Todd Chrisley Admits He Was ‘Embarrassed’ for Daughter Savannah on ‘The Masked Singer’
There was one of Savannah Chrisley‘s reality TV appearances that Todd Chrisley didn’t tune in to while serving time in jail.
“I missed The Masked Singer because I was embarrassed for her, but I knew she was going to do that,” Todd quipped during his interview with Savannah and wife Julie Chrisley on Hulu’s IMPACT x Nightline: The Chrisleys: Life After Lockup special, which premiered on Sunday, June 29. “Because she cannot sing.”
Savannah agreed with her father’s assessment of her singing skills, adding, “Yeah, that was awful.” Julie, for her part, shared that she did tune in to Savannah’s episode of the Fox singing competition series while behind bars.
Despite the secondhand embarrassment, Todd praised Savannah for doing her best. “I guess the beautiful part of that is that she went and did that and she didn’t care how bad she was,” he stated.
After performing her rendition of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens, Savannah was unmasked as the show’s Afghan Hound during a March 2024 episode of the reality show.
“My life over the past year has changed drastically,” she told host Nick Cannon about why she decided to join the series. “[I] lost both my parents to the federal system, and now I have custody of my 15-year-old brother and 10-year-old sister. So, if I can teach them anything, it’s take everything that comes your way and don’t back down.”
Savannah went on to joke that she had a “good experience” despite her lack of musical skills or knowledge. She continued, “A big reason I did this is because I know my parents can watch it, and that was a big thing for me.”
Todd and Julie were found guilty of tax evasion in 2022 and began serving multi-year prison sentences in January 2023. The couple were granted full pardons by President Donald Trump last month and were released from jail on May 28.
Amid the pair’s prison sentences, Savannah gained custody of her younger brother, Grayson Chrisley, and her niece, Chloe Chrisley. She continuously advocated for her parents’ release while also serving as the family’s primary breadwinner.
Todd applauded Savannah for keeping their family afloat during the Life After Lockup special. “A child should not have to take care of their parents. It’s the parents’ job to take care of the child,” he stated. “But for whatever reason, God blessed us with a child that is so unlike so many other kids out there. I said to her many times, ‘You were built for this moment.’”
Julie, for her part, added, “I hate that it happened the way that it did because her life was on hold. Now yes, they are her siblings, but it’s not her job to raise them.”
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That trial was total joke though. Regular citizen would have had those charges thrown out.
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What a shmuck...he needn't have said anything
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Trump I voted for you, why the FULL pardon ?
And why are you NOT helping Vermont homeless that have lived here their whole lives???
There's no affordable decent housing anymore and out of staters coming. Vermont is going to crap.
Plenty of Vermonter's are poor but good people.
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Because the homeless and poor do not give him anything in return, that's why. He has shown disdain and retaliation towards those that didn't vote for him so he has even less incentive to help those in Democrat-leaning Vermont. He has never pretended he wanted to be a president for everybody - he only believes in loyalists and enemies with no in between. He feels kinship with those who were "wronged" the same way he feels he was by the legal system (you know, by committing crimes and getting caught for them). So the fact that the Chrisleys were on reality TV and got busted for tax fraud meant a pardon for them gives even more public attention to him - former reality TV star himself - and allows him to lambast the courts and downplay his own convictions every chance he gets by trying to paint them both as "victims" of the "crooked" justice department. Plus their daughter has been faithfully peddling MAGA to her "fans" for the past year and cozying up to Trump all day, every day. Basically, they kissed his fat orange behind and he fell for it.
Feel free to do your own research on his pardons and see just how many are self-serving in terms of either involving campaign donations that occur shortly before or political ties to him. These are the only types of people that are useful to him, while everyone else - no matter how "good" they are - are allowed to rot.
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What a derogatory sentiment for him to express! 😱 She wasn't bad at all! This family continues to rub against the grain of respectability on so many levels, continuing their love of the media cesspools that engage them and that they thrive in...shame.😪
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I don't know what you were listening to! Yes she was that bad! I love her but singing is not her thing.
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The whole Chrisley family is an embarassment. I hope Lifetime tanks for wanting to bother with their new show. Waste of air time.
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