Tyler Cameron is fastidiously navigating his means round paint cans, energy instruments, packing containers, and myriad different building hazards, main his guests (us) on a tour of his new dwelling. It’s March, and 31-year-old Cameron is within the midst of a complete renovation of the Hobe Sound property he bought final Could. He greets us wanting like a median dude—lived-in denims, a tee, a contented canine (Harley) bounding out the entrance door—“common,” in fact, aside from his way-above-average attractiveness. On this specific day, his guys have simply put in the brand new wooden flooring upstairs, and Cameron is happy. There are additionally some of us exterior taking measurements for the deck addition, whereas one among his buddies/crew members sits at a desk within the cluttered storage engaged on a laptop computer. There’s rather a lot happening.
“Upstairs, that’s the place we’re going to have the podcast studio,” he says as we stroll by means of the house. We head out to the sprawling yard—his dwelling sits on a half-acre lot—and he factors out the place the outside kitchen goes to be, noting that he ultimately additionally plans to put in a pool. As the short tour involves an finish, we head again to the storage to prep for the shoot. He opens a suitcase on the ground that’s crammed with fancy duds despatched by his New York PR crew, and we sift by means of, pulling the primary look. Cameron grabs a pair of navy Brunello Cucinelli trousers and an Etro button-down and goes behind a stack of packing containers to vary.
The photographer hangs a tarp from the storage door as a backdrop as “I Really feel for You” by Chaka Khan blares by means of the large transportable speaker somebody wheeled out on the request of the photographer. Cameron’s by no means heard this music earlier than, however he appears to be having fun with it. Because the photographer finds his gentle and begins clicking…that’s when it occurs.
All of a sudden, Cameron is another person. He’d been clunking round in work boots and cracking jokes, however now he’s on. He’s a pure in entrance of the digital camera, realizing precisely easy methods to angle his face and transfer his physique. The child from Jupiter who works in building has reworked right into a GQ mannequin within the blink of an eye fixed.
And that’s the factor: Tyler Cameron has been dwelling a kind of twin life ever since he shot to fame in 2019 after melting hearts on The Bachelorette. As soon as the present aired, he was in every single place. He walked the crimson carpet on the Individuals’s Alternative Awards (a nominee for “Favourite Competitors Contestant”) and was seen canoodling with supermodels within the tabloids. In 2021, he wrote a e-book (You Deserve Higher), had a cameo in a Netflix movie (Good on Paper), and appeared in an SNL skit with Kim Kardashian. The next 12 months, he launched a podcast (Everyone However Me) and competed on ABC’s The Actual Soiled Dancing. All of the whereas, he was additionally modeling for manufacturers like Calvin Klein, Steve Madden, Unusual James, and Clarins.
“I feel there’s a bit little bit of nerves generally,” he says of strolling into the world of celeb. “I get the sensation like, do I belong? Like, why am I right here? It’s nearly like these persons are gonna notice it’s simply me and kick me out of right here quickly, you know?” However he tailored shortly. “You begin to study that, okay, I’m speculated to be right here I suppose,” he continues. “And also you form of get extra assured inside it. I’ve all the time simply needed to have enjoyable with it, meet new folks, and luxuriate in all of the cool new experiences.”
One among his favourite experiences that got here in these early days of fame was going to the Individuals’s Alternative Awards together with his mother, Andrea. “That was a cool deal and one thing that she was simply by means of the roof about,” he recollects. “She was calling buddies to assist her buy groceries and get luggage and this and that, and it was such a giant deal for her. Having her there strolling the carpet with me, that’s an expertise I cherish most. I received to have that second along with her.”
That reminiscence is only one of many he cherishes together with his mother, who handed away all of a sudden in 2020 from a mind aneurysm. It shook Cameron to his core. Andrea, an actual property agent, was a beloved native who spent her life serving to others. Cameron recollects a comic story that speaks to her heat coronary heart: “I keep in mind she bought this older woman a house, and I’d be speaking to my mother two months later and he or she’s bringing this lady to her physician’s appointment. I’d be like, ‘Mother, a part of the job is you promote a home and transfer on to the subsequent one.’ And she or he’d say, ‘No, I deal with my folks.’ That’s simply how she was.”
Rising up, Cameron says his Jupiter dwelling was a welcoming place for all, and his mother would assist his soccer buddies with their lecturers to ensure they’d get into faculty. Schooling was actually necessary to Andrea, and that’s what motivated Cameron and his brothers—Austin, 28, who’s within the military, and Ryan, 24, who’s presently ending up firefighting college—to start out a basis in her honor when she was gone.
The Andrea C. Cameron Basis offers faculty scholarships to native highschool college students, and the household hosts a giant gala every year to lift cash. Because it was based three years in the past, the muse has grown immensely. “Our first 12 months, we gave out two scholarships, they usually weren’t even full-tuition scholarships,” says Cameron. “Our subsequent 12 months, we had been in a position to give out 5 [full-tuition cost for in-state schools], and this 12 months we’re giving out 15. Our objective is to get to twenty or 25 subsequent 12 months.” Past scholarships, the muse additionally offers mentorship to assist college students land internships, get into graduate college, and extra.
His dad, Jeff (whom he affectionately calls “Pops”), has the identical beneficiant nature, says Cameron. “To today, if he sees a child who needs to play soccer, he goes out and trains them one-on-one,” he says. “My dad’s 66 at this level and doesn’t transfer too effectively, however he’s on the market nonetheless yelling at these youngsters and training ’em up, you recognize? He simply needs to assist youngsters out.”
His dad additionally coached Cameron onerous when he was younger, and it paid off. Cameron was a star quarterback at Jupiter Neighborhood Excessive College, went on to play for Wake Forest College after which FAU (the place he earned his MBA), and was ultimately invited to the Baltimore Ravens’ mini-camp. However an previous shoulder damage acted up, and he was minimize from the professional crew. He was devastated. “I felt like a full-blown failure as a result of one thing I devoted my total life to didn’t work out,” he recollects. He wasn’t certain what to do subsequent now that his previously clear path to the NFL was bulldozed. “Whenever you’re an athlete, it’s your complete id,” he says. “You don’t go and do internships in the summertime or something to realize expertise within the work power. So when it was carried out, I used to be like, what do I do with my life?”
He determined to get his common contractor’s license and pursue a profession in building like his dad. “I’d all the time thought the enterprise was fascinating, so I figured I’d decide up a hammer and hop proper in,” he says. Then in the future, on a whim, he utilized to be on The Bachelorette. “It was a joke with my buddies,” he explains. “I had utilized for the WWE one night time, after which I believed, let’s see what else I can discover.”
To his shock, ABC referred to as—they needed him on the present. He went with it. “I’m a giant believer that life is only a story, and also you’ve received to make the best story you may,” he says. “So why not attempt to be a wrestler? Why not go on The Bachelorette? It’s enjoyable taking these gambles and dangers and seeing the place they take you. The Bachelorette was the primary one to hit me again, and we simply form of rolled from there. And I inform you what, if the WWE would’ve hit me, we’d be having a special dialog.”
In early 2020, Cameron was busy being well-known in New York Metropolis post-show when his mother handed away. He got here dwelling to Jupiter for the funeral, after which COVID mania occurred and he determined to remain put. Throughout these first couple of years again dwelling, he received concerned with 3Natives (ultimately opening his personal franchise in Delray Seashore in August 2023), began shopping for land and constructing homes, and earlier than he knew it, he had planted new roots in his hometown. “I noticed I’m happier right here,” he says. “This simply appears like the place I have to be.”
It was then that Cameron additionally began specializing in a ardour venture he’d been fascinated with for some time, one thing that mixes his love for each his hometown and the actual property/building enterprise. He’d had the concept years prior, but it surely was derailed for numerous causes. However now the timing was proper, and final month the results of his onerous work lastly paid off when his new tv present—Going House with Tyler Cameron—was launched on Amazon Prime April 18.
The eight-episode sequence, which filmed for about six months beginning in September 2022, facilities on Cameron’s building firm, Picture One, and follows him and his crew as they renovate properties in Jupiter. “That is one thing we thought of years in the past, and it took ceaselessly to get it going,” says Cameron. “I’ve all the time thought [Jupiter] is essentially the most unbelievable place on the earth and I’d like to showcase it.” An govt producer on the present, he was concerned in the entire manufacturing conferences and was in a position to present numerous course when it comes to showcasing what Jupiter is admittedly all about.
For Cameron, this venture was a labor of affection—and there was a lot of labor. “We did 9 homes in seven months,” he says of the house renovations filmed for the present. “It was insane.” There are a number of celeb cameos together with former Bachelorette Hannah Brown. However principally, the present options locals. Cameron and his close-knit crew—Picture One companion Robb Ritch, a pal he’s recognized for years, and designer Jessica Quintero—work on renovations for purchasers together with a few of Cameron’s family and friends (like his dad and highschool girlfriend). They’re helped out by a “village” of contractors, lots of whom Cameron is personally linked to—like Coach Chip, his pee wee soccer coach, who did the drywall in a single episode; designer Angela Reynolds, one among his mother’s greatest buddies;
professional golfer Justin Thomas; and mural artist Bulk Kinds. Says Cameron: “I knew this was going to be a tall process, and I needed to name on the people who I do know, that I can belief and depend on. What’s so nice about our city is, it’s actually a bit large city. It’s gotten large, but it surely’s nonetheless little to the individuals who grew up right here. We deal with one another and assist one another out.”
Going House with Tyler Cameron is each a home-renovation present and a actuality sequence that digs a bit into Cameron’s private life. It has its fair proportion of humorous moments (Cameron’s a lovable goofball actually), but it surely’s additionally fairly emotional. All through the sequence, whereas engaged on different initiatives, the crew is engaged on one very particular renovation: Cameron’s mother’s dwelling. It’s one thing Andrea had all the time needed to do, and simply earlier than she handed Cameron was planning on stunning her with a renovation. Finishing it was a method to honor her reminiscence and supply a little bit of closure to her household and buddies. With out gifting away an excessive amount of, the present culminates within the large reveal of the completed dwelling, which, suffice to say, is a tearjerker (in a great way).
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Now that season one is out, Cameron is continuous to construct his building enterprise right here and stepping again into the highlight occasionally, as he’s been doing. Final 12 months, he went to New Zealand to tape the Fox TV present Particular Forces, and this previous February he flew to L.A. to attend the Grammy Awards. The modeling initiatives will proceed, and he’ll effortlessly morph forwards and backwards from celeb to Jupiter dude. It’s one thing that comes straightforward to him and one of many issues he appreciates most in regards to the life he’s carved out for himself.
“I feel there’s a extra subtle aspect of me that folks by no means actually see down right here, however I really like dressing up and all that stuff,” he says. “However I additionally love to have the ability to go play within the grime, go construct no matter we’ve received to construct, or tough it on the boat all weekend. I’ve all the time been in a position to match into no matter job I want to suit into, and that’s what I really like about what I do. Each day is completely different. To me, that’s the joys of all of it.”
Observe Tyler on Instagram @tylerjcameron and donate to the Andrea C. Cameron Basis at accfdn.org.
Quick Speak
Trend Ahead: “In center college, I wager my mother and pop I wouldn’t drink soda for an entire 12 months, and if I did it, they’d give me a thousand {dollars}. And so I did it, I received my thousand {dollars}, and I instantly grew to become a shoe collector—I had like 40 pairs of sneakers. All of them needed to match my outfits daily, and I used to be voted ‘greatest dressed’ in eighth grade at Jupiter Christian. I nonetheless don’t actually drink soda.”
Dancing King: “At Wake Forest, I took a bunch of dance lessons to get my GPA up. Trendy dance, ballet, hip-hop, jazz, African dance… What I noticed is, one, I liked it. It was a lot enjoyable and nice for my flexibility. However two, it was all the time, like, 20 women and me. And I really like a category like that!”
Life at 40: “I hope I’ve a bunch of little youngsters working round and a bunch of rescue canines working round with them. I wish to be in a spot in my life financially the place all I do is have a household and coach [high school] soccer. I’m giving myself 9 extra years to hustle up and do it.”
Musical Notes: “Juice WRLD is one among my favorites. I’d put Zach Bryan up there too, and Luke Combs and Eric Church.”
Journey Bug: “I must go see the world nonetheless. I wish to discover Asia first—Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, China. I wish to see all of it.”
On Philanthropy: “It is a very affluent city, and folks make some huge cash right here. However we’ve received to ensure we carry up those from the underside too.”
