Little People, Big World’s Matt Roloff Dishes on Future of TLC Show: ‘I Hate Saying Goodbye’

With the fate of Little People, Big World up in the air, Matt Roloff is sharing his two cents on if the series has finally come to a close.

Now that season 25 has aired its last episode, the Roloff family patriarch, 62, answered questions surrounding the future of his family’s long-running reality show and why he believes TLC — who has not commented on the status of the show — is waiting to announce the series’ finale in a statement shared to Facebook on April 26.

Matt began by saying that he was no longer under a “contract NDA” with the network and could speak “much more freely” before responding to rumors that the April 23 season 25 finale was the series finale of Little People, Big World.

“It’s true that several family members have announced publicly that they are no longer interested in filming LPBW,” he said, noting that he and his ex-wife Amy Roloff, along with the show’s producers, have known that their children have had no desire to come back on camera “for quite some time.”

Though he claimed the Roloff family “completed our contract obligations” and wrapped filming last September, Matt believes that the network has refrained from an announcement that last week’s episode was its series finale to leave the possibility of potential specials open.

The father of four claimed his family informed TLC that they were no longer interested in filming and wanted to “go back to running the farm and our normal lives” in 2010. Despite their desires to quit, he said the network convinced them to return through specials centered around traveling and the weddings organized at their family farm.

“This is WHY I THINK there is some hesitation to announce from TLC that the show is over,” he continued. “Even though the family as a whole is enjoying being away from it all after 19-20 years — Caryn [Chandler, Matt’s fiancée] and many other family members have publicly stated they are done with filming.”

Matt also acknowledged that the show was a “relationship-based program” and he feels it’s been “more difficult to produce the same content” as more and more family members “drift away from the show.”

“I know I can’t predict the future,” he continued. “It’s my guess that the network can’t either… I do think that TLC did a nice job on the last Tuesday ‘season finale’ episode hedging their bets and putting a nice button on the show and where the family (members that still participate) stands.”

“So if LPBW never does come back (in whatever various other forms) I think [the] consensus is they wrapped up the Roloff LPBW crazy train saga pretty good,” he added. “That’s why many of you felt it was a series finale.”

“You never know what the future may bring so if you are me — (and apparently TLC too?) I hate saying goodbye — Only See ya later ! …and #lovelove,” Matt concluded.

TLC has not publicly commented on the status of Little People, Big World. PEOPLE has reached out to the network’s reps for comment.

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Little People, Big World can be streamed on discovery+.