KB Home Hosts Viewing Party Sunday for Family, Friends and Neighbors of Johanna Delgado, Teenage Finalist on TV Azteca's Hit Talent Show "La Academia"

KB Home Hosts Viewing Party Sunday for Family, Friends and Neighbors of Johanna Delgado, Teenage Finalist on TV Azteca's Hit Talent Show "La Academia"

TV Azteca to Broadcast Live From Party During Sunday's Show, Sending a Feed to

Johanna While She's on the Air in Mexico City

WHAT: KB Home will host a "La Academia" viewing party for the family, friends and neighbors of Johanna Delgado. The party will be catered by KB Home. Delgado is the only female finalist from the U.S. performing on the hit Spanish-language reality show. Johanna lives with her family in KB Home's Waterford community in Perris, CA

WHO: The Delgado family, friends, neighbors and KB Home community members

WHEN: 5:00 p.m. (PDT) Sunday, May 1, 2005

WHERE: KB Home's Waterford community in Riverside County 1370 Sunflower Way Perris, CA 92571 (Corner of Sunflower Way and Saguaro)

WHY: Community support for the only local finalist on the highly popular Spanish-language talent/reality show, now in its fourth season on TV Azteca.

VISUALS: Festive atmosphere, local community members rallying together in

support of local hero watching the program on large TV.

About "La Academia"

La Academia is a musical starmaker reality show which airs on TV Azteca. Auditions are held for contestants of ages 18-27 year old who live together at a performance academy, where they are filmed and broadcast daily. Television audiences call in after a weekly concert to vote for contestants, and the student with the fewest votes is asked to leave the school.

About KB Home

Building homes for nearly half a century, KB Home is one of America's premier homebuilders with domestic operating divisions in some of the fastest-growing regions and states: West Coast-California; Southwest-Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico; Central-Colorado, Illinois, Indiana and Texas; and Southeast-Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Kaufman & Broad S.A., the Company's publicly-traded subsidiary, is one of the largest homebuilders in France. In fiscal 2004, the Company delivered homes to 31,646 families in the United States and France. It also operates a full-service mortgage company for the convenience of its buyers. Founded in 1957, and winner of the 2004 American Business Award for Best Overall Company, KB Home is a Fortune 500 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "KBH." For more information about any of KB Home's new home communities, call 888-KB-HOMES or visit http://www.kbhome.com/ or http://www.kbcasa.com/.

Driving Directions

From the 215 Freeway, exit Ramona Expressway heading east. Turn right on Evans Road, then left on Rider Street and left on Old Evans Road. Turn right on Iris. Turn left on Saguaro which turns into Sunflower. The event will be on the corner of Saguaro and Sunflower.

Media Contact: Derrick Hall: 310-231-4142 dmhall@kbhome.com

PRNewswire -- April 26

Source: KB Home

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