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HGTV stars Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson asked fans for help taking down a page they said spread lies about their family: “If you don’t hear it from us first, it didn’t happen.”
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Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson are hoping to put one final nail in an elaborate internet scheme.
The former Married to Real Estate stars made a public plea for fans to help them take down a now-deleted Facebook page they said was putting out false stories about them.
“So there’s a page on Facebook, it’s called Property Pioneers, and we need your help to get Facebook to take this page down,” Sherrod, sitting beside Jackson, said in a recent video shared to Instagram. “Because when I say the damage that they are doing, and the thousands of people that are believing the stories.”
Though she revealed she’s been blocked from the page “ever since I was commenting on their posts telling people it was not real and asking them to take it down,” Sherrod went on to reveal a few of the “harmful and dangerous” stories the account has been sharing about her, including fabricated quotes she’s said about the LGBTQ+ community and even a post saying she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
But the HGTV stars knew they had to step in after the false stories began affecting their three kids.
“I mean literally, my children asked me if I have cancer,” Sherrod explained, “because this story has traveled so far and wide, and it’s made up.”
That’s why the pair urged their fans to ignore any updates that don’t come directly from them from now on.
“We’ve been telling you this, but folks still want to believe what they want to believe,” Sherrod said. “If you don’t hear it from us first, it didn’t happen. It’s not true.”
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And Jackson echoed the sentiment, urging fans to “just pay attention to, not just to that page but anything, again, if it didn’t come from us, it’s not us.”
And it seems the couple’s fans rallied quickly considering the link to the social media page currently reads, “This content isn't available right now.”
The pop-up added, “When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.”
And while their plea ended up being successful, the couple is still disappointed that they had to make it in the first place.
As Sherrod and Jackson put it in the post’s caption, “If folks could just direct their energy and efforts for good…”
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