Vern Yip
TV Show Host
Atlanta-based interior designer who hosted the HGTV series, Deserving Design.
He graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in economics and went on to study architecture and management at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
He was born in Hong Kong.
He and his life partner, Craig Koch, had two children through a surrogate in 2010 and 2011.
He made frequent appearances on Trading Spaces, a TLC home and interior design show hosted by Paige Davis.