The A&E reality show "Celebrity House Hunters" is hunting down a vacation home in Southwest Michigan for movie actor Verne Troyer, who was born in Sturgis and grew up in Centreville. Troyer is most famously known for his role several "Austin Powers" movies in which he plays a character called Mini Me.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports Dave Kreager of United Country-Michigan Lifestyle Properties, a brokerage that specializes in nontraditional properties, has been searching out sites for the show that ombines house hunting with biographical information. It is not unusual for people to consider Michigan for vacation homes, Kreager said. Many people are doing a "reverse migration" to places such as Michigan, he said.
The complicating factor was that all of the filming would have to take place on a single day, so Kreager had to find properties that were close to each other.
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They filmed outside the Radisson before heading to a home on Paw Paw Lake in Watervliet and two homes along Lake Michigan in Bridgman and Lakeside. "It was fun to spend the day with someone like that and to see things behind the scenes," Kreager said. "I got to know Verne a little bit off camera. It was a blast personally and professionally."
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Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
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