We’ve sadly reached this point already, Little People, Big World fans.
After just a few weeks, the TLC reality show will air its 2020 finale on Tuesday night, concluding a run of new episodes that had to be cut short due to the coronavirus.
But t…
Connor Chandler has finally spoken out about his recent run-in with the law.
As previously reported, the 21-year old son of Caryn Chandler — who has been dating Little People, Big World patriarch Matt Roloff for years — was arrested back in Janua…
Amy Roloff may not wanna check her mentions today.
And probably not tomorrow, either.
The long-time Little People, Big World star is under serious fire in the wake of last night’s episode — which once again featured Amy feuding with her ex-husba…
Remember on this past season of Little People, Big World?
When Caryn Chandler opnely scoffed over the notion of being invited to Amy Roloff and Chris Marek’s wedding?
Well, Chandler may need to get used to this idea — because she may be getting married at the same time, at the same place!
On this week’s new episodes of the TLC favorite, Matt Roloff and his girlfriend sit down with the former’s parents… and things get awkward.
As Matt talks about “moving fast and furious” to build a new house on the farm, now that Amy has sold most of the property to him his mom and dad cut right to the romantic chase.
“Now, what’s the deal?” mother Peggy asks, with father Ron chimes in as follows:
“You’re building a house for whom?”
Matt is very much put on the spot while he tries to explain he wants a place for the grandkids to be able to grow up, prompting his dad to cut in and be rather blunt:
“Are you guys gonna get married? What’s the deal here? What’s the house for?”
Roloff then turns to Chandler for assistance, but the former farm manager turns the question back on her boyfriiend, playfully asking: “You’re building it, you tell me [what the house is for].”
Matt’s dad then keeps hammering away at the topic:
“How can you have a home without a wife?” he asks, before the Roloff Farms founder responds, “Well, that may happen,” in regard to marrying Chandler.
We all assume a proposal is coming at some point soon from Matt to Caryn.
And yet… none of us could have predicted what Matt’s father would then offer up.
“Well, I think it would be perfect if Amy and Chris and you guys got married the same day, same place,” he tells his son. “Have a double wedding. It’s just like the modern family! You guys could set the pace for the modern family.”
HA! Can you imagine, guys?
While Chandler jokes she will “put a pin” in that idea for the moment, Peggy whispers to her, “Don’t do that.”
Matt and Caryn have been dating for over three years and they get along relatively well with Amy and Chris, which is impressive because Amy has accused Matt of cheating on her with Chandler.
Amy and Marek, of course, got engaged just over a year ago.
Most fans of this series are awaiting the day when Matt and Caryn will announce they’ve done the same.
“As far as getting married, you know, people ask me,” Chandler once said on a Little People, Big World episode.
“My friends, my girlfriends say, ‘Oh, what’s the future?’ And I always just say, ‘You know, we’re just not thinking about that right now.'”
Maybe not.
But Matt’s parents are, and they’ve got quite the hilarious idea of how the wedding should go down!
Check out this awkward clip now.
And then tune in to Little People, Big World at 8/7c on Tuesday nights on TLC.
Little People, Big World is going back in time this season.
Granted, all episodes of all reality shows are filmed several weeks before they actually air.
However, the current season of this TLC smash hit was shot way, way back in early 2020 and meant to air shortly thereafter.
The premeire date was shelved when pretty much all of televison went on hiatus due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
We say this because it might otherwise be jarring and/or confusing for viewers to see Matt Roloff and company talking about COVID-19 as if it only just hit the United States.
In the sneak peek featured on this page, for example, Caryn Chandler is shown working quickly and innovatively, creating masks from items around the house — such as menstrual pads.
She jokes at one point that she may just lock Matt inside the house while the pandemic spreads.
But is she really joking?
As Matt proceeds to explain, his dwarfism forces him to walk in an especially hunched-over manner.
This can make it hard for him to catch him breath, even when he simply walks across a parking lot.
Because COVID-19 can greatly harm one’s respiratory system — even a healthy respiratory system — the veteran reality star says he’s gravely “worried” about getting exposed to the virus.
And this is just an understatement.
The Roloffs, as a whole, have talked about this pandemic on a few occasions in 2020.
In March, many of these family members shared posts to social media about the threat and the state of our nation.
“The uncertainty is what gets me. Not knowing an end date or knowing whether or not my loved ones will get sick,” wrote Tori back then, adding:
“I hope your doing okay. Let me know down below what y’all are doing to give yourself a mind break!! Stay healthy friends and remember- Gods got this!”
Added Amy back then:
“It’s better to ‘stay in’, do social distancing, wash your hands… and do all of the other things, as individuals, to help beat this ‘invisible enemy’ we’re all fighting.
“Together we can overcome and get on the other side of this better.
“Continue to stay safe, pay attention to what we’re asked to do on the federal, your state, city… Be patience, be kind and be a neighbor and help when and where you can.”
And Audrey, who has been slammed for just telling folks to pray during the pandemic:
“In a world so full of uncertainty, anxiety, confusion, and fear, there is…
“Always more hope to rely on. Always more grace to extend. Always more to truth to seek. Always more peace receive. Always more joy to experience. Always more strength to endure.
“Always more love to give.”
Check out the footage here to see how Matt and Caryn reacted back when news of COVID-19 first hit.
Little People, Big World airs at 8/7c on TLC on Tuesday nights.
Tori Roloff feared the absolute worst on Little People, Big World this week.
On the latest installment of this popular TLC program, Tori told viewers that she had concerns over her second-born, Lilah, who entered the world in late November and who …
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but…
… Matt Roloff and Amy Roloff clashed this week on a new episode of Little People, Big World.
And they did so, once again, over Amy’s piece of the ex-couple’s popular property in Oregon.
Toward the end of 2019, when these installments were filmed by TLC, Matt and Amy were going back and forth about the latter possibly, maybe selling a chunk of the farm to her former husband.
As we know all these months later, Amy did, indeed, sell a parcel of the land to Matt and then proceeded to move away.
On the season premiere of Little People, Big World, however, we watched as Amy grew annoyed at Matt for putting pressure on her to make this life-altering decision.
And now we can also bear witnesses to the reality stars arguing over what kind of role Amy ought to play when decisions are to be made on the farm, now that she is only a partial owner.
It’s an awkward situation, that’s for certain.
In the scene featured here, Amy gets really irritated that Matt is scheduling appointments with contractors without giving her any notice.
He wants quotes on what it would cost to renovate the home in which Amy formerly lived… but Amy is still around on occasion and would like, at the very least, a heads-up when these workers are on their way.
Seems like a fair request, right?
Not to Matt.
“I wish you wouldn’t be so defensive all the time,” he tells Amy, upset that she’s giving him grief and adding to his work load.
“I wish you wouldn’t be so pushy and, you know, everything else over the years,” Amy replies, clearly hinting at issues the pair had when they were married and even later saying that not much has changed in 30 years.
Ouch, huh?
Just recently, in light of the tension on air between his parents, Zach Roloff was asked if Matt and Amy get along in real life.
“I think they’re getting along fine. They don’t see each other a lot. There’s no reason, really, for them to interact except for at family events,” he responded.
Keep in mind, Zach said this many months after the latest batch of episodes were filmed… after Amy sold Matt even more of the farm and now really does take a major backseat when it comes to the business.
Matt can do basically anything he wants with the land at this point.
Zach did also note that Amy remains prominently involved in pumpkin season, which is taking place as we type.
“She’s been participating in that. It’s all calm right now,” the father of two said about his parents and their relationship.
We’re glad to hear it.
Go back in time to when things between the exes were anything but calm by watching this sneak peek now!
No one is more concerned over Jackson and Lilah Roloff’s health than their loving parents.
But Tori admits that, though they mean well, the concern trolling from fans can be a little much sometimes.
This week, Tori Roloff opened up to Us Weekly about one of the recurring trials of being a parent and a reality star.
She affirmed that, as parents, she and Zach always try to do the “right thing” for their children.
Jackson is 3 (already!) and baby Lilah is 10 months old.
However, Tori is all too aware that some of her followers on Instagram do not always agree with her choices or Zach’s.
We’ve been following their parenting story since it began, of course, and Tori has been mom-shamed since Jackson was a newborn.
“That’s just how it goes,” Tori expressed fatalistically this week.
Of all of the … we’ll be generous and call it feedback … that the two of them receive, there is one thing that gets under their skin.
Tori shared that she does not at all like “when people pick apart our kids’ medical diagnoses, that’s the thing for me,” she explains.
That could get very old very quickly coming from random internet strangers and not from, say, their doctors.
Tori remarked: “I’m like, ‘You have to know that we are taking care of it.’”
“I think when that gets brought into question,” she expressed, “I have no patience for it.”
Tori explained that her frustration arises “just because Zach and I are very on top of it.”
“We’re very involved in it,” Tori reiterated of her devotion to her children and their health.
Tori and Zach are still relatively new at parents. They welcomed Jackson into the world in May of 2017.
They have been open about his dwarfism. (And can you believe that he’s going to be three-and-a-half next month?)
“Thank the Lord, Jackson hasn’t really had any significant [health struggles],” Zach shared last year, when Jackson turned two.
“He’s had a couple ear infections,” he acknowledged, “which can be common with dwarfism.”
Zach did admit at the time: “There’s a lot of potentials, but for now it’s too early to tell.”
Lilah also has dwarfism.
“Everything’s working out and everything is good,” Tori noted last April, when Lilah was just a few months old.
There are a number of potential health problems that can come with disabilities. Matt had to have multiple surguries related to his dwarfism. Comparatively, Amy had a relatively easy time.
“When you are becoming a parent to a child that has any sort of disability or any sort of thing,” Tori acknowledged, “it can be really scary.”
She added: “I think that I’m proud to have shared that moment with [viewers].”
Seeing others learn of their child’s diagnosis can help to prepare viewers to go through that themselves — or help them understand what others experience.
Tori did share the opinion this week that most of the criticisms and advice come “from a place of love.”
However, concern trolling as it is called is still trolling, and Tori recognizes troll comments when she sees them.
“They feel like they know us,” Zach commented this week.
“And they watched the show for so long,” he remarked, “that they do feel invested.”
“Then they do feel like they can just give advice,” Zach added.
Medical advice should come from loved ones or, ideally, medical professionals — not from Instagram bloggers.
Little People. Big World.
Major drama.
Over the first two episodes of this reality show’s new season, viewers have witnessed the near-deterioration of Matt and Amy Roloff’s relationship.
Yes, the couple split back in 2015 after 27 years of …
This season of Little People, Big World has already seen conflict between Amy and Matt Roloff.
But Caryn Chandler sees another side to the exes … and at times feels like they forget that they’re no longer married.
“So how did the meeting go?” Caryn asks Matt at the beginning of this sneak peek.
Matt sounds disheartened, and shares that Amy is not exactly all packed up and ready to move.
“She’s got a lot of work,” Matt admits. “I honestly left there feeling bad for her.”
“She needs to have a whole team of people pack up stuff,” Matt suggests.
“Oh,” Caryn remarks in surprise, “there’s stuff?” It sounds like she was just expecting many boxes.
“Everywhere,” Matt informs her. “One couch was full of china cups. On the ground was just a sea of vases, candlesticks.”
Caryn asks if Amy seemed embarrassed by her relative lack of progress, but that was not the case.
Instead, Matt characterizes his ex-wife’s attitude as “very defensive” when the subject came up.
He thinks that this is rooted, not in the inherent difficulty of packing and moving, but in feelings and emotional attachments.
“I know moving off the farm is emotional for Amy,” Matt explains to the camera.
He adds: “I’m trying to accomodate her feelings.”
It was hard enough for Amy to leave the home where she raised her family. She doesn’t need to be rushed out of the house prematurely.
“It’s hard for me to witness such a slow process,” Matt admits.
Notably, Matt is known to be very impulsive and even impatient, while Amy is methodical.
While Matt’s cheating was probably a bigger issue, this fundamental difference in patience was a major contributor to their marriage falling apart.
“But,” Matt says, “I do want to give Amy the time and space that she needs.”
That said … he very much feels that there is a ticking clock.
He is already lining up contractors to do work, which means that eventually, Amy will need to be fully moved out.
“It’s no surprise that Matt will end up managing whatever has to be done,” Caryn tells the camera.
She adds: “I have no problem with that.”
Caryn then speaks to the ways in which she feels like Matt’s continuing connections to Amy distract from their relationship.
“I just, not to add another layer onto it. It’s already so much of the farm,” Caryn says.
“And we go to Arizona,” she continues, “and it kind of takes away from our stuff, which is OK, but to keep adding to it, it just doesn’t seem fair to me.”
She’s not being especially clear there, but her meaning is easy to interpret: she resents Amy’s continued presence in Matt’s life.
Matt admits that he plans to “keep nudging that” while being “as delicate as possible” with his ex.
“Sometimes I feel like you’re still married to her,” Caryn confesses.
Well, that shouldn’t feel so different, since she was allegedly Matt’s mistress before she became his girlfriend.
Little People, Big World has aired only one episode of its latest season.
But Amy Roloff just gave fans of this franchise some hope that a bunch of new episodes may soon be on the way — as part of a brand new season!
Posting on Instagram in …
Amy Roloff was doing well long before Matt bought the farm.
But Little People, Big World fans are understandably curious: just what is Amy’s net worth?
Amy Roloff is a mother, a grandmother, and for the past fourteen years, she has been a reality star.
She is a fiancee, engaged to Chris Marek. She spent many years as the wife of Matt Roloff.
Amy is also an author and a businesswoman, making her followers very aware of her tasty baked goods.
Not all reality stars are wealthy. In fact, some are only interesting enough to film in the first place because extreme generational poverty has made their lives unrecognizable to most Americans.
That is not the case with Amy or with her family.
When she first joined Little People, Big World, she and Matt were still well off, in part because of Matt’s prior career in tech.
There have been 21 seasons of their hit reality series. The now-exes have used their fame to their advantage.
From Amy’s baked goods to visitors during pumpkin season to Roloff Salsa, they know how to take full advantage of the opportunities that come their way.
So what does this mean for Amy’s bottom line?
According to online estimates, Amy has a total net worth of $4.5 million. In fact, some estimates put Amy closer to $5 million.
Keep in mind that net worth takes into account debts, properties, and non-liquid assets.
Net worth isn’t a money bin of currency. Bank account balances are generally lower than a person’s net worth.
Even so, Amy is clearly an affluent woman.
$4.5 million doesn’t make her “mega rich,” but on par with a fledgling rapper or perhaps a particularly successful dentist.
But Amy’s path to her current net worth isn’t as simple as any one single career move — or solely the result of being Matt’s ex.
Obviously, her marriage to Matt played a huge role.
For the record, Matt’s net worth is also an estimated $4.5 million.
But Amy has her own salary and her own ventures beyond her ex and beyond the farm property that she has sold to him.
Amy’s income from reality TV is unclear, but she is a household name after appearing on 21 seasons.
Online estimates note that stars on an ensemble docuseries about a previously unknown cast usually only make $1,500 to $3000 at the very most per episode.
That’s better than most 90 Day Fiance stars make, but not very much. Of course, that’s just the beginning.
After a few years of success, estimates and insiders say that the Roloffs likely began to make around $7,000 to $10,000 each episode.
Add up the episodes that air each year, and you’re really starting to get somewhere.
These days, the Roloffs are likely making even more, as their show has gone on for so many years and has attracted so many fans.
In 201, Amy released a cookbook. The title was Short and Simple Family Recipes — a cute play on her height.
In 2019, Amy published her autobiography, A Little Me.
Though many authors struggle, a book by a famous person can often provide a new and invigorating revenue stream.
Then, of course, there is Amy’s website, Amy Roloff’s Little Kitchen.
She sells merchandise like coffee mugs, tee shirts, hoodies, necklaces, hats, and more.
She also includes recipes and blog posts on the site to drive incoming traffic. Come for the recipes, leave after ordering a new hoodie.
Amy also works as a motivational speaker.
She is a businesswoman, a person of faith, and a little person from a famous family with disabilities in each generation.
It is difficult to imagine someone better equipped to address an audience about overcoming obstacles and being successful.
Isabel Rock is paying the price for honesty right now.
Last week, the occasional Little People, Big World star came clean about her marriage.
In a revealing Instagram post, Isabel admitted that things have been rough between her and husband Jacob…
Little People, Big World kicked off a new season on Tuesday night.
But they did so by revisiting an old and unfortunate issue.
The popular TLC program premiered with “To Sell or Not To Sell,” an episode that focused primarily on Matt and Amy …
The intense family divide between Jacob and Jeremy Roloff has never been more outspoken or intense.
But though their wives surely feel the same way, they seem to be a little better at hiding their intense grudge when the situation calls for it.
Isabel Roloff, her mother-in-law Amy Roloff, and her sister-in-law Audrey Roloff sat down for some family bonding recently.
The two redheads were spending the weekend with Amy on her new property.
And Izzy shared a photo to prove it.
“Hot toddies for the hotties,” she writes across the cozy image.
A hot toddy is essentially an alcoholic tea, usually made with whiskey, honey, lemon, and cloves in hot water.
It was Molly (don’t you miss Molly!) who prepared the drinks for her family.
We’re sure that everyone involved enjoyed their bonding time.
Jacob and Izzy (very appropriately, especially given their ages) do not have any kids of their own, but that doesn’t stop them from being a doting aunt and uncle to their niblings.
Besides, the whole family needs to help Amy create new memories in her new home now that she has left three decades of family memories at Roloff Farms behind her.
But what really struck fans of Little People, Big World is seeing Isabel and Audrey spending time together.
It’s not like the beef between their handsome husbands is solely between them.
Part of what drew both women to their respective Roloff men is shared values — and the brothers have virtually opposite views from each other.
In June, for example, Jacob and Izzy were outspoken about Black Lives Matter, echoing the urgent pleas of millions of Americans seeking justice and reform.
Meanwhile, Jeremy shared a post about “unity” — and when Jacob saw the vague post, he correctly condemned it as “police propaganda.”
More recently, the two have been butting heads over the devastating wildfires that are carving a swath across the West Coast, including their native Oregon.
Jeremy shared a post echoing debunked claims that various miscreants were deliberately starting the fires.
This misinformation tends to have a political motive, downplaying the role of climate change in the infernos and claiming that any perceived political enemies are “arsonists.”
Jacob — and others — blasted these theories of an incendiary conspiracy as, well, conspiracy theories. And that’s when Jeremy hti back.
Jeremy marveled at the idea that what he was spreading was dangerous misinformation.
He wrote that “every person alive” needs to be imploring his particular god for “discernment and vision.”
It was clear that Jacob spoke to him after this, too, because Jer kept digging himself deeper and deeper into the world of conspiracy theories.
Obviously faced with the fact that several of these “I saw Goody Proctor starting a wildfire” stories had been debunked, Jer insisted that it was no reason to rule out the others.
(I have to be honest … why is it so important to him that he go on believing that human malice is starting the fires? Does that make his reality simpler or more palatable?)
Finally, Jeremy’s vagueposts on the subject were getting so bad that Jacob had to speak out.
Taking to his own Instagram Stories, Jacob acknowledged that people had messaged him with alarm about his brother’s posts.
He assured them that he had been speaking to Jer … to no avail.
Jacob reluctantly recommended maybe not following anyone spouting misinformation right now — even if that meant unfollowing his own brother. That must have been hard to write.
This is not a first for the brothers, and part of a longer difference of fundamental values with obvious political divides.
So to see Izzy and Auj hanging out with each other is encouraging.
That said, it is not especially surprising — they have done this before.
Shortly after Jacob returned to attempt to reconcile with his family, he was in conflict with Jeremy and Audrey over ideology.
Jeremy and Audrey hold some very conservative religious views, many of which translate into their politics.
Meanwhile, Jacob is an atheist who emphasizes values such as personal choice and human rights, as well as environmental concerns.
But Isabel and Audrey spent time together, and it was perceived that Izzy was acting as a peacemaker in the family.
She even wore one of Auj’s merch shirts, helping to advertise it on Instagram.
While we all have to decide for ourselves if we are willing to associate with people who hold values that we know to be horrific and incompatible with our own, if you’re going to keep in touch, you might as well be amicable.
New season.
Same old problems for Matt Roloff and Amy Roloff?
While a majority of the previous Little People, Big World season centered around Matt and Amy arguing over the future of the farm, and whether or not the latter would sell some of her property to the former, we’ve now seen a clip from the premiere of Season 21 and…
… not much has changed.
In the clip featured here (which premiered on Access Hollywood), Matt seems completely exasperated by Amy.
The two are very close to an agreement in which Amy does, indeed, sell a portion of her land to her ex-husband, a move we know she made toward the end of 2019.
However, the deal wasn’t completed at the time this scene was filmed and Matt is irritated by how Amy is dragging her feet.
In his opinion, at least.
Quoting am email his former spouse recently wrote, Matt says it reads as if Amy is saying she’s interested in selling the land, but not the business and “to me,” he explains. “They’re inseparable.”
Not true, Amy counters.
She said Matt’s letter to her on the subject read like he was demanding a yes or no response from Amy and “I wasn’t preparer to accept the value of the assets or the business until I looked into it.”
IIn other words? She needed to conduct some research prior to making such a monumental financial and life decision.
Again, as we know now, Amy did sell and did move into a new home.
Just a few weeks ago, she actually sold off even more of the farm and may have given Matt total control over the business they built together for over 20 years.
But Season 21 was shot many months ago and the ex-spouses had trouble at the time seeing eye-to-eye on where things were going between them — both personally and professionally.
“I thought it super generous,” Matt says here of his offer. “I was a little offended you didn’t see the wisdom in that approach.”
Amy then says she was offended by Matt, too, as the pair hit an impasse.
“This reinforces why Amy and I didn’t work together,” Matt even says in a confessional, pointing to the ways in which Amy really has to think about everything and he wants to move more quickly.
The parents of four split back iin 2015, but have continued to work on the farm together and continued to star on Little People, Big World together.
For how much longer, however?
TLC will premiere new episodes this Tuesday, September 29 with a premiere titled “To Sell or Not to Sell.”
The network has teased this upcoming season as the “end of an era,” causing some fans to be worried that it may go off the air in just a few weeks.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves with that concern, however.
Let’s just watch this clip and get excited for what’s on tap, okay?!?
