Drew Scott Recalls the Hilarious Word Daughter Piper Learned to Say Before ‘Dada’ (Exclusive) 

Drew Scott revealed the hilarious word his daughter said before “Dada.”

PEOPLE recently caught up with Drew and his twin brother, Jonathan, 47, about their new HGTV series Chasing the West. During the conversation, Drew shares that his 14-month-old daughter, Piper — whom he shares with wife, Linda Phan — learned the word “hippo” well before she was calling him Dad.

“’Mama’ was her first word, and she would say it all the time,” Drew recalls. “And then months are going by. I’m like, ‘Come on. ‘Dada, dada, dada, dada.’ Her second word — ‘Hippo.’ Her stuffy is a hippo. Her second word was ‘hippo.’ I’m like, ‘You can’t even say Dada before Hippo?’ “

“Now she’s saying ‘Dada,’ so I’m happy,” he adds.

Drew and Phan, 40, are also parents to Parker, 3. They announced Piper’s birth in a June 2024 Instagram post. 

“Our family of 3 has become 4! Piper Rae, I love you with all my heart,” Drew captioned the post.

In a November 2024 appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show, Drew and Jonathan joked that the then 5-month-old Piper initially couldn’t tell them apart.

“Piper is now starting to recognize it’s not me,” Drew said about the time she spends with his brother.

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Jonathan agreed, adding, “Now Piper has officially started to recognize me because, for the first several months, she was confused as to why Daddy shaved.”

“And got older looking and more wrinkled and more gray,” Drew chimed in jokingly.

In their latest interview with PEOPLE, the Property Brothers stars also share that they recently got some family time in Scotland. 

“We took our dad back to his hometown, and then we stayed in a castle, and then we went to Munich and Italy and Zurich. So it was fun to travel and get the kids used at a young age to traveling abroad,” Drew says.

“Our dad’s 91, so if we go, it’s nice to take him, too, because he can go back and see his brother and family. So we did a big family reunion there. We had 60 people together and it was a lot of fun,” he adds.

The brothers — who grew up on a 160-acre ranch at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada — also open up about their new series, which follows the expert builders and real estate pros as they help families looking to trade their busy lives in the city for a slower lifestyle out in the country.   

“It was sort of bittersweet because we could share what we loved about growing up on a ranch with all of these families,” Jonathan says. “On the flip side, I miss it. It was so fun to be in the mountains.”

“It was like a blast to the past for us. It was nostalgic,” Drew says of filming the series. “We were riding horses every other day, and I haven’t ridden in years, so I was sore.”

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Chasing the West premiered on HGTV on July 30.