Episode
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: The Leomiti-Higgins Family
Overview
In 2004 the mother of Charles, Michael, Sharis, Joshua og Jeremiah Higgins died of breast cancer. 2 months later their father died of heart complications. Then the Leomiti family, right next door, took them all in, but now they're eleven in total. Can the team give them more space?
Details
- Series
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 2005-03-27
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Leomiti-Higgins Family is Episode 18 in Season 2 of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It aired on 2005-03-27. The runtime is 60 min.
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