Matt Roloff made enemies in his family, but perhaps none more so than his son’s wife Tori Roloff.
Their rivalry has been going on for years and with the latest season of Little People, Big World it’s clear that the divide won’t be easily resolved.
In truth, the family fight is likely the cause of Tori and Zach Roloff’s decision to leave the show.
So, what is happening? Let’s discuss.
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Why Matt Roloff is fighting with Tori and Zach
It’s time to travel back in time a little, back to May 2022.
Fans of the Roloff family will remember that this marked the beginning of the end of things between Zach, Tori, and Matt.
To recap, Matt put a portion of Family farm for sale and in no way made it possible for his son and his family to buy the property.
In an impressive public appeal at the time, Zach destroyed his father as a manipulative cowardwriting in 2022 about how Matt explained how he came to sell the farm:
“This post is extremely misleading and false. My dad is manipulating the narrative now, before the season comes out,” Zach wrote online at the time.
Naturally, Tori sided with her husband and has faithfully defended her position against her father ever since.
She even participated in some of her own destruction, albeit in a very subtle way.
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Tori protects her father-in-law
In October 2023, Tori shared photos from a family trip to a pumpkin farm in Washington, apparently casting shade in the direction from her father-in-law because, hey, he owns a pumpkin farm in Oregon!
And Tori made it clear to everyone on the Internet that she chose NOT to attend.
In fact, neither she nor Zach helped Matt during pumpkin season that year, although apparently someone in the family made a point of stopping by.
“Thank you Audrey for spending the day with Ember, Body and the Rad man playing on Roloff Patch last Friday with everyone from all over the world,” Matt wrote as an Instagram caption on Sunday, adding:
“Everyone loved seeing you and the kids and grandpa and mini sure loved sharing with you all the love that was visiting us @rolofffarms from all over the world.
“I know Jer was traveling, but it was amazing to have you share the day with us. Love love! @audreyroloff @jacobroloff45 @isabelsofiarock @amyjroloff @jeremyroloff @rolofffarm.”
Obviously, we can’t get inside Matt Roloff’s head.
But this message seems like a shot in the arm for Tori, considering he’s gone out of his way to support her sister-in-law.
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The rivalry is ‘disturbing’ the rest of the family
In September 2023, Caryn ChandlerConnor’s son Connor spoke to The sun and addressed the negative feelings that still exist between Matt and some of his loved ones.
“One thing I heard mentioned is that Matt created a fundraiser for Little People and he would have the whole family come and sign a jersey, and they would auction the jersey,” Connor told The Sun at the time.
“And I don’t know why, but Tori decided not to sign that shirt and that was very upsetting to Matt and the rest of the family.”
It was because of this that Connor added that he didn’t think Tori and Zach will return to Little People, Big World.
“I’ve heard through the grapevine that they don’t want to be in another season if the show continues…” Connor said The sun.
“I believe that no matter if there is a sequel or not, Zach and Tori will probably not be seen in the next season.”
Turns out he was right, but his timeline was a little off.
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Zach and Tori left ‘LPBW’ – and still aren’t talking to Matt
Fast forward to 2024 and the 25th season of Small people, big world is on air, showing that the relationship between these family members has just taken a turn for the worse.
The new season covers everything from Zach’s health crisis for Matt engagement. The latter is a touchy subject for Zach and in clips from the show, he outright refuses to talk about it.
“I don’t want to talk about it,” Zach says awkwardly as he looks directly into the camera in a confessional. He quickly adds, “There aren’t many bad feelings, but I just don’t want to talk about my dad’s engagement.”
That… doesn’t seem entirely true, but let’s take you into your world.
Shortly after the start of the new season, Zach and Tori announced on their podcast that this would be their last season and that they wouldn’t go back to another.
But is there a show just following the lives of Matt and Amy?