Survey says: A fun-loving Central Kentucky family will appear on Family Feud this week
A boisterous family from Georgetown is set to appear on Family Feud Monday and Tuesday, a representative for the game show said.
Ida Holder said her family — including husband Stan and their grown children Lydia, Landon and Rachel — are known for being “the party people.”
So when they learned the show would be holding auditions in Louisville in 2018, the Scott County clan sent in a video introducing themselves that was modeled after the opening credits of the 1990s sitcom “Family Matters.”
The Holders made it through multiple rounds of interviews and mock games before finally being chosen to appear on the show, which was filmed at Universal Studios in Los Angeles last July, Ida Holder said.
“That’s what loud and obnoxious will get you,” she said.
The family is scheduled to appear on the show at 7 p.m. Monday. Family Feud airs on The CW in Lexington.
The family can’t say how they fared on the game show, which allows families to win up to five times. But they said they had a great time filming.
They said filming days were 12 hours long. Much of the Holders’ time on the set was spent as part of the audience, which they said was made up of other families who were waiting for their turn to be called up to the stage to play.
“It’s kind of like being in a room with yourselves,” said Ida Holder, a nurse.
“I describe it as if you’re in a 12-hour pep rally in high school,” said Stan Holder, a pastor.
They said host Steve Harvey likes to keep things spontaneous, so they didn’t meet him until he appeared on stage with them.
“The way you see him on television is really the way he is,” Stan Holder said.
“He’s very engaging,” Ida Holder said. “You enjoy being there.”
One thing she said did not come naturally to the family was the show’s requirement that they respond to each other with an enthusiastic “Good answer!”
Normally, she said, “we’re very blunt and abrasive with each other.”
Ida Holder said playing the game itself requires contestants to “think like a third grader.” The goal is to come up with the most popular answers given in a survey of 100 people.
“It’s not Jeopardy,” she said. “If you overthink it you usually don’t get the right answer.”
This story was originally published April 18, 2020 at 4:45 PM.
