Brody Jenner Biography 2026: The $10M Hills Star’s Story

Last updated: November 15, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Brody Jenner is 43 years old in 2026, and his net worth is an estimated $10 million. The reality television veteran — born Sam Brody Jenner on August 21, 1983, in Los Angeles — has spent two decades turning a famous last name into a working career: MTV’s The Hills, his own dating show Bromance, guest runs on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, a DJ career that keeps him on the road most of the year, and a tequila seltzer brand that put him in the drinks business. Celebrity Net Worth, the most-cited outlet tracking his wealth, lists him at $10 million, updated October 15, 2026.

That figure is the first surprise in this biography. Brody is the son of an Olympic gold medalist and the half-brother of two billionaires-in-waiting, yet his fortune is the smallest in the family by a wide margin — and he built it himself, one television contract and one club booking at a time. He has said so himself: in 2025 interviews he pushed back on the trust-fund label, saying he has been financially independent since his early twenties and that his father paid no child support while he was growing up. This article follows the full arc — the Malibu childhood, the MTV years, the salary figures, the business bets, the marriages and the children — and explains where the $10 million comes from and why it has barely moved in a decade.

Every figure in this profile is either reported by a named outlet or labeled an estimate. Where sources disagree — the net worth total, the exact role he played in his drinks brand — the article names the disagreement instead of picking a number silently.

Who Is Brody Jenner?

Brody Jenner is an American television personality, DJ, and entrepreneur, born August 21, 1983, in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of Caitlyn Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon gold medalist, and actress and songwriter Linda Thompson. He grew up in Malibu, attended the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, and first appeared on television in 2005, in the Fox reality series The Princes of Malibu, alongside his older brother Brandon Jenner, his mother, and his stepfather at the time, music producer David Foster.

His fame arrived two years later, when MTV cast him in The Hills. He joined the show in its second season and stayed through 2010, becoming one of the faces of reality television’s first golden age. Since then he has hosted his own dating show, fronted a talk show, returned for the Hills revival, and — in 2025 — proved himself in a very different kind of television by finishing the selection course on Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, one of only two contestants to do so.

His net worth in 2026 is an estimated $10 million. That number has barely moved in years: NetWorthBreakdown, which also lists $10 million, notes that his wealth growth has flattened since 2015, while his famous relatives multiplied their fortunes many times over. The gap is the story of this biography. Brody never headlined a franchise, never launched a billion-dollar brand, and never inherited a lump sum. His money comes from television contracts, DJ bookings, and a drinks-brand partnership — steady, six-figure-a-year work that adds up slowly.

Early Life: Malibu and a Famous Family

Brody Jenner was born Sam Brody Jenner in Los Angeles on August 21, 1983, to Caitlyn Jenner — then competing as Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Montreal Olympics decathlon champion — and Linda Thompson, an actress and songwriter. His parents divorced when he was young, and he was raised mostly in Malibu by his mother, alongside his older brother Brandon Jenner, a musician. He attended the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, a private school known for its arts program and its celebrity alumni.

The family tree around him kept growing. In 1991, Caitlyn married Kris Jenner, making Brody the stepson of the woman who would build the Kardashian empire and the stepbrother of Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian. His half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner were born in 1995 and 1997. On his mother’s side, his stepfather for a period was David Foster, the music producer, who was married to Linda Thompson from 1991 to 2005.

Brody has been open about the fact that the famous name did not come with family money. In 2025 interviews he said his father never paid child support while he was growing up and that he has been financially independent since his early twenties. That claim is the key to understanding his career: unlike his half-sisters, who were launched into business by the family machine, Brody had to earn his living from television and nightlife, and his $10 million reflects exactly that — a working entertainer’s fortune, not an heir’s.

The Princes of Malibu: First Taste of Fame

Brody’s first television job arrived in 2005, when Fox gave his family its own reality series, The Princes of Malibu. The show followed Brody and Brandon living in Malibu with their mother Linda Thompson and stepfather David Foster, with family friend Spencer Pratt in the mix. It ran for a single short season, but it did two things that shaped the next twenty years: it introduced Brody to television audiences, and it introduced him to Spencer Pratt, who would become his closest friend and his co-star on the show that made them both famous.

The series was not a hit. Fox burned it off quickly, and the Jenner brothers went back to ordinary life. But the format — wealthy young men, Malibu houses, cameras in the living room — was the template MTV was about to turn into a phenomenon, and Brody was already fluent in it. Within two years he was back on television, on a much bigger stage.

The Hills Years (2007–2010)

In 2007, Brody joined the cast of MTV’s The Hills in its second season, and his life changed. The show — a spin-off of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County — followed Lauren Conrad and her circle of friends in Los Angeles, and Brody became its resident heartthrob: the blond surfer type with the famous last name, the on-again-off-again boyfriend, the friend everyone confided in. He stayed through the show’s original run, which ended in 2010, appearing in all of its later seasons.

The money followed the fame. By 2009, Brody was earning $45,000 per episode of The Hills, according to contemporary reporting on the cast’s contracts cited by Celebrity Net Worth. That figure was his rate at that stage of the series, not a disclosed salary for every episode he appeared in across the run, and it is the only hard salary number in his public record. At that rate, a 12-episode season paid roughly $540,000 — serious money for a 26-year-old, and the foundation of his fortune.

His on-screen relationships became part of the show’s story. He dated Lauren Conrad during the series, and he had dated Kristin Cavallari — the star of Laguna Beach — before joining The Hills. Both relationships played out in public, in the way reality television demanded in the late 2000s, and both kept him in the tabloids between seasons. He also dated Avril Lavigne from 2010 to 2012, after the show ended, a relationship that kept his name in the gossip pages while his television work slowed down.

The Hills made Brody a household name, but it also set the ceiling on his career. He was famous for being on a reality show, not for a skill the show had showcased. When the series ended in 2010, he had a name, a following, and a per-episode rate — but no franchise of his own, and no obvious next step. The next decade was spent finding one.

Bromance and Sex With Brody

In 2009, while still on The Hills, MTV gave Brody his own show: Bromance, a dating-competition series in which young men competed to join his entourage. He created, produced, and starred in it — a step up from cast member to producer, and the first time he was the center of a show rather than a supporting player. It ran for one season. The format was a product of its moment, and the moment passed quickly.

Six years later, in 2015, E! gave him another shot at a hosting vehicle: Sex With Brody, a late-night talk and advice show. It was racy, loose, and built entirely around his personality — the same bet MTV had made in 2009, on a different network, in a different era. It also ran for one season. Both shows proved the same point from opposite directions: Brody could carry a show, but the shows built around him never found the audience that The Hills had handed him for free.

These two short-lived series matter for the net-worth picture. They paid hosting and producing fees, and they kept him on television in the years when The Hills money had stopped. They did not, however, create a durable income stream. A reality star’s earning power lives and dies with the show he is on, and between 2010 and 2019 Brody’s shows kept ending after a season.

Keeping Up With the Kardashians

Brody returned to reality television’s biggest stage in 2013, when he began appearing on Keeping Up With the Kardashians in its eighth season. The show starred his stepmother Kris Jenner, his stepsiblings Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian, and his half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner. He appeared in the series through 2015, in storylines that leaned on the family connection — the half-brother dropping in on the world’s most famous family, the outsider who was also an insider.

The appearances kept his name attached to the Kardashian-Jenner brand at the exact moment that brand was becoming a business empire. Kylie was building Kylie Cosmetics; Kim was building her own empire; the family was moving from television fame to billion-dollar valuations. Brody was on the show, but he was not in the business. He has said since that the family machine never shared its bank account with him — “Kendall and Kylie are my sisters. We have the same last name, but we don’t share a bank account,” he said in 2025 — and his $10 million, next to Kim Kardashian’s $1.9 billion fortune and Kylie Jenner’s $700 million beauty empire, is the proof. Readers can compare the full family picture in our biography of Caitlyn Jenner, the parent whose Olympic fame started the whole story.

The Hills: New Beginnings (2019–2021)

In 2019, MTV revived The Hills as The Hills: New Beginnings, and Brody came back. The revival reunited him with Spencer Pratt and the surviving cast, now in their thirties, with marriages, children, and businesses to show for the decade since the original ended. It ran for two seasons, ending in 2021.

The revival paid, and it mattered, but it was a nostalgia play rather than a relaunch. The audience was smaller, the cultural moment had moved on, and the show did not produce a third season. For Brody it was a reminder of the same lesson: television kept paying him, but only when someone else built the show. His own shows had not lasted, and the revivals belonged to MTV, not to him.

By the time New Beginnings ended, Brody’s career had already shifted toward the work that actually sustains him now. The DJ booth and the drinks brand were paying more reliably than television, and they did not depend on a network’s schedule.

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test (2025)

In 2025, Brody joined the third season of Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, the military-style reality competition that puts celebrities through a ten-day selection course run by former special-forces operators. It was the hardest thing he had done on television, and it was the first time in years that a show asked him to do something other than be charming on camera.

He finished it. Brody and Kayla Nicole were the only two participants to pass the final selection process in Season 3, out of a cast that started with more than a dozen celebrities. The achievement landed in 2025 as the single biggest television moment of his later career — and it arrived at a useful time, just as he was settling into married life and fatherhood. It also gave him a new kind of credibility: the reality star who had proved, on camera, that he could take punishment and keep going.

The show paid an appearance fee, as these competitions do, and the number was not disclosed. Its real value was reputational. After years of being introduced as “the son of” or “the half-brother of”, Brody had a credit that belonged to him alone, earned on a course that did not care who his family was.

The DJ Career: BRODY X DEVIN

The steadiest income in Brody Jenner’s life comes from music, not television. For years he has performed as one half of the DJ duo BRODY X DEVIN, alongside Devin Lucien, playing club residencies and international dates. Bored Panda’s August 2026 profile notes that he spends much of the year on the road, holding residencies in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and playing dates around the world. Trade coverage of his bookings describes high-five-figure appearance fees for brand and luxury-venue sets — a long way from the $500 bar gigs of a hobbyist DJ.

DJ work is the part of his career that looks most like a business. Television pays in bursts, when a show is filming. DJ bookings pay all year, in cities that keep inviting him back, and the fees compound: a residency in Las Vegas is worth more than a one-off set, and a duo with a brand is worth more than a solo act. NetWorthBreakdown’s model of his wealth puts DJ and event hosting at $3 million of his $10 million — the second-largest slice after reality television itself — and that split fits the shape of his working life in 2026, when he is on the road for much of the year.

He has also built a direct line to his audience outside the clubs. He and his wife, pro surfer Tia Blanco, run the Brody & Tia YouTube channel, where the couple documents their family life. It is a small operation next to the Kardashian machine, but it is his own — and it turns his personal life into income without a network in the middle.

Mamitas: The Tequila Seltzer Bet

In 2020, Brody moved into the drinks business with Mamitas, a tequila-based hard seltzer introduced by Phusion Projects, the company behind Four Loko. He became closely associated with the brand from its launch, appearing in its marketing and lending it his name and his nightlife credibility. Many profiles describe Mamitas as “his company” or “his brand”. That description is wrong, and the correction matters.

A Phusion Projects marketing executive explained in a 2021 interview, cited by Celebrity Net Worth, that Brody was a partner in Mamitas with more creative involvement than a conventional ambassador — but he was not an owner. The financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. In other words, he has a stake and a role in the brand, not control of it, and the value of that stake is not public. NetWorthBreakdown’s model assigns $2 million of his $10 million to “nightlife ventures and clubs”, which is the closest thing to a published figure for this part of his wealth — but it is a model, not a reported valuation, and this article treats it as such.

The bet itself was well timed. Hard seltzer was the fastest-growing drinks category of the early 2020s, and a tequila-based seltzer aimed at the nightlife crowd was a natural fit for a DJ with a Malibu address. Whether the partnership ever pays out like a founder’s equity stake is a different question, and one the public record cannot answer. What it has already paid is attention: Mamitas kept Brody’s name in the business press in the years when his television work was quiet.

Brody Jenner Net Worth in 2026

Brody Jenner’s net worth in 2026 is an estimated $10 million, per Celebrity Net Worth, updated October 15, 2026. Published estimates cluster tightly around that figure: NetWorthBreakdown also lists $10 million, with a published income-split model behind it. TheMost10 lists $12 million on its main profile (and $15 million on an older page), which sets the high end of the range. Taken together, the honest range is $10–12 million, with $10 million the anchor — the figure the most-cited outlet stands behind, and the one two of the three sources agree on.

NetWorthBreakdown’s model breaks the $10 million into five slices: reality television $4 million, DJ and event hosting $3 million, nightlife ventures and clubs $2 million, brand endorsements $1 million, and social media and partnerships $800,000. The site’s own arithmetic overshoots its own total — the slices add to $10.8 million — which is a reminder that these splits are a model, not an audit. But the shape is useful: television is the largest slice, the DJ career is close behind, and the drinks business is the third leg. The site also estimates his annual income at roughly $1 million, or about $83,000 a month — a figure derived from the net worth over his career span, not from disclosed contracts, and best read as an order of magnitude rather than a paycheck.

Why has the number barely moved since 2015? NetWorthBreakdown’s answer is blunt: Brody never headlined a major franchise the way his famous relatives did, and his wealth growth flattened while theirs compounded. The $45,000-an-episode Hills money was real, but a reality star’s television income stops when the show stops, and Brody’s shows kept stopping. His DJ career and his drinks partnership pay steadily, but they pay in the six figures a year, not the seven. A million a year, minus taxes, management, and the cost of a Malibu life, leaves a $10 million fortune that grows slowly — which is exactly what the published record shows.

For readers tracking celebrity wealth across the family, our Celebrity Net Worth category carries the full archive of profiles, including the Kardashian-Jenner family members whose fortunes dwarf Brody’s.

Personal Life: Tia Blanco and Two Daughters

Brody Jenner’s personal life changed completely in the 2020s. In 2022, he began dating professional surfer Tia Blanco after meeting her during a trip to Hawaii. They got engaged in June 2023, and their first daughter, Honey Raye Jenner, was born in July 2023. On July 12, 2025, they married in an intimate ceremony at his mother Linda Thompson’s home in Malibu, with Honey participating in the ceremony. Their second daughter, Dolly Jane Jenner, was born on September 21, 2026 — making Brody a father of two before his 43rd birthday had passed by two months.

The marriage is the most settled chapter of a personal life that spent years in the tabloids. Blanco, a professional surfer with her own career and following, is not a reality television figure, and the couple’s public life together — including their Brody & Tia YouTube channel — is built around surfing, family, and the Malibu life Brody grew up in, rather than the club scene that defined his twenties. The wedding, held at home rather than staged for television, fits the same pattern: a private ceremony for a man who spent his twenties on camera.

Brody is 43, married, and a father of two, living in the town where he was raised. The biography that began with a famous name and a reality show has arrived, in 2026, at a settled family life — and the DJ residencies and the television appearances now fit around the children, rather than the other way around.

Past Relationships

Before Tia Blanco, Brody’s relationships were part of his public career. He dated Kristin Cavallari, the star of Laguna Beach, before joining The Hills. He dated Lauren Conrad during his Hills years, a relationship that played out on the show itself. After The Hills ended, he dated Avril Lavigne from 2010 to 2012.

His most serious relationship before Blanco was with model Kaitlynn Carter. They got engaged in May 2016 and held a widely publicized commitment ceremony in June 2018 — though, as Bored Panda’s profile notes, they were not legally married. They split in August 2019. The distinction matters: the ceremony was covered like a wedding, but no marriage certificate followed it, and the split was a breakup rather than a divorce.

Each of these relationships kept Brody in the public eye between television jobs, and each of them ended before he met Blanco in Hawaii in 2022. The pattern of his twenties and thirties — famous girlfriends, tabloid coverage, a new show — gave way in his forties to a marriage and two children that he keeps largely out of the gossip cycle.

Family: The Jenner-Kardashian Connection

No biography of Brody Jenner makes sense without the family, and the family is where the money story gets its sharpest contrast. His father is Caitlyn Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion whose transition and reality television career made her one of the most famous people in America. Caitlyn Jenner’s biography is the story of the gold medal, the Wheaties box, and the second fame that came with Keeping Up With the Kardashians — and the net-worth picture there is its own argument: Caitlyn Jenner’s net worth is reported anywhere from $25 million to $120 million depending on the outlet, a spread that says more about how hard these figures are to pin down than about any single number.

His mother, Linda Thompson, is an actress and songwriter who raised Brody and his older brother Brandon in Malibu after her divorce from Caitlyn. Brandon Jenner, a musician and reality television personality in his own right, starred alongside Brody in The Princes of Malibu. His stepmother for most of his childhood was Kris Jenner, who married Caitlyn in 1991 and built the Kardashian-Jenner business empire from the family’s television fame.

His half-sisters are Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Kendall became one of the highest-paid models in the world. Kylie built Kylie Cosmetics into a beauty empire worth hundreds of millions. His stepsiblings are Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian. Kim’s fortune alone — $1.9 billion by the most recent estimates — is nearly two hundred times Brody’s. The family connection gave Brody his first television job and his most famous surname, but it never gave him a share of the empire. His biography is the story of the one Jenner-Kardashian who had to make his own money, and did — slowly, and on a much smaller scale than anyone watching the family show would guess.

Brody Jenner vs His Famous Family

The comparison, using our own Guide Net Worth profiles of his family, makes the gap plain — and it makes Brody’s $10 million look less like a failure than like the honest size of a working entertainer’s fortune next to a set of business empires.

The gap has a reason, and it is not talent. Kim and Kylie built companies. Scott Disick, the family’s other reality-television man, built a $45 million fortune on the same kind of fame Brody had — but Disick stayed on the Kardashian show for a decade and turned his screen time into businesses, while Brody left the family show after two years and built a DJ career instead. Caitlyn’s $25 million comes from an Olympic gold medal and a lifetime of endorsements. Brody’s $10 million comes from the work he did himself, one contract at a time. It is the smallest fortune in the family, and the one with the least help behind it.

What Comes Next for Brody Jenner

Brody Jenner’s calendar for the rest of 2026 and into 2027 looks different from any year before it. He is 43, married, and the father of a newborn — Dolly Jane arrived on September 21, 2026 — and the work that fits around two small children is the work he already does: DJ residencies that run in blocks, television appearances that film in weeks, and the Brody & Tia channel, which turns family life into content without a network’s schedule.

The Special Forces finish in 2025 opened a door that reality television had not offered him before: competition and adventure formats, where the test is physical rather than social. If Fox or another network brings him back for that kind of show, it would be the first time since The Hills that television offered him a recurring role built on something he did rather than someone he is related to. The Mamitas partnership, meanwhile, is a long bet: if the brand grows, his stake grows with it, and the $10 million figure could finally move. If it does not, the DJ booths will keep paying, and the fortune will keep growing slowly — the way it has for the last ten years.

At 43, Brody Jenner is not a young reality star anymore. He is a working entertainer with a family, a trade, and a fortune he earned himself — $10 million, built one episode and one club set at a time, in the shadow of the richest family on television. The next snapshot of that fortune will probably look much like this one. That is not a failure. It is the shape of a career that was never going to be a billion dollars, and never pretended to be.

Sources & Reporting

This article was researched on November 15, 2026, from live reporting: Celebrity Net Worth (updated October 15, 2026) for the $10 million anchor, the $45,000-per-episode Hills salary, the Mamitas partnership correction, the Special Forces Season 3 result, and the September 21, 2026 birth of Dolly Jane; NetWorthBreakdown (2026) for the $10 million figure and its income-split model; TheMost10 for the $12 million high-end estimate; Infoseemedia (updated June 20, 2026) for the $10 million figure, the 6 ft 1 in height, and the Crossroads School detail; Bored Panda’s August 21, 2026 profile for the DJ duo BRODY X DEVIN, the international residencies, the Kaitlynn Carter commitment ceremony, and the 2026 family news; Wikipedia and Simple Wikipedia for the birth date, the career timeline, and the July 12, 2025 wedding to Tia Blanco; TV Insider and ProfileAge for the career credits; Famous Birthdays for the relationship history; and our own Guide Net Worth profiles of Caitlyn Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Scott Disick, and Rob Kardashian for the family comparison. Where sources disagreed — the net-worth total, the Mamitas ownership question — the article names the disagreement instead of picking a number silently. Corrections are welcome via the About page.

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