Make Page Six a Preferred Source Todd Chrisley admitted he never wanted his daughter Savannah to end up with her now-husband, Jason Galanis, because of their 27-year age gap.
“Jason is not who I would have chosen for my daughter,” the businessman, 57, shared on Monday’s episode of the “Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley” podcast.
“Well, no, because there’s a massive age gap,” Savannah, 29, chimed in.
Todd recalled the day Savannah told him about her blossoming relationship with Galanis, 56, sharing, “I remember the look on your face sitting in the pool house that day, when you told me, and I said, ‘Let me stop you.’”
“It was bad,” Savannah told listeners, as Todd continued, “I said, ‘Let me stop you … don’t tell me anything because I am not interested in hearing it.”
“If that is what you have chosen to do with your life, you need to keep it separate to my life because I am not condoning my daughter marrying someone or being tied up with someone that’s my age, and I saw the hurt,” he continued.
Savannah jokingly mentioned the 32-year age gap between Karoline Leavitt, the former White House press secretary, and her husband, Nicholas Riccio.
“We’re good,” Savannah said regarding her romance with Galanis.
“Folks, you know what shape the world’s in when these girls are chasing each other to the assisted living,” Todd quipped.
Todd recalled the “hurt” in Savannah’s face when he initially disapproved of her relationships, adding, “There was a part of you that said, and you didn’t say it, but I saw that look in your face, ‘Is he really saying this to me after everything I’ve done?'”
Elsewhere, Todd told listeners he now approves of the couple, telling Savannah how he has witnessed Galanis “create a safe area for you to become happy within yourself.”
“I watched that being given to you every day,” he said, adding that Galanis “worships” Savannah and agreeing that he is a “fool” over her.
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News broke on Oct. 29 that Savannah and Galanis secretly wed in July at Cayman Islands Baptist Church, just days after they revealed they were together and expecting their first child.
When Savannah announced she was pregnant, she initially didn’t reveal Galanis identity, instead referring to him as “J” in an Instagram post.
However, Galanis was later identified as a convicted fraudster who had served time in the same Florida-based prison, Federal Prison Camp, as her dad after receiving a 14-year sentence in September 2020.
Galanis eventually had his prison sentence commuted by President Trump in March 2025. Todd and his wife, Julie Chrisley, meanwhile, were pardoned for their bank fraud and tax evasion crimes by Trump in May 2025.
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