Our extensive coverage of the truth behind TLC’s Breaking Amish reality series including all the cast members’ arrests, marriages, babies, and more!
In the first episode of this season of Breaking Amish: Brave New World, viewers caught up with aspiring model Kate Stoltzfus as she posed for a Spiegel catalog retro photo shoot. It seems the folks at Spiegel liked what they saw in Kate as they used her as the cover model for their 2013 Spring/Summer catalog, which was a remake of their 1958 Spring/Summer catalog!
Breaking Amish: Brave New World‘s breakout star is definitely Abe’s hard drinking mom Mary Schmucker who’s been shunned from the Amish community. Mary caused some trouble in the first season by showing up to visit her son in New York to confront him about his decision to leave. She later tells him if he marries…
Watch the preview trailer for Breaking Amish: LA which follows the lives of five all new young women and men as they transition from their Amish and Mennonite communities to life in the big city — with the big city this time being Los Angeles instead of New York City. Includes photos and bios of the cast as well as the full press release from TLC announcing the new season and premiere date.
When the first season of Breaking Amish wrapped up, Kate Stoltzfus was still pursuing her professional modeling career after signing with Major Model Management in New York City. We shared some of her first modeling photos back in November, and with the premiere of Breaking Amish: Brave New World airing tonight on TLC, we thought we’d check back in with Kate to see if she’s still at it — and it appears she is! Keep reading to see some of her more recent pictures and watch a catch-up video clip from TLC in which she talks about how hard it has been trying to succeed in such a competitive profession.
The five original cast members from TLC’s HUGELY successful series Breaking Amish are returning for another season, but with a few changes. First off, the show is titled Breaking Amish: Brave New World (TLC will also be airing a Breaking Amish Season 2 with an entirely new cast this summer), and secondly Jeremiah Raber has himself a girlfriend! Keep reading to find out what we know about Kym and see photos of the two of them seeming quite happy together!
This Sunday the five stars of TLC’s breakout reality hit Breaking Amish share the next chapter of their lives as Katie Stoltzfus, Jeremiah Raber, Sabrina High, Abe Schmucker, and Rebecca Byler head down to Florida for Breaking Amish: Brave New World. The network released a trailer for the show a couple weeks ago and now we have the first official photos!
Who’s ready for more drama from TLC’s fab five of former Amish (and one Mennonite)? As we reported earlier, the cast of Breaking Amish is returning for a second season as Katie Stoltzfus, Jeremiah Raber, Sabrina High, Abe Schmucker, and Rebecca Byler head down to Florida to continue their transition into modern day life Sunshine State style. TLC just announced Breaking Amish: Brave New World will premiere Sunday, May 12 at 10/9c, and they’ve also released the first preview trailer with the cast — including a blonde Sabrina!
UPDATE – Another trailer has been released by TLC and added to the post which includes a LOT more of what we can expect to see this season, which looks like lots of drama, booze, bikinis, and more draaaaaaaaaama!!!
Breaking Amish is returning to TLC for Season 2 — but the original cast will not be coming back. Instead, the show will start fresh with a new group of men and women trying to find themselves in the real world. The five original members, Katie Stoltzfus, Jeremiah Raber, Sabrina High, Abe Schmucker, and Rebecca Byler, will be returning to the network as well, but this time it will be in their own spin-off show titled Breaking Amish: A Brave New World. Keep reading for all the details, including the new location for the old cast!
The second part of TLC’s “Breaking Amish Reunion Special” brought in over 3 million viewers and wrapped up a HUGELY successful first season for the controversial show. So far there has been no word on whether or not there will be a Breaking Amish Season 2, or if what it would look like conceptually if there is, but according to one show insider there’s at least one cast member who is looking to come back to reality TV all on her own!
It’s been a long wait for those skeptical of the “reality” of TLC’s breakout hit reality series Breaking Amish, but on tonight’s Reunion Special Part 2 the cast FINALLY addressed some of the big questions surrounding the authenticity of the premise of the show, including all the marriages, arrests, unknown babies, old bikini photos and more! Keep reading fro a bullet point summary of most all the major topics covered during the Reunion!
Not only was Breaking Amish a big success story for TLC, it was also a big success story for cast member Katie “Kate” Stoltzfus who was able realize her dream of becoming a professional model by signing with MGMT Models, a division of Major Model. Keep reading to see photos from her portfolio that make it abundantly clear Kate has left the Amish way of life waaaaaay behind!
Among all the interesting things that have happened as during Breaking Amish, one of the strangest was a dinner conversation the kids had about what some of them claimed was a rampant bestiality problem in the Amish community. Is this really a huge problem?
TLC’s breakout reality hit Breaking Amish wrapped up its inaugural season earlier tonight and the finale was followed by an hour-long “Breaking Amish The Shunning” reunion special in which the cast members answered questions about what transpired on screen this season. (The second part will air next week in which the cast answer questions about all of the off-screen questions that arose surrounding the cast.) Keep reading for a bullet point recap of part one of the reunion!
Breaking Amish star Sabrina High’s boyfriend Harry Kreiser III was arrested on September 2, 2012 for brutally attacking his girlfriend in what police describe as a “jealous rage.” The victim’s name is not revealed in the police report so it is unclear if it was Sabrina who was brutally attacked or not. Keep reading to see Harry Kreiser III’s mug shot photo and read the report describing his vicious attack.
It was revealed a couple weeks ago that Breaking Amish cast member Jeremiah Raber and ex-wife Naomi Stutzman had a volatile relationship that resulted in numerous claims of abuse by Stutzman. According to a report by Pennsylvania’s CBS 21, there are at least 17 separate police reports involving Raber, eight of which were for domestic violence. Now, apparently thanks to Jeremiah himself, we have some of the details from the reports that didn’t have to do with domestic violence.
We’ve got another small addition to the “Faking Amish Files” thanks to former friends of Abe Schmucker and Rebecca Byler who reveal in this week’s National Enquirer that they allowed Rebecca and Abe to live on their property for a few months back in 2010 while Rebecca was pregnant.
There are only two more episodes of TLC’s Breaking Amish reality series, and it appears that the parade of skeletons exiting the cast members’ closets is finally coming to a close. (Although there is still time for the inevitable sex tape to emerge.) Today’s entry in the “Faking Amish Files” is minor compared to the numerous arrests, former marriages, children, and other sindiscretions from these supposedly “fresh off the farm” Amish and Mennonite youths, but it does have significance in that it pointedly discredits a major aspect of the show.
We’ve spent the last few weeks delving into the seemingly infinitely large closet in which the cast members of Breaking Amish keep their skeletons, but we decided to take a break from looking into their pasts and for once take a look at their present! Or at least very close. Keep reading to see a recent photo of cast members (and woo-pitching lovebirds) Abe and Rebecca taken at an outlet mall in Lancaster, PA on October 10, 2012.
We’re only halfway through the premiere season of TLC’s unreality series Breaking Amish and we’ve already found our third mug shot photo of a cast member prior to his or her appearance on the show. First we had Katie Stoltzfus with her DUI arrest in April of this year, then we uncovered Abe Schmucker’s booking photo from his 2008 public intoxication arrest (along with his brother), and now we have the first of what could be many mug shots of Breaking Amish‘s elder statesman, and apparent chronic domestic violence practitioner, Jeremiah Raber.
Just when you thought the truth behind the cast of TLC’s Breaking Amish couldn’t get any crazier! It appears that Rebecca was not only already involved with cast mate Abe Schmucker (the two of them reportedly even have a child together) prior to filming, but she ran off with Abe while married to another man!
It’s been almost three days since we’ve had any new information come out about how TLC has misrepresented the truth about the cast members of their new reality series Breaking Amish. But, thanks to the new issue of Star magazine, we’ve got more info on Jeremiah Raber straight from the best source possible — his ex-wife and mother of his three children, Naomi Stutzman!
So, it’s getting hard to trust most of the storylines of Breaking Amish, but one thing you can’t fake is the fact that Rebecca has no teeth. Why did she get them pulled at such a young age?
It’s another day and you know what that means! Yep, more “shocking” details about a cast member of TLC’s new hit “reality” series Breaking Amish. The latest entry in the “Faking Amish” files is a mug shot photo of cast member Abe Schmucker stemming from a 2008 arrest for public intoxication in Kentucky. Keep reading for the mug shot photo, arrest details, and to find out who else was arrested with Abe on his bluegrass boozefest!
It’s time for your daily dose of Faking Amish! This time around we focus on Sabrina, a former Mennonite supposedly breaking away and experiencing life away from her restrictive religion and family for the first time. That all seems rather suspicious given the fact that she was married in 2009! Keep reading for the photos and all the other deets!
In the latest bit of evidence suggesting the cast of TLC’s Breaking Amish actually broke away well prior to the airing of the show, a photo allegedly of Rebecca (who was reluctant to wear a swimsuit during her modeling photo shoot in last week’s episode) has surfaced online in which she is confidently wearing a very revealing bikini for a group photo at a pool party in 2010.
It’s beginning to look more and more like TLC needs to change the name of their new hit reality series Breaking Amish to Faking Amish as more information is revealed about the cast members and how they aren’t exactly as “fresh off the farm” as the network would have us believe. The latest blow to the reality of the “reality” show comes in the form of an interview with cast member Jeremiah Raber’s ex-wife, and mother of his three children, Naomi Stutzman.
TLC has yet another smash hit on its hands as the first two episodes of their new reality series Breaking Amish have averaged just under 3 million viewers! The show, which features four Amish youths and one Mennonite leaving their restrictive religions behind to explore New York City together, is now coming under fire as details begin to emerge about the five cast members which suggest they aren’t quite as “fresh off the farm” as TLC would have us believe. Keep reading to see Katie “Kate” Stoltzfus’ photo from an online modeling contest in 2010 as well has her infamous mug shot photo for a DUI arrest in Florida early this year.
Breaking Amish is a fun new TLC reality show (I say fun because it has an unexpected and captivating Real Housewives-type drama brewing between the girls,) but there are murmurs online that the truth of the show doesn’t exactly line up with the “reality” television they’re presenting. This is par for the course, but in…
It’s hard for most of us to imagine having a reality show about our lives, but can you comprehend what it must be like to agree to do a reality show if you’ve never even watched television at all?
That’s exactly what the former Amish young adults did when they signed onto the TLC reality show Breaking Amish. They immediately had a culture and sensory shock when they rode on planes for the first time, used cell phones for the first time, and landed themselves in the noisy concrete jungle of NYC.
21-year-old Kate, who is a bishop’s daughter, learned one of the hardest lessons of the bunch when she got busted with a D.U.I. charge.
A new series is coming to TLC and it sounds a whole lot like The Hills except for one huge difference — the cast members are all Amish. Five young people will be followed as they leave their homes in the Amish and Mennonites communities and head to The Big Apple in the new series Break Amish. These five people are in for a shock when they arrive in New York City and life away from home is going to take some getting used to.
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