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Meet Amish Barbie and her castmates on TLC’s Breaking Amish Season 3

The Amish are back  on TLC — and this time they’re Brooklyn bound! Breaking Amish Season 3 premieres tonight at 10/9CT, featuring five new cast members looking for a chance at a new life and achieving their dreams. Pretty Miriam, 26, is a single mother from Ohio who dreams of a career in the construction field. Having endured constant taunting from her community for giving birth outside of marriage, Miriam must decide choose two options — go to confession for her disobedience or leave her son with her family to pursue a fresh start in New York. Since Miriam only wants a better life for her little boy, she […]

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Breaking Amish Brave New World preview

The producers of TLC’s Breaking Amish appear to have learned something from the uproar that ensued when the real backstories of their five young cast members threatened to derail the tale they were hoping to tell, even before the series debuted. That is: These men and women are interesting enough without having to return or reduce them to a sort of “what is this food-cooker thing?” bumpkinhood that no one was buying anyway. As its second season — called Breaking Amish: Brave New World — premieres Sunday night at 10/9 CT, the series takes on a more somber, documentary-style feel […]

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Breaking Amish Brave New World — we talk with Kate and Sabrina

Even before it hit the airwaves last fall, TLC’s reality shocker Breaking Amish stirred up a hotbed of controversy. On a near-daily basis, reporters and former friends of the five cast members revealed the truth behind the supposedly naïve Amish and Mennonite twentysomethings getting their first taste of life in New York City. The show became an instant smash. Now Amish-exile newlyweds Abe and Rebecca Schmucker, rising model Kate Stoltzfus and rebel Jeremiah Raber, and the show’s sole Mennonite Sabrina High are back for a second season called Breaking Amish: Brave New World, which premieres May 12. Attempting a fresh start […]

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Breaking Amish Season 2: TLC’s controversial hit returns in May

It’s official: Breaking Amish Season 2 is in production in Sarasota, Florida, and all five cast members from the controversial TLC hit appear to be back to attempt a fresh start in sunnier climes. The series came under fire before its first season could even begin when online sleuths and acquaintances of the wayward Amish and Mennonite quintet quickly revealed that Abe, Rebecca, Kate, Sabrina and Jeremiah were far from the naive, fresh-off-the-farmland bumpkins in the Big Apple that the show portrayed. In short order, America knew that Sabrina, Jeremiah and Rebecca were all divorced, that “brand-new couple” Abe and Rebecca […]

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TLC’s “Breaking Amish” premieres Sunday night

Television critics gathered at the TCA Summer Press Tour got their first peek at Amish youth in the big city weeks before TLC premieres Breaking Amish, its newest “alternative lifestyle” reality offering, Sunday night at 10/9CT. Wearing simple dresses, white bonnets and dark tights and shoes, 21-year-old bishop’s daughter Kate and 25 year old Sabrina, who was adopted by Mennonite parents, took to the stage to discuss their faith, their show and the potential fallout — then noshed sushi and sliders with critics and network brethren later that evening around the pool at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. It was a fitting dual-worlds […]