President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said he would nominate former Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy as the head of his Department of Transportation. Trump in a statement announcing the nomination called Duffy a "tremendous and well-liked public servant" and said Duffy "knows how important it is for families to be able to travel safely,

Former Wisconsin congressman and MTV reality star Sean P. Duffy has been named by President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee for transportation secretary. “Sean will use his experience and the relationships he has built over many years in Congress to maintain and rebuild” the country’s infrastructure, Trump said in a statement.

Like Trump, a former reality-TV personality: Duffy was featured on MTV’s “The Real World: Boston” in 1997. He and his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, met on the set of MTV’s “Road Rules: All Stars” in 1998. Campos-Duffy is a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend.”