The New York Post's Page Six reported Dec. 29 that TV host Chris Harrison is building a home in West Austin's high-end Barton Creek area for himself and his girlfriend, Entertainment Tonight host Lauren Zima. Many of the homes in the Barton Creek area sell for well over $1 million.
Why Austin (or at least Texas)? Here's one clue: His son, Joshua Harrison, attends Texas Christian University, roughly 190 miles north of Austin. On top of that, the senior Harrison is a Dallas native and an investor in Dallas' Steam Theory Brewing Co., and his mom is Dallas real estate agent Mary Beth Harrison.
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