Sounds like he was joking, probably amused by the local News making such a fuss. Even if he was on a reality show, it's not a GIVEN that it would be bad, especially since he's not keeping the gators in a home with small kids, etc. We shouldn't expect that no reptile owners will ever be on TV shows, especially since we continually want to say our pets are no different than cats or dogs. So we shouldn't really push to HIDE that reptiles are kept as pets.

With any luck though, he was joking. I doubt there would be a show dedicated to altering houses to have alligators in them. I would love to see one of the home shows have a minor side about building a "in wall" display for someone's pet snake or geckos. That would look awesome on TV, would be difficult to spin into "omg ban exotics!" or "HOARDERS with millions of abused pets!". Just a single snake or a couple geckos as part of the house alterations. Would be neat.