‘Little People, Big World’ stars Zach and Tori Roloff exit after 25 seasons: ‘We are done’

The big world just got smaller. 

“Little People, Big World” stars Zach and Tori Roloff made a bombshell announcement that they’re leaving the TLC reality series after 25 seasons. 

During their “Raising Heights” podcast Thursday, Tori, 31, said, “We are not coming back to ‘Little People, Big World.’ Like, we are done. That part of our lives, that chapter, has closed.”

Zach, 33, said, “I think the chapter has closed regardless of us being asked back or not. We’ve made it pretty clear we’re done with that chapter for multiple reasons … But because we’ve made that pretty clear, we also, they haven’t asked us back, technically.”

In a YouTube video posted Thursday, Zach and Amy wrote in a caption, “Little People, Big World was a huge part of our lives — but it was time to walk away. The show brought us so many amazing opportunities, great memories and so much fun. But it also challenged us to set better boundaries with filming and our kids, cope with not-so-accurate depictions of our lives and face family difficulties. It was a great run, but we needed an adult in the room. And we made that move.”

“This last cycle was rough, between the family, the farm deal and we are done with it,” said Zach.

The show premiered in 2006, following the life of the Roloff family on their farm near Portland, Oregon, including parents Matt, 62, and Amy, 61, and son Zach, who all have dwarfism. 

Matt and Amy also have three other children who don’t have dwarfism: Jeremy (who left the show in 2018), Molly (who last appeared on the show in 2019) and Jacob, who left the show in 2016. 

In a post on X in May 2022, Jacob wrote about his time on the show, “People don’t realize I was paid roughly $6/hr to be filmed for my whole childhood. I’m still called rich derisively lol. I wish I went scorched earth but I value family, I wish I kept filming but I value my principles and my soul. Life is complicated.”

 Matt and Amy divorced in 2016. 

“We thought we’d grow old together on this farm, but plans changed,” Amy said in a 2020 episode of “Little People, Big World.”

“Right now, Matt and I are doing the best we can when it comes to family things. It’s not easy, but I know both Matt and I are determined to make it work well post-divorce because this is family.”

Zach and his dad also had a feud because Matt claimed that none of his kids wanted to inherit the farm, while Zach said that was false. 

Zach and Amy (who does not have dwarfism) have sons Jackson, 7, and Josiah, 20 months, and daughter Lilah, 5.

It’s “hard to put everything into a project that you no longer believe in,” Tori said. 

“It was no longer a project that we really believed in and so the last year was hard,” she added. “It was hard to show up every day for it.”

Season 25 just premiered on TLC on Feb. 20, and is airing Tuesdays at 9 p.m. 

During Tuesday’s season premiere, Zach had a heath scare, and was rushed to a hospital after migraines made him vomit. There, he learned that his shunt — a hollow tube surgically placed in his brain to drain fluid down to his stomach to be reabsorbed — had two breaks in it.

Tori said that she’s “never seen Zach in that much pain” before. Zach ended up needing surgery to replace the shunt. 

“We’ve been sitting on a knife’s edge, and we just didn’t know it,” she said on the show. 

During their podcast announcement, Zach said that filming Season 25 was “tough.” He said their departure is “unfortunate” because they “had such a run there.”

Amy also asked him if he “regrets” being on TV for so much of his life, since he was a teen when it premiered.

“Yeah, there’s episodes I regret. There’s things that I’ve said that I regret,” he said.

“A large reasoning for not doing the show anymore was our kids,” Amy said. “Were were having those conversations, ‘Do you think they’ll be proud of this product when they’re 30 years old?’ ”

The Post reached out to TLC and the Roloffs for comment.