The Shocking Rise and Fall of ‘Honey Boo Boo’

‘NOT BEAUTIMOUS’

TLC’s hit series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was canceled after charges that its star, Mama June, is dating a sex offender. For better or worse, its end actually means something.

Senior Editor, Obsessed

Published Oct. 24 2014 1:35PM EDT

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As quickly as Honey Boo Boo came, there she goes—even more quickly.

TLC swiftly canceled its massively, and perhaps embarrassingly, popular reality series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo on Friday, thereby robbing off us of our voyeur look into the lives of effortlessly precocious Toddlers and Tiaras breakout Alana “Honey Boo...

Kevin Fallon

Senior Editor, Obsessed

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The Shocking Rise and Fall of ‘Honey Boo Boo’

TLC’s hit series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was canceled after charges that its star, Mama June, is dating a sex offender. For better or worse, its end actually means something.

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Kevin Fallon