The lives of Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and her family have become a huge hit for TLC, whose Here Comes Honey Boo Boo has not just strong ratings but national recognition. They also have a show I found to be extraordinarily cruel to its cast members. For The Daily Beast, I talked to the …
TLC has given Honey Boo Boo, drinker of Go-Go Juice (i.e. Mountain Dew and Red Bull), her own show: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. And that’s just the start of the madness TLC is unleashing upon us, as if Toddlers & Tiaras and its abusiveness and madness weren’t enough. Then again, after you’ve played a …
TLC has released a clip teasing tonight’s episode of Toddlers and Tiaras in which a five-year-old says she wants to kill Justin Bieber. Yes, the show that gave us a mother doping her kid up has found a new low. In the clip, which is below, 5-year-old Bridgett says she wants to be an exterminator …
The kids and parents who appear on TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras are disturbing enough, but former The Mole host Anderson Cooper has found a way to make them even more creepy: by dressing up the moms just like their daughters. They’ll receive makeovers as part of his daytime talk show Friday, and at first that …
The mother of “Honey Boo Boo,” six-year-old pageant competitor Alana Thompson, has defended feeding her daughter “Go-Go Juice,” which has been featured on TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras. June Shannon says giving Mountain Dew and Red Bull to a six year old is okay. She told ABC News pageant kids “have to be alive” on stage …
Dance Moms has Abby Lee Miller, who’s a made-for-TV character with her awful screaming and horrible behavior, and the dance moms themselves certainly contribute a lot of entertainment with their hypocrisy and stage mom personas. And Toddlers & Tiaras is like a trainwreck and fascinating to watch. But they also have kids who don’t deserve …