Mandy Moore Surprises Nanny Who’s ‘Closer Than Family’ with a Home Makeover: ‘I Love Her Deeply’ (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Mandy Mooreis going to make audiences cry all over again on an emotional all-new episode ofCelebrity IOU.

TheThis Is Usalum, 40, teams up withDrewandJonathan Scottto transform her kids' nanny Celina’s backyard into a relaxing oasis in the makeover show’s season 5 premiere

“Celina is a nanny, a chef, a surrogate parent, a house manager – I mean she literally does everything and anything in our lives,” Moore says in a PEOPLE exclusive first look at the upcoming episode (above). “I feel like I wouldn’t be able to get through a single day without her.”

While recounting their friendship over the years, Moore explains that she was 15 years old when she first met Celina — who was working with her manager at the time — but the two didn’t “enter each other’s lives for real until 2009.”

TheA Walk to Rememberstar continues: “It’s been almost 15 years that we’ve known each other. She has become closer than family. She’s just been this sort of constant in my life. I love her deeply. I will do anything for her.”

Since Celina is someone “who is not used to people taking care of her,” Moore says that it “means everything” to give back to her — even if she needs to get her hands dirty in the process.

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In the exclusive clip above, the “Candy” singer — who has a fewhome renovations of her own under her belt— rolls up her sleeves and learns how to use a new tool.

“Using the angle grinder was definitely one of the harder things I’ve been asked to do on this project,” she says. “It was terrifying seeing the sparks fly and making sure I was cutting it at the right angle.”

“I’m learning as I go,” Moore says of the process, “but it’s fun and you feel accomplished.”

source: people.com