The Chrisley family are ride or die through thick and thin — except in cases of extreme cringe apparently.
Todd, the recently pardoned patriarch of the clan of reality TV royalty, recently admitted that he skipped daughter Savannah’s season of The Masked Singer when it aired in 2024 while he and wife Julie were incarcerated.
“I missed The Masked Singer because I was embarrassed for her. I knew she was going to do it, but she cannot sing,” he joked during an interview for ABC News Studios’ new special The Chrisleys: Life After Lockup.
Julie laughed, noting, “I watched it!” while Savannah agreed, “Yeah, I was awful.”
Though Todd had to avert his ears from his eldest daughter’s brief and inharmonious turn as Afghan Hound on season 11 of the reality competition series (she was eliminated first after a performance of The Tokens’ “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”), he said he was able to appreciate the larger gesture her appearance on the series contained.
“I guess the beautiful part of that is she went and did that, and she didn’t care how bad she was,” he said.
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Todd and Julie Chrisley, who starred on the popular USA Network reality series Chrisley Knows Best from 2014 to 2023, were convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion in 2022 and sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison, but their time was drastically cut short when they were pardoned by President Donald Trump in May.
Already home in Nashville with their extended family, the Chrisleys opened up about the fact that their incarceration meant Savannah, 27, had to step up as the family’s breadwinner.
“A child should not have to take care of their parents,” Todd told ABC’s Juju Chang. “It’s the parents’ job to take care of their child.”
In the years her parents were incarcerated, Savannah sent brother Grayson off to college, weathered further family legal troubles, and campaigned for her parents’ pardons. On top of that, she launched the podcast Unlocked, founded the telehealth beauty service Good Girl RX, and appeared on series like The Masked Singer and Special Forces.
Reflecting on the changes that have come to pass since their parents entered prison in 2022, Chase Chrisley noted in May that Julie’s “hair is darker now. I went, ‘Momma, we gotta go back platinum blonde.’ And she was like, ‘I’m not doing that.'” As for Todd, Chase joked, “My dad is just jacked. He hit the gym hard.”
IMPACT x Nightline: The Chrisleys: Life After Lockup premiered June 29 on Hulu and Disney+ and airs June 30 on Good Morning America.