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At home, DioGuardi sets free her playfully goofy side rarely seen on the show. “A lot of people don’t know that Kara loves to entertain,” says her husband, Mike McCuddy, a 35-year-old home builder and artist whose abstract oil paintings hang throughout the house. “The other night, she was doing a crazy dance to some music and nearly kicked in one of the kitchen cabinets cheap Links of London Charms.”

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