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Todd and Julie Chrisley are proudly owning their previous — stripes and all.
Recent off their early elimination from Fox’s “The Masked Singer,” the fact TV stars sat down with Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” for an unique joint interview to deal with the eyebrow-raising decision to carry out undercover as The Croissants, clad in black-striped outfits evocative of jail uniforms whereas belting out Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock.”
Given the couple’s very public historical past — together with serving time behind bars for alleged fraud earlier than in the end being pardoned by President Trump — the efficiency sparked prompt chatter. However the Chrisleys insist the selection was intentional, empowering and deeply private.
“It was our story,” Julie, 52, tells us. “Everybody has a narrative and your story doesn’t have all good elements. I don’t care who you might be. So I believe it was our time to personal it, to maneuver on from it, to say, ‘OK, this was part of our historical past, this was part of our story. We lived by means of it, we survived it. And now we’re prepared to maneuver on.’”
Todd, 57, echoes that sentiment, explaining that selecting “Jailhouse Rock” was his approach of taking management of the narrative earlier than critics may weaponize it.
“I believe for me, after I selected ‘Jailhouse Rock,’ it was me saying to the world, to the naysayers, ‘I’m going to get right here earlier than you get right here,’” he says. “‘And also you’re not going to carry me hostage over one thing that was horrific in our life. You’re not going to disgrace me for that. And I’m going to take possession of my very own peace.’ And so we leaned into it at that time.”
Regardless of being despatched house early, the Chrisleys say their time on the singing competitors was nothing however optimistic — and notably totally different from previous initiatives.
“It was a bummer, however we had an incredible time. So I can’t complain,” Julie says of the elimination.
Todd provides, “We had a really good time and we had been surrounded by some fantastic folks. Our group was nice that was assigned to us. And Julie and I, it was the very first thing in manufacturing that Julie and I had accomplished with out the children. And in order that was totally different. We had a good time, we had a variety of enjoyable.”
Whereas Todd confidently held his personal onstage, Julie jokes that she could have been the weak hyperlink.
“Todd has an incredible voice,” she says. “He truly recorded a music with Sara Evans, the nation music singer … years in the past. He has an incredible voice. I actually was the ball and chain on this state of affairs, and have apologized to him.”
The looks additionally marked one other milestone within the couple’s lengthy street again to normalcy after incarceration — a interval that examined their almost 30-year marriage in methods few may think about.
“We didn’t hear one another’s voice for 28 months,” Julie reveals. “We weren’t capable of converse. We had restricted electronic mail that … was monitored and it was very sluggish as a result of in jail we had been thought-about high-profile.”
Nonetheless, she says the separation by no means shook their basis. “We’re a group. We’re married, this Might we’ll be 30 years,” she says. “Sure, I walked into that jail on my own. However in my coronary heart, Todd was at all times there. … I knew after I left there and I walked out, that we’d nonetheless come house to one another.”
Now reunited and refocused, the Chrisleys are charging full-speed forward professionally. “We do have the brand new present popping out with our total household,” shares Todd, who made his actuality TV debut with the remainder of the Chrisley brood in USA Community’s unscripted hit “Chrisley Is aware of Finest,” which aired for 10 seasons from 2014 till 2023.
“Julie’s acquired a cooking present … I’m doing one other present with [our son] Chase [Chrisley], Julie’s doing a present with [our daughter] Savannah [Chrisley] — after which I’m going abroad to shoot a present for 2 weeks. 2026, we’re very blessed. 2026 may be very busy.”
Julie agrees — and exclaims with a chuckle, “We’ve acquired to make up for misplaced time!”
“The Masked Singer” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.