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TLC’s new reality show Breaking Amish is not quite what it appears to be, and now the network is admitting it. “There is a lot of information floating around about the group featured on Breaking Amish. Much of it is not true, but some of it is — and is addressed in upcoming episodes,” TLC said today. 
The show, which chronicles five adults ages 20-32 as they leave behind their isolated community for electricity, jeans and New York City, premiered to 3.1 million viewers September 9, making it the highest-rated debut in two years for the network in total viewers and in the 25-54 demo. But according to a 2011 photo posted online, two of the show’s stars have not only been to a big city before, they’ve also worn modern clothes before, were a couple before the show began and seem to have a baby. Claims of staging and other sleights of hand have long been common in the TV reality world, but the photo brings up just one of a number of questions surrounding the authenticity of the series, which producer Hot Snakes Media has claimed provides a “first time” look at its cast’s experience with modern life. Stay tuned.
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Didn’t we see this show already on the CW as “Amish in the City”?
Yes indeed we did!
Yes we did…but side note that show was on the now defunct UPN!!
So basically, it’s just as big a fake setup as “The Hutterites” series on NatGeo?
Awesome, more false “reality” series to go around.
So it’s just like every single other reality show on TV?
haha i TOTALLY agree!!!!!! reality TV is sooooo planned!!!!
Well OK, TLC, time to start breaking out the skin
Isn’t this the same network that airs that trashfest honey Boo Boo? What the hell has happened to this network anyways? They need to seriously rethink their programming methods or they’re going to go the way of OWN.
This show is DISGUSTING. To pretend these are innocent young people “just off the farm” is such a LIE!!! The foul language and irresponsible behavior is beyond imagination. What’s wrong with the producers of today? They don’t know how to create a REAL show???? Stop watching these “waste of good time” shows and they’ll stop producing them! Hate to think what these young people have in their future.
They sure do F bomb a lot for Amish. e started out watching it but I had to change it. MY 14yr old doesnt need to be seeing sex museums, alcohol abuse and that language. ! UGH
It is just another cheap shot at TV’s perceived notions of either people of religion or those who live in the south. With the supposed reality TV now, at least we don’t get the terribly fake southern accent.
With the show Breaking Amish, people who live this way as a way of life would be appalled at the language and attitude of these cavalier young people who were supposedly fresh out of the Amish community, when in truth at least two of the five have already been away from the life of no modern amenities to the life in the Big Apple.
I believe there is a time when the young people of the community has the choice to stay or leave, for at least awhile, to see if they want to continue to live there or to return to their religious ways taught to them since birth.
I thought this program had to be rigged since their language was terrible for those that do not abide by such fowl mouths. I don’t know everything about the life of an Amish, I do know they have a harder time than these five when they move away from their safety nets and try to go it on the own. It would be very interesting if they would tell it like it is, the way it is. These people are truly amazing, honestly.
The Amish are great people but they are very earthy and plain spoken. They don’t often use 4 letter words but don’t mistake them for bible thumping puritans. The children are often given free reign until they marry or become so old they are told it is time to join the church. A single girl presents her parents with a new grandchild, every one is happy and there is no shame. I don’t like this show but it is being watched and people are being introduced to the Amish. It is up to them to find out more about these good people.
This show and that is just what it is puts the Plain People in a very bad light. Please this group has been off the farm alot longer than a few months
Why did they admit this? I thought it was a really good show, and now I’m not interested anymore.
It’s says 2 of the cast members,not the whole cast. Still interesting enough for me to keep watching. Fish out of water reality TV is a guilty pleasure.
Another girl was also a model so that’s most of the cast.
Remember when it was “The Learning Channel”?. Now it’s pretty much on par with a circus side show.
Thank You, my thoughts exactly
The Learning Channel. HA!!
I’ve worked on over 20 reality shows….none of them are real! people are shocked by this?
Not every reality show is like this, and anyone who claims they all is completely clueless about the business. I have two friends who worked on Amish in the City – in casting and on the set – and say that show was the real deal. This kind of show is horrible for the reality business an really stupid producing.
I worked on Amish in the City. One of the guys lived with a divorced woman!
Sorry to burst your bubble!
But maybe some others are real.
Watched once, won’t be tuning in again.
Even Amish at the Altar on National Geographic Channel was fake too.
And yes, that guy Mose dude left the Amish years before shooting Amish in the City. I worked there too.
The show is so awesome who cares about fake. The one girl has no teeth. I would venture to guess that is not the norm for the non-amish. Isn’t she only 19. Besides, not to be mean but they look weird.
I loved the crazy drama and will watch it like a crack head. The Amish out of Order was like more boring than watching paint dry. Although their people look weird too. That narrator was like an undertaker.
Viva Breaking Amish.
I just visited a website that has Facebook pics of these so called Amish people. Abe and Rebecca have a baby. Jeramiah is divorced with 3 kids and hasn’t been Amish for years. The Mennonite girl is shown on Facebook in skimpy clothes kissing a guy and she’s married. The bishops daughter was working at Ruby Tuesdays and has also been out of the community for years. Whole thing is a total fraud.
I’m surprised Amish at the City and some of the other Amish shows never got scrutiniezed for this. I’ve been saying this for years. I live in Wilmot, OH and we all know Mose and we all know every other person on these shows.
Amish in the City as well as Amish out of order were the same way…..not real at all! The kids from Amish in the city had been out for up to a few years when that was filmed.
Whatever happened to The learning channel?
yes while the reality shows are fake…for some gut instinct I think that TLC should have stated from the get go that this was a program on how the Amish dealt with new things unfamiliar to them when they left the order. I worked at a care home in Michigan where several Amish families lived…all had electricity and telephones in their barns, generators running pumps to their house, and the list goes on. They are exempt from paying any state sales tax either. Of course there are different Amish communities but the one in Northern MI had one designated driver in a van that would take all to Walmart etc. when they needed to get 20 miles into town. The family in the back yard of the care home (per my uncle which was a state trooper and the papers) son was pulled over for driving his buggy while drunk. My point being some are more modernized than what is believed and portrayed.
Even if t is fake it is still intersting where we live there are alot of these communities i wondered about them. Do really think that these people that left the there homes there whole belief system would really beable to go on t.v. right away? i would imagine they would need private support from others that have left and a safe house type of set so they could learn alot of things so there not scared of there own shadow! As for there “new” lives maybe the producer found these people the nicest easiest people to work with and the amish prob wanted to still get there story out there plus i’m sure getting there story out getting payed i’m sure why not i’m having fun watching it getting sick of the drinking though i could watch anything to see that lol . just my opinion
Scared of their own shadow? Do you think these are cavemen who simply know nothing of modern society? They know what it’s like, they live among modern society. They just choose to live life differently. They aren’t amazonian tribesmen who have never met a single person who isn’t from their tribe, geez. The fact that TLC lied about something should not surprise anyone. In fact, we should probably be thankful of how tame this show is, in comparison to shit like honey boo boo. The way society is now, is probably why Amish people are Amish in the first place. I’m inclined to become a ludditic recluse myself. I just don’t wanna live on the same planet as you people anymore.
Reality tv is reality like Dr Pepper is an obstetrician
It’s never been explained WHY Amish parents want their kids to have no real teeth, and if that’s the reason she doesn’t have them. Did she have any dental problems at all? What could pulling all your teeth out possibly be good for? You obviously need dentures after that to eat, and people think they’re real anyway. What’s the point? I’d love to know the actual thinking on the subject if anyone knows. I just can’t get past it…it’s so crazy.
This show is every parent’s worst nightmare: it’s hard to turn our kids loose into the “real world” for the first time. It’s scary being worried about them forgetting the lessons we hoped they’d learned while growing up. But, being them encouraged to do so and funded by a TV show willing to fork over to make sure they have access to experiences we hope they never access until they’re old enough to handle them. Very bad.
I’m not, to be sure, as extreme as the Amish or Mennonites, but seeing our worst fears encouraged and captured on camera is awful.
Won’t watch again.
Bad job, TLC.
I live smack in the middle of the Amish and Mennonite. They are wonderful people and deal kindly with the English (I’m English) but are very strict with their religion of modesty and pacifism. Mennonite women made my daughter’s dresses for school, I buy their wares, their vegetables, and do business with them everyday. Not one of them are missing teeth. They, in fact, have a better set of chompers than I do. This show is a complete fabrication of what I know to be the Amish comminity. Some of the old men have no teeth, but when I’m 70, I’ll get rid of mine too as there will be no healthcare for me by then only for the rich.
I grew up in the Church of the Brethren (an offshoot of the Mennonites) in the rural Midwest and we had several traditional Mennonite families attend our church. I’ve also had contact with the Amish community near me in North Carolina. I’ll back up your experience. Yes, they typically have great teeth and I have found them to be nothing but kind, gentle people.