I’ve never really liked the Property Brothers, Jonathan and Drew Scott. They’ve always given me bad vibes, and I don’t even like their renovation work most of the time. My dislike of the Property Bros has influenced my opinion of Jonathan’s relationship with Zooey Deschanel. They’ve been together for something like six years, and they got engaged in August 2023. He proposed in a place which was meaningful to him (not her) and he gave her a sort of offbeat, wacky ring. The wedding has NOT happened yet. Is it about the ring? Well, Jonathan spoke to People about why they haven’t walked down the aisle yet:
Jonathan Scott and Zooey Deschanel are in no rush to tie the knot — and for a very good reason. While speaking exclusively with PEOPLE about his new HGTV show, Chasing the West, Scott, 47, explained that he and Deschanel, 45, have been too busy enjoying quality time with their kids and working on other projects to even think about planning their wedding.
“We’ve just been having so much fun traveling with the kids and filming this show and stuff,” Scott tells PEOPLE. “So no, we have not actually made any plans yet, which, it’s been two years now since I proposed.”
The expert builder, who considers himself stepdad to Deschanel’s two children — daughter Elsie, 10, and son Charlie, 8 — from her previous marriage to Jacob Pechenik, notes that he and his fiancee try to visit Europe “every single year.” They recently spent time in Italy and France and got some “beach time” in as well, he says, so they’ve been busy making memories abroad.
Despite being booked and busy, Scott says he and Deschanel are still in agreement with how they want their wedding to be when the time comes.
“Whatever we do, it has to be meaningful to us and we want to gather our friends and family and have a good time,” he says, adding, “we want to keep it very, very intimate.”
The couple currently live in their 1938 “dream home” that they finished renovating in 2022 after two years.
This is his perspective, and I’d be curious to hear what Zooey has to say about why they haven’t gotten married. I suspect that she’s more gun-shy about marriage, given she’s already got two divorces under her belt. But I also feel like… Jonathan doesn’t sound like he’s in a rush either. He’s been married before as well. Maybe they’re both gun-shy. I don’t know. I’ve always felt like they make no sense as a couple, and maybe that’s at the heart of this too.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Zooey’s IG.
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- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – FEBRUARY 23: Jonathan Scott and Zooey Deschanel arrive at the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 968356994, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Jonathan Scott, Zooey Deschanel, Credit line: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 23: Zooey Deschanel, Jonathan Scott attends the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.,Image: 969017225, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Zooey Deschanel, Jonathan Scott, Credit line: Jeffrey Mayer/Avalon
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- 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night Screening Of "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" at TCL Chinese Theater on April 24, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA,Image: 992059262, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Zooey Deschanel,Jonathan Scott, Credit line: Nicky Nelson/Wenn/Avalon
You want to be married, you get married, even if you just hop over to the JP on your lunch break one afternoon. You want a wedding, you prioritize planning one and make it happen. You want your name in the press, you get engaged and then two years later you give BS interviews about how you’re just too busy being happy to get married.
I smell a PR relationship.
I honestly don’t know why in this day and age we still have beards, but that’s what Zooey is here. And if it works for them, who cares? But the Property Twins are and have always been LGBT.
That ring looks like Grandma’s candy wrappers.
The ring isn’t to my taste either, but honestly it seems right up the alley of someone who named their child “Elsie Otter”.
I’ve never understood engagements that long. I guess they could’ve married privately and are waiting to have the “official” wedding ceremony later, but if it matters to you then you’d find a way to make it happen within 2 calendar years.
I totally get it. An engagement means you are an officially serious relationship, and the world will recognize it as such. However, you don’t have the pressures that come with marriage, including comingling finances, dealing with a more legal stepparenting framework, the fear of divorce, etc., etc.
They’re not gettng married.
They’ve been a couple since 2019. I’m sure they’ve seen each other at their best and worst by now. If they don’t actually want to be married, then stop making excuses and just say they’re content with the relationship as is.
It still makes zero sense to me why she left her ex-husband for this guy.
She didn’t; she was already separated (perhaps not officially divorced) before even meeting Jonathan.
Every time I see him or his brother, I remember them posting a renovation they did on an old Victorian or craftsman house, destroying all the character and artisan skill, and making it look like every other suburban flip house out there. I’ve also always found the two of them a little creepy, not sure why.
But if she’s twice divorced with kids, I don’t blame them for not rushing into marriage. Some people are good with a long engagement. Doesn’t affect anyone but them, who cares?
I love the brothers since they guest-starred on Girls Five Eva.
If they’re both fine being engaged, they should just be engaged. If they renovated a house together then they’ve already gone through some of the major relationship tests 😂. His brother and sister in law went through a lot because they wanted kids, I doubt these two are interested in that.
I will say, Trudeau/Perry pairing made me think of these two 😂
I agree, it’s nice for the kids that they have given it more official status by being “engaged” but I can see it taking a LONG time to a) make wedding plans that reflect both their personal style (such as it is), and b) prepare pre-nups. I think he probably has a lot more resources than her and lots of financial details to sort through. What’s kind of interesting (and none of our business) is that they have more or less let the window for having a bio child together pass. I’m sure they have their reasons.
Meh…I was engaged for about 20 minutes before I made wedding arrangements, got married at home in a secular ceremony with our 2 best friends and best cat. I wore trousers, we went for a slap-up dinner at a French bistro around the corner and had a honeymoon of sorts 3 months later in Tofino in between chemo treatments. Neither of us wanted a fussy wedding.
I’m glad to finally hear someone else gets bad vibes from the Property Brothers. I just couldn’t put it into words to myself, but something doesn’t ring true. They are too put on, always. Not, to me, seeming too genuine. I don’t know. When I heard of their coupling, for some reason I immediately thought it was a business arrangement.
I adore them and I really don’t get bad vibes. I don’t think they’re romantically interested in women, though.