A concoction of luck and tequila may be the de Alba family’s recipe for reality television success.
That’s how Jesus de Alba, a longtime Vallejo resident, ended up on last week’s airing of Family Feud, which featured him and his four siblings — the first time, Jesus said, Vallejo has been represented on the show.
The de Alba siblings competed as a team under the direction of their mother. Jesus says mom wanted all of her children to be on a television show episode she could rewatch and come back to. Her children, in return, said they would give any earned money toward buying her a new home.
To that end, the de Albas won $20,000.
“It couldn’t have gone better considering how little we prepared,” said Jesus.
Jesus said his family applied for the show on a whim — his sister drunkenly stumbled on the application last year and applied online without giving it further thought. She didn’t tell her siblings and mother until a month later, when she received a response inviting the family for preliminary audition interviews via Zoom.
Producers for the show loved the de Albas, Jesus said. When given a mock game show question asking the family what they would get from a convenience store, Jesus said his oldest brother gave a response that made producers laugh: He said he would buy a pickle.
Family Feud producers invited the de Alba family to Atlanta a month later in July to tape the show. Jesus said he’d never before been outside of California — Atlanta was hot, but the studio was “freezing cold” and filled with bright lights, he said.
Jesus was nervous, but he said he calmed his nerves with backstage tequila and red bull. The former drink also happens to be what the de Albas used to practice for the show the night before, paired with a mock Family Feud game in their hotel room. “We like tequila — it makes things spicy,” said Jesus, laughing.
The biggest surprise, Jesus said, was the 12-hour days of filming. He said that Steve Harvey, the show’s host, kept the set lively. De Alba described Harvey as having loved the Vallejo family, telling the siblings that the other families were boring.
“We really brought our Vallejo pride to Atlanta, Georgia,” Jesus said.
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