Samantha Brice appears on hit show House Hunters

She loved the show, she needed the house… so Samantha Brice thought, “Why not?”

The first-year pharmacy student at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) appeared in a December 1 episode of HG TV's hit show House Hunters. By the end of the show (spoiler alert!), cameras captured Brice living in the splendor of her new three-bedroom, 2+1/2 bath home in downtown Charleston, S.C.

“I loved the show, loved Charleston, and thought it was a great opportunity,” Brice said. “You know how you always have to give a fun fact about yourself during introductions? Appearing on the show is like a little fun fact that I get to have for the rest of my life.”

The show is a behind-the-scenes look at the process of picking a home, with a real-life real estate agent showing possible houses to prospective buyers.

Brice actually started looking for a home in December, when the Clemson graduate first found out she had been accepted to the MUSC College of Pharmacy. She was planning on finding an apartment but her dad wanted the family to make an investment that would build equity. They drove down from Greenville, S.C. to start looking.

She and her realtor toured the house she’d eventually buy, along with several others. The houses she toured on the show were determined by the realtor and producers. They filmed the episode in July and it was originally planned to air in early 2021, but she got an email at the end of November telling her it would run December 1.

Being on the show was an enlightening experience for someone who loved watching it.

“It was pretty interesting,” Brice said. “You don’t notice the camera as much as you would think but always being on microphone is a little intimidating. It is always on. One day they said they could hear my stomach growling.”

With the house just a 10-minute walk from campus, Brice had no problems getting a couple of fellow MUSC people as housemates (P1 classmate Madison Price and Anna Eckstein, who just graduated from the MUSC College of Nursing). When she finishes the pharmacy program, her living arrangements will have to adjust to where her career takes her unless she lands a local residency or position. If she moves out, the house is likely to stay in the family as a rental.

Regardless of what happens, she’ll always have a fun fact to tell and a high-production landscape in which to walk down memory lane.

“When we finished filming, I thought I had sounded really stupid and was worried about how it would come out,” she said. “But they did a great job putting it all together and I think it came out beautifully!”