PICKING ELSEWHERE? American Pickers’ Danielle Colby teases ‘changes coming’ to career in new post during reality show’s hiatus

DANIELLE Colby has warned fans that a change is coming.

The American Pickers star urged followers to get ready for something new.

Danielle, who moonlights as a burlesque dancer, previewed the big change on Instagram.

The 47-year-old was surprisingly covered-up, wearing a pair of jeans and a short-sleeved, button-down T-shirt that showed off her many tattoos.

She sat inside a rusted vehicle, something she may have picked on her reality show.

“Patreon users! There are changes coming to the tiers and there is a new update about it on my page now. Be sure to keep an eye out for more updates,” she wrote in the caption.

Indeed, on her personal Patreon page, Danielle went into greater detail.

“Thank you all so much for being so patient with me and this process of streamlining,” she wrote.

“After looking into everything I have some information to share.

“I have unlisted all of the other tiers aside from the $5 tier and the $150 tier.

“This means no one new will be able to subscribe to those, but those of you who are subscribed don’t lose access to that content yet.

“I am unfortunately not able to change anyone to a different tier, so if you want to move up or down you have to do that from your account.”

Danielle explained that this is a Patreon decision that’s intended to actually protect users, as well as ensure content creators can’t switch their customers’ subscriptions without consent.

“I wish I had any control over this,” she continued.

“But this is how Patreon makes creators do things,” she said.

RATINGS FREEFALL
Danielle may need to focus more on new money-making ideas – especially as ratings for her reality show continue to plummet.

The original premise of American Pickers followed Mike Wolfe, 58, and his best buddy, Frank Fritz, 57, as they traveled across the country looking for rare artifacts and antiques for their shops.

After Frank was dropped from the show, Mike’s brother Robbie stepped in. Viewers, however, tuned out.

In January, Robbie, Mike, and Danielle returned as co-hosts for the 24th season of their program.

The Season 24 premiere kicked off to promising numbers, with about 943,000 fans tuning in.

The ratings went topsy-turvy and dropped to about 711,000 viewers when the March 1 episode aired.

The U.S. Sun exclusively revealed that ratings picked up for the March 8 installment as the latest season brought in disappointing numbers.

One reason behind the low numbers might be the absence of fan favorite Frank.

Viewers turned to social media to demand the ex-host come back after he was fired in 2021 and suffered a stroke in July 2022.

PICKING ON
After Frank’s firing, fans boycotted the program and called for Robbie’s termination.

But Robbie has said he’ll be back.

The reality star squashed cancellation rumors after revealing that he is in the middle of filming new episodes for American Pickers.

In an Instagram post, the History Channel star shared a snapshot of a pristine pickup truck.

Robbie captioned the post: “What are your plans for the weekend? We are out on the road shooting fresh new episodes!”

In a recent clip posted to Instagram, Robbie sat in the reality show’s production van alongside the American Pickers film crew.

He happily confirmed for curious fans that the hit TV series would be back for another season.

“Here we go, we’re starting up a new season; there we go, all the crews in,” Robbie said while panning to the cheerful production team inside the van with him.

“We’re rocking out.”