A few years ago when that show was in its prime, I told my wife I thought it was a ticking time bomb. TLC has a track record for exploiting families in these documentary style side shows and it never ends well. They destroyed the Gosselin family over contract violations because Jon wanted his kids out of the show. “Little People, Big World” resulted in divorce. Literally every family TLC touches falls apart in one way or another. After a couple of seasons it was obvious that 19 kids was using the Duggars’ cult-like fundamentalism as a thinly veiled commentary on Christianity and conservative values. It was inevitable that, with the amount of hate for this family online, someone would eventually dig up something on one of them. And they even took advantage of the fallout to create a spinoff.
Additional point: Exploiting Josh was the only good result of the show.
TLC is the modern version of Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, just freaks and geeks on every show. I remember when it was actually a learning channel now it’s crap.
With that said, I knew they were fake and I knew after the Ashley Madison scandal that Josh was going to go down for something big I just never dreamed it would be for CP.