Jacob Roloff of Litte People, Big World, one of TLC's longest running reality shows, is all grown up now and has been speaking out. Jacob has refused to film with the family for over a year now.His latest statement addresses fans who keep demanding that he appear on the show again.
Jacob had this to say:
I get comments on here all the time about how people 'miss me on the show' or telling me I should 'do a few more episodes' with the family; I'm posting this to say that that will never happen. For the sake of 'the episode' and ratings I've seen a lot of STORYLINES drawn up (loosely) about our lives, and when I was standing here, behind the scenes and watching it from an outside perspective I just couldn't stop laughing. Laughing at how hard the producers have to try to get us to follow the talking points, and at how ridiculous the talking points are. To misquote Chomsky, "the primary objective of any system is to preserve the integrity of that system", meaning, the primary objective I have felt and observed over the years of the 'crew' is to preserve their job and preserve the ratings, which is up to you to be right or wrong. That's not to say they are all soulless corporate shills or something, there are and have been good people involved but that doesn't negate the fact that they do have their own personal agenda. For me, noticing how the agenda of the crew doesn't work well with the health & happiness of our family is what made me decide quite a while ago that I would not be a part of it as soon as I was able.
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All in all I appreciate people wanting me to 'be with the family' for a few more episodes, but the family that is filmed is not my family. They are the Roloff Characters and I have scarcely anything in common with them, nor do I want to be a character myself. As soon as the cameras drop however, its almost like they never played the part. 20 minutes after this picture was taken we all, plus friends, had a campfire late into the night. So, I am with my family and I love them I'm just here to say you'll never see that from me on TV again.
(This picture is from a few months ago)
411 sediments (sic) from readers:
«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 411 of 411 Newer› Newest»Sherry Baby (#200), and so the passive/aggressive comments from Gladys begin! She'll be glued to the phone tomorrow, waiting for Austin to post pictures, so she can lament not being there herself and then LOL-ing about it.
And you're right -- she's had plenty of opportunities to meet her idol/friend/mentor/inspiration, but got downright snotty when people mentioned helping her achieve that goal. It's all quite bizarre, IMHO.
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The scariest thing about the attack in Nice is it just proves the point that you can take away everyone's guns pretty much like what France has done, and crazy people will still exist and still find other ways to kill masses of people. They're just getting more creative. We've got to go deeper than the guns. In fact, the hyper focus on the guns has caused us to lose valuable time.
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Terrorism is not the only, or even the main, reason behind the need for serious gun control.
The scariest thing about the attack in Nice is it just proves the point that you can take away everyone's guns pretty much like what France has done, and crazy people will still exist and still find other ways to kill masses of people. They're just getting more creative. We've got to go deeper than the guns. In fact, the hyper focus on the guns has caused us to lose valuable time.
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Terrorism is not the only, or even the main, reason behind the need for serious gun control.
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Strawman argument. After the Orlando attacks all people could talk about was gun control, as if that were the answer. Yet, before and since then there have been an alarming number of terrorism attacks that never involved guns at all, several in countries who have very strict gun laws. One after the other.
The point being made is that to even remotely suggest that gun control has anything to do with preventing terrorism is getting to be just nonsensical at this point. And, an alarming distraction and waste of time when the focus should be on intelligence and prevention. The gun control lobby absolutely has their hearts in the right place, but when it gets to the point where it's distracting from other ways to prevent death and destruction, it hurts more than it helps.
Is there such a thing as a helicopter fan?
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Ha, if there was not there is now!
Fired Up 4 Kate @MiloandJack 2h2 hours ago
@Kateplusmy8 @TLC I know you do this...but please have an EXTRA abundance of caution as you travel & enjoy the event! ##DangerousTimes
AS IF Boobyguard Steve will not be along as her "security." Blanket, that is.
http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/11/anonymous-day-of-rage-protests-2016/
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Yes, I saw this, but if DoD takes the time to put it out in a bulletin I'm going to heed the warning. There may be some Intel on a credible threat that we don't know about.
http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/11/anonymous-day-of-rage-protests-2016/
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Yes, I saw this, but if DoD takes the time to put it out in a bulletin I'm going to heed the warning. There may be some Intel on a credible threat that we don't know about.
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HEED IT.
It would be just like anonymous to float rumors that this was all just a silly rumor, then do it anyway. What a world.
JamesVader, where did you hear CJWhodunit was divorced? I missed that completely. Although I've stopped checking the proKate blogs.
The only solace I take with the cage and the puppies is that the kids are old enough to witness so history will not repeat itself in her treatment of those dogs. Although Shoka appears healthy and supposedly regularly groomed, that is no excuse for what she put that dog through or his sister when they were puppies. Maybe it's best the kids are mostly responsible now for Mak and Nanuq. And that is the case considering her photo of the labels printed out for the pups and Zorro. I have no issue with the kids being responsible and assigned care chores, but Kate, as usual, makes it about what a big time pet lover she is. Not true. Does anyone think she has ever cleaned out Zorro's cage?? Or walked the pups and picked up their poop?? Cleaned out the chicken coop?? The kids are the pet parents in that household. Lucky for the animals.
This is the first I've seen of this:
TLC has been helping us raise the profile of hunger across the country and now they’re coming to the windy city for their Summer Block Party! As part of their Give A Little TLC campaign, they’ll also be donating 50,000 meals (that you can volunteer to pack on-site at Soldier Field) to the Greater Chicago Food Depository to help families locally. Get more info here: http://feeding.am/6183BxWWL
So TLC is combining their "talent" with a charitable project? Why would this only be advertised (it was posted by Feeding America in the comments on the TLC FB page) a day before the event? And why wouldn't TLC include it as part of their own advertising? Last year's event didn't appear to include anything like this.
I wonder if there'll be photos of Kate and twins taking part in this effort.
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I agree. And don't forget not only did Shoka have an accident in the basement and she picked up one of the boys and came so close shoving his face into the pile of Shoka's accident.
Since the kids are getting older, stronger and bigger, she might want to start doing upper body strength exercises so if that were to happen again, she would be able to lift one of the boys.
She is in for a rude awakening very soon.
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