Andrew Alfred Scott was born on April 28, 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of brothers James Daniel (by two years) and his identical twin brother, Jonathan (by four minutes). His birth was a surprise to his parents—Jim and Joanne Scott—who had thought she was giving birth to a single child. Their father Jim had emigrated from Scotland as a teenager with dreams of being the kind of cowboy he had seen on television. He worked in the film industry as an actor, stuntman, and assistant director until the late 1970s. It was around that time when he decided to focus on raising his family, and they moved to a horse farm in the nearby town of Maple Ridge.
Early life
Drew Scott
Drew Scott | Early life
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In 2004, they founded Scott Real Estate, Inc., a company that oversaw the sale and construction of residential and commercial projects, and that eventually had offices in Vancouver, Calgary and Las Vegas. While their business did well, after ten years went by with little to no acting jobs, Drew decided to return to acting full-time. In 2009, he was finally approached for what would become "Property Brothers". At the show's start, the twins had managed real estate holdings for 15 years.
Property Brothers | Presenters
Andrew Alfred Scott was born on April 28, 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of brothers James Daniel (by two years) and his identical twin brother, Jonathan (by four minutes). His birth was a surprise to his parents—Jim and Joanne Scott—who had thought she was giving birth to a single child. Their father Jim had emigrated from Scotland as a teenager with dreams of being the kind of cowboy he had seen on television. He worked in the film industry as an actor, stuntman, and assistant director until the late 1970s. It was around that time when he decided to focus on raising his family, and they moved to a horse farm in the nearby town of Maple Ridge.
Drew Scott | Early life
As teens, they attended Thomas Haney Secondary School, and Drew excelled in sports, both coaching and playing on the basketball and volleyball teams. After graduation, the family moved into their new home in Alberta, just as the twins were leaving for Calgary to go to university.
Drew Scott | Early life
Property Brothers is a Canadian reality television series now produced by Scott Brothers Entertainment, and is the original show in the "Property Brothers" franchise. The series features identical twin brothers Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott. Drew is a real estate expert who scouts neglected houses and negotiates their purchases. His brother, Jonathan, is a licensed contractor who then renovates the houses. Together, the Property Brothers help families find, buy, and transform fixer-uppers into dream homes on a strict timeline and budget. The show has aired in over 150 countries, including on the W Network in Canada and on HGTV in the United States.
Property Brothers | Introduction
After graduation Scott enrolled at the University of Calgary, majoring in business management. Despite having an interest in going into entertainment, the twins did not want to be "starving artists". After researching the topic, and getting advice from their mother's legal firm, they thought real estate would "ease the financial purgatory of being out-of-work actors". During their first semester in college, using a vendor take-back mortgage, they made a $250 down payment and purchased a seven-bedroom property across the street from their university. They cleaned and repaired it, and sublet the remaining five rooms for a profit of $800 a month.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Early career
"Property Brothers" is a Canadian reality television series that is produced by Cineflix. Its history begins when Drew was living in Vancouver and auditioning for acting roles. He was offered the chance to host a show called "Realtor Idol", based on the "American Idol" format. The show never materialized, but producers wanted him for a show tentatively called "My Dream Home" (a title which has been used in some international markets), with the intention of having a male and female host. When they learned he had a brother who was also in real estate, they developed a show around the pair; that company would later film their pilot for "Property Brothers".
Property Brothers (franchise) | "Property Brothers"
Scott joined his brothers in Las Vegas in 2010 and purchased a condo on "The Strip," a highly concentrated urban area just south of Las Vegas. However, he and Jonathan purchased a joint home in 2011. Its renovation became the subject of the twins’ fourth TV series, "", and aired on HGTV in the United States, as well as on the W Network in Canada. It became the most highly rated HGTV series premiere since 2009. After the success of "Property Brothers at Home", Scott Brothers Entertainment went on to create another spin-off series called "", where the brothers went back to their old stomping grounds of Alberta, Canada to accomplish a 10-week renovation for a family friend’s Rocky Mountain estate.
Drew Scott | Transition to television
Brother", the series "Half Price Paradise" for HGTV and HGTV Canada, as well as "Property Brothers: At Home". Drew has written a docu-series based on current social topics that he is passionate about, including solar power. The show has a planned release of 2018. In 2013, Drew, Jonathan and J.D. hosted the radio show "Off Topic with the Scott Brothers" for Canada's Corus Entertainment. To publicize the 2013 release of Bob Dylan's 35 album box set, an innovative video of the song "Like a Rolling Stone" was released on Dylan's website. The brothers were invited to be among the characters who are lip-synching the lyrics.
Drew Scott | Other projects
James would commonly renovate the family properties and, when they were as young as eight years old, he paid the boys to build and repair fences, decks and barns. Even as children, the twins would often rearrange the furniture in their family home. At 14 years old, John and his father moved to Alberta, where they began building the parents' dream house. He spent his sophomore year there. It is during that period that he took on Jonathan Silver as a stage name, using it privately as well. After his grades began to decline, Jonathan moved back to Maple Ridge to complete high school, returning during school breaks with his family and best friend Pedro to assist in the construction.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Early life
John Ian Scott was born on 28 April 1978, four minutes before his identical twin brother Drew, in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has an older brother, JD, and is the second son of Jim and Joanne Scott. Jim had fostered dreams of being a cowboy as he had seen on television, and so emigrated from Scotland to Canada as a teenager. He began working in the film industry as an actor, stuntman, and assistant director until the late 1970s. It was around that time when he decided to focus on raising his family, and they moved to a horse farm in the nearby town of Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Early life
At a young age, Scott began acting in theater, improv, and sketch comedy. As children, the twins trained as apprentice clowns, eventually performing at parties and events and charging as much as C$100 per hour. However, as Jonathan's interest in magic increased, Drew began to focus more on playing basketball. As a teen and young adult, he also pursued acting, which included roles on "Smallville", "Breaker High", and "Madison". The brothers enrolled in the University of Calgary, and long-time athlete Scott studied kinesiology. Despite their plans to become entertainers, the twins didn't want to be "starving artists," and—after watching an informercial by Carleton Sheets—they felt real estate investment would "ease the financial purgatory of being out-of-work actors." After researching the topic,—and during their first semester in college—they assumed the lease of a seven-bedroom rental property across the street from their university.
Drew Scott | Early career
The "Property Brothers" franchise is a media franchise that stars Canadian twins Jonathan and Drew Scott and centers around the selling, purchasing, and renovation of real estate property. The shows also often guest star their older brother J.D. Their first program is "Property Brothers"—initially produced by Cineflix Media—and has aired on the W Network and HGTV Canada in its country of origin, on HGTV in the US, and on other networks in over 150 countries. The success of this show led to spin-off series (including "Buying and Selling", "Brother Vs. Brother", and "Property Brothers: At Home"), several web series, a how-to book, a radio show, and an app.
Property Brothers (franchise) | Introduction
Andrew Alfred Scott (born April 28, 1978) is a Canadian real-estate broker, actor, reality television personality, and entrepreneur best known as the co-host (along with his twin brother Jonathan), on the TV series "Property Brothers". The home renovation program, which is produced by Cineflix Media, features Drew as the realtor and Jonathan as the contractor. The success of the show has led to several spinoffs, including "Buying and Selling", "Brother vs. Brother", "Property Brothers: at Home", and "Property Brothers: Forever Home". Scott (along with his two brothers) is also a co-founder of Scott Brothers Entertainment, which creates and produces TV shows, films, and digital content.
Drew Scott | Introduction
In Vancouver, Drew was offered an audition for a show called "Realtor Idol", based on the "American Idol" format. The show never materialized, but when the producers learned he had a brother who was a contractor, they developed a show around the pair tentatively called "My Dream Home"; that company would later film the pilot for "Property Brothers". Multiple North-American networks turned down the show before it was picked up for a full season by the W Network in Canada. After becoming the number-one-rated show on the network, HGTV (under Scripps Networks Interactive) signed on as a distributor, having previously passed on the show.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Transition to television (2009–present)
In January 2006, however, Drew moved to Vancouver and gave himself a year to pursue his acting career in earnest. As the year came to a close, he took out a license in Vancouver, and opened a Scott Real Estate branch there. Scott remained in Calgary to run the business alone, sometimes working as many as 18 hours a day. He married his fiancée on 7 July 2007.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Early career
The show premiered in 2014 in the United States, as well as in 2015 on the W Network in Canada. With the success of "Property Brothers: At Home", in 2015, Scott and his brothers created another spin-off series called ""; they returned to Alberta to complete a 10-week renovation on a family friend's Rocky Mountain estate. Scott co-starred in the series' third installment, "", a five-episode chronicle of Drew and his fiancée, Linda Phan, remodeling their home in Los Angeles. The program premiered on 22 November 2017. Jonathan also appeared in "Drew and Linda Say I Do", the TLC special that chronicled Drew's wedding and that aired on 2 June 2018.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Transition to television (2009–present)
At the same time, they supported themselves with various jobs including flight attendant, personal trainer, bikini store manager, busboy, website designer, and mall cop. Always planning careers in entertainment, however, the twins—along with their older brother—co-founded Dividian Production Group in 2002, an independent film production company, and Drew continued acting, directing, and producing on the side. Drew had long abandoned his aspirations to play professional basketball after a string of injuries, but in 2003, an Alberta college recruited him. Already 25 years old, however, and feeling like he was moving backwards, he left after a few weeks and rejoined Jonathan in the real estate business.
Drew Scott | Early career
After the success of "Property Brothers at Home", Scott Brothers Entertainment went on to create another spin-off series called "Property Brothers: At Home on the Ranch". In it, the brothers went back to the area where they grew up in the East Canadian Rockies in Longview, Alberta to accomplish a 10-week renovation of the ranch of family friends Tom and Rosemary Bews. The renovation included the kitchen, dining room, living room, fireplace, and bathroom of the main home, as well as the guest cabin and the eight-stall horse stable. The four-episode installment premiered on November 25, 2015 on HGTV. As part of the show, the brothers—along with Nashville songwriters Victoria Shaw and Chad Carlson— wrote and recorded two country singles that premiered during the third and fourth episode of the series.
Property Brothers (franchise) | "Property Brothers: At Home on the Ranch"
Even after a successful lawsuit, Scott was unable to collect what he was owed. Depressed and embarrassed, he did not tell his parents about what had happened, and at age 20 filed for bankruptcy—a decision he regrets. Drew convinced Jonathan to join him as a flight attendant at WestJet, which at the time was a small, startup airline, allowing them more time to dedicate to flipping houses. Scott transferred to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and the Home Builders Institute of Alberta to study construction and design, and became licensed as a contractor. In those roles, the twins renovated and sold properties for 15 years.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Early career
"Property Brothers" is a North American reality television series that features identical twin brothers Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott (born April 28, 1978) who help home buyers to purchase and renovate "fixer-uppers." It was produced by Cineflix, until it was acquired by Scott Brothers Entertainment in 2019. "Property Brothers" debuted on the W Network on January 4, 2011, and aired on the channel until the networks's owner, Corus Entertainment, decided to shift the channel's focus to more dramatic content. Starting with 2017/2018 broadcast season, the show began to be broadcast on HGTV Canada in its country of origin. It airs on HGTV (a property of Discovery Inc.) in the United States on a separate schedule, as well as with other affiliates in over 150 other countries.
List of Property Brothers episodes | Introduction
He worked as a youth counselor while Joanne continued her career as a paralegal in downtown Vancouver. On the twins' seventh birthday, their father encouraged them to get jobs, so they started their first business (called JAM), making nylon covered hangers. According to them, they sold them from door to door until a woman who sold American paraphernalia in Japan ordered thousands. James would commonly renovate their properties, and would pay the boys from as young as eight years old to build and repair fences, decks, and barns. Even as children, the twins would often rearrange the furniture in their family home.
Drew Scott | Early life
The brothers, along with their brother JD, co-hosted a 13-week, 60-minute lifestyle radio series called "Off Topic with the Scott Brothers," which aired on Corus Radio. The show premiered on September 14, 2013 and aired throughout Canada.
Property Brothers (franchise) | Podcast
Niedermayer was born in Edmonton, Alberta, but spent the first three years of his life in Cassiar, British Columbia before his family settled in Cranbrook, British Columbia. His father, Bob, was a doctor in Cassiar and then Cranbrook, and his mother Carol was a teacher. He has a younger brother, Rob. Scott and his brother were inseparable when they were younger and often played hockey together. While their father was often their team doctor, their mother taught them to skate. She enrolled them in figure skating to aid their skills development and taught power skating classes in Cranbrook in exchange for ice time for her sons.
Scott Niedermayer | Early life
Brent was born in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. His father is a retired police officer and his mother is a retired manager of a textile company. His elder brother is an academic. He graduated from Thornlea Secondary School in 1999.
David Andrew Brent | Early life
Both brothers are licensed real estate agents (Drew is a licensed agent with Keller Williams Elite in British Columbia). Jonathan is also a licensed contractor. Before going into real estate as a profession, however, the brothers tried acting, including minor roles in "Breaker High", "Smallville", and "The X-Files". Drew aspired to be an actor, while Jonathan sought a career as an illusionist, but they began working in the real estate and design fields to financially support themselves as entertainers. In 1996, they bought their first house as 18-year-old university students and, after renovations, sold it a year later for a $50,000 profit.
Property Brothers | Presenters
Drew was offered a job as a host of a real estate competition show that ultimately didn't materialize. Cineflix, however, wanted Drew for a show tentatively called "My Dream Home", with the intention of finding a female co-host. When they learned he had a brother who was also in real estate, the production company asked the brothers to make a sizzle reel. Jonathan and Drew submitted a video of themselves making over their older brother's living room. Six months went by before Cineflix responded favorably, and a week later they began filming a pilot for the show in Toronto. Originally, the production company wanted Drew to work as the contractor because of his physique; however, when they realized that Jonathan was licensed, they switched the roles.
Property Brothers | Development
Jonathan Silver Scott (born John Ian Scott, 28 April 1978) is a Canadian reality television personality, contractor, illusionist, and television and film producer. He is best known as the co-host, with his twin brother Drew, of the TV series "Property Brothers," as well as the program's spin-offs such as "Buying and Selling", "Brother Vs. Brother", and "Property Brothers: At Home", which are broadcast in the U.S. on HGTV. Scott is also co-founder and executive producer of Scott Brothers Entertainment, which creates TV, film, and digital content for North American and international broadcasters. The brothers have written a home-improvement how-to book, a memoir, and children's books about construction.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Introduction
Scott was born on July 19, 1961, in New York City, the son of American actor George C. Scott (1927-1999) and Canadian-American actor Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991). He graduated from John Jay High School with friend Stanley Tucci before graduating from Lawrence University in 1983. His brother is Alexander Scott. He also has one paternal half-sister, actress Devon Scott.
Campbell Scott | Early life
Along the way, they supported themselves with a string of jobs that included busboy, mall security guard, flight attendant, store manager, and website designer. Still planning to pursue careers in entertainment, however, the twins and their older brother co-founded Dividian Production Group—an independent film production company—in 2002. After several negative experiences with real-estate brokers, Drew enrolled in a real estate program in 2004 to obtain a license. Scott obtained his license soon after. That same year, the twins founded Scott Real Estate Inc., a company to provide clients with a "one stop shop" for services in the buying, selling, and renovating of homes, as well as in design consulting and staging open houses.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Early career
Chantler was born in Deep River, Ontario, Canada. He attended the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, majoring in fine arts/film studies. He later studied computer animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario.
Scott Chantler | Early life
The brothers regularly got feedback from fans on social media asking for a program for persons who wanted to remodel the homes they were already in. In the fall of 2018, casting began in Las Vegas for a new show on which the brothers would help families transform their homes into their dream, "forever" homes. Filming began in January 2019. In the show's premise, Drew has the homeowners tour nearby renovated homes to figure out which features they can and cannot live without. Jonathan then presents two design options and, once the couple decides, the renovations begin. "Property Brothers: Forever Home" debuted on May 29, 2019 in the US and on June 3, 2019 in Canada.
Property Brothers (franchise) | "Property Brothers: Forever Home"
He was born in Brampton, Ontario, the son of John Scott and Mary Lynch. He studied law at Osgoode Hall, was called to the Ontario bar in 1870 and practised in Brampton and Orangeville. In 1882, he moved to Regina, Saskatchewan.
David Lynch Scott | Early life
McDermott was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to David and Doreen McDermott. He has three sisters, Dale, Dawn, and Dana.
Dean McDermott | Early life
They were 13 on "Hello! Canada"s Most Beautiful List of 2014. BuzzFeed included them on their 2015 list of HGTV's 15 All-Time Hottest Hotties. They garnered the second-largest crowd ever at Mall of America, second only to the British boy band One Direction. HGTV has recognized their status, saying: "We know that twin brothers and HGTV fan favorites Drew and Jonathan Scott are good-looking, talented and ever-so-popular with the ladies." Kathleen Finch, the president of HGTV, has called the twins "the cable equivalent of box-office movie stars". After the debut of "Brother Vs. Brother", "Glamour" wrote, "Yes, we've all always harbored massive crushes on the twins, but let's just say they are taking their sex appeal to all new levels—ripped-shirts, greased-muscles, water-sprayed levels of hotness." Scott has sizable followings on various social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Periscope, where he universally uses the handle "MrSilverScott".
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Public image
In early 2018, HGTV signed a multiyear extension to their contract with Drew and Jonathan Scott for original content. In April 2019, Jonathan and Drew purchased the house next door to Drew's Los Angeles home. Despite online speculation that Jonathan would be moving there, he denied the rumors, saying, "We may have a project coming up. You’ll have to stay tuned for that." On June 10, 2019, the brothers announced on Instagram that they would be coming to Latin America to film, and have confirmed that they will be in South America (particularly Brazil) in the following weeks. Long term, the brothers would like to host a talk show, and say they have been approached by "several broadcast networks," but the timing is not right at the moment.
Property Brothers (franchise) | Future programs
He and John, impressed by reports of good lands to the west, decided to take advantage of the Dominion Homestead Act of 1872. The brothers set out on foot to locate their homesteads and walked until they found land to their liking just east of Minnedosa, Manitoba.
Patrick Burns (businessman) | Early life
He was born in Paisley, Scotland in 1810. In 1826, at the age of 16, due to the economic conditions of Scotland at the time, James was sent to Canada by his father John. He and his brother John Dougall began by the selling of dry goods, first in Quebec, and later moving the business to Montreal and York, now known as Toronto. They were later joined by their father in 1828.
James Dougall | Early life
Caan was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor James Caan and Sheila Marie Ryan, an actress and former model. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Germany. He has an older half-sister named Tara Caan and three younger half-brothers named Alexander James Caan (born 1991), Jacob Nicholas Caan (born 1995), and James Arthur Caan (born 1998).
Scott Caan | Early life
Born at Cornwall, Upper Canada, he was the son of Colonel The Hon. Philip VanKoughnet and Harriet, daughter of Matthew Scott, of Carrick-on-Suir, who was a first cousin of Thomas Scott, 2nd Earl of Clonmell. VanKoughnet's immediate family were prominent in the political affairs of early Ontario. His brother, Salter, married a daughter of Senator Benjamin Seymour, and another brother, Matthew, married the sister of Sir James Buchanan Macaulay and John Simcoe Macaulay. They were first cousins of Mrs Alexander Morris and Brock Anderson who was married to Amelia Johnson, granddaughter of Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet. Another first cousin, Louisa Anderson, married Alexander MacDonald, uncle of Prime Minister John Sandfield Macdonald and Governor Donald Alexander Macdonald.
Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet | Early life
With brother Jonathan, Scott won the 2012 Leo Award (the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry) for "Best Host(s) in an Information or Lifestyle Series" for "Property Brothers". In 2012, they were nominated for a Rose d'Or award in the lifestyle show category. "Property Brothers" was nominated for Outstanding Structured Reality Program at the 2015 Emmy Awards. In November 2017, both brothers were selected by Habitat for Humanity for its highest honor, Habitat Humanitarians. According to the organization, the honor was "in recognition and furtherance of their dedication to Habitat for Humanity’s vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Drew Scott | Awards
Born in London, England, John has two brothers and one sister. At the age of 5 he moved to Italy where he lived for three years before moving to Canada. He grew up in Ottawa and attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute. His mother is Swiss-Colombian and his father is Gambian.
Martin John | Early life
McLean was born in a coal mine in Estevan, Saskatchewan, due to the temperature in his parent's house being too cold to inhabit. His brother Vernon "Butch" McLean was part of the construction of the Estevan Civic Auditorium where the Estevan Bruins played in 1957. McLean played midget, juvenile, and intermediate ice hockey growing up and earned an invitation to a New York Rangers training camp when he was 17.
Punch McLean | Early life
Athole Dane Shearer was born in 1900 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her parents divorced when she was a teenager, after which her brother Douglas remained with their father Andrew in Canada, while she and her sister Norma moved to New York City with their mother Edith, who hoped to get her daughters into show business.
Athole Shearer | Early life
After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, Storch was expelled from home at the age of 16. By age 18, he was living with his father in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Some publications have written that Storch was born in Canada, but in 2010 the "Miami New Times" wrote a denial under the title "Scott Storch is not Canadian."
Scott Storch | Early life
The Butler Brothers were born and primarily raised in Toronto, Ontario, by their parents, Robert and Barbara (née MacPherson). They both graduated from Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto. Jason attended Laurentian University and Brett enrolled at Carleton University.
Butler Brothers (filmmakers) | Early lives
Triano was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where he attended A. N. Myer Secondary School. He is of Italian descent through his great-grandfather, who landed on Ellis Island, then made his way to Welland, Ontario. His younger brother Jeff was a draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, after playing OHL hockey for the Toronto Marlboros. Brady Heslip, his nephew and son of his sister Jody, played basketball at Baylor University and currently plays for the Canadian national team.
Jay Triano | Early life and family
Despite the success he was having as a realtor, Drew became increasingly dismayed that real estate was overtaking his true passion—acting—so in January 2006 he headed to Vancouver. Moving in with his best friend Pedro, he gave himself one year to pursue his dream in earnest. Meanwhile, Jonathan remained in Calgary to run the business. In Vancouver, Scott began taking acting and voice classes, networking with influential persons in the industry, and rising in the ranks on movie production crews, while keeping a color-coded spreadsheet to manage it all. As the year drew to a close, however, he found himself over $100,000 in debt and not as far along as he had hoped.
Drew Scott | Transition to television
VanKoughnet's nieces included Lady MacDonald, Lady van Straubenzee and Mrs Meredith. His mother had planned for him to become a minister in the Church of England, but after serving in his father's battalion during the Upper Canada Rebellion, he went on to study law with George Stephen Benjamin Jarvis at Cornwall and then with another firm at Toronto. VanKoughnet was called to the Upper Canada bar in 1843, and in partnership with his brother, Matthew, they went on to acquire the largest legal practice in Upper Canada. He lectured in law at the University of Trinity College and also served on its council.
Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet | Early life
The term "Home Child" covered the young girls and boys sent as child emigrants by various agencies to Canada to start new lives. Unbeknown to Claude, his brother George Nunney, who came as a Home Child to Canada in October 1904, was drowned on the 19 July 1908 in the Jock River, Jockvale. This is around 150 kilometres from North Lancaster. He was aged only 17. He had also been born in Hastings on 27 December 1890. He had been placed with Patrick Houlahan, a local farmer.
Claude Nunney | Early life
Liboiron was born the youngest of three boys in a small farming community in Jenner, Alberta, where he and his two older brothers were raised. He is the son of Lorraine Mack and Marcel Liboiron. His mother, an artist, supportive of his desire to act, frequently drove her son to Vancouver for acting classes and auditions.
Landon Liboiron | Early life
The twins decided to sell their individual homes and purchase a joint property in 2011, with the goal of establishing a hub for their extended family and friends. Jonathan began the search for a place that met all of their criteria (e.g. within 20 minutes of the airport), and they ultimately purchased a foreclosed, 5400 square-foot house west of Mandalay Bay for $400,000. With a renovation budget of $2 million, the project became the basis of a fourth television series, with working titles that included "The Brothers Big Reno Project" and "Property Brothers: Behind Our Build". Eventually renamed "Property Brothers: At Home", it was the first production under the umbrella of Scott Brothers Entertainment.
Property Brothers (franchise) | "Property Brothers: At Home"
Montieth was born in Kitchener, Ontario.
Scott Montieth | Early life
After being nominated in 2011, the twins won the 2012 Leo Award (the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry) for Best Host(s) in an Information or Lifestyle Series for "Property Brothers". In 2012, they were nominated for a Rose d'Or award in the lifestyle show category. "Property Brothers" was nominated for Outstanding Structured Reality Program at the 2015 Emmy Awards.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Awards
Elizabeth Beckett Scott was born near Campbellford, Ontario, Upper Canada on 6 January 1866 to Elizabeth (née Beckett) and James Scott, who had immigrated from Scotland to Canada. She began her education at the age of four, attending school in Burnbrae. In 1878, the family moved to Morris, Manitoba, where Scott completed her primary education. She went on to secondary school, attending high school and normal school training in Winnipeg.
Elizabeth Scott Matheson | Early life
They are known for their goofy senses of humor, and for how much they poke fun at each other, often during public appearances. Unlike Jonathan, who dresses casually for his work as a contractor, real estate agent Drew is known for wearing suits. They both stand over 6'4" tall. The brothers have enjoyed a largely female fan base, having begun on the W Network, a channel for women's programming. They have also become sex symbols for HGTV. The network has said, "We know that twin brothers and HGTV fan favorites Drew and Jonathan Scott are good-looking, talented and ever-so-popular with the ladies." Kathleen Finch, the president of HGTV, has called the twins "the cable equivalent of box-office movie stars." After the debut of "Brother VS Brother", "Glamour" magazine wrote: "Yes, we've all always harbored massive crushes on the twins, but let's just say they are taking their sex appeal to all new levels—ripped-shirts, greased-muscles, water-sprayed levels of hotness." They garnered the second-largest crowd ever at Mall of America, second only to the British boy band One Direction.
Drew Scott | Public image
Parayko was born on May 12, 1993, in St. Albert, Alberta to Tom and Karen Parayko with three siblings, Kendra, Bryce, and Kennedy. Besides hockey, Parayko and his brother Bryce competed in motocross dirt bikes circuits throughout Alberta.
Colton Parayko | Early life
Lafferty was born in Perth, Ontario in 1849 and attended local schools. He had seven brothers and four sisters. Three of his brothers became physicians, and his brother Tom became a lawyer and moved to Calgary, Alberta.
James Delamere Lafferty | Early life
The Taylor family immigrated to Upper Canada from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire in 1821. By 1834, John Taylor and his brothers, Thomas and George, moved from the village of Vaughan, Ontario to the Township of York, north-east of the newly created city of Toronto. The brothers set their sights on the banks of the Don River, an area with an already burgeoning pulp and paper industry.
John Taylor (paper manufacturer) | Early life
Frederic grew up in St. Louis, Missouri with his siblings KC, Grant, Geno, Drake, and his parents Gabrielle and Bob. He attended the Ladue School District until 8th grade, where he enrolled in De Smet Jesuit High School. His brother Grant plays college hockey for Miami University.
Trent Frederic | Personal life
Lofranco was born in Toronto, Ontario on October 18, 1992, to Rocco C. Lofranco, a lawyer, and Amy Lofranco, an opera singer. His parents divorced when he was a child. He has one older brother, Santino, and was raised in Thornhill, Ontario. He attended Robert Land Academy military school from ninth grade through twelfth grade, after struggling with the traditional school system. Lofranco currently lives in Los Angeles.
Spencer Lofranco | Early life
The Scott brothers are known for their sense of humor and playful sibling rivalry. In contrast with Drew (who is often in a suit and tie), contractor Jonathan is more casual, or the "rugged, flannel-shirt-outfitted half". He is also partial to plaid. Drew has referred to his brother's aesthetic as "slow-motion renovation in tight jeans". Both men stand over tall. The twins have become sex symbols. ET Canada included them on its Hottest Bachelor list in 2011. The twins made "Peoples list of Men of the Year in 2014, its 50 Most Beautiful People issue in both 2013 and 2014, and its Sexiest Man Alive issue in 2013, 2014 and 2017.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Public image
He built his home at 3332 Bleams Road East, New Hamburg, in 1858. It is now on the register of historic places.
William James Scott | Canada years
Pepper was born the youngest of three boys in Campbell River, British Columbia, the son of a lumberjack. When he was five years old, his family set sail in a homemade ship, navigating through the South Pacific islands for five years. His education was completed in both public schools and correspondence courses. Due to the lack of television as entertainment, the family created and performed sketches for each other. When the family had finished their travels, they returned to Canada and set up a shop on Denman Island.
Barry Pepper | Early life
Born in Cypress River, Manitoba, Young grew up in nearby Glenboro, Manitoba, where his father, Percy Andrew Young, owned a drug store. His mother was Jean Ferguson Paterson. After his father went broke in 1926, the family moved to Winnipeg, but were unable to afford to stay there. His parents separated in 1930, and he went to live with an aunt and uncle in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, for a year before moving back to Winnipeg to live with his mother. He left high school at 16 and began working for a tobacco wholesaler. Young began writing while in his teens, submitting stories to various publications, most of which were rejected.
Scott Young (writer) | Early life
In an interview with "Entrepreneur" magazine, Scott relates that, on one sleepless night, he listened to a Jim Cuddy song called "Pull Me Through" and realized that he needed to 'go back to his roots.' He sent Jonathan an email asking for Scott Real Estate’s marketing template. Soon, he took out a realtor's license in Vancouver and opened a Scott Real Estate branch there. Jonathan moved to Las Vegas in 2008 with his wife, and began purchasing and renovating homes to use as rentals. Having expanded to have offices in Vancouver, Calgary, and Las Vegas, Scott Real Estate had dozens of employees.
Drew Scott | Transition to television
Pittendrigh was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he went to Thom Collegiate. He is the brother of the Canadian financial economist, Scott Pittendrigh. He received his B.Sc. Honours in Biology from University of Regina in 1990 and was awarded the University Prize in Science upon graduation. During his undergraduate career he worked as a summer student at the Plant Biotechnology Institute at National Research Council in Saskatoon, Canada. Later he moved to the United States, where he received his M.S. in Entomology from Purdue University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Entomology from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999.
Barry Pittendrigh | Early life and education
Summerville was born in Toronto to William Arthur Summerville and Alberta White in 1915. He had an older brother, Ross, who died as an infant in 1910. Summerville served as a pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, and is reputed to have bombed the Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto by mistake during training. Before public office he was manager of family owned real estate company Summerville Properties (founded 1912).
Donald Dean Summerville | Early years
In the summer of 2007, Scott married long-time girlfriend Kelsy Ully, a WestJet crew scheduler. He explains in his book, however, that after they moved to Las Vegas, her model/waitress job at a day club set in motion a series of challenges that damaged their relationship. They separated in 2010, and eventually divorced. Despite being in the midst of filming the first season of "Property Brothers", he relates that he fell into a depression, not socializing for over six months, and credits Drew with helping him through it. He dated Jacinta Kuznetsov for three years, however he announced their breakup in April 2018.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Personal life
Scott-Moncrieff was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest son of Robert Lawrence Scott-Moncrieff and Victorine Troutbeck, whose father, John Brown Troutbeck, had settled in Buenos Aires. He was a cousin of Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff. He was educated at the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth.
Alan Scott-Moncrieff | Early life and education
When Land died in July 1818 at age of 79, Hamilton was developing into a village. Phoebe died in 1826 at age 93. Pheobe's youngest brother's son was the American general Winfield Scott who led a military incursion into Upper Canada in the War of 1812. Robert and Phoebe's son, Colonel Robert Land (1772–1867), served in the Battle of Queenston Heights and the Battle of Stoney Creek in Upper Canada.
Robert Land (1739–1818) | Later life
In 1867, following his wife's death and estrangement from his daughter, Scott left Canada for New Zealand, where he settled in Paterangi becoming a wealthy landowner.
William James Scott | Later life
Brothers Michael Sandison (born 1 June 1970) and Marcus Eoin (born Marcus Eoin Sandison, 21 July 1971) were brought up in Cullen, Moray on the north east coast of Scotland. Between 1979 and 1980 they lived in the Canadian city of Calgary while their father, who worked in construction, took part in the project to build the Saddledome. Both brothers attended the University of Edinburgh, where Michael studied music and Marcus studied artificial intelligence, though Marcus dropped out before completing his degree. Growing up in a musical family, the brothers first played instruments at a young age. They experimented with recording techniques from around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own.
Boards of Canada | Early years (1986–1994)
George Scott was the first born son to his parents, Walter and Jeannie. He was born in Dalmeny, Scotland while his parents were visiting relatives and, returning to Canada, was raised in Hamilton, Ontario. He grew up with his siblings Angus (AKA Sandy Scott, 1934-2010), and beloved Walter. His sister Jeannie, near the age of 12, suffered appendicitis during a return trip from Scotland on the , and was pronounced dead in Montreal, Quebec in 1935. She is buried in Hamilton, Ontario. Involved in hockey, basketball and roller skating as a child, Scott began amateur wrestling at the local YMCA at age 12 and, during the next year, also started weightlifting.
George Scott (wrestler) | Early life and career
Scott was born in 1955 in Fredericton, New Brunswick and grew up in Barker's Point, a working-class neighbourhood. He was the only son in a family of four children. His parents both supported the Liberal Party, with his father especially an avid volunteer. The family business involved making cement blocks and fireplaces for houses. His father also volunteered for a summer camp for disabled children.
Andy Scott (politician) | Early life
Shaw grew up in Belleville, Ontario. When he was growing up many, including his own family, believed his younger brother Jason had the best shot at the NHL. Jason was previously a player in the Ontario Hockey League, and last played for the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Shaw also has an older brother named Josh and older sister named Alex.
Andrew Shaw (ice hockey) | Early life
Draw moved with his family from Moscow to Toronto when he was nine years old. He attended the Royal Conservatory of Music, but did not graduate.
Dr. Draw | Early life
Scott was born in Santa Cruz, California, to Anne (born Quartararo) and Simon Dougald Scott, both of whom are retired teachers. He is of one quarter Sicilian descent, on his mother's side. He has two older siblings, Shannon and David. He graduated from Harbor High School and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California.
Adam Scott (actor) | Early life
There were short term property investments in Canada; an unsuccessful venture into rubber plantations in Java; and fish farming in Peru.
Wallace Brothers | World War II and Withdrawal from the East
The twins decided to sell their homes and jointly purchase a property in 2011, with the goal of establishing a hub for their extended family and friends. Scott (no longer with his wife) began searching for a place that met all of their criteria (e.g. within 20 minutes of the airport), and they ultimately purchased a foreclosed house for $400,000. Scott moved in first, living alone for three years before they began improvements. With a renovation budget of , the project became the basis of a fourth television series, "Property Brothers: At Home". It was also the first production under the umbrella of Scott Brothers Entertainment.
Jonathan Scott (television personality) | Transition to television (2009–present)
Seb McKinnon was born in Montreal, Canada, growing up in a creative family with four younger brothers. He attended Dawson College, where he received a degree in illustration.
Seb McKinnon | Early life, education, and family
Soren was born in Toronto. His father was a salesman and his mother was a part-time bookkeeper for a local law firm. He had one brother, younger, and they lived in the suburbs in a detached brick house with a large back yard. It was about as middle class as you could get. He attended Anson Park Public School and then R.H. King Collegiate Institute. He went on to study Journalism at Centennial College in Toronto.
Jack Soren | Biographical sketch
Page was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to James and Stella Page. A graduate of Fort William Collegiate Institute, he later studied at Lakehead University, went to Simon Fraser University on a golf scholarship and took his M.A. in economics from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Kevin Page | Early life
His brother Barrie earned a Ph.D. in plant science at The University of Minnesota and worked his entire career with the Winnipeg Research Centre of Agriculture Canada. Both brothers were to receive the Order of Canada for their professional and community work.
A. Lorne Campbell | Early life and family
After living in a number of small towns in Northern Ontario, Willmore's family settled in Sarnia, Ontario. Willmore later moved to London, Ontario, to study art. He enrolled on a design course at Fanshawe College in the early 1970s, but didn't complete his studies, leaving to work in construction trades; he later returned to Fanshawe and completed a Fine Art diploma program in 1980.
Jeff Willmore | Early life
McCormack was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Doris (1932–2006), a homemaker, and James "Keith" McCormack, an oil company financial analyst who died from cancer in 2008. He is the eldest of three siblings. McCormack has Scottish ancestry. While he was growing up, he was shy and did not play sports but was involved in theatre from an early age: "I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through." McCormack later attended Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario, where he was a classmate of David Furnish.
Eric McCormack | Early life
Alex Furber grew up in Scarborough Bluffs, east of downtown Toronto. He is the eldest child of Sandra and John Furber. His sister Janelle is a graduate of U of T, while his younger sister Shelby is a fashion model. He attended Royal St. George's middle school, Trinity College School, and the National Theatre School of Canada.
Alex Furber | Early life
During his teenage years, Crawford attended Nicholson Catholic College in Belleville, Ontario. Marc is the brother of NHL hockey players Bob Crawford and Lou Crawford.
Marc Crawford | Early life
Scott grew up in Canada working as an actor and stuntman, before making the move to Los Angeles to pursue a career behind the camera in Hollywood. Scott studied film production at York University.
T. J. Scott | Early life
He grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended Hillcrest High School before studying economics at Carleton University. He then studied theatre at The Center For Actor Study in Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Toronto as well as Vancouver and Los Angeles. Cram lives with his wife, an information architect, in Los Angeles. Michael Cram has a younger brother, Bruce, who is a real-estate agent and lives in Toronto with his wife and two kids.
Michael Cram | Early life
Thompson, originally named John Scott Thompson after his uncle and later changed for the stage, was born in North Bay, Ontario, and grew up in Brampton. He is the second oldest of five boys. He attended Brampton Centennial Secondary School and was a witness of the 1975 Centennial Secondary School shooting. He enrolled in York University but in his third year was asked to leave for being "disruptive". He joined the comedy troupe The Love Cats, where he met Mark McKinney.
Scott Thompson (comedian) | Early life
Scott lived on the outskirts of Nottingham with his father and mother, Edith Joyce Scott, and younger brothers, Brian and Garry. All were encouraged towards the open countryside, particularly the Peak District.
Doug Scott | Early life
"Property Brothers" has drawn notice from multiple awards. After being nominated in 2011, Drew and Jonathan won the 2012 Leo Award (the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry) for "Best Host(s) in an Information or Lifestyle Series" for "Property Brothers". In 2012, they were nominated for a Rose d'Or award in the lifestyle show category. The show has been nominated for a Cablefax Award and for Outstanding Structured Reality Program at the 2015 Emmy Awards. At the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards, the program won for Best Lifestyle Program or Series; the program won again in 2019.
Property Brothers | Reception
The Scotts lost the property by foreclosure in 1874. The house was probably built by the Scotts: Archibald, a native of Nova Scotia, was a carpenter, specialized in the organ building trade, while Bowe was a mason, none of whose nearby houses come close to this one in architectural interest. According to a 1908 article on the house, the Scott brothers camped in a tent on the property while building the house. After the Scotts lost the property, it went through a number of absentee owners. In the 20th century, the vestibules were added, and the house was sheathed in asphalt siding, which was placed over the hexagonal tiles.
House at 17 Cranston Street | Description and history
Scott was born at Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1890; A.M., 1891). As Parker fellow of Harvard he traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin, Heidelberg (J.U.D.), and Paris.
James Brown Scott | Early life
David Scott Foley was born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, the son of Mary and Michael, a steamfitter. His mother is from Stafford, England.
Dave Foley | Early life
Kook-Chun was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa to a Mauritian father of Chinese descent and a South African mother of Cape Coloured descent. He has 3 younger siblings, a sister from his mother's side who is studying in Cape Town and two sisters from his father's side, based in Canada. He then moved to Montreal in order to attend the National Theatre School of Canada.
Shannon Kook | Early life
ET Canada included them on its Hottest Bachelor list in 2011. The twins made "People"’s list of Men of the Year in 2014, the magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People issue in both 2013 and 2014, and the magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue in 2013, 2014, and 2017. They were 13 on "Hello! Canada"'s Most Beautiful List of 2014. BuzzFeed included them on their 2015 list of HGTV's "15 All-Time Hottest Hotties." Scott loves social media, and has sizable followings on various social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Periscope, where he universally uses the handle "MrDrewScott". Mashable even called him a "master" at social media.
Drew Scott | Public image
Short was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the youngest of five children of Olive Grace (née Hayter; 1913–1968), a concertmistress of the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra, and Charles Patrick Short (1909–1970), a corporate executive with Stelco, a Canadian steel company. He and his siblings were raised as Catholics. He had three older brothers, David (now deceased), Michael, and Brian, and one older sister, Nora. Short's father was an Irish Catholic emigrant from Crossmaglen, South Armagh, who came to North America as a stowaway during the Irish War of Independence. Short's mother was of English and Irish descent. She encouraged his early creative endeavours.
Martin Short | Early life
McCrank was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, but grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Rick McCrank | Early life
Laird was born in Toronto, Ontario to Laird and Laurie Schneider. He has one younger brother and one younger sister. He grew up on a 100-acre beef farm in Belwood, just outside Fergus, Ontario. He studied jazz guitar at Humber College in Toronto.
Ryan Laird | Early life and education