13 Things You Didn't Know About Scott McGillivray

Scott McGillivray is a busy man! With filming Income Property and building his own dream home on Moving the McGillivrays, he’s also a husband to wife Sabrina and their two daughters, Myah and Layla. There’s so much we see of him in the public eye, but what about the man behind the camera? We chatted with Scott and found some fun tidbits that you may not have known.

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Hidden Talent?

Well I’m super strong. I try not tell people this. Because you know, with great powers comes great responsibilty (laughs). I like running, I do a lot running on the side, people don’t know that. I can stick my stomach out like a pregnant person, that is something that I’ve always been able to do, as a young child. And I’m still good at it. When my wife was nine months pregnant, we had a tummy competition when the photographer was at the house taking maternity pictures. And so, I took a picture with my stomach sticking out further than my wife’s when she was nine months pregnant! Also, surfing, I love surfing. I can walk on my hands.

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Favourite Colour and Number?

Blue. My favourite number is seven, I was born on the 7th in the 70s.

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What’s your Favourite Season and Why?

Summer, because I love surfing and gardening!

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How Many Siblings do you Have?

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Best Vacation?

Backpacking through Costa Rica.

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How do you Take your Coffee?

Medium, regular.

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Favourite Subject in School?

Mine’s math for sure.

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One Item you Can’t Live Without?

My family. But one item I can’t live without right now is my phone, unfortunately. It kills me, I feel like naked. I would turn around no matter how far from home I was if I forgot my phone. And if I lost my phone, I’d probably lose my mind.

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What Was Your First Car?

First car I bought was a blue 1994 Ford Escort. We used to call it the Escorsche… it was half Escort, half Porsche, and it was amazing.

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First Job as a Child?

I mean I had a paper route when I was a kid, but the first time I was employed was at a garden centre in the summer when I was in Gr. 7 and 8. We moved to Richmond Hill from Toronto, and in our neighbourhood there was nothing but farmer’s fields around us. We weren’t allowed to leave the block as a kid, so my buddy and I would drive around – there was a hockey arena over here, and a garden centre on the corner there. They were the only two things we could go to, so we became obsessed with hockey and with the garden centre. The garden centre people knew we always came in once a week, so in the summer they were like, “Do you guys want to work here?” And I was like, “Yeah, I love plants!” I ended up working there every summer when I was a kid.

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What’s the Most Shocking Thing you’ve Discovered in a Clients Home?

I mean we’ve found a lot of stuff, grow-ops up in attics, old money but not a lot of it. But one time we opened up this wall, I found a bottle of booze in the wall with just a little bit of booze in it and a cork still in the top. On the front of the bottle it said, “Andrew got wasted here in 1903.” And I thought that was cool that he used the word “wasted,” over a hundred years ago, and left that bottle in the wall. So the homeowner put it on the mantle.

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