Twelve of the 14 Derrico kids now wake up under Deon Derrico’s roof. Their mother lives somewhere else, wears an ankle monitor, and has not appeared on camera with them in months. That is where the Derricos stand in November 2026: two households, one open court case, a house nobody would buy, and a comeback Deon says is already filming.
Deon Derrico: The School Bus, the 12 Kids and the Cameras
Deon starts his mornings behind the wheel of a school bus, a job he revealed in a November 2025 podcast. Court papers reported by TMZ say 12 of the 14 children live with him; he pays $1,166 a month in child support, Karen covers their health insurance. The divorce judgment gives the exes joint legal custody, but day to day it is where Deon, Karen and the 14 kids stand now: one crowded house.
Deon is also the one holding the comeback together, at least in public. When a fan begged him for the show’s return, he answered: “we are filming right now for our new season,” with a premiere reportedly targeted for 2027. There is still no network, no title, no date — and he has already missed two launch windows of his own.
Karen Derrico: The Case That Still Has No Ending
Karen was arrested at her North Las Vegas home on June 17, 2026, and charged with four counts: aggravated stalking and preventing a witness from testifying, both felonies, plus harassment and violating a protective order, both misdemeanors. Released June 21 on a $2,000 bond and ordered to wear an ankle monitor, she pleaded not guilty on June 23. Prosecutors point to threatening emails Deon says Karen sent him; her attorney, Jess Marchese, calls the charges fabricated. Karen is presumed innocent.
The case has stalled: a preliminary hearing set for August 6 did not go ahead, and a status check on August 25 produced no reported resolution by early October. Then the custody fight escalated in late October. In court papers obtained by TMZ, Deon claimed Karen is spending time with a man he says touched one of their daughters years ago. Karen has yet to respond in court. She says Deon cut off in-person contact in April, then video contact in August.
GG Derrico: The One Person Everyone Agrees On
If there is one person both sides of the fandom agree on, it is Marian “GG” Derrico. The matriarch has battled lung cancer since 2014; a baseball-sized tumor in 2022 had shrunk to a third by Season 4. GG is also the name Deon reached for when he first talked about filming again: in May 2026 his words were “GG, and I will be filming” — Karen’s name was not in the sentence. GG’s comeback story is the one storyline nobody is arguing about.
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The 14 kids are the reason the show existed, and they are growing up faster than the comeback is moving. Darian, the eldest at 20, is chasing Darian’s music dream while the other 13 — all still minors, according to TMZ — are split between two households. The quints, born in September 2013, are 13 now. The babies America met in 2020 are teenagers now — choosing sides in a divorce while their mother fights to see them again.
The House, the Money and the 2027 Target
The family’s Las Vegas home went up for auction on September 1, 2026, with opening bids at $430,254 — and drew zero bids, according to reports. The Sun has reported five bankruptcies. Without a network deal there is no new paycheck, and without a premiere date the filming Deon describes is a promise, not a product. Confirmed: two households, 12 kids with Deon, an open case. Still missing: a network, a title, a date — and Karen’s role.
Twelve kids sleep in Deon’s house while Karen says she has been cut off from them since April — so when the cameras roll, whose house should the new season open in: Deon’s, where 12 of the 14 kids actually live, or Karen’s, where the mom of 14 is fighting to get her kids back on screen?
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