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Hotel Impossible‘s biggest challenge on Tuesday’s episode, “Hershey Addiction,” was not bed bugs, mold, or a decaying property. Instead, it was alcoholism. A general manager’s addiction found its way into online reviews and was clearly affecting both his 91-year-old mother, who founded The Simmons Motel in Hershey, Penn., and his son. The star of the …

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Anthony Melchiorri just began his sixth season of Travel Channel’s Hotel Impossible, on which he’s worked to help fix more than 75 hotels across the country.  Season six has finished filming and started airing last Tuesday night with an atypical episode that was more Route 66 travelogue than makeover. In this wide-ranging interview, Anthony and …

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Hotel Impossible broke the fourth wall repeatedly last night as Anthony Melchiorri worked on the Hurricane Sandy-destroyed Thunderbird Motel in Seaside Heights, N.J., and eventually walked off the job because of horrific behavior from the family that owned it. He’d actually found a hotel that it was impossible to help, kind of like the now-famous …

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