Amy Duggar And Mentor Shrug Off Extortion Plot With On Stage Performance

Feb. 28 2012, Published 6:00 a.m. ET
By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter
The Duggar family found themselves in the middle of an extortion plot recently involving their niece Amy Duggar and the man who has been guiding her singing career and Breaking Celebrity News has a sneak peek of the two of them on stage together at Amy’s performance debut!
In the upcoming episode of 19 Kids and Counting, Amy is going to sing on stage for the first time in Branson, MO with James Garrett, and she gushes about her love of performing and reveals that she’s been working hard to have a musical career.
“I love to sing, I think it’s a gift, but I don’t know if that would start a career, I’ve been working in Nashville in the music thing for at least 3 years,” Amy says.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, a woman named Teresa Hunt was arrested and charged with extortion after she pitched what she deemed were "incriminating and damning" photos of Amy and James engaged in a relationship together to various media outlets, including Breaking Celebrity News.
The woman then allegedly reached out to Discovery Communications, parent company of the network TLC, which airs the Duggar family’s reality show, to pay her $10,000 or cancel the family show to keep her from releasing the "shocking photos" of Amy, a first cousin of the family.
Breaking Celebrity News posted the photos that she allegedly thought were worth $10,000 and James said: "As you can tell from the photos, they are anything but incriminating.”