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How reality TV's most wholesome family plummeted from grace: Inside Todd Chrisley's decades-long marriage and his role as 'devoted' dad of five - as gay affair claims and fraud allegations shatter picture-perfect on-screen image
Daily Mail UK ^ | March 31, 2022 | Natalie Hunter

Posted on 05/31/2022 9:06:52 PM PDT by Morgana

Reality TV star Todd Chrisley has built his on-screen career on maintaining an image of a devout Christian, devoted father, and loving husband to his wife and the mother of his five children. But last week that picture-perfect persona was shattered amid claims that the 53-year-old had a gay affair with a former male business partner - who also alleged that he helped him to commit fraud.

On his USA Network series Chrisley Knows Best, Todd documented his life as a dedicated father who was focused on raising a family with perfect manners and strong morals alongside with his wife of 26 years, Julie Chrisley, 49, and their five children Lindsie, 32; Kyle, 30; Chase, 25; Savannah, 24; and Grayson, 16.

But now, as Todd and his wife stand trial for bank fraud and evading taxes of up to $2 million, the wholesome family image that they have spent so long projecting to the world has quickly been torn apart.

Over the years, Todd has been accused of being 'controlling' and fabricating perfection for the sake of the show., however the family has somehow seemingly managed to maintain their enormous fan base, with their series still remaining on-screen even as they weathered the allegations about his behavior.

However, in 2019, Todd and Julie were accused of embezzling a staggering $2 million - bringing fresh scrutiny over the wholesome Southern image that they have so long projected onto TV screens the world other.

He and his wife could face up to 30 years of jail time after facing charges of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, five counts of bank fraud, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of tax fraud.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: homosexual
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Todd Christley if you are reading this I don't like Katie Joy either but she called it first and she was correct.

Extra fruity for that extra long haul.

1 posted on 05/31/2022 9:06:52 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

That guy looked about as straight as Liberace or Paul Lynde.


2 posted on 05/31/2022 9:10:47 PM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That’s so cute...)
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To: Morgana

I’ve never heard of the guy; and I don’t know why people watch these shows.

There’s never anything ‘reality’ about them.


3 posted on 05/31/2022 9:10:51 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Morgana

Isn’t $2 million similar to Hunter’s amount?


4 posted on 05/31/2022 9:11:22 PM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: Morgana

I’m glad to say I have no idea who these people are.


5 posted on 05/31/2022 9:11:27 PM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: Morgana

Read later.


6 posted on 05/31/2022 9:12:53 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Morgana

I have no idea as to who these people are.
In times past, even a gay man knew how to step up and be a father and satisfy himself within a marriage if he chosen to enter one.


7 posted on 05/31/2022 9:12:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just as Jimmy Carter was thankful for Obama, Obama is thankful for Joe Bidon.)
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To: Morgana

If you didn’t know this guy was a fruitcake within the first few
Minutes of seeing him your gaydar is broken


8 posted on 05/31/2022 9:13:20 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Morgana

Saw the so once. Shocked, shocked I tell you to find out he’s gay.

Total phony can’t believe any watched the show besides house wives need something else to watch after RuPaul’s Drag Race


9 posted on 05/31/2022 9:14:06 PM PDT by mommab2003 (Stop these White House Chefs!!!)
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And one of the older sons of that creepy super-breeder Duggar clan has been sentenced to prison for dealing in kiddie porn. The judge, who’s presided over a number of similar cases, said it was some of the vilest stuff he’d ever seen, some of it involving an 18-month-old baby.


10 posted on 05/31/2022 9:14:32 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: pburiak

I suspected Todd Chrisley is a little light in the loafers.


11 posted on 05/31/2022 9:16:44 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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My gaydar went off on Christley within five minutes of watching just one episode. He is as gay as the day is long. The real question to ask is “who didn't know he was gay?”
12 posted on 05/31/2022 9:17:58 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Morgana

“Picture-perfect image”? Somebody’s gaydar is way broke. I knew he was on the DL the first time I saw him.


13 posted on 05/31/2022 9:18:06 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: WMarshal

A pendulum...swinging both ways.


14 posted on 05/31/2022 9:20:23 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Morgana

What that guy ?
You didn’t need Gaydar

He’s wasn’t just Gay.. he was flaming gay


15 posted on 05/31/2022 9:23:53 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: Morgana

Never heard of him.


16 posted on 05/31/2022 9:27:59 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Spok
I’m glad to say I have no idea who these people are.

Likewise. They are demimondes of a dark and sick world.

17 posted on 05/31/2022 9:29:12 PM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: pburiak

I only saw it once… on the free tv offered aboard a flight. I certainly agree with your assessment. I don’t even remember the story of that episode, but it just seem so scripted. Although just about all reality shows strike me that way


18 posted on 05/31/2022 9:29:24 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: pburiak

WOW I WOULD HAVE NEVE GUESSED THAT HE WAS GAY.


19 posted on 05/31/2022 9:29:35 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: Morgana

Does anybody actually believe that actors and stories presented on tv actually represent reality or have useful truth??


20 posted on 05/31/2022 9:30:27 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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