Sebastian James Clovis (born September 1, 1979) is a Canadian television personality and former

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player, who played

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for the

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in their

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championship 2006 season. He is currently known as an

HGTV HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. As of February 2015, ...

home renovation host, appearing on the television series '' Tackle My Reno'', ''

Save My Reno ''Save My Reno'' is a Canadian television series featuring contractor Sebastian Clovis, a former Canadian Football League player, and designer Samantha Pynn helping homeowners complete needed renovations on a limited budget. The series premiered ...

'', ''

Home to Win ''Home to Win'' is a Canadian home renovation reality television series, which premiered April 24, 2016 on HGTV Canada.Gut Job''.

Childhood

Born in

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, England, Clovis migrated to Canada with his family when he was six years old."Clovis tries to beat the odds again". '' The Globe and Mail'', June 8, 2006. He grew up in the east end of

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most pop ...

, in his family home where he was first introduced to carpentry and building. He is the eldest of five siblings; his brother Tristan Clovis was also a Canadian Football League player for the

Saskatchewan Roughriders The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a professional Canadian football team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Roughriders compete in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member club of the league's West Division. The Roughriders were founded i ...

. Clovis attended the all-boys Catholic high school,

Neil McNeil High School Neil McNeil Catholic High School is an all-boys Roman Catholic secondary school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Neil McNeil, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver from 1910 to 1912 and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto f ...

, where he was a competitive athlete in track & field and football, which he pursued after school with the Scarborough Thunder Football Club. In his final year of high school, he attended

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where he played on the senior boys football team.

College career

Clovis received a scholarship to

Mississippi State University Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Univer ...

and later transferred to Saint Mary's University in

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where he played for their football team, the Huskies.

CFL career

Clovis was drafted by the

in the

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. After being sidelined with a torn ACL in the 2005 season, he came back to play all 18 games with the Lions during their

2006 Grey Cup The 94th Grey Cup game took place on November 19, 2006, at Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba before 44,786 fans. Ticket prices ranged from $141 and $275. The game decided the championship of the 2006 Canadian Football League season. The ...

winning season. Suffering another season-ending injury midway through the 2007 season, he was forced to rehabilitate from a second ACL tear. Returning from reconstructive knee surgery for a second time, he was traded to the

Winnipeg Blue Bombers The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a professional Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Blue Bombers compete in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member club of the league's West Division (CFL), West division. They play their h ...

, but transferred to the

midseason and remained with the Roughriders for the rest of his CFL playing career. His nickname is "The Missile".

TV career

After retiring from football, Clovis trained as a construction contractor. He debuted as the host of ''Tackle My Reno'' in 2014, and continues to cohost the spinoff series ''Save My Reno''. As of April, 2022, he will be launching his latest show, ''Gut Job'',
"HGTV’s Sebastian Clovis chats brand new show ‘Gut Job’", accessed 27 April 2022 his fifth for HGTV Canada.

References

External links

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HGTV's Tackle My Reno
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clovis, Sebastian 1979 births Living people BC Lions players Canadian football defensive backs Canadian football people from Toronto Players of Canadian football from Ontario Saint Mary's Huskies football players Saskatchewan Roughriders players English emigrants to Canada Black Canadian players of Canadian football Black Canadian broadcasters Canadian television hosts