It's the eighth season Of ABC's hit holiday show, The Great Christmas Light Fight, and the show's two host say this year surpasses every season before with massive displays, millions of lights, and motorized parades.
Five Things You Need to Know:
- The decorating competition series kicks off it's eighth season Wednesday evening on ABC, where fans will see a first-ever parade of one-of-a-kind floats, filled with dozens of enormous moving light sculptures, and a mile-long drive-through with over a million synchronized lights.
- The shows two judges, lifestyle expert, Carter Oosterhouse and famed interior designer, Taniya Nayak were impressed. Oosterhouse said "Some of the stuff you're going to see, the creativity just goes above and beyond and you go 'Ahh! This is genius.' I think the stuff we are going to see on the show is some of the best light displays we have ever seen and that’s because people know what it takes to get on the show and to win."
- Texas A&M University construction science sophomore, Jordan Maywald won $50,000 last year taking the top prize on the show.
At 21, he was the show’s youngest-ever winner. Maywald used his construction science skills to help create some displays. He spent four months putting it all together, going home each weekend to work on the large 120,000-light production. People drive from all over Texas to see his creation each year. - Oosterhouse is a television personality, model, and husband of actress, Amy Smart. He first gained national fame as a carpenter on the TLC series, Trading Spaces and has hosted other home improvement and how-to television shows. Oosterhouse knows many families will have an unusual holiday but says "We will get back to normalcy at some point in this world, and this will hopefully help people to have that feeling. This is a good time to totally appreciate the loved ones around you and celebrate as best you can, during COVID, those family traditions."
- Nayak has been featured on Good Morning America, Ellen, The View, Rachael Ray, The Talk, Today, and Oprah. She has also been in publications including Better Homes & Gardens, Apartment Therapy, Architectural Digest India and People magazine. She looks for more than just incredible light displays, saying: "I love to see something that is done well, I like to see something I’ve never seen before and for me a really big part of it, is there story, I love hearing the story behind the design."