'Secret Celebrity Renovation': Beth Behrs Emotionally Surprises Her College Bestie (Exclusive)

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fans, be sure to have a tissue handy before watching Friday's episode! Beth Behrs is picking up the sledgehammer for the Aug.

18 episode to surprise her college best friend, Lauren Wong, who lives in Buena Park, California. ET went behind the scenes as star worked with ET's own Nischelle Turner, reality star and general contractor «Boston Rob» Mariano and interior designer Sabrina Soto to give her bestie's home a beautiful makeover.Behrs explains that she and Wong have been friends since they met at UCLA as theater majors. «We have this big group of girlfriends from UCLA, and we've seen each other through college and weddings and babies,» she tells ET, adding that when she was approached for the home makeover show, Wong was the first one she thought of.«Lauren is sort of the mama bear of our group.

She was the first to have a child [and] she has four children. She's a teacher, [her] husband's a teacher, she works really hard,» Behrs shares. «All [of] my girls agreed it should be her.

It was a mutual decision.»When it came to the actual renovation, Behrs says she was immediately down to do whatever the professionals wanted — even if her husband, actor Michael Gladis, was more hesitant about her using any power tools. «I will say, a sledgehammer is much heavier than I thought it was going to be,» she jokes, recalling that «hitting a wall and actually doing the wall was much harder than I thought it was gonna be.»But getting a few stern talking-tos from Mariano was worth it for the end result. «It's beautiful, it's amazing,» Behrs says of the renovation's final outcome. «The kitchen is spectacular… the whole crew did an incredible job.»Mariano explains that giving the Wong family home a makeover was a «huge» job. «We.