Vanilla Ice Project returns for new TV season (omg!)

This Nov. 22, 2011 photo provided by the DIY Network shows a home remodeled by singer Vanilla Ice in Wellington, Fla. After Van Winkle's early 1990 stardom faded, he became heavily involved in real estate. Winkle is starting in The Vanilla Ice Project a home renovation show, where the expert just happens to be Vanilla Ice. The show airs Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 on the DIY Network (AP Photo/DIY Network)

MIAMI (AP) — An unlikely home improvement show hosted by 1990s rapper Vanilla Ice is set to premiere its second season with the remodeling of another South Florida home.

During the 13-episode run of “The Vanilla Ice Project” on the DIY Network, the artist — whose real name is Rob Van Winkle — and his crew will take a dilapidated Palm Beach County mansion along the Intercostal Waterway and bring it into the 21st century with technology that isn’t on the market yet.

Van Winkle’s passion for real estate and renovation took hold in the early 1990s, after his hit “Ice Ice Baby” made him an international star with millions in the bank. He first bought a home on Miami Beach’s exclusive Star Island. He later bought homes in

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