Ty Pennington is returning to HGTV for the new season of Battle on the Beach , despite previous rumors that the renovation show had been canceled.

The former Extreme Makeover: Home Edition host, 60, will serve as a mentor on season five of the competition show, the network announced Monday.

Premiering June 1, the seven-episode season features Pennington , his Rock the Block co-star Sarah Baeumler and 100 Day Dream Home host Mika Kleinschmidt as mentors working with a two-person team and a $100,000 budget to overhaul dated waterfront homes in South Carolina across seven weeks.

The new designs will be judged by Renovation Aloha duo Tristyn and Kamohai Kalama — whose show is currently being sued for showing native Hawaiian burial remains on TV — for the cash prize of at least $50,000.

The show’s return comes after reports emerged last summer that the network had pulled Battle on the Beach off the air after Warner Brothers Discovery, the owner of HGTV, announced its plan to split into two publicly traded…