Interior designer David Bromstad shares how he celebrates Pride and expresses his authentic self in design, both on- and off-camera. Marianne sits down for a candid conversation with interior designer and host of My Lottery Dream Home, David Bromstad. David talks about his journey from a midwestern boy with dreams of being a Disney animator to his first time competing on Design Star. He reveals the pivotal moment a fellow competitor gave him the courage to be his true, honest self—and how he continues to carry that attitude today. He shares some hard moments and his advice to anyone struggling to find their voice. David talks about the stories behind his many tattoos, his love for the city of Orlando, and what his ideal world looks like.
Interior designer David Bromstad shares how he celebrates Pride and expresses his authentic self in design, both on- and off-camera. Marianne sits down for a candid conversation with interior designer and host of My Lottery Dream Home, David Bromstad. David talks about his journey from a midwestern boy with dreams of being a Disney animator to his first time competing on Design Star. He reveals the pivotal moment a fellow competitor gave him the courage to be his true, honest self—and how he continues to carry that attitude today. He shares some hard moments and his advice to anyone struggling to find their voice. David talks about the stories behind his many tattoos, his love for the city of Orlando, and what his ideal world looks like.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] MARIANNE CANADA: Hello, and welcome to HGTV Obsessed, your podcast for all things HGTV.
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Today, we have a very special episode. In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, we're spotlighting one of HGTV's most loved and colorful people, David Bromstad. David is joining us to talk about what pride, visibility and representation mean to him. And he shares meaningful advice for those who are struggling to express themselves authentically.
I'm your host, Marianne Canada, executive producer, and HGTV.com lifestyle expert, and I can't wait for you to hear this important conversation. I do want to give a quick content warning from minute mark 25:11 to 25:24, there is a brief mention of suicidal ideation. Here's my chat with David Bromstad.
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MARIANNE CANADA: All right, hi, David.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Hi.
MARIANNE CANADA: Oh my gosh, we are so excited to have you here as our guest today.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Yay, HGTV Obsessed, who isn't?
MARIANNE CANADA: Who isn't, right? And really, I can't think of a better person to talk all about embracing and celebrating your authentic self both on and off camera. I think that if anyone knows you, even without words, just at first glance, you're such a fun and colorful person.
And so I really want to kick things off. I want to know, have you always been like this? When you were a little kid, were you just like drenched in color or was it something you grew into?
DAVID BROMSTAD: A little bit of both. I think authentically, I was drenched in color. I was always loud, and a little crazy, but I was also-- I grew up in the '80s, and I was also made fun of a lot. So I was bullied. And so my authentic self was there when I was around my friends, like my close family friends, but when it came to my school friends, I was very pushed down. So I was there, I knew I was there, and I hated school because of it, because I could never be my authentic self. But yeah, I was always like this.
MARIANNE CANADA: Yeah. I mean, I think that's something, unfortunately, that kids still deal with today. It's hard to be different in any way, especially in school. Is there any advice you would give to kids who are struggling maybe with showing their authentic self and sharing who they really are at school?
DAVID BROMSTAD: Well, it's so hard because all you want to do is be yourself, and you just want to find people that are going to honor that. And that's the hard part is finding those friends who want to be their authentic self. And back in the '80s and the '90s, it was tough because being gay was not-- it was not good. It was not a thing, it was not trendy. It was not cool. Kids now when you tell someone they're gay, they're like, cool, that's awesome, and it's such a different environment.
So I just, my advice is just to never make yourself less than. If you want to be the gayest thing ever, if you want to dress in the weirdest things, the most fabulous things ever, then just do it. I found that voice, that dressing voice literally on Lottery, and that's the last six years. I always express myself, I've always been myself, but now to express myself through fashion, it's a new thing for me.
I've always been weird with fashion. Even when I was bullied in high school, I would still go to the thrift shop, people are like, what the hell are you wearing? I go, it's so new right now, it's a big fashion designer.
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MARIANNE CANADA: I love that. You were like, it's so avant-garde, you just haven't heard of it yet.
DAVID BROMSTAD: You'll get behind it. But I always was like that. Didn't have a lot of money, and so I went to thrift stores and I bought old stuff, and I just kind of made it my own. And I always walked into a place like I owned it, but inside, I did not. Outside I was like, yes, inside I was like, oh god, what am I doing?
MARIANNE CANADA: And now, I mean, you do. You seem so self-assured in both yourself and your work. Where did you find that confidence? Because I feel like you were really thrown into being on television with the first season of Design Star, which you won. I'm toeing the line here. I'm assuming everyone listening knows and loves. How do you not know who David Bromstad is? But I want to give them enough background information.
You competed in and won that first season of Design Star, and you did, you seemed so confident. What was that like? What was that journey like to be completely yourself on TV?
DAVID BROMSTAD: So that's an interesting question because when I went in, I knew it was an interior design competition. I am an artist. I have never done interior design until I got onto that show. I was fabricating kids furniture like for model homes. So it was just basically props.
I was basically a movie set person for model homes, it was crazy. I was faking it there. I was like, I have no idea what I'm doing. And then people are coming in who have had businesses and big personalities, and have master's degree in architecture and interior design. I'm like, what? I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing.
And it's funny, because I didn't know if I was going to be gay. Because back then it was still not a great thing, it was just a little-- it was 15 years ago. The market was like, oh my gosh, if you're gay then you are so stereotyped into the hyper-feminine and that typical, typical gay person that was before. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do.
In the first day, we all met each other, and we were put on ice, and we're allowed to talk off camera, and-- oh no, we were actually talking on camera. And Temple, who was one of the contestants, she was from Salt Lake City, and she was Miss Utah. And she goes like, oh my god, are you gay? And my process back then was, if you have enough balls to ask, then you have a right to have the answer. I'm like, yes. And right then I was like, OK, I'm not playing it straight, I'm playing it me.
And that was so liberating. Usually, TV will either break you or make you, and that made me, because I was now being my authentic self, and being celebrated by the network by being that person. And that was the start of everything. TV was a start of everything for me, really was.
MARIANNE CANADA: Yeah. Well, and I mean clearly it worked for you. To be one of the few people on that season who was not an experienced interior designer, and you won because people fell in love with you. And I do love that. And I can't imagine what a sad outcome it would have been if you had kept that light under the proverbial bushel, so to speak.
DAVID BROMSTAD: What would life be like for me right now? I don't think I would have stayed in very long, especially with today's delicious climate of everyone just celebrating who they are. But I don't think on what could have been, I'm just so happy that I made that decision in that circuit. Within 10 minutes of filming, I'm like, I'm going to be gay and I'm going to be OK. And I'm not going to be just OK, I'm going to thrive.
MARIANNE CANADA: You're like, this is me, take it or leave it. And luckily, we took it and took it and took it. Since winning Design Star, I mean, that was truly just the beginning. You've had several shows. You were just on, most recently on Rock The Block with one of my favorite people on the planet, Tiffany Brooks.
DAVID BROMSTAD: And fellow Design Star winner.
MARIANNE CANADA: I know. You guys were the dream team. Your colorful daring designs really stood out. I thought that house was by far the most fun house on that block.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Well, I absolutely agree. Did it stay to the brief? No, we did not stay to the brief, because I knew that everyone was going to be decorating in beiges and grays and whites and greens and blacks and blah, and I was like, I'm not doing that. And Tiffany and I both decided like-- because we were both like we're highly competitive obviously. So we're researching where it was, and then we're going to do comparable to all the houses around, and what are they using as far as things. And where does it go? Tiffany know?
I go, this is our time to just say whatever and just add in color and print and pattern and texture, and just be weird. I go, let's just be weird. Can we ple-- and she went like this, let's be weird, David. I'm like, great, let's do it.
MARIANNE CANADA: I love it. It was so fun, I loved all of the wallpaper. I loved the changes you made to the floor plan. I just thought it was the most fun, and in a lot of ways, the most youthful, the most millennial space. It was very fun to watch. Why is it important to you for your true self to be reflected in a space that you're designing, that's representing you and your style?
DAVID BROMSTAD: It's so important. It's like how many moments do we have in life where you can actually put your stamp on something? And I knew Rock The Block was going to be a once in a lifetime opportunity, kind of Design Star. And I just was like screw it, there's no holding back. I knew we were not going to win. Tiffany was like, no, I think we still can win. I'm like, if we win one challenge, great.
MARIANNE CANADA: But you guys won-- I think you won-- you won two, didn't you?
DAVID BROMSTAD: We won one. We just won one, and it's fine. And you know what? And that was great for us, because that's what we needed. We needed just the one win just to solidify that we still had it, we still got what we got. But I wanted everyone to really be happy when they walked through the house.
MARIANNE CANADA: Yeah, well, it was a very happy making house. And in my eyes you won two. I think I had it in my head that you won the kitchen because I just loved, I loved that kitchen.
DAVID BROMSTAD: The kitchen was good, right? That's ultimately--
MARIANNE CANADA: Yes.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Yeah, I picked the color, she did the layout. She did all the layouts for the entire house, and I did all the color, basically.
MARIANNE CANADA: That's why you guys worked so well together. But my real burning question is about the pink tracksuit. One, I want to know why you wore the pink tracksuit in every episode. The people want to know. And two, I really just want to know where it's from, because I want to be your shopping buddy.
DAVID BROMSTAD: One, we had to wear the same outfit every single episode, and that was everybody. If you look at Nate and Jeremiah, and every-- look at all the competitors, they wore the exact same outfit every single day we were there. That was a requirement, and I went to like the high, high ups, I go, you do know my thing is fashion, right? I'm like, that is how I express myself. How are you going to make me-- and they're like, you'll understand when we start filming. And when I did understand why we wore that because we were not--
Because when we're doing the kitchen, we had to knock down walls to do this for the next episode. So for us to go and change, it would take hours away from actual production. For the first day I knew, I was like now I see. But I picked the pink tracksuit because I wanted to say, this is me, I want to be comfortable. And I'm in pink and white sneakers, in a muddy environment, praise the Lord.
MARIANNE CANADA: I loved it. I loved it, and I loved when Nate showed up in the same tracksuit. I still want to know where it's from, and then I really want to get more into your fashion.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Right. So it's from Fashion Nova.
MARIANNE CANADA: Oh, fantastic. There you go, everybody. You can get your own matching pink tracksuit. They're all going to sell out. We're going to take a quick break, and then more with David Bromstad.
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You touched on this a little bit earlier, but you're so expressive through your fashion choices. I think half the fun of watching, My Lottery Dream Home is seeing what you're going to wear, at least for me. That is half of why I watch. I love the stories, I love the people. I love all the different places you go, but I'm also like, ooh, he's somewhere cold, he's going to wear an amazing coat or-- but how much fun is that show? How much fun is it to dress yourself for that show, and find homes for these people?
DAVID BROMSTAD: Yeah, no, the show is amazing. And it took me a minute to really come out and fall in love with the show, because I was like, OK, now I'm hosting a real estate show, I'm an artist. This is way off my beaten path, but at the moment, design was dead on the network. And because that was just straight design. Designs never died, but just straight design, it was all-- now it's renovation real estate, and that's fantastic. So I was like, this is my only option.
First three or four seasons I was like, whatever. And then I started really falling in love with this. I was like, it's a really beautiful show. It's really easy to do, and now I get to express myself with fashion. And I was like, now-- I mean, I've always been obsessed with clothes, always, but now it's gone to a point where it's really a problem.
MARIANNE CANADA: Yeah. What I really want to know is where do you keep it all?
DAVID BROMSTAD: OK, so funny thing is, I just bought a house, and I bought it because it was move-in ready. And it's a beautiful home, but the closets are atrocious. So I'm adding on a main bedroom, and I'm turning my main bedroom now, the one that's right here into the closet.
MARIANNE CANADA: Oh my god, honey, that's going to be like Oprah level.
DAVID BROMSTAD: It better be because I don't even think it's going to house all my clothes, because I have a guest bedroom full of just coats and sweaters.
MARIANNE CANADA: We're going to have to put that on our vision board to get a sneak peek when that is finished because I can't wait. I do want to congratulate you though on 10 seasons of My Lottery Dream Home. That is so impressive. It is such a fun show. What I love is the different kinds of people, and so many of them are just so sweet. I'm thinking of the first episode of this new season, which you can watch on HGTV and on Discovery Plus, the couple that was looking for the house on the Cape. I just was like, I feel like they were my mom and dad. I was right there with them.
DAVID BROMSTAD: And I love it. And the Cape is one of my favorite places to shop, and we've been there a few times. And it doesn't matter what time of year, whether it's in the fall or winter or spring or in the crazy time of the summer, it is one of the most easy, epic, yummy places to be visually and just emotionally. There's something really special about it, the energy there is just happy all the time.
MARIANNE CANADA: And speaking of happy, in another episode, you get to help a couple find a home in your city of Orlando. And I just have to ask, what do you love about living there? I know you're a big Disney fan, I know that you have a lot of love for Disney animation, but how did you end up in Orlando?
DAVID BROMSTAD: So I grew up in Minnesota, and I went to college at Ringling College of Art and Design, which is down in Sarasota. And I specifically went there because I wanted to be a Disney animator. And they polled specifically from three schools, and this is the one school I was like, OK, I like this one the most. It's Florida, it's warm, yummy. And I got in.
And so that was my main goal. And I went to the school, I took an animation elective my first quarter, and I was like, oh my gosh. And this was a dream that I've had for 10 years. Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be Disney animator. I want to be a Disney animator. And then I took an animation elective, and I was like, oh my gosh, this sucks. This is so boring. I'm like drawing the same thing over and over and over and over again. I'm like-- and that was hand-drawn animation, that's how old I am.
MARIANNE CANADA: Hey, it's coming back.
DAVID BROMSTAD: No, the look is coming back. Whether they're going to do it hand-drawn is absolutely not even going to happen. It wasn't for me. I realized that my creativity was so far beyond just drawing something, but it got me into art school and motivated me to be there. And the movie that did it was The Little Mermaid.
MARIANNE CANADA: Oh my gosh, I was literally talking about The Little Mermaid this morning. Sometimes you just need to sing all the songs from The Little Mermaid, something just happens to you.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Yes. If you're ever in a bad mood, put the movie on in the background where you're cleaning or doing laundry, and you will just-- yes.
MARIANNE CANADA: Yeah, you just got to let it out.
DAVID BROMSTAD: It's the best.
MARIANNE CANADA: Orlando is also known for having a really strong LGBTQ+ community, a huge pride celebration every year. Did that play into your choice to settle there?
DAVID BROMSTAD: Oh, so let me continue, because I did not answer your question whatsoever. So the last two-- I'd say the last one is why I like Orlando. So I moved to Orlando to work for Disney, and I started working for Disney as a visual merchandiser. I was never a Disney illustrator, so I need to change that on Wikipedia. I don't know who put that on there.
I was there as a visual merchandiser for first six months. And my boss who became one of my mentors, he was like, you're bored. I go, why do you say that? He goes because you're drawing out planograms, where you just need to click and point. I go, yeah, I am bored. So he's like, OK, here's an option. So he found a space for me as an artist for Disney, basically sanding sculpture.
So any sculpture that you would see outside or inside the Disney parks, I would be working on. I lost all my benefits, I lost everything there, but I got trained by Disney about how to be perfect. Because you don't go to Disney, and you don't look at a sculpture and there's not one nick, not one crack, not one anything. It's absolutely perfect. So that is where I got all of my really basic training, which was incredible and so invaluable.
And I lived in Orlando for 10 years. And it just was a large town at the time, and I was like, I want to go to Miami. Because the art scenes there, it's going to be more fabulous, I can express myself. It's just a little bit warm, and I love going to South Beach, I mean, who doesn't?
MARIANNE CANADA: I mean really.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Right. I mean I was down there every other weekend anyway, because I had friends who had lived there. And then I moved down there, and I lived there for 12 years. And I realized it's a really great place to visit, it just wasn't for me. Just a busy-- that it was too hustle and bustle, and I am a small town guy. I grew up in a town of 2,000 people, so I was like I had the opportunity, I was really thinking.
I thought for about a year and a half before I made the move. I was like, I can move anywhere, move back to Minnesota and be near family. I could move to New York or LA, or Salt Lake City was a huge thing, because I'd shown some houses there, and it was like the property was ridiculous. I was like, you get so much for your money and I love skiing, it's one of my passions. So I was like I could move back to Orlando, I could be near my parents because they live an hour away in the villages. And have all of my friends I had met there, who I have stayed friends with.
So I moved back to Orlando, and it is the most beautiful, wonderful city. It embraces the LGBTQ community like no other city ever. I mean, I've lived in Miami, very gay, gay forward, Fort Lauderdale, same thing, so gay. San Francisco, the birth of gay, basically, but I never felt the community be more strong than I have here in Orlando. And unfortunately, I think it came from Pulse, the Pulse Massacre.
And after that, the community, just everyone, the straight community, the people came together and then just embraced us. And they love us being there, and they support us. And we have the most diverse LGBTQA community ever because it is incredible, people are safe here. They feel it, and that's why they congregate here. I love it so much, I will never move.
MARIANNE CANADA: That's wonderful. It is. It's like you went home even though you're from Minnesota when you moved back there. It really sounds like you really came back home.
DAVID BROMSTAD: It did. It was weird because I was like, oh, I'm going to move back. But then when I started driving down streets, I haven't driven down in 10 or 15 years, and I was like, I feel like I just went back to my hometown.
MARIANNE CANADA: So special. That's so special. Well, this is our Pride episode, and it's no accident that we knew exactly who we wanted to have on. And I just would love to talk to you a little bit more about the way you celebrate Pride both during this month, obviously, but in your everyday life as well.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Everyday life, I mean, I did get a tattoo that's a rainbow tattoo on my body.
MARIANNE CANADA: It's beautiful. And we've got that. We'll have that on hgtv.com/podcast if you have not spotted the latest updates on David's tattoos.
DAVID BROMSTAD: I have a rainbow dabbing a unicorn. I have-- I celebrate it every single day because I'm in a position to help people understand that it's OK to be yourself and still be loved. What I've learned from this show is that even though I am being my crazy authentic self, and sometimes it does not work for people, what I'm seeing is that it's working for people. And I get so many messages like I'm the straightest man ever, and me and my wife love your show, and we think you are the most authentic person ever. And they celebrate that.
And I'm like, I'm doing my job correctly. I'm just being who I am. I can't help it, I'm no actor. What you see on TV is exactly who I am in person. I'm super nice, little sassy, and I like to tease. I'm from the Midwest, we tease because we love. I tease my mom the most.
MARIANNE CANADA: Well, and I'm sure she loves it. You also, you just recently led a series of candid conversations with some LGBTQ talent from HGTV and Discovery Plus about what pride means to them. And you talked to some of my favorites like Carmine Sabatella, you talked to the guys from Bargain Block in Detroit, Brian Balthazar and Loren Ruch, who are friends of the podcast. Patrick Richardson, Fernando Wong. I mean, you really-- we got some heavy hitters in there.
They are such special conversations because you got to hear everyone's individual experiences that all led to the same thing, which is celebrating themselves on camera in front of a huge audience. It wasn't always like this. What is that-- I mean, you've been on for 15 years, what is it like witnessing the evolution and also working for a network that has always allowed you to be who you are?
DAVID BROMSTAD: Yeah, and that was the big thing. I didn't know if-- I knew that HGTV always had huge gay following, always. But they didn't have any gay presence as talent, so that's why I was nervous like do I want to be this person? No one asked me, are you gay, before I got on. I think they just assumed it because I'm super gay in a way, which is amazing, and I love that about me.
When I won, I was not expecting such hugs and loves from the network. They embraced me being me. I mean, we were going to gay bars, and they wanted me to do this. They were actually-- this was my social thing. They were like, OK, we're going to go to this gay bar, we're going to do this, and we're going to do that. I'm like, this is so weird, but I've never felt so accepted in my entire life.
So it's been incredible. And to hear all of these, now it's like it's seeing the evolution. One, I've always been accepted, and I've always been loved and celebrated. No one's ever asked me to do anything except wear a shirt and cover up my face tattoo. That is the only thing HGTV has ever asked me to do, and they've never asked me to do anything else except be my authentic self.
And now that we have more of a community presence on the network, I'm loving it. I'm loving hearing all the different stories, I'm loving sharing that. It feels like I have now a family within a family, and we can relate to each other because we're the only ones going through it. It's pretty amazing.
MARIANNE CANADA: It is. It is amazing. It's amazing to witness. And obviously, we've come a long way in general across television, across media, we've come a long way in terms of representation. But there's still a lot of progress to be made, I think everyone can agree on that. What does the future of representation look like to you in an ideal world?
DAVID BROMSTAD: I mean, ideal world, it's just not even going to be a conversation, it's just going to be us, all of us as a community for the world. And we are a long way away from that, but we are so much farther along than when I first got in the network. I see so many great shows being out like RuPaul's Drag Race that are really informing the world on so much diversity, which is in the culture. And it's just wonderful and celebrated and sassy and delicious.
So we do have a long way to go, but we are strides from where we were before. So time is going to be good to us. We never go backwards, so we're always going to go forward, so. And I'm always a positive thinker, so I think it's just going to get better and better and better.
MARIANNE CANADA: Well, that was like the perfect segue way because I was going to ask you about your work with It Gets Better. I saw the virtual pride celebration you did for them last year. How rewarding do you find to work and to give a voice, I guess and hope to this younger generation that's still figuring out what their voice is, and who they are, and how they can express that?
DAVID BROMSTAD: Yeah, listen it doesn't matter if-- as adults, we can say, yes, it's getting better, but as kids and growing up in different types of communities and households and beliefs and religions, it's still not OK in so many different aspects. And to be a voice, and to be a beacon of light, and basically a rainbow of yumminess to someone who is feeling the pressures and the darkness in their family or their community, it's tough, but I'm there for them. And to do something with It Gets Better, the word, just the name of it, It Gets Better because it does.
I was in the throes of being bullied and having the worst time ever. And I was contemplating suicide. It was a real thing. So for me to be involved with an organization like It Gets Better is so important. And for me to just to be my authentic self and just to try to explain to them that this is only a moment.
And I know when you're younger those moments last so much longer. When you're older, those moments are so much more tiny. I just want to explain to them, give it a minute, give it a breath, it's going to go away in a few months or a year, and you're going to be better. But you have to be cognizant that it's going to just get better. So it's very important for me to be a part of great things like that.
MARIANNE CANADA: It's also I think a lot of pressure and a heavy weight for you to carry to be someone that people find to be an inspiration, to be someone that people are looking up to. Is there anyone that you look up to? Do you have people that you then can lean on so that you can keep doing the hard work?
DAVID BROMSTAD: You know what? I don't think it's hard work. I think it's just work that we do just being your authentic self and not editing yourself, and not making yourself any other person than who you are. So there's no pressure for me. I look up to everyone who is out there, who is just being their fantastic self.
You know, RuPaul is probably the biggest visionary of our time as far as the LGBTQ community because she is not just introducing an art form, but they're also talking about very tough subjects. It's really great to watch the show because it's not only creative and it's catty and it's hilarious, but it's also artistic and beautiful and humanizing. And there are so many different types of humans out there, and we all run under a different spectrum. And so to be very cognizant of that spectrum in your daily life is necessary.
MARIANNE CANADA: It is. It is. I can't think of a finer point to end on. David, this has just been-- it's been so special. I have had you at the very top of our list since this podcast began, and I'm just so glad we can have you on, especially during Pride Month to have this conversation. I know that everyone listening is going to want to know where they can follow you on social media, how they can watch My Lottery Dream Home. How can we get more and more and more David Bromstad?
DAVID BROMSTAD: My social media, you can follow me on Bromco, B-R-O-M-C-O on Instagram, Twitter as well, same handle, and Facebook, David BromstadTB. Have fun.
MARIANNE CANADA: Have fun, go nuts. And if you want to see the conversations that David had with our LGBTQ talent from HGTV and Discovery Plus, keep an eye out for those across HGTV's social media and network. David, I hope you come back again soon.
DAVID BROMSTAD: Any time, honey bun, any time.
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MARIANNE CANADA: Thank you for joining us for this amazing episode of HGTV Obsessed. I want to give a huge thanks to David Bromstad, human unicorn, ray of sunshine for sharing his journey and path to being his most authentic self.
If you or anyone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, help is available at suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You can look for these open pride conversations with Discovery Plus talent all across HGTV social accounts and on HGTV during the month of June. And you can head over to hgtv.com/podcast to learn more about David, and get a glimpse of his new rainbow tattoos.
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