BY ANITA STIEFEL
ANITAS@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM
OPELIKA — Opelika’s Harvis family were grand prize winners on the television game show Family Feud, hosted by Steve Harvey.
The Harvises first applied to be on the show in 2015 and were finally called to be contestants for filming in March 2023 in Atlanta.
Initially, they lost their first game. Ordinarily, the losing family is sent home, but they were invited to play another round.
“The producers and Mr. Harvey expressed how much they liked our family, so they asked us to return,” explained Raven Harvis, who anchored the team consisting of her husband Antione, along with his father Cleven Harvis, cousin Katrina Sheffield and brother Kerry Harvis.
“It was way harder than you would think,” she said. “We play all the time at home, and we always scream at the TV. Well, when you are on the other side of that screen the pressure is real.”
To win the grand prize — a new car — the Harvises had to defeat opposing family teams consecutively and then successfully complete a bonus quiz, guessing America’s top answers to random questions. The Harvis family opted to take the cash equivalent of the car instead.
Raven Harvis is co-owner of H & S Commercial Supplies and Services, while Antione owns Wise Guys Moving & Storage and serves on the Opelika City Schools Board of Education.
