If you really want to parody someone on the show, the most interesting material would be Kellie Pickles herself.
Imagine the actress complete with Tarantula eyes and "what's a ballsy?" naivette. It's a scriptwriter's dream.
C'mon SNL, GO FOR IT !
Now you know why TPTB wants to keep Gherkin as long as they can...
Maybe they realize how phoney and fake she is and don't like her either.
She said her mom left when she was 2 years old. But, she doesn't mention that her mom had custody of her when she was in the 4th and 5th grades.
Which reminds me. I don't recall who, but someone had posted that they weren't sure the picture of Kellie in the slutty prom dress was really her or not. Found this, which verifies that yes, it's her.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/television/13893587.htm
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"My dad was a drug user and an alcoholic. So I lived off and on with my grandparents. Whenever my dad would get locked up, I'd move in with my grandparents and wait until he got out and got straightened out again."
Unbeknownst to Pickler, her mother returned to Albemarle (about 40 miles northeast of Charlotte). Their paths crossed in a chance encounter when Pickler was in the fourth grade.
"My grandparents and I were eating out and my mother was in there with some of her friends. I don't know how I knew it was her, but we made eye contact. She went to court trying to fight for custody of me."
Her mother won, Pickler said, and for the next two years had custody. "That whole time my grandparents were trying to get me back."
They eventually succeeded. Pickler's mother left. She and her daughter haven't been in contact for years. Her father, meanwhile, was arrested several times in North Carolina -- drunken driving, assault, armed robbery. "He'd get out of prison, get on drugs really bad, get tied up with the wrong people," she said.
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So, the questions rise. Who is that little boy? How old are you in the 4th grade. 9 or 10? Making 5th grade - 10 or 11. The boy is 6, Kellie is 19. She would have been 13 when the little boy was born.
Her paternal grandparents got custody of her from her mother, before that little boy was born.