Little People’s Zach Roloff furiously shuts down producer when asked about family rivals Matt and Caryn’s engagement
LITTLE People, Big World star Zach Roloff has seemed to be overwhelmed during a confessional scene on the reality show.
Matthew, aka Matt, Roloff’s engagement to his fiancé Caryn Chandler appeared to bother his son Zach.
In a recent snippet from LPBW’s upcoming season premiere that was shared on TLC’s official X, fka Twitter, account Matt and Caryn talked about their wedding engagement.
“I asked [Caryn] to marry me, and she said yes,” Matt, 62, said to a an off-camera producer as Caryn sat beside him for their confessional.
Later in the clip, producers cut to a part of Zach’s, 33, confessional, where he was asked how he felt about his dad’s engagement.
Zach bluntly told producers that he “didn’t want to talk about it,” insisting that they’d move on.
Fans called out his response in the comment section beneath the X post.
“Ughhhh I can’t take his constant whining, let your dad live his life,” one fan tweeted.
Another agreed: “I think Zach is a spoiled brat!!!… your dad spent his life building that farm and you want him to just hand over the farm… I don’t think Matt is the bad guy…”
Someone else noted: “Can’t wait. I watched this series from start to finish at least three times. I’m a little obsessed.
“I hope Zach gets over himself. He has to remember this is his dad‘s farm. He’s not just going to give it to you for free.”
BUMPING HEADS
Zach hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with Matt.
In 2022, LPBW, Zach and his wife Tori, 32, revealed their true feelings ahead of yet another pumpkin season on the family farm.
The couple sat down with Zach’s mom Amy, 61, and her husband, Chris Marek, to chat about their plans.
Amy noted in a confessional: “I know that Chris and Matt talk and Matt let Chris know what pumpkin season may look like and what in general may be happening but with everything going on with the property and the house I don’t anticipate all of the kids really participating in pumpkin season this year and sometimes I think it’s best just to end it while you still have a good thought – a good memory – about it.”
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The family wondered about what the upcoming season might be like, with Zach admitting in a confessional: “Time does change how you feel about things and I will not regret if this is the last year of pumpkin season and we did not, like, participate or anything.
“The glory days when we met and it was all of our friends working – that was 12 years ago. Those are over.”
Tori then added: “The farm is not, like, a place of joy for me anymore.”
Zach previously opted to sit out another pumpkin season amid his longstanding feud with his father.
He and Matt have been at odds since the Roloff patriarch opted to sell a portion of the property, listing it for a price too steep for Zach or his brother Jeremy – both of whom were interested – to buy it.
FAMILY DRAMA
Some fans seem to think the drama in the Roloff family runs even deeper than the rift between Matt, Tori, and Zach.
At the time, rumors began circulating that Tori and her sister-in-law Audrey Roloff, 32, may be fighting once again.
The buzz began after fans noticed that Tori and Audrey have been at the same events but not mentioning or posing with one another.
Eagle-eyed observers picked up on the fact that the sisters-in-law both attended a recent performance of The Nutcracker at the Keller Auditorium Theater in Portland recently.
Sharing a snap from Audrey’s Instagram Stories as well as one from Tori’s, one fan wrote on Reddit: “Anyone else notice the parallel posts from Audrey and Tori where the families are going to the same places and doing the same things, but make no mention of each other?”
There were also two almost identical images from each woman’s Instagram profile of them marveling at the lights at Oregon Zoo.
Commenting on the Reddit thread, one person said: “I did. I find it super strange. Are they going and not acknowledging each other at all? That has to be awkward and even sad for the kids.”
Another person wrote: “Maybe all the people who say they aren’t feuding will wake up.”
However, other Reddit users offered up a few simple explanations as to why Audrey and Tori may not be acknowledging one another on social media.
“Is it possible that they planned to go together and just didn’t mention it on social for whatever reason?” one person asked at the time.
