♪ MTV ♪
[music]
What's up, MTV?
[Female announcer] On this episode of Cribs,
TV personality Adrienne Bailon
and husband Israel Houghton
show us their Beverly Hills bungalow--
AKA, Villa Houghton.
Just on special occasions, if you're feeling the vibes,
you know, you're just like, yeah-heh-heh!
So this would be twerky, not quirky,
-is what you're saying. -This is twerky!
[Announcer] But first, we touch down at
NFL legend Michael Strahan's New Jersey epic hideaway.
[Michael] That is a Lego of me,
but any time they put the gap in it,
everybody thinks it's me.
For all you people out there who got kids with a gap,
they're not my kids.
[theme music]
♪ I don't know what they want from me ♪
♪ It's like the more money we come across ♪
♪ The more problems we see ♪
♪ I'm comin' out ♪
Hey, MTV Cribs ! Welcome to Straland!
Why are you standing there? Let's go inside!
I'm gonna give you the grand tour, yeah!
♪ B-I-G P-O-P-P-A ♪
♪ No info for the DEA ♪
♪ Federal agents mad 'cause I'm flagrant ♪
♪ Tap my cell and the phone in the basement ♪
♪ Me lose my touch? Never that ♪
♪ If I did, ain't no problem to get the -- ♪
♪ Where the true players at? ♪
Welcome to Straland.
My home away from home.
Boy with a childhood dream to having a place
with the things that I love and enjoy,
a place to hang out with friends.
The place that reminds me that hard work is everything.
So I'm gonna take you on a journey.
I hope you enjoy it! Look around.
♪ You--you--you're just my type ♪
♪ Oh, you got a pulse and you are breathing ♪
It was important for me to have a basketball court in Straland
because I got a lot of friends who talk a lot of smack.
Shaq! I'm waiting for you too!
Come get some of this!
♪ Uh ♪
[Michael] But the important part about basketball
is making sure that people can actually shoot,
because if you cannot shoot,
you might hit my $100,000 Pyramid sign over here.
My company, Smack Productions, we produce $100,000 Pyramid,
so that is from the actual show.
Bam!
You think you can handle the game?
Enough of that. Let me show you some cars.
[music]
[Michael] When I was kid, I used to ride the school bus
with my brother, Victor, and we would see fancy cars.
Well, that's my car! That's my car!
So now cars remind me so much of being a kid,
hanging out, riding to school, all those different things.
And this right here,
this is a Mercedes 6.0 560 SEC AMG.
Wide body. Look at the hips.
Look at the hips!
♪ Oh, slow motion for me ♪
[Michael] I love hips on my cars.
And I can go to down the lot.
Aston Martin DB AR1 Zagato.
The 850 BMW.
A Dinan twin turbo.
Porsche 911 Speedster.
This is a Ford GT-X1.
And this is my baby.
♪ You're gonna love me, you're gonna love me ♪
♪ You're gonna love me ♪
[Michael] Mercedes McLaren SLR Roadster.
This car I've had longer than any other car
in my collection.
[engine running]
You just had to hear it.
[revs engine]
Oh!
I feel like the Karate Kid when I drive that.
And up top, you see the motorcycle up there?
That was made more the Giants Super Bowl-winning team
back in 2007.
On the gas tank, it's signed by the entire team.
I had it made for a charity auction.
And then I actually bought it from the auction
because I just couldn't imagine somebody else having,
you know, such a great piece
that had a lot of Giants history on it.
It runs, it works, but I'm never gonna drive it,
so I hung it up.
And this is a photo of my dad,
who I lost a little bit over a year ago.
This is at the Super Bowl in 2007,
with the biggest smile on his face.
This picture used to make me cry every time I saw it.
Now the picture actually makes me smile every time I see it
because I know my dad was so happy.
This bike is a kuwahara laserlite.
When I was 10 years old, I told my dad I needed a bike,
"I want a bike!"
So my dad said, "You earn half the money,
I'll come up with the other half."
He held up his end of the bargain,
and I ended up with this bike.
So this bike means the world to me.
It's just perfectly fitting next to my favorite picture
of my dad smiling.
♪ I'm gonna be all right here, I'm gonna live my life ♪
[Michael] You know, sometimes I don't wanna leave the cars.
I wanna hang out with the cars.
So I built this little lounge area in the garage.
Every Sunday, I hang out with my best friends in the world,
Fox NFL Sunday.
And one year, they did a Lego of us all.
So that is a Lego of me.
But any time they put the gap in it,
everybody thinks it's me.
For all you people out there who got kids with a gap,
they're not my kids, okay?
Even white people, it's not my kids.
I promise you, it's just a kid with a gap in his teeth.
[Announcer] Coming up, things get spicy with Michael Strahan.
So I come in here, and I'm like, you know what?
Let's get sexy.
♪ Turn off the lights ♪
And light a fireplace.
[Michael] Now I'm gonna take you into the lounge.
This is where we really spend most of our time hanging out,
so come on.
♪ Ain't nothin' goin' on with the bomb-bomb rap song ♪
♪ You know how we do ♪
I noticed that, you know, usually on MTV Cribs,
it's about the refrigerator.
Well, here, it's about two things.
It's about the bar and the cigar.
If you like tequila, you like whiskey,
you like bourbon,
you like vodka, we got it all for ya.
And while you're getting yourself a drink,
you might as well get yourself a cigar.
Got Year of the Pig, Year of the Tiger,
and of course, the big boy, Year of the Ox.
And I got one more thing. When my friends come over,
all of us have this special coin.
It says, "Some people meditate.
We smoke cigars."
And on the back, it says,
"Sometimes you gotta tap that ash."
Sometimes you gotta tap that ash.
We got so much memorabilia hanging around here.
Player of the Year trophies, Season MVPs,
Defensive Player of the Year trophies.
Life is about people helping you get where you're going.
So for me, it's these guys who helped us win the Super Bowl 42,
and then you have my Emmys that
I've won at Good Morning America ,
hanging out with Robin and George.
And then in the middle is the copy of the Hall of Fame bust.
I gotta say, the guy did an incredible job
because he was able to capture the gap,
which is a lot harder to do in a bust
than you would imagine.
So I come in here, and I'm like, you know what?
Let's get sexy.
♪ Turn off the lights ♪
And light a fireplace.
We got our pool table. Who wants some?
Come get some if you want some.
♪ I can't be denied ♪
That's right.
Ah!
I just happen to have a jersey.
This is the jersey that went up to space with me
on the Blue Origin flight.
Space was by far the most
exhilarating thing I've ever done.
I was so comfortable because they train you
in such an incredible way.
And then when you take off and all the thrust,
you realize how insignificant you are
and how lucky you are at the same time.
Jeff Bezos, hit your boy up. I wanna go back.
There's one sign in this whole garage that spells it all out,
and that is this sign right here.
"It was all a dream."
And I never take it for granted
every time I pull my car in here, I walk through the door,
that this is, you know, a dream.
♪ I don't need your leadership ♪
♪ I am the original me ♪
I can't play football anymore. I can't compete that way.
I can compete on the golf course.
So I will pull up a course on the simulator.
Let me see if I can hit this shot 167 yards.
Let's see what I've got.
Oh!
Actually, it's not bad. Not bad.
♪ Sweat the technique ♪
[music]
♪ Don't sweat the technique ♪
Voila!
You can't have a Straland without a massive steam shower.
I have an event tonight, so, um, I made sure I brought my suit.
And, um, everything here, of course,
Collection by Michael Strahan.
Ba-ba-ba-ba-bam!
And I get to go head out, and, um,
do what I gotta do
when I put on my suit, like Superman.
♪ The game ain't over ♪
♪ It ain't over yet ♪
♪ No, the game ain't over ♪
♪ The game ain't over, over ♪
So thank you for coming over.
Got a chance to hang out with me at Straland.
Now we're friends.
Before you go, though,
I do have something for you, come on.
You gotta have your own coin
and your own Moet champagne machine.
[music]
Thank you! I appreciate you.
Thank you, love ya, but, uh, I got stuff to do.
See ya next time.
MTV Cribs. Bye, now!
♪ No, the game ain't over ♪
[Announcer] Coming up, we get twerky and quirky
with Adrienne Bailon and husband Israel Houghton.
You may be noticing something slightly different
in this bathroom, and it is this light fixture.
It's not twerky, but quirky.
It's a quirky light.
[singing in Spanish]
What's up, MTV? I'm Adrienne.
-And I'm Israel. -[Both] Welcome to our crib.
Come on in, I wanna show you guys around.
Ven, ven, ven!
[singing in Spanish]
This is our little Beverly Hills bungalow here
that we officially call--
[Both] --Villa Houghton.
[music]
The first thing you see when you walk into the house
is our living room.
We actually live in this room.
[Israel] We spend a lot of time here.
Butt goes in the middle so I have a perfect view
of our television.
Israel's biggest joke to me is,
you know it's okay for it to look like
people actually live here.
People actually stay and live here.
This is me.
[laughs]
I have a problem.
Like, right now, I've gotta be honest.
It's actually irritating me that this
does not go this way.
-Oh my gosh. -So I know that--
Show us how it should properly be done.
[Adrienne] It should be thinner so that we can still see
the back of the chair. This needs to be seen.
You couldn't even see the back of the chair.
-Couldn't even see it. -You couldn't even see it.
What a tragedy!
[Adrienne] This would drive me crazy.
You know how they leave the creases?
We need to do this when we get up from the sofa.
-You're committed to this. -I am.
Okay, what else?
Oh my gosh, Israel plays his piano.
You wanna show us a little something?
Yeah, show us how you vibe.
[Israel plays]
[Adrienne] I love nothing more...
than coming down in the mornings and just being like,
oh, I married a man who plays the piano!
Doesn't get any sexier than that.
Nice.
Take 'em to church.
This is our little breakfast nook
staring straight out to our backyard and our pool.
I love how much sunlight comes in here.
When we eat here with other people,
we remove all of this.
So this always ends up right here.
We have a bunch of plants in this room.
But our plants are not real.
Almost all of them.
[Adrienne] No, that's fake, that's fake, that's fake.
I think this was real at some time.
♪ I'mma get to work, I'mma get to work ♪
♪ No, I can't stop now, so I'mma get to work ♪
Right here we have our kitchen,
which actually was completely remodeled
right before we moved in.
But, uh, I don't really cook too much.
It's perfect for me.
She's saying that. She's an amazing cook.
I call her the Latina Martha Stewart.
I just don't do it often.
I've been doing more cooking in here than you.
Yes, you have, and you do an amazing job.
Your sofrito eggs?
-Iconic. -Thank you, baby.
So I'm actually gonna show you guys our fridge.
This is probably the messiest part of our home.
Ooh, I'm concerned.
[Adrienne] And this is a very LA fridge right now.
As a native New Yorker, this fridge low key offends me.
Like, this is very serious.
I'm just now seeing this.
This is apple, pineapple, ginger, lemon,
mint, garlic leaf, and flower thyme--
It looks like the worst syringe.
You just shoot this into your mouth?
Yes, you take the top off and--woosh!
-Right into the mouth. -There's no needle?
-No needles involved. -All right.
I love things that are personalized.
I name our homes, so we ended up calling this Villa Houghton.
And once I have a title, I buy doormats
that have the logo on it.
I buy coffee cups that have the logo on it.
It says "Villa Houghton" right there.
I don't know why I am this way, but you love it.
-I love it, absolutely love it. -You love it.
♪ Blow, blow, blow it up ♪
♪ I'm blowing up now ♪
♪ Grow, grow, grow it up ♪
♪ Watch me now ♪
This area here is my workspace.
Originally, Israel was like, "Should it be a studio?"
And you got outvoted, babe.
Immediately.
[Adrienne] Mainly because it also has a crazy echo in here
that you can hear.
Not great for recording.
And so then I said...
"Let's make it my office."
We have this amazing marble table.
Love this table.
And this is where we have meetings,
which I've gotta say I do like sitting here
'cause I feel like low key I'm in these meetings like,
hello, girl.
Yes, boss.
♪ You are my paradise ♪
♪ I can't deny you make me high ♪
This actually originally was like a little office.
And now it's a guest bedroom. I think that here in California,
they thought that this was too small to be a bedroom.
And then I was like, hi, I'm from Manhattan.
This is a very large bedroom for us.
And at some point, I'd like it to be a nursery.
This is our second guest bedroom,
and this is proof that we have a minimalist vibe.
[laughs]
Because if I'm being honest,
we really didn't decorate this room.
We bought a bed, and it kind of ended up getting
whatever was left over.
Also, I do not recommend sitting on these chairs
because I put them together
and I don't know how stable they are.
Both of our guest bedrooms actually share a guest bathroom.
And let me show you guys, come on in.
You may be noticing something slightly different
in this bathroom.
When we moved in, we, like, changed all the light fixtures,
but there was this one left.
And I actually really like it now
'cause I think it's, like, quirky.
It's not twerky... but quirky.
It's a quirky light.
[Announcer] Coming up, Adrienne Bailon
and husband Israel Houghton
show us their home swag.
I love the idea of putting a huge mirror in the bathroom.
I enjoy seeing myself naked.
[Israel] As do I. [record scratch]
I enjoy seeing herself naked. That's what I was trying to say.
[music]
This here is our main suite.
♪ It's gonna gonna go down tonight ♪
♪ It's goin' down ♪
♪ Trouble's startin' we got to fight ♪
♪ Promise it's about to be out of control ♪
This is like my dream Zen bedroom.
I love all the neutral colors, but at the same time,
we needed things to pop-- a black lamp,
this incredible black artwork.
And you know, just on special occasions,
if you're feeling the vibes, you know, you're just like,
yeah-heh-heh!
So this would be twerky, not quirky, is what you're saying.
This is twerky.
My little spot in the room is this little reading nook.
And I have, like, books that I can pull out from here.
You know, just enjoy the day,
read a little book in the corner.
My husband sends white roses to my job every Monday at The Real,
and I always put them in here, but...
they're not there right now. But you get the point.
♪ You're sexy ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ You're sexy ♪
I absolutely just love this outdoor space.
It really allows us to just kind of have,
like, uh, what is that called?
A blank when you come out of the place.
-Retreat. -A...retreat.
That was the word I was looking for.
-Look at that! -You be knowin'.
And I love that you have the option
of walking into our bathroom
either from our actual bedroom or from this amazing patio.
I love the idea of putting a huge mirror like this
in the bathroom.
I enjoy seeing myself naked.
So this is--
As--as do I, everyone.
So this works out perfectly.
I enjoy seeing herself naked.
That's what I was trying to say.
♪ We're gonna throw it down ♪
♪ We're gonna turn it up ♪
♪ So go and tell your friends ♪
Finally we get to bring you outside
after talking about just how much we love looking out here.
Do not. You really would fall in.
We really got this house because of--
This pool.
-The pool. -Yeah.
[Adrienne] I keep it nice and warm all year round.
Voila, Villa Houghton Beverly Hills 90210 towels.
[Israel] [chuckles]
Yes, I am this person.
[Israel] I love it.
[Adrienne] Then we have our little cabana here.
Ah, this is the spot.
Israel comes out here
and actually does his daily devotional.
Meditation, yeah, this is great. I normally sit right there.
-This is your spot? -[Israel] Yeah.
This is such a peaceful, relaxing place.
-[sighs] -There you go.
That's what it is.
[Adrienne] One of my favorite parts of the house is
what I would like to call my adult treehouse.
Growing up in the projects in New York City,
I dreamed or would watch television shows
where kids would have, like, treehouses
in these little spaces.
And I was like, one day-- one day, I too will have one.
And we got a little something like that right above this.
[music]
I am obsessed with this little nook up here.
You can see that it's got all this beautiful wood all around.
This is a live edge, along with live edge shelfing here.
I love that even if there's a lot going on in the house--
Nice little oasis to escape, right?
This is an escape for sure.
We can, like, cuddle here.
You got your blanket on you.
You're good, nice and covered.
Watch a movie.
Happy adult life.
♪ Stay a little longer ♪
♪ I don't really wanna ♪
♪ Stay a little longer ♪
♪ Oh ♪
MTV, thank you so much for coming and checking out
our crib, Villa Houghton.
Thank you for visiting and allowing me
to show you guys around.
Now, you don't have to go home necessarily.
But you can't stay here.
You gotta go. You gotta go.
We're gonna go right back in there
and be adults in our treehouse.
-And cuddle up. -And watch MTV.
Bye!
♪ Whatcha leavin' for when my night is yours? ♪
♪ Just a little more Don't go yet ♪
[Announcer] Next, on Cribs...
Come on in, it's cold outside, all right?
[Announcer] We check out TV personality Steelo Brim's
secret bathroom at his stylish crib.
I keep another bathroom in my actual closet
just in case I need to [bleep].
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
You never know when you're like, oh,
I'm trying to put an outfit together,
but now the bubble guts is racing.
What you gonna do?
[Announcer] Then we check out singer Macy Gray's
quirky California crib.
Everybody's really impressed with my, um, piano skills.
You know, I tell 'em, like, calm down, calm down.
They go, please, please play for me.
[plays chord]
♪ Oh ♪
[Announcer] And then we hit the spa
with snowboarder Nick Baumgartner
at his cozy Michigan crib.
So I take European saunas,
so I come in here in my birthday suit.
You're gonna get the full view.