Jonathon Scott met Zooey Deschanel back in 2019 when they were filming an episode of Carpool Karaoke. Zooey was separated from her then husband Jacob Pechenik and Jonathon a thus far life long bachelor. But the chemistry was instant.
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In Jonathon and Drews magazine “Reveal” Jonathon talks about meeting Zooey and how she convinced him to leave his home in Las Vegas to make a life with her in Los Angeles.
“Eight months into our relationship, I already knew Zooey was the yin to my yang, the PB to my J. We were on parallel paths toward the happiness we’d been seeking our whole lives,” Jonathan writes in a heartfelt personal essay for issue #9 of Reveal, on newsstands January 7.
“What I found out very early on is that Zooey loves Los Angeles. Like, love-loves it. She’s a native Angeleno, her parents still live in her childhood home, the whole deal,” he writes. “I recall thinking, Okay, okay…give me the sales pitch, skeptically, not thinking of myself as an ‘L.A. guy.’ But the more she showed me her Los Angeles — the parks she went to growing up, the neighborhoods where she made memories with her closest friends — the more I found myself in love with an Angeleno, and with L.A., too.”
After obsessively scrolling real estate listings and touring just two properties, they fell for the second: a Georgian-style house designed in 1938 by California architect Gerard Colcord.
“As we pulled up the drive, it just seemed…magical,” Jonathan recalls. “It sat on a little over an acre, and with its lush lawn and massive California sycamores, it looked like a park. Which is why when we first brought the kids by the property, they dubbed it the Park House.”
The house required a lot of work and the updates seemed to go on forever. Jonathon concludes with the sweetest sentiment about the work still being done…