Month: July 2025

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Todd Chrisley fancies himself a tough guy.

The convicted criminal appeared on the July 1 episode of his daughter’s ‘Unlocked” podcast and delved into his life as an inmate for 28 months.

As you likely know at this point, the USA Network personality became a free man three weeks ago after President Donald Trump issued Todd and his wife a full pardon.

In one snippet from the interview, Chrisley said he was behind bars at the same facility Todd Singer, the mastermind behind the infamous college admissions scandal that also landed Felicity Huffman in jail back in the way.

According to Todd, Singer was “talking smack” about Savannah, which caused the quasi celebrities to nearly trade blows.

“He was talking sh-t about Savannah, because that’s when she had already started, you know, pulling the Barbara Walters and exposing everything in the [Bureau of Prisons]. He started talking smack,” Todd claimed.

“I said, ‘I will rip your head off and sh-t down your neck if you talk about my child again.’ And I meant what I said.”

Todd Chrisley, folks. Tough guy.

As part of this sit-down, Todd also talked about how he mentally coped while in prison.

“In my head, I was still free,” he explained. “I did not take up residence there. I was in prison, prison was not in me.”

Added the Donald Trump supplicant:

“I prayed, I read my Bible, I worked out, I walked. I wreaked havoc on anyone that was mistreating somebody else.”

After questioning God, prior to the Big Guy touching President Trump we guess, Chrisley said God eventually came to him in a dream.

“[He] said, ‘I have planted you where I need you and when you leave, they will rise,’” Todd alleged to his daughter.

Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Todd referred to FPC Pensacola as “a bad, busted summer camp” and said he made “great friends” during his time behind bars, mostly using faith to help him get through.

Looking ahead, Todd and Julie Chrisley — who were convicted of tax evasion and financial fraud by a jury of their peers in 2022 — will soon host a podcast of their own.

They will also co-star with their loved ones on a Chrisley Knows Best revival. Because of course they will, right?

“The Chrisleys don’t know best anymore, but they’re doing their best to be there for each other,” a USA Network synopsis read a short time back of the upcoming series.

“The family faces the challenge of carrying on the Chrisley name and legacy on their own with only phone calls and brief visits with their incarcerated parents.”

Todd Chrisley: I Nearly Beat the $hit Out of a Prison Inmate! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Every morning on the Today show, Savannah Guthrie greets viewers with a smile and an upbeat attitude to help them start their day.

But off camera, the beloved journalist and TV personality has dealt with more than her share of personal anguish.

During a recent appearance on Monica Lewinksy’s “Reclaiming” podcast, Guthrie opened up about a particularly painful chapter from her past.

Savannah Guthrie says divorce was ‘horrible,’ required years of recovery

In 2009, Guthrie ended her three-year marriage to Mark Orchard. She rarely speaks about the ordeal publicly, and today, she revealed why that is.

“It was horrible and sad and it broke my heart and it took me years to recover,” Guthrie said when asked why she’s usually tight-lipped on the topic of her divorce.

“And I’m not blaming anyone, but I don’t really want to get into it, you know.”

Guthrie scarcely made mention of her divorce in the religious memoir she published last year.

“It’s the one thing I didn’t want to talk about,” she said of that decision, adding that while she wanted her audience to know she “experienced adversity,” she didn’t want to tell them “the depths of that.”

“Some of it was just too personal and too embarrassing. Which I basically said,” she continued.

Savannah’s happily ever after

These days, Guthrie is happily married to Michael Feldman, her husband of 11 years.

“I met him very soon after getting separated and divorced so I was like, ‘Here’s what’s never going to happen.’ So it took a long long time, but we talked about it because of our differing faiths and because my faith is so important to me,” she explained.

“We dated for five and a half years, wait for it because a lot of reasons, and we both had commitment issues for our own reasons,” Guthrie recalled.

“All I know is that I’m trying to have integrity in my faith with my children and in my family, and Mike is there with me allowing me to do that.”

In February, Guthrie opened up about meeting Feldman and having children later in life.

“When I was 36, I got divorced. I wasn’t married long. That was a huge disappointment. I was pretty sure that I had lost my opportunity and more or less ruined my life,” she told Us Weekly.

“All I ever really wanted was to fall in love, be a mom and have a family. I don’t know if it’s acceptable to admit these days, but that’s kind of how I was. I wanted to do something important and meaningful, but I really wanted a family,” Guthrie went on.

These days, of course, Savannah is living the life she dreamed of.

She and Feldman are parents to two children, and by all accounts, they’re ecstatic in the life they’ve built together.

Savannah is living proof that happy endings are possible at any time.

Savannah Guthrie Opens Up About Traumatic Divorce: ‘It Broke My Heart’ was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Todd Chrisley is doing more than just insist that he and wife Julie are “innocent.”

Despite their 2022 convictions for various financial crimes, the notorious former reality stars were released from prison by Donald Trump.

This renders their convictions powerless. No more prison time, no repaying their victims. hat’s not enough for Todd.

He’s insisting that their jurors were not their “peers” because they weren’t multi-millionaires.

Were Julie and Todd Chrisley not tried by a jury of their peers?

While participating in the The Chrisleys: Life After Lockup special that aired over the weekend, Todd Chrisley went all in on his erstwhile jurors.

During the interview, Juju Chang noted that many take issue with Todd and Julie having been convicted by a “jury of your peers” and getting out of prison.

Instead of taking this golden opportunity to discuss their remarkably stiff sentencing, Todd reminded everyone of the sort of person that he really is.

“Convicted by a jury of our peers? Were we?” Todd asked.

“I didn’t see multimillionaires in that jury box,” he then complained. “I didn’t see people that were in the film industry in that jury box.”

Just for the record, jury of your peers means that jurors are selected from the citizenry.

A jury is not a panel of judges or legal experts.

Crucially, they are not political appointees or members of any specific class or profession.

It gets worse than his ‘jury of the poors’ gripe

In addition to complaining that the jury was simply too poor to see his and Julie’s innocence, Todd Chrisley somehow made it even worse.

“I saw people in a heavily Democratic county,” he griped.

“And a judge allowed them to paint us as this white family who has white entitlement and who has money to burn.”

While that sounds like such an apt description of the Chrisley family that it might as well be the tagline of their former or future reality series, at best, he’s implying some sort of political persecution.

At worst, it sounds like Todd is implying that he and Julie went to prison because they are white.

We hope that we do not have to explain that this is obviously not the case. Among other things, systemic racism awards them massive structural privileges based upon race — not the other way around.

If Todd and Julie were saying that they received such lengthy prison sentences because they are reality TV personalities, that would be believable. It may even be true!

Sometimes, prosecutors push extra hard against celebrities over non-violent crimes in order to set an example and boost their own careers. (Martha Stewart, anyone?)

The Chrisleys aren’t looking for ‘redemption’

“I don’t really look at redemption because I know that what we were convicted of, we didn’t do,” Todd Chrisley asserted. “So I’m not trying to redeem anything.”

By the way, they have paid some of the $17 million in restitution that they owed to their victims.

The pardon voids that debt — and they now aim to get some of that money back.

Sometimes, people say that prison rehabilitates people. This is patently false. For an easy example, look no further than Todd Chrisley.

Todd Chrisley Says He Wasn’t Convicted by Jury of His Peers: Broke Jurors Sent Me … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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