Tev Grant is an American actor, model, influencer, and all-round creative who has emerged from the notoriously fickle world of reality television fame to create a long-lasting career for himself. He first came to the viewing public’s attention in 2018 when he appeared as contestant on the seventh season of MTV’s Are You the One? The show features young singles who have been secretly matched with another participant — their task is to find out who. Grant found his perfect match in Kenya Grant and the pair began dating before splitting. This led to them both appearing on another MTV reality series, Ex on the Beach, which aired during summer 2019. He is a popular influencer on social media, most notably Instagram where he has over 109,000 followers.

Grant was born in 1995 and raised in Savage, Minnesota. He moved to Phoenix, Arizona to attend Grand Canyon University, and it was here that he began to show his inspirational and leadership potential by starting the Progress More Often foundation, a venture that functions as a lifestyle empowerment brand, encouraging young people to live inspirational, positive, and progressive lives. He has stayed in Arizona ever since, continuing to build the foundation and further his career in entertainment.

Grant is certainly leveraging his reality television to fame to give back: he currently works with the National Job Corps Association community, encouraging and motivating Job Corps students through his motivational ‘Tev Talks’ and helping to create a strong, positive online community that young people can feel a part of and use as a platform to progress more often.