Sweet Home Sextuplets: where are they now? The Waldrops agreed to a season 4 that never got made
TLC's Sweet Home Sextuplets ended with a family of eleven, a farm and a fourth season the parents had already said yes to. Then they asked their oldest kids.
TLC's Sweet Home Sextuplets followed Eric and Courtney Waldrop and their nine children on their Alabama farm for three seasons, from September 2018 to October 2020. Then it stopped, and for a while fans weren't sure who'd pulled the plug. The answer involves both the network and the family, and the family's part started with a conversation with their three oldest sons.
The family TLC followed
The sextuplets were born on December 11, 2017, by C-section at 30 weeks, per TLC. The heaviest of the six weighed 2 pounds 13 ounces:
- The boys: Blu, Layke and Tag
- The girls: Rawlings, Rayne and Rivers
- Their big brothers: Saylor, born in 2009, and twins Bridge and Wales, born in 2012
The show ran 24 episodes over three seasons. Season 1 aired in the fall of 2018, season 2 in the summer of 2019 and season 3 from June to October 2020.
The season 4 that never got made
In the fall of 2020, TLC approached the Waldrops about a fourth season. They agreed. In a July 2021 YouTube video, Courtney said that at first, "Eric and I talked about it and at the moment we said we would."
Don't miss: Pachinko book vs show: one character who dies on Apple TV is still alive at the end of the novel
Then they talked to their older sons, and the answer changed. Courtney said filming was "a lot to ask of them." Eric's schedule was its own problem: "It's tough, what with me having a full-time job, a business to run, coaching the kids, and then trying to film," he said.
"We said from the very beginning if filming ever made our kids unhappy, then we would have to stop."
— Courtney Waldrop, in the July 2021 YouTube video
While they were still reconsidering, TLC made the call and ended the show. The Waldrops said they were relieved. Courtney called it "God's way of shutting that door, because we were already having reservations."
Where the Waldrops are now
The cameras left, and the farm stayed. Here's what the family has shared since:
- Eric: He co-owns Robinson & Waldrop Landscape Group with his business partner, Jeremy Robinson. He's still not on social media.
- Courtney: She runs an online boutique, Gods Divine Nine, mostly jewelry, with some pieces as cheap as $8. She posts the family's updates on Instagram.
- The farm: About 40 acres. The family had nearly 100 sheep during the show and has since added cows and chickens. When a cow died and left a calf behind, Eric bottle-fed it.
- The kids: They play soccer, baseball and basketball and take ballet. As of fall 2024, Saylor was a sophomore in high school and the twins were in sixth grade.
The last few years haven't all been easy. In December 2024, Courtney shared that the family was grieving the death of her father, whom the kids called "Popsie."
The sextuplets turn 9 on December 11. They were nine months old when the show premiered and not yet three when the cameras left for good, so their own TV career is something they'll mostly know from reruns.
Previously we wrote: Will Franklin be in The Drop: A Snowfall Saga? Damson Idris's answer was "wait and see"