Judgella "Jidgey" Summerton

Judgella “Jidgey” Summerton is the official and unofficial head of the Summerton family, presiding over the family’s ancestral estate on Summerton Isle. Between approving appropriate epitaphs for the village cemetery headstones, her work breeding prize-winning show hamsters, berating staff just as though they were treasured loved ones, directing the Summerton Isle Board for Maintaining a Certain Tone, caring for her extensive collection of false eyelashes and making sure her elderly Uncle Cromulent remains secured (and solvent) in the attic, she has her hands full! Jidgey also works tirelessly on behalf of her charity, the Birdies Taking Flight Foundation. BTFF provides scholarships for promising underprivileged badminton players to attend badminton school in honor of her dear departed parents, who tragically died in a freak badminton accident. In fact friends and family are everything to Jidgey, since everyone else is trash, so her favorite time of year is surely the two months when beloved cousin Cookie comes to visit from somewhere vaguely Southern. Cookie and Jidgey have been sniping at each other every summer since they were no more than tots! But even though as matriarch Jidgey may seem to have the upper hand, Cookie’s aging debutante charm belies an ace in the hole: there’s been a shocking rumor for years that Jidgey has been spotted in disguise singing jazz music at some exceedingly seedy bistros off-off-island. Since it has yet to be proven, Jidgey remains for now the functioning alcoholic, surgically enhanced, ever tasteful powerhouse of the Summerton set. She looks forward to many more summers of ruling her exclusive, beige fiefdom with wisdom and hopefully an influx of cash since Cromulent intends to live forever apparently.