HGTV star Egypt Sherrod has hit out on the New York Instances after the outlet revealed what she known as a “slanted” article about house renovation exhibits and “DIY influencers.”
Sherrod, who hosts the present Married to Actual Property along with her husband, Mike Jackson, took to her Instagram account on Monday (April 14) to answer the NYT article, which described the HGTV sequence as “a hard-hat Retaining Up With the Kardashians.”
The piece additionally known as the manufacturing “a well-oiled machine” the place Sherrod and Jackson “breezed in” to carry out some grouting work whereas “a building employee with AirPods in his ears revved an influence drill for background noise.” The reporter famous, “An hour and a half into capturing, it was already time to wrap the scene.”
Sherrod took concern with the article, telling her Instagram followers, “I’m drained y’all. I’m uninterested in having to show myself. I’m uninterested in being overworked, underpaid, if paid in any respect. I’m uninterested in not getting equal press or publicity. I’m uninterested in being the scapegoat. I’m drained.”
She continued, “So there’s this text within the New York Instances as a result of Mike and I have been invited to be within the New York Instances by our community to advertise this season of our present. And so they got here to set, took footage of Mike and I, documented the entire expertise, after which wrote it in a slant, as if we ease in and ease out of properties. As if we’re not doing the true work.”
Sherrod filmed her response whereas engaged on a shopper’s property, noting, “We’re right here proper now, engaged on a shoppers’ home. No cameras… that is what we do. After I depart right here, I gotta go limewash a wall… Oh and no New York Instances reporters right here for an hour to inform us we’re simply doing this for TV.”
The true property dealer and designer continued her ideas within the put up’s caption, writing, “You don’t have any concept. You see the glory, however not the grind. The sweetness, however not the behind-the-scenes story.”
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“We have been so excited to have the @nytimes come to set and write a narrative about US. Think about our shock this morning to see ONLY me… with a hypercritical article about your entire house television motion,” she continued. “I received’t be a scapegoat. I received’t be martyred.”
Sherrod went on to say she and Jackson are “nonetheless a small household enterprise,” including, “So for a publication like The New York Instances to make use of my picture to headline an article crammed with distortions and mediocrity? That’s not simply irresponsible—it’s unacceptable! Let the fakes be your poster baby. Not me.”
The truth star, who rose to fame internet hosting HGTV’s Flipping Virgins and Property Virgins earlier than debuting Married to Actual Property in 2022, acknowledged her present is “one of many only a few optimistic exhibits about Black households on tv.”
“And but, we’re always ignored—not noted of the press, the covers, the licensing offers, the invitations,” she added. “We don’t get equal remedy. We don’t get equal safety. We’ve got to battle for each inch to guard our narrative. Even from BIPOC media.”
She took specific concern with the NYT article solely exhibiting her “when my husband stood proper there with me, gave that interview with me?” Sherrod acknowledged, “That’s not only a slight. That’s erasure. And it reinforces precisely the form of division we work so laborious to battle in opposition to.”
“I’m selecting to share this ache. For each lady, each household, who can’t converse up. Who can’t cry out. Who can’t scream on the hypocrisy. I see you. I’m you. Sufficient,” Sherrod concluded.
The NYT responded to Sherrod’s put up in a press release to the Day by day Mail, writing, “Our piece on D.I.Y. house influencers was well-reported, thorough and honest, overlaying a variety of figures and the way they’ve turned renovation movies right into a profitable profession.’
Married to Actual Property, Season 4, Wednesdays, 8/7 c, HGTV