 mindy paige davis (born october 15, 1969, in philadelphia, pennsylvania), billed as paige davis, is an american actress who hosted the daily series with mark steines called home and family on hallmark channel. ==biography== ===early life and career=== davis attended charles h. bird elementary school in sun prairie, wisconsin, from first grade through part of fifth. she lived for a time in louisville, kentucky, and graduated from the louisville youth performing arts school. she graduated from the meadows school of the arts at southern methodist university in dallas, texas. much of her training has been in musical theater as well as dancing, and she spent two-and-a-half years in the national touring company of the broadway musical beauty and the beastpaige davis: other works at the internet movie database. retrieved 2008-01-09.mini-bio: paige davis, internet movie database. playing the role of babette the feather duster for her second year. during this period, she was sometimes credited as mindy paige benson, following her 1994 marriage to actor greg benson.ancestry.com. texas marriage collection, 1814â1909 and 1966â2002 [database on-line]. provo, ut, usa: the generations network, inc., 2005. original source: texas department of state health services. texas marriage index, 1966â2002. in los angeles, california, davis also did numerous tv commercials and videos. ===trading spaces=== in 2001, davis became the host of the tlc cable-tv network's 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's wedding was featured on the tlc series a wedding story. tlc dropped davis in january 2005 to revamp the show with a host-less format. there was some media speculation that tlc's decision was in part motivated by davis' appearance in tv guide "wearing nothing but wallpaper"michael klein. "a.c. pub sues over 'dive' review" ("inqlings" column including a news brief on davis' rehiring), the philadelphia inquir
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