Jinger Duggar noticed how TLC edited her household. And typically, she actually didn’t prefer it.
Although it was extra than simply actuality tv that traumatized Jinger Duggar, rising up on digicam undoubtedly left its mark.
At occasions, TLC appeared to reject genuine portrayals of household outings.
Jinger Duggar is opening up about occasions when TLC edited the household to fabricate pretend conflicts.
The Duggars didn’t like how TLC edited them, Jinger Duggar reveals
On the Wednesday, October 30 episode of The Jinger & Jeremy Podcast that she shares with husband Jeremy Vuolo, Jinger Duggar opened up about rising up on actuality tv.
“Maybe we felt like some things might have started to be cut in a way that we didn’t like it,” she mirrored.
Jinger recalled that, throughout her years on 19 Children and Counting and on Counting On, typically “it was like, ‘I didn’t say that.’”
“Or I rolled my eyes in an interview [then] they put in there next to something I said about my mom and dad,” Jinger Duggar cited for instance of how footage was edited. “And it was like, ‘No I didn’t mean that.’”
That’s truly extraordinarily widespread for actuality tv. Any actuality star whose expressions, phrases, and reactions have by no means been edited into a brand new context is both not very entertaining or has veto energy over modifying decisions.
In keeping with Jinger Duggar, she and her household would watch “rough cuts” earlier than they have been edited for TV. Then, they’d watch it on TLC to “see if they put in anything like that.”
Why did the Duggar household watch their very own edited present?
Jinger Duggar thought again to how the Duggars would relive their very own experiences, akin to a “fun trip” that they’d taken whereas filming.
“It’s like our home videos really,” she characterised. “Because so many years before it came out, my parents were really good about taking home videos of those” journeys.
Nevertheless, Jinger lamented that extra genuine house movies had “faded into the background.” Over time, TLC aired “fully produced home videos” that they’d edited for tv.
19 Children and Counting aired on TLC beginning in 2008. This was across the time when the community started trying to showcase white Christian households as a way to seize a actuality TV viewers that wouldn’t get pleasure from, say, Bravo’s programming.
That horrible present ran till 2015. Josh Duggar’s scandal — not merely his dishonest, however the revelation that he had sexually abused a number of younger women, together with 4 of his youthful sisters — prompted TLC to cancel the present. Kind of.
From 2015 till 2020, TLC aired Counting On. It was successfully the identical present, with an increasing number of household showing on the spinoff. Josh Duggar by no means did … however his CSAM arrest was sufficient to place the ultimate nail within the Duggar actuality TV empire’s coffin.
These actuality TV days are, fortunately, behind them
Anybody eager to observe Jinger Duggar’s pursuits can sustain together with her podcast, her social media, and naturally together with her books. And she or he’s not the one one among her siblings who’s taken to writing about her life.
One current piece of reports is that Jinger is pregnant. She and husband Jeremy Vuolo expect their third baby.
One of the best factor about maintaining with Duggars on this method is that you just’re not placing cash into Jim Bob Duggar’s pockets.
