Longtime followers of HGTV’s “Love It or Record It” will possible bear in mind design assistant Desta Ostapyk, who featured on the present for its first three seasons (usually with memorable hairstyles and colours). Nonetheless, from 2014 onwards, she was notably absent — and sadly for the designer, that each one got here all the way down to logistics. 

Ostapyk opened up in regards to the motive why she left “Love It or Record It” in a 2015 Fb submit. On the time, she would share weekly “5 Reality Friday” movies on the platform — and in a kind of movies, she responded to a fan who had requested if she’d be on the present once more in some unspecified time in the future. Sadly for them, she revealed, “Now that Love It or Record It’s in manufacturing within the States, not going” (through Hooked on Homes). As some will know, “Love It or Record It” was filmed primarily in Canada when it first began, earlier than shifting to North Carolina in 2014. Chatting with The Detroit Information in 2015, Hilary Farr shared that a lot of that call got here all the way down to desirous to enchantment to an American viewers, and that the houses she and the remainder of the manufacturing group labored on weren’t all the time relatable to viewers outdoors of Canada. 

Again to Ostapyk, she went on to share in her Fb submit that she was unhappy to not be on the present anymore, and even gave a shout-out to her former co-stars Farr and David Visentin, sharing that she missed working with them. 

In fact, the “Love It or Record It” manufacturing did transfer again to Canada in 2020, so there was an opportunity for Desta Ostapyk to return to the present. That mentioned, she did not — and although she hasn’t defined why, it does bear mentioning that she labored on a number of completely different reveals round that point. These had been “Making it Residence with Kortney and Kenny,” “Scott’s Trip Home Guidelines,” and “Mission Bakeover,” the place Ostapyk featured as an artwork director, affiliate designer, and on-set designer, respectively. It is doable that scheduling performed a job, then. 

Ostapyk hasn’t been on one other present since 2022, so one may need hoped she’d be introduced again to “Love It or Record It” in 2023, however there was one more spanner within the works: Hilary Farr introduced that she was performed with the HGTV present after a whopping 15 years on it. With that in thoughts, even when Ostapyk had returned, followers nonetheless would not have had the OG squad collectively on their screens. 

Even with out Ostapyk being on the present, she’s maintained fairly shut ties to it through the years. Along with posting clips of herself and Farr dubbed in Italian on her Instagram, she’s gushed over David Visentin being the identical on-screen and off. In 2023, Ostapyk additionally shared a throwback pic from the present’s one hundredth episode occasion on Fb. It is fairly clear she has solely nice recollections from the present, so here is hoping that in some unspecified time in the future she makes a cameo. We are able to dream, proper?