Now, everything stands to change: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is here to alter the pattern of structural violence that has affected the Jackson family. The meat of the story lies in the dramatic pauses between retold hardship.
Instead, show EMHE host Ty Pennington narrates the hard-luck tale of how Felicia lost her house after losing her job as a corrections officer her husband left after she adopted her sister’s kids, saying that 14 children are “too much ” and though Jackson had applied for housing, an unspecified “they” were unable to find adequate space for such a large family, leaving Jackson to take whatever temporary housing she could find. On the episode that aired, we never hear the story directly from her, because she and her family have been whisked away for an all-expenses paid trip to Disney World. Most people would say, ‘I can’t do it, I can’t handle it.’” But there is also something mythical about Felicia’s story, and the myth is upheld because what is missing from the story is Jackson’s own voice. I’ve done things in the past like that.” A volunteer on the set commented, “She is taking care of 14 kids on her own on minimal salary, which is beyond me, but it sure does show a lot of character…. “She made a promise to her sister, and I can totally relate to that. Jackson, is very inspiring for what she did,” explained a member of the production staff. In most on-set retellings of Jackson’s story, the ability to relate to her as someone going through a hard time while having the ability to keep her family together is paramount. Very few people on set had met Felicia, but everyone knew about her pledge, and everyone knew it was the reason why the show’s makeover team had, for the first time in the show’s history, given a home makeover to someone who didn’t actually own a home.
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I stopped counting how many times that promise was mentioned to me when, in 2008, I spent time on the set of the now-canceled network TV production Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Subscribe today!įelicia Jackson made a promise to her dying sister that she would raise her sister’s 10 children in addition to her own four children. This article appears in our 2013 Winter issue, Habit.
Ty Pennington and the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew (Photo credit: ABC)
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