“That part, that chapter of our lives is over.”
Zach Roloff and Tori Roloff, stars of TLC's hit series Little People, Big World, have announced they are leaving the show after 25 seasons.
“We're done. That part of our lives, that chapter, is over,” Tori Roloff, sitting alongside her husband Zach, said on the latest episode of her podcast “Rising Heights,” released Thursday. said.
“We've made that pretty clear,” Zach Roloff added. “They don’t technically want us to respond.”
Zach Roloff elaborated on the couple's decision to leave the show, explaining that last season was a particularly difficult experience between their family dynamics and their attempts to sell the family farm in Oregon.
“This last cycle was tough between the family and the farm contract, but we finished it,” he said.
Tori Roloff hinted that the couple lost faith in the show in the latest season.
“The last year has been tough because it wasn't a project we really believed in anymore,” she said.
“Little People, Big World” was released in 2006 and is about a family of three people living with dwarfism. Her parents, Amy and Matt Roloff, who divorced in 2016, suffer from dwarfism, along with Zach Roloff. The former couple's other three children, Jeremy, Molly and Jacob, are not.
The show follows a family living on a farm in Oregon as they grapple with the complexities of dwarfism and everyday life issues such as marriage, divorce, and adulthood.
Tori Roloff first appeared on the show when she began dating Zach Roloff in season 10, which ran from 2010 to 2012. The two married in 2015.
“'Little People, Big World' has been a big part of our lives, but it's time to leave,” the couple said in a description of Thursday's podcast episode. “This show has brought us so many great opportunities, great memories, and so much fun. But it's also taught us to set better boundaries with filming and our kids, and to not be as accurate in our lives.” It challenged us to deal with portrayals that are not real and to face family issues.”
They added, “It was a great run, but we needed an adult in the room. And we made that move.”
