Who Is Egypt Sherrod’s Husband? All About Mike Jackson

Fate brought Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson together several times before they realized they were meant to be partners.

They both worked in the radio industry when they first met. While Jackson was a DJ, Sherrod was a radio personality at WBLS 107.5 in New York. She had also dabbled in real estate, flipping houses in New Jersey. In fact, her on-air personality and experience in the real estate business led to her being approached by HGTV to be a host Virgin property.

After seeing each other a few times, Jackson and Sherrod officially met when Sherrod’s real estate mentor sent a contractor to help her on a house she was flipping in Newark, New Jersey, in 2004. Unbeknownst to her, a radio DJ who had been crushing he was also a contractor and builder.

They started dating shortly after and continued to work together flipping houses, bringing their personalities to television and co-hosting Married to real estate on HGTV.

The couple married in 2010 and have since had two children, making it a family of five with Jackson’s daughter from a previous relationship.

“He taught me balance,” Sherrod said of her husband in an interview with Essence. “He taught me how to love with all my heart.”

Here’s everything you need to know about Egypt Sherrod’s husband, Mike Jackson.

He is her HGTV co-host

Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson.

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Both Sherrod and Jackson had a history in the entertainment business and in the real estate industry when they met, so working on both together made sense for the couple.

Sherrod got her start hosting on HGTV Virgin property in 2012, helping potential first home buyers decide on a home, and then continued with Flipping Virgins 2015, where she guided those who are swimming at home for the first time through the process.

In 2022, the couple debuted a new HGTV show they both hosted, Married to real estate. The show combines Jackson’s construction talent and Sherrod’s real estate expertise to help people buy and renovate their own homes in Brookhaven, Georgia.

“Life gets messy,” Jackson says in a teaser for the series, while Sherrod adds, “But walking into your dream home shouldn’t be.”

The couple also collaborated on a home renovation for an HGTV competition show Rock the Blockwinning the third season challenge.

“All I could think was wow — we really did it! To be able to see your vision come to life among such other great talent was surreal,” Jackson said in an interview with HGTV about how it felt to win.

“I think I was just overcome with emotion because we worked so hard. We barely slept the whole time we were there. It was an emotional rollercoaster,” Sherrod added, explaining why their win brought her to tears.

They got married in 2010

Mike Jackson and Egypt Sherrod.

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Sherrod and Jackson were married at West Mount Country Club, atop Mount Garrett in New Jersey on September 11, 2010.

The bride wore a strapless mermaid gown that was actually purchased as a backup for the dress Sherrod had originally chosen, but she ended up liking the replacement better than the original. She paired the pleated dress with a pair of Badgley Mischka heels.

Sherrod and Jackson enlisted the talents of some musical friends for the wedding, with Q Parker of R&B group 112 singing Luther Vandross’ “Here and Now” as the bride walked down the aisle. Coko from SWV performed the girl group hit “Weak” at the reception.

“I turned into a bridezilla,” Sherrod said Essence in an interview after the wedding day. “I just wanted everything to be perfect. Mom gave me some reason. She said: “Pray.”

“She brought me closer to God,” Jackson said, referring to Sherrod. “She just makes me feel stronger. Now it’s easier for me to talk about the spirit.”

He is a DJ

Mike Jackson and Egypt Sherrod.

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Jackson may now be known as a builder on HGTV, but he is also a DJ who goes by the name “The Versatile DJ Fadelf”. He started playing turntables as a pre-teen.

“From the moment I knew what two turntables were and the effect the right song could have on people, I was hooked,” Jackson said. Vik Atlanta about his earliest memories of DJing.

“I had my first wedding at the age of 12, and the rest is history. I was dedicated to the craft. Not a single day went by that I wasn’t improving my skills, studying music and learning technology,” he added.

Jackson’s DJ career is what initially allowed him and Sherrod to cross paths while she was working as a radio personality.

At their wedding, Sherrod honored her husband’s musical side by surprising the groom with a gramophone-shaped cake.

He is a builder and woodworker

Mike Jackson.

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Jackson is well versed in the business side of real estate, but is also a talented builder and woodworker.

In an interview with YahooJackson revealed that he started building as a kid with his grandfather and uncle.

“I would always be at their work site because they had a construction company. Then I started working for Local 28 in New York and then I owned my own business here in Georgia, Jackson Draper Renovations, all the while DJing and doing both at the same time,” he said.

In 2020, Jackson launched Jackson Draper Renovations with business partner Mark Draper in Georgia, offering home and single room renovations, painting and handyman services.

His skills also come in handy Married to real estateand helped him and Sherrod win the third season of the HGTV competition show Rock the Blockwhere they raised the value of the house they renovated from $500,000 to $931,000.

Their meeting took several tries before it worked

Mike Jackson and Egypt Sherrod.

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In an interview with HGTV, Jackson and Sherrod told the long story of how they met, beginning at a New York nightclub concert.

“I saw her backstage, and the light was literally only on her. From that moment I knew she was my wife. I told the security guard to let me back in because I needed to talk to someone – Jackson admitted.

Sherrod said that when he approached her, she thought he was “hitting on her.”

“‘There was a light shining on you like I was supposed to meet you,'” she recalled his words. “And I’m like, ‘Guy, can you just get out of my way?’ ”

She admitted that she was attracted to him, but at the time she was focused on her “inner work” so she didn’t pursue him. But six months later, the two met again at the Puerto Rico Day parade in NYC. Both Sherrod and Jackson were in different locations for their radio stations.

“I’m on the float with my friend, I look over and see only breasts! I didn’t recognize him at all,” Sherrod said, adding that she convinced her friend to go by his boat with her.

“We pass a few times, and then I hear someone calling me. My friend says, ‘A hot guy is calling you!’ I look up and realize it’s him, we talk a little, but he never asks for my number,” she said.

Jackson said he didn’t ask for her number because he “didn’t want to get shot down [again]” in front of Sherrod’s friend.

But luckily, the two were brought together by a real estate project, despite being unaware of each other’s real estate work, when a mutual friend connected Sherrod with Jackson to renovate a house she was working on.

“That’s what’s so amazing about it. Each time, none of it was set up,” Jackson said of all their chance encounters.

They worked on the house together before going out

Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson.

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Despite both working in the music industry and dating several times, Sherrod and Jackson didn’t begin dating until a real estate situation brought them together.

“I knew Mike as DJ Fadelfo, but we weren’t dating or anything because I never wanted to date a guy in the entertainment industry, but he was already a real estate broker,” Sherrod told Yahoo about their intertwining careers.

“I didn’t know he was a contractor until one day I was flipping a house in New Jersey and my mentor gave me a referral, and it turned out to be Mike’s company, and that’s how we both realized we had dual careers,” she continued.

“So I actually ended up rescuing her on the roof with her foot stuck in a hole because she tried to do some DIY project, you know. So I went from being a DJ to being a savior in construction,” Jackson said, referring to the first of many renovation projects they collaborated on.

He is the father of three daughters

Mike Jackson, Egypt Sherrod and their family.

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Sherrod and Jackson had two daughters together: Harper Skye Jackson and Kendall Rae Jackson.

Kendall Rae was born on January 12, 2012. She is Sherrod’s first child and Jackson’s first child with Sherrod. The couple welcomed their second daughter, Harper Skye, on February 7, 2019.

Jackson is also the father of a daughter, Simone Nikola, born on September 21, 2018, from a previous relationship.

When the couple revealed that their third child would be a girl, Jackson joked that they would have all daughters.

“I guess God said, ‘Son, you’ve been doing a good job so far, let’s keep it up’🤷🏾‍♂️😂,” Jackson wrote on Instagram alongside a video montage of himself with his older daughters. “I just kept seeing everything that happened with [Harper’s] sisters and thought, ‘I’m excited to do it again.’ ”

“The first thing I said to my husband was I wanted to see her face,” Sherrod told PEOPLE of the moments after Harper was born.

“They rolled her over to me because I couldn’t get up, so I could see her face, and I told him, ‘I’ve got one!’ Which means our other children look like him,” she said.

For Mother’s Day 2023, Jackson posted a sweet tribute to Sherrod. “To say we are lucky to have her in our lives would be an understatement,” Jackson wrote of his wife on Instagram.

“She’s a force to be reckoned with, a visionary, a goal-setter, a business owner … AND ALL AROUND IS AN AMAZING, INVOLVED MOTHER,” he continued, adding, “The girls and I love you unconditionally.”

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