I had done the show for seven years, I was 14 years old and I was just tired of playing Timmy. At age 18, Provost walked away from the acting business. I came from a family that valued higher education, and when I turned 18 it was time to go to college, plain and simple. He enrolled at Sonoma State University in Northern California, and promptly fell in love with the area's lush wine country. He lives there today, working in real estate.
Provost has three collections.
One is matchbooks, collected from restaurants he's been to. He keeps them in a big brandy snifter. Another is frogs, of the wooden and ceramic variety. But the collection he likes to talk about most is his water bottle collection. That's right, water bottles, like the ones you pay a dollar for at the convenience store when you need to hydrate.