It’s a honey boo-hoo day for Honey Boo Boo fans. TLC has cancelled the controversial reality series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo after four seasons amid allegations that Shannon-Thompson family matriarch — and mother of four daughters — June Shannon had resumed a relationship with a registered sex offender following her recent split with Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson.
Shannon issued a number of responses via on youngest daughter Alana Thompson’s official Facebook page.
“I want to make a post trying to clear up the rumors remember you can’t believe everything you read!” she wrote. “Ppl sell stories to the tabloid everyday that r false! It isnt true i promise my kids r #1 priority over anything else and I would never put them in danger period over this or anything else they r my life this is my past I left him 10 yrs ago for it and I wouldn’t go back.”
Later, she posted a “truth video” message addressing her connection to former beau Mark McDaniel and TLC’s decision to pull the show.
Spun off from Alana’s over-caffeinated appearance on another TLC firebrand series, Toddlers & Tiaras, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo featured the antics of the precocious aspiring pageant queen, her parents and three sisters in rural McIntyre, Georgia. The show fostered a love-hate relationship with viewers. Fans enjoyed the family’s unique — and frequently mud-covered — brand of togetherness, while detractors questioned most of their distinctly down lifestyle.
But even longtime fans were beginning to wonder about the show’s continued viability as its ringlet-haired centerpiece grew older and dropped her pageant activities, older sister Anna married and moved away with her husband and child, and — most recently — Shannon and Thompson decided to end their live-in relationship.