Background
Cam grew up in Sydney"s Bondi and attended school at Waverley College with Rodney Allen.
Cam grew up in Sydney"s Bondi and attended school at Waverley College with Rodney Allen.
He is a qualified carpenter who did a three-year apprenticeship with his brother’s business. After completing school and his carpentry apprenticeship, he set off in an old four-wheel drive to explore Australia. He worked on sheep and cattle stations, at a remote coastal resort at Exmouth in Western Australia, built boats and worked in Fremantle"s docklands.
In 1990, after five years of this, he set up his own building business, which now employs four people.
Cam first appeared on Nine"s popular lifestyle show Backyard Blitz in 2000, alongside Jamie Durie, doing building segments until the show"s cancellation in 2006. In between, he appeared on the successful Renovation Rescue (2004–present) before appearing in his own live lifestyle program Our Place, however this was cancelled after just five episodes in 2005.
From 2008 until 2010, he appeared on Domestic Blitz. Cam hosted the 2010 series of The Block and has returned as host for every season ever since.
Cam also appeared as himself on a send-up of The Block on the comedy program The Joy of Sets in 2011.He also hosts renovating show Reno Rumble which began airing in 2015, he will return as host for its second season in 2016.
In addition to his television work, he has written two books on building and renovating: Out The Back and the follow-up, Home Maintenance Foreign Knuckleheads. He is also a presenter on the Triple M Saturday morning breakfast show Wrong Side of the Bed. Scott Cam also heavily features as the brand ambassador for Mitre 10 Australia, and has been doing so since 2011.
Scott is also an Australian Apprenticeships Ambassador for the Australian Government.