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Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht Wiki, Age, Height, Weight, Biography & Family

Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht (born in 1990) an American reality show star and a florist. The famous magazine Harper’s Bazaar named him one of the top florists in the world.

He basically provides flower decoration services to high-fi weddings in the USA. Other than weddings he also provides services for parties.

On Netflix, a new show named “The Big Flower Fight” got released on 18 th May 2020. In this show, you will see stars like Natasia Demetriou, Vic Reeves, and obviously Kristen Griffith. In this show, you will see florists, sculptors, and garden designers competing to build a garden sculpture.

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Childhood, Parents, Siblings & Education

One of the World’s top florists named Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht (age 29 years old as in the year 2019) took birth in New York, USA. He landed on the earth in the year 1990.

It is his first show where he will now describe himself and his career. Much of the data about his life is still missing which will be available in the near future on Wikicelebs.com.

He grew up in central NYC and here he attended a local private school. He is an artist and this started reflecting from his personality when he was in school. Just because of this he won many art competitions during that time.

Personal life, Gay Husband & Children

There many people who do not know but Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht is gay. He is married to his husband Aaron Griffith-VanderYacht.

They both met in New York back in the year 2011. They both are quite fond of each other and this is the reason why they both got married in the year 2013. Kristen and his partner are very open about their sexuality.

They both decided that they want to adopt a kid and this is the reason why they adopted a son in the year 2016.

The couple became his parents on 15 June in the same year. The name of their child is Hugo.

They say the kid will make their life more wonderful and they are nothing but happy to have him in their life.

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Some Lesser Known Facts about Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht

• Now that he will appear in the show it will be interesting to see how he works.
• But it will also be interesting to know how his career started and what he does in his life to earn his bread.
• Wikicelebs.com discovered that he has an interest in gardening from his teens.

• As he grew up he decided that he wants to be a florist. He wanted to be a professional one that is why he took professional training.
• Now he has his business in New York where he takes orders to provide flower decoration facilities.
• He is famous for his service and that is the reason why he is recognized as one of the bests in this field.
• Being a florist Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht is doing a good job and now he is appearing in a Netflix show. This show will be a leap in his career.
• The makers of the show brought a very new and different concept through which they will target the new segment of the audience.
• Her husband supports him in his business. As of 2020, his net worth is around $700 k and it seems like with the popularity of the show it will increase to a great extent.
• He loves to get clicked.
• Kristen has a big team who helps him in doing his work as the job that he does is not of a single person.
• His husband is also present on Insta but he has a private account by the name “aarongvy”.
• Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht loves to get dressed well and with his 5 ft 9 in tall (1.75 m) he looks impressive.

• More than 19 k people are Kristen’s followers on Instagram and this count is going up and up.
• In the show, he will appear as a judge and said that he will neither use a sugar-coated speech but will also not be harsh with words in his comments.
• The makers of the show “The Big Flower Fight” approached him through an Instagram DM.
• As Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht said he got interviewed for the show in a Starbucks café

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Big Flower Fight Judge Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht Wants to Get Back to the Dome

"It feels like you're stepping into the Secret Garden, " he says.

• Celebrity florist Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht is the judge of the new Netflix show The Big Flower Fight .
• On the show, teams of floral designers are challenged to create elaborate structures made of plants.
• In an interview with OprahMag.com, Griffith-VanderYacht opened up his career, the show, and what he really thinks of the contestants stealing flowers.

Mary Berry. Ru Paul . Simon Cowell. When it comes to reality competition shows, the judges, with their idiosyncratic personalities and catch-phrases, are as important as the talent. As judge of The Big Flower Figh t on Netflix, acclaimed florist Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht, 36, joins that lauded set—but only he knows how to construct a giant recreation of a miniature Schnauzer, made entirely of long grasses (watch the episode "Huge Hairy Beasts " to see the installation in all its glory).

"It's more than just shoving flowers into a vase," Griffith-VanderYacht, the owner of Seattle's Wild Bloom Florals , whose arrangements have been featured in celebrity weddings and on magazine covers, tells OprahMag.com of The Big Flower Fight .

That's an understatement. On The Big Flower Fight , 10 teams of two are challenged to create elaborate floral installations, ranging from life-size couture dresses made of cut flowers to super-sized insects crafted with living plants. Along with a guest judge, Griffith-VanderYacht crowns one winning team, and eliminates another.

Griffith-VanderYacht's involvement with The Big Flower Fight started with an Instagram DM. "It was probably the most nontraditional route a person could take to getting on television," Griffith-VanderYacht jokes.

The Seattle native was dropping his baby son off at daycare when he got a message on Instagram about a mysterious TV project. Griffith-Vanderyacht pulled into a Starbucks parking lot, "because they have that good WiFi, and you can't mess around with WiFi," and had a 10-minute video call with strangers.

"I didn't even know what I was auditioning for. Then I heard back maybe two weeks later, they're like, 'Okay, we would like you for this project.' And I was like, "Well, what's the project?" And they're like, 'It's for Netflix.' And then my wig blew off," Griffith-VanderYacht says.

While The Big Flower Fight came out of nowhere, Griffith-VanderYacht has been "planting the seeds" (sorry!) for a similar opportunity for years, thanks to his illustrious career in the floral industry.

According to Wild Bloom Floral's website , Griffth-VanderYacht's flowers have been in major publications across the US, including Martha Stewart Weddings , Traditional Home Magazine , and The Knot , and seen on Good Morning America and E! . His flowers for actress Julianne Hough's wedding were featured on the front cover of People .

Wild Bloom Floral is the culmination of Griffith-VanderYacht's lifelong love of flowers. Growing up in Detroit, he spent summers tending to his mother's garden in their large backyard. "I was like, yes, this is amazing! I get to play in the dirt, and pull stuff out. Little did I know it was manual labor," he says with a laugh.

While gardening, Griffith-VanderYacht says he feels "rooted in something very true to [himself]." In 2011, Griffith-VanderYacht took steps to turn his lifelong hobby into a career. "I had never really known anything about the professional side of floristry. So, I allowed myself to really just get into it and observe and read and research and play. That was probably the biggest gift I could have given myself... the opportunity to play with flowers, because through that, I discovered my own voice," he says.

As a judge, Griffith-VanderYacht hopes to be an example for other aspiring florists, especially those of color.

"I want it to be a really good representation, not just on the show, but in my everyday life, of Black excellence, and what it means to be a person of color that other little kids can look up to and say, 'Wow, I didn't know that it could be cool to be a florist!' I didn't get to have that as a little kid. It was something that I had to discover," he says.

There's one child that Griffith-VanderYacht thinks of, especially: His son Hugo, whom Griffith-VanderYacht and his husband, Aaron, adopted back in June 2019 .

"I take that role incredibly seriously, not only for myself, but also for my son. He has the rare and very singular opportunity to grow up having two parents of very different races and very different cultural backgrounds. And so I want him to experience and understand the richness and the dichotomy of both of those worlds," Griffith-VanderYacht says.

In addition to raising his son, Griffith-VanderYacht hopes to have more "flower babies" in the future, too. When asked about challenges that didn't make the season, he's reluctant to give them away.

"I'm not going to tell you because I'm hoping they'll be in season 2, if we get one," he says.

For now, The Big Flower Fight 's eight-episode first season is worth watching for Griffith-VanderYacht's jewel-toned suits, coordinated especially for the challenges, and for his commentary, which is as colorful as the flowers themselves. One particularly memorable zinger? Griffith-VanderYacht staring at the droopy face of a lion statue, and saying: "I asked for character . I did not ask for sloppy ."

While always honest, he tempers his pronouncements with kindness and genuine awe. Even now, he speaks of the contestants' accomplishments with pride. "I feel like those teams are all my babies. They're my flower children," he says.

With that sentiment in mind, he's a mentor first, and a judge second. As the teams build their structures, Griffith-VanderYacht gives restrained pointers (and occasional side-eye).

"When it was appropriate, I would give them advice. Other times, like any parent, you have to let your kids experience failure in order to learn. But it was tempting to go and help," he says.

From his position on the sidelines, Griffith-VanderYacht also bears witness to the small spats that put the "fight" in The Big Flower Fight , like when Irish team Eoghan and Declan stockpile all the tall grasses to prevent others from using it, or when Yan and Henck steal mirrors.

"Even the stealing is a little tongue in cheek. It doesn't even feel like, Ooh, I'm out to get you . It's more like, I'm just being competitive. It's all in good fun," he says.

Being an observer, not a participant, had another perk: While the participants sweated in the humid dome, where the installations were constructed, Griffith-VanderYacht could appreciate its beauty—then get fresh air.

"You can get transported walking into the dome. It feels like you're stepping into the Secret Garden. It's like you're going from black-and-white into Technicolor. You are Dorothy coming out of her house and walking into Oz," he says. He can't wait to get back to the dome—and neither can we.

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