Designer Superstar Challenge also known simply as Superstar Challenge is a show hosted by Karen Bertelsen

Karen Bertelsen

Karen Bertelsen is the host of HGTV Canada's Superstar styled shows, Handyman Superstar Challenge, Designer Superstar Challenge and Slice Network's Superstar Hair Challenge....

 on HGTV Canada that has had four seasons. Similar to the American series HGTV Design Star

HGTV Design Star

HGTV Design Star is an American reality competition show airing on the cable television network HGTV. It premiered July 23, 2006, and has been renewed for a sixth season.Clive Pearse served as host for Seasons 1-4...

, the show features aspiring interior designers competing in a series of challenges, following which one contestant is named the "design superstar" at the end of the competition.

It is the original "Superstar" themed show on HGTV, and went went on to inspire Handyman Superstar Challenge

Handyman Superstar Challenge

Handyman Superstar Challenge is a television game show on HGTV Canada, hosted by Karen Bertelsen...

, Superstar Chef Challenge, and Superstar Hair Challenge

Superstar Hair Challenge

Superstar Hair Challenge is a reality TV show on Slice Network hosted by Karen Bertelsen. Contestants must complete hair design related challenges, and a person is eliminated each week....

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Noted contestants

The winner of the challenge is supposed to get their own design TV show on HGTV, although several non-winners have also emerged as HGTV personalities.

Winners

• Stacy McLennan (2003) went on to host the HGTV show Kitchen Equipped
  Kitchen Equipped
  Kitchen Equipped is a show which can be seen on Food Network Canada and HGTV.The show, which shot 3 seasons was co-hosted by Canadian pastry and celeb chef Anna Olson , carpenter Jay Purvis, and interior designer Stacy McLennan . Both Olson and Purvis explore building and renovating a kitchen...
  
  ; she now owns her own interior design firm and appears regularly as a design consultant on Citytv
  Citytv
  Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...
  
  's daytime talk show CityLine
  CityLine
  CityLine is a television program produced by Citytv and Citytv Toronto that offers advice and information from experts. Each show has a theme that changes daily. These include "Around the House," "Talk Tuesday," "Health and Parenting," "Home Day," and "Fashion Friday."Originally hosted by Dini...
  
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• Bruno Filipe Teixeira (2006)
• Karen Sealy is the host of Summer Home, debuting on HGTV in 2011.

Other contestants

• Cheryl Torrenueva
  Cheryl Torrenueva
  Cheryl Torrenueva is a Canadian interior designer, best known as a personality on television shows produced by HGTV Canada.A graduate of Ryerson University, Torrenueva started in television as a contestant on Designer Superstar Challenge...
  
   has since been a designer on other HGTV shows, including Home to Go, Rooms That Rock, Restaurant Makeover
  Restaurant Makeover
  Restaurant Makeover is a closed television series which airs as reruns on the Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada, as well as the Fine Living channel and Food Network in the United States, TVtropolis and in over 16 other countries worldwide. The pilot episode starred designer Robin De Groot and...
  
  and Colin and Justin's Home Heist.
• Andrew Pike worked with Torrenueva on Rooms That Rock, and with Steven Sabados
  Steven Sabados
  Steven Sabados is a Canadian television-show host, interior designer and writer, who currently co-hosts the afternoon talk show Steven and Chris with longtime partner Chris Hyndman on CBC Television....
  
   and Chris Hyndman
  Chris Hyndman
  Chris Hyndman is a Canadian actor and television personality, who currently co-hosts the afternoon talk show Steven and Chris on CBC Television. He was born in Paradise, Newfoundland....
  
   on Design Rivals.
• Ambrose Price
  Ambrose Price
  Ambrose Price is a Canadian interior designer and Gemini award-winning television personality, who hosts the HGTV show The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price.-Life and Early Career:...
  
   was given his own series, The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price
  The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price
  The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price is a Canadian reality television series, which airs on HGTV in Canada and Logo in the United States. The series stars Ambrose Price, an interior decorator from Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador, in a series of design challenges. Ambrose Price just earned...
  
  , in 2008.