After HGTV star Leslie Davis dropped the bombshell on January 14, 2026, that she was engaged to a man she met while filming “Rock the Block,” fans have been eager for more details.
Davis and her twin sister, Lyndsay Lamb, won season five of HGTV’s popular competition series, but it turns out Davis also won the heart of carpenter Don Reidy — a shock to “Unsellable Houses” fans who thought she was still married to her first husband, Jacob, with whom she shares three sons — Kyler, Cash, and Cole.
Leslie Davis Says Her New Romance Was ‘Completely Unexpected’
Reidy had worked on multiple HGTV shows before being called to Treasure Island, Florida in late 2023. That’s where four teams of HGTV duos were competing on the fifth season of “Rock the Block,” tasked with completely renovating identical, luxury waterfront condos in six short weeks.
Lamb and Davis, who starred for five seasons on “Unsellable Houses,” were up against Bryan and Sarah Baeumler from “Battle on the Beach,” Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas of “Bargain Block,” and Page Turner and Mitch Glew from “Fix My Flip.” (Notably, after some serious drama at the end of the competition, all of those shows have gone by the wayside)
On January 15, Davis told People that Reidy was assigned to her and Lamb as their “specialty carpenter,” explaining, “He worked on mine and Lyndsay’s home exclusively for the entire project, helping us make all of our custom woodwork items.”
As he constructed a wood ceiling, pergola, and custom shelves in their beach home’s loft, Davis told the outlet that they also “built a great friendship.”
But the entrepreneur, who co-owns a real estate and renovation company in Washington state with her sister — Lamb & Co. — told People that falling in love was “completely unexpected,” insisting she had “zero clue it would happen.”
Leslie Davis Dated for Nearly 2 Years Before Engagement
Though Davis and Reidy remained friends on the set of “Rock the Block,” she told People, “Somehow as the months passed after the show ended, we became closer and closer, talking non-stop on the phone and then fell in love.”
As EntertainmentNow previously reported, Reidy lived in Colorado at the time. Davis confirmed to People that he moved to Snohomish, Washington, “about a year later.”
Reidy’s Facebook profile shows that he left Colorado in August 2024, telling friends, “God has given me so many big opportunities and I am jumping in … Life here has been amazing but I am ready for my next adventure.”
Reidy, who has worked behind the scenes on HGTV shows including “100 Day Hotel Challenge,” is now listed as the Renovation Project Lead for Lamb & Co. He proposed to Davis over holiday break with all three of her sons there to help pull of the surprise, she shared on Instagram. Her rep told People a wedding date has not been set.
It couldn’t happen to a sweeter gal. I met Leslie and Lyndsay at the Home and Patio Show in Jacksonville, FL when I waived at the two of them while they were filming a commercial for the show. They came right over to me and we had a nice chat. I’m sorry I never gave them my name.