Savannah Chrisley has revealed that her family is going to do a new reality show while her parents serve their multi-year prison sentences for bank fraud and tax evasion.
In the latest episode of her podcast, Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley, 25-year-old Savannah opened up about her family returning to reality TV and making their comeback.
She was joined by paternal grandmother Nanny Faye and her 10-year-old niece Chloe Chrisley – who Savannah is raising while her parents are behind bars.
Grandma Chrisley joked that their new show should be called Nanny Knows Best, leading Savannah to say, ‘Well, you do know, we’re talking to a few production companies about doing another show.’
Todd and Julie Chrisley, 50, were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison last November. Julie is serving her seven-year stint in Kentucky, while Todd does 12 years at a minimum-security prison in Florida.
Ready for round two: Savannah Chrisley has revealed that her family is going to do a new reality show while her parents serve their multi-year prison sentences for bank fraud and tax evasion
‘Tons of production companies have reached out and networks that want to do a show,’ claimed Savannah.
And Nanny Faye is game for another reality show, as the 79-year-old matriarch declared: ‘I’m ready to go work. I’m ready to walk down that highway any day…I’m ready.’
Nanny Faye even went on to suggest a potential title for their comeback vehicle: ‘Bounce Back Chrisleys.’
Savannah gave the title her full endorsement, saying, ‘It’s so true. At the end of the day, we’re not going to allow this to stop us from moving forward.’
Dusting off some old-school wisdom, Nanny Faye proclaimed, ‘The sun’s gonna come up, and the sun’s gonna come down.
‘We have no control over it. What we have control is we’re gonna get up and dust our pants off today and get to going.
‘And we’re gonna let the world see that we’re really who we were. We love each other, we’re gonna walk this walk and talk this talk.’
From there, Savannah discussed how Chrisley Knows Best was less of a reality show and ‘more of a comedy.’
She’s game: In the latest episode of her podcast, Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley , 25-year-old Savannah opened up about her family returning to reality TV and making their comeback
Behind bars: Todd and Julie Chrisley, 50, were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison last November. Julie is serving her seven-year stint in Kentucky, while Todd does 12 years at a minimum-security prison in Florida
‘It became more of a comedy than it was reality,’ said Savannah. ‘We had fun doing it because we all got to work together, so we got to be around each other.’
Savannah laid out the road map for what their future show will look like, saying, ‘We’re going to touch on where we’re at today, Mom and Dad being gone, how we’re coping with it, how we get through it.
‘Also too, having two kids and all of us stepping in to make sure that they have what they need emotionally, psychologically, physically, all the things, I feel like there’s a level of humor to it as well.’
Wrapping up their conversation, Savannah said that ‘life goes on’ and that getting used to their ‘new normal’ is something that they must face as a family – adding that their new show ‘will be heartwarming. It’ll break your heart, you’ll laugh…’
Savannah recently broke hearts on another episode of her podcast when she opened up about struggling to raise her teenage brother Grayson, 16, and her young niece Chloe, 10.
‘It’s been hard – it’s been hard to understand, to process and also help two kids process what’s been going on in our life,’ said Savannah.
The podcaster added that Grayson had a breakdown and she had personally ‘felt defeated’ as she prepared to take Chloe to visit her relatives in prison.
‘I don’t feel adequate enough for this job,’ Savannah said, adding that she finds ‘the strength to get through it and do it.’
A lot of interest: ‘Well, you do know, we’re talking to a few production companies about doing another show,’ said Savannah
Fielding offers: The podcaster claimed that ‘tons of production companies have reached out and networks that want to do a show’
Savannah referenced her mother Julie, saying: ‘I am not my mother, which I wish I was – because she is the kindest, most loving, most amazing human being I’ve ever met.
‘I always said if I could be half of her, I would be okay. I guess in moments like these, I realize I’m more like my mom than I realize because I’m getting through it.’
Savannah said that she emailed her father about her ‘crappy day,’ and he responded with an encouraging message.
In the letter Todd sent, according to Savannah, he told her, ‘I want you to give yourself some grace.
‘Fall in love with the real Savannah, the one that I raised that radiates a room with her kindness and compassion. Not the one the world wants to see.’
He continued in the letter: ‘Remember, to gain the world and lose your soul, then what do you have?
‘I’ve never been more proud of you and the woman you’re becoming. You’ve been cast in the fire and what God burns off will allow you to shine brighter than gold.’
The Chrisley Knows Best couple were sentenced to federal prison on November 22, and they began their respective sentences January 17.
Their new show: Savannah laid out the road map for what their future show will look like, saying, ‘We’re going to touch on where we’re at today, Mom and Dad being gone, how we’re coping with it, how we get through it’
