Chrisley Knows Best

WHERE ARE THEY NOW: The Chrisley family from ‘Chrisley Knows Best,’ including Todd and Julie

It’s official — the Chrisley family is making a reality television comeback.

Just over a year after Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted of defrauding banks out of more than $30 million, it’s been announced that the family has a new reality show in the works.

According to Deadline, children Chase, Savannah, Chloe, and Grayson, as well as their grandmother Elizabeth “Nanny Faye” Chrisley, will star in a new reality series from “Queer Eye” production company, Scout Productions.

It comes after “Chrisley Knows Best,” which began airing on the USA Network in 2014 and was averaging 1.5 million viewers per episode by 2021, was abruptly canceled by the USA Network in light of the family’s legal troubles.

Todd Chrisley is currently serving a 12-year sentence at a minimum-security prison in Florida. He recently had his plea to be placed under home confinement rejected.

Todd Chrisley in an episode of "Chrisley Knows Best" in 2020.

The “Chrisley Knows Best” star began serving his sentence at the Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola, in Florida in January after he and Julie Chrisley were convicted of defrauding banks out of more than $30 million by providing fake financial statements to make them appear wealthier than they were.

Prosecutors called Todd the “mastermind” of the couple’s years-long tax and bank fraud scheme.

Todd’s minimum security prison is about 450 miles from where the family lived together in Nashville, Tennessee, and daughter Savannah has revealed that the family has been visiting him regularly.

It was reported in July that Todd made a request to be released from prison and placed under house arrest amid claims about the concerning conditions in his facility. However, it was rejected, according to his attorney, Jay Surgent.

If he carries out his entire sentence behind bars, he will be released in 2035, when he is 65.

Julie Chrisley, meanwhile, is serving her seven-year sentence at a medical facility in Kentucky.

Julie Chrisley on season 8 of "Chrisley Knows Best."

Julie first asked to serve her sentence at the Florida Correctional Institute, Tallahassee, which is just under 500 miles south of the family’s base in Nashville but was later assigned to another prison in Florida.

However, when she reported to prison in January, Julie was sent to neither facility, and is currently serving her sentence at Federal Medical Center, Lexington, in Kentucky, the Bureau of Prisons told Insider.

It is unclear how long Julie is going to be at the minimum-security medical center — which is more than 650 miles from Todd’s prison — or why she was sent there.

Julie’s daughter Savannah has been vocal about the conditions at her facility and said on her podcast in February that the prison “has no air” and treats service dogs better than inmates.

More recently, Savannah made the claim that there are possibly poisonous snakes “just casually slithering on the floor” in Julie’s cell “literally right there where her bed is.”

Her brother Chase said the prison officers dealt with the problem by providing prisoners with Mace, a brand of pepper spray, to spray at the reptiles.

If Julie serves her full sentence, she will be released in 2030, when she is 57.

 

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