[7] On the twins' seventh birthday, their father encouraged them to get jobs, so they started their first business (called JAM), making nylon covered hangers.
[8] 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.
[8] As teens, they attended Thomas Haney Secondary School, and Drew excelled in sports, both coaching and playing on the basketball and volleyball teams.
[17] Despite their plans to become entertainers, the twins didn't want to be "starving artists,"[18] and—after watching an informercial by Carleton Sheets[19]—they felt real estate investment would "ease the financial purgatory of being out-of-work actors.
[18] At the same time, they supported themselves with various jobs including flight attendant, personal trainer, bikini store manager, busboy, website designer, and mall cop.
[20] In Vancouver, Scott began taking acting and voice classes,[30] networking with influential persons in the industry,[31] and rising in the ranks on movie production crews,[32] while keeping a color-coded spreadsheet to manage it all.
[34][35] 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.
[24][23] Drew began pitching shows with real estate themes,[14] but was mostly being offered (oftentimes with Jonathan) hosting gigs.
[4] Its renovation became the subject of the twins' fourth TV series, Property Brothers: At Home, and aired on HGTV in the United States, as well as on the W Network in Canada.
[44] As part of the show, Drew and Jonathan wrote and recorded two country singles that premiered during the third and fourth episode of the series.
[46] "Hold On" hit number 38 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and was accompanied by a music video that has more than three million Vevo views.
Filmed at the brothers' Las Vegas home, the song's music video depicts a raucous house party, and includes cameos by Carrot Top, RaeLynn and Lindsay Ell.
[75] He and Jonathan appeared in the first five episodes of the webseries Tiny House Arrest, which debuted on January 1, 2016, and was produced by their production company.
They also released their first book, titled Dream Home: The Property Brothers' Ultimate Guide to Finding & Fixing Your Perfect House, on April 4, 2016.
[83] He and Jonathan have written an illustrated children's book called Builder Brothers: Big Plans, due to be released by HarperCollins on October 2, 2018.
[87] Set to air in fall 2019, Scott will host Rock the Block, a competition home renovation show between HGTV television personalities Leanne Ford (from Restored by the Fords), Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential), Mina Starsiak (from Good Bones) and Alison Victoria (from Windy City Rehab).
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.
"[99] Scott has sizable followings on various social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Periscope,[6] where he universally uses the handle "MrDrewScott".
The two worked with famous "Viners," including Vincent Marcus, Manon Mathews, Sara Hopkins, BrittleStar, NeatDude, and Gregor Reynolds.
[110] The ceremony incorporated elements of their respective Scottish and Vietnamese heritages,[110][111] and was the subject of a show called Drew and Linda Say I Do,[112] which aired on June 2, 2018, on TLC.
[110] Drew co-wrote (along with Victoria Shaw and Chad Carlson) and performed a song for his bride called "You Chose Me," and an accompanying music video was released to YouTube on June 2, 2018.
Along with his brothers, Scott grew up playing basketball, but in a GQ interview, explained that he was the more enthusiastic one—sometimes practicing four or five hours a day.
[124] Scott is active in various philanthropic projects, from working with children's hospitals to coordinating initiatives to help underprivileged youth.
[125] He has collaborated with the network of artists involved in Paul Haggis' Artists for Peace and Justice, a non-profit organization that supports communities globally through programs in peace, and social justice, with recent efforts focused on building schools, providing clean water, and medical treatment in Haiti.
[13][126] He also serves as a global ambassador for World Vision and, in April 2013, travelled to New Delhi, India with his brothers on a campaign to bring awareness to concerns regarding child labor and trafficking.
[127][128] Drew and Linda requested that, in lieu of wedding gifts, guests and supporters donate to WE, "an organization that provides people in need with clean water in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
[130] With his brother Jonathan, he worked with Michelle Obama's initiative, "Let's Read Let's Move," educating and encouraging students to live healthy and active lifestyles.
project, the brothers also hosted an event for kids at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., with US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.
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.
[137] In April 2019, he and Jonathan joined Habitat for Humanity's third-annual Key campaign, for affordable housing across US, in constructing a home.