Todd and Julie Chrisley’s youngest son has grown up since the family chronicled their life on Chrisley Knows Best.
Grayson was 7 years old when his parents and siblings started filming their eponymous reality TV show. (Todd and Julie have been married since 1996 and also share kids Savannah, Chase and Chloe, the latter of whom is the biological daughter of Todd’s son Kyle. Todd has two children from a previous marriage.)
“I don’t know anything different,” Grayson said of growing up on TV during a 2022 episode of Savannah’s “Unlocked” podcast. “I didn’t really understand what was going on, because I was like, ‘I don’t really have a choice.’ I had fun with it because I didn’t understand it. The older I got, the more I was like, ‘Oh, I gotta do this.’”
Chrisley Knows Best was canceled in November 2022 after 10 seasons when Todd and Julie were convicted of fraud. After Todd and Julie reported to prison, Savannah was granted custody of her minor siblings, Grayson and Chloe. It was Savannah who even saw her brother off to college in 2025.
“You are going to the University of Alabama. You were so excited when you got in,” Savannah told Grayson during a December 2024 podcast episode. “You graduated [from high school] a semester early, so you’re going in January. He’s actually going into college a semester early, but with college credits, as well. … [It’s] absolutely insane to have accomplished and to have done, and we could have not have done it without [his teachers].”
Grayson Chrisley with dad Todd Chrisley at the ‘Ghostbusters’ premiere in July 2016. Gregg DeGuire/WireImage
Nearly three years into their respective prison sentences, Todd and Julie were granted presidential pardons in June 2025. They returned home to the family’s Tennessee home in time for Father’s Day.
“Man, where do I start? Today is the first time in about 3 years we have actually been able to celebrate today,” Grayson wrote via Instagram. “Happy Father’s Day to the man I look up to and the man [who] has always been there even in his toughest times. I really don’t know how you do it, how you always know the right thing to say and do or how you always come out on top. I pray every day that one day I can be at least half the man you are.”
Keep scrolling to learn more about Grayson’s life beyond reality TV:
Education
Grayson completed high school online.
“Oaks Christian School has been awesome for Grayson,” Savannah said on her podcast in 2024, referring to the private school based in Los Angeles that her brother was enrolled in virtually. “It’s been such a blessing, especially for kids who travel or want that homeschool life. It’s really great for that.”
Upon graduation, Grayson enrolled at the University of Alabama in the class of 2028. He moved in January 2025.
“It was good. I wasn’t as homesick as I thought it would be,” he said on a February 2025 episode of “Unlocked,” joking that Savannah kept sending “more” Target packages for his dorm setup. “[I’m] overly prepared. It did make the room a lot smaller, though, compared to my friends.”
Campus Life
During his 2025 podcast appearance, Grayson broke down what his life was like on campus.
“I love everything about it,” he gushed. “Been going to basketball games. We’re No. 4 in the country, and we’re great at everything.”
In addition to exploring extracurriculars and meeting girls, Grayson is also focused on his studies. He told Savannah his first-year classes were mostly “fine.”
“I [only] missed one,” he quipped before adding he has “not a single” complaint about his school.
Family Bonds
Despite moving away for college, Grayson remains tight with his siblings.
“[I miss home] a little bit,” he said on the 2025 podcast.
During school breaks, Savannah would also take him to visit their parents during their prison sentences.
“She’s so excited to see you and get the run-down of everything you’ve been doing,” Savannah said in February 2025 of mom Julie.
Grayson was particularly emotional when both of his parents were released from prison amid their pardons.
“He came in and he said, ‘Can I sleep with you tonight?’” Todd said during a July 2025 interview on Fox News. “I said, ‘You can.’”
Savannah chimed in, noting her brother said he was “scared to go to sleep” out of fear that Todd and Julie wouldn’t be in the house the next morning.
“[The best part] is really just being together,” Grayson said at the time. “I mean, you take those times for granted when they are home, and then when you realize one day it could be there and the next day it’s not, you know, it means just a little bit more.”
