortsightedness.
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