Jonathan Scott (TV personality)
| Jonathan Silver Scott | |
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Jonathan Scott in 2013
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| Born |
John Ian Scott April 28, 1978 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater |
University of Calgary Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Home Builders Institute of Alberta |
| Known for | Property Brothers franchise |
| Spouse(s) | Kelsy Ully (m. 2007; div. 2013) |
| Partner(s) | Jacinta Kuznetsov (2015 – present) |
| Website | www |
Jonathan Silver Scott (born John Ian Scott, April 28, 1978) is a Canadian reality television personality, contractor, illusionist, and television and film producer. He is best known as the co-host—along with his twin brother Drew—of the TV series Property Brothers, as well as the program's spin-offs Buying and Selling, Brother Vs. Brother, and Property Brothers: At Home, which are broadcast in the US 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. In addition to entertainment, the twins have launched the lifestyle brand Scott Living and its extension, Dream Homes. He splits his time between a home in Las Vegas, Nevada he owns with his twin brother, and a home in Toronto that he shares with his girlfriend.
John Ian Scott was born on April 28, 1978—four minutes before his identical twin brother Drew—in Vancouver, Canada. He has an older brother, J.D., and is the second son of James and Joanne Scott. James, having emigrated from Scotland as a teenager, had fostered dreams of being a cowboy as he had seen on television, and 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, British Columbia. James worked as a youth counselor and Joanne continued her career as a paralegal in downtown Vancouver. On their seventh birthday, their father encouraged the twins to get a job. They looked through the help wanted ads, but ultimately began a business with their mother called JAM (for Jon, Andrew, and Mom) making nylon-wrapped clothes hangers. In interviews, they have related how they would sell them door to door, eventually selling thousands to a woman who sold American paraphernalia in Japan.
The boys' continued job search led them to an ad recruiting child clowns to perform in parades. After completing classes with the local Parks and Recreation Department, they were hired at $10 a gig, eventually making as much as $100 per hour. John, however, grew tired of making himself up, and began to transition as a performer. As a child, he'd seen a magic show on New Year's Eve that inspired him, and by the age of ten, he was making his own magic props; by 15 he was using the barn as a workshop to create large-scale illusions. He studied the definitive volumes of Tarbell Course in Magic, and sought out professional illusionists David Wilson and Shawn Farquhar, who became mentors and friends. He joined the Vancouver Magic Circle and the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and over the next decade he won several awards, including 3rd Best Stage Performer of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians at 16.
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