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Honey Boo Boo endorses Obama

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:58:00 +0000

The reality TV star endorsed Barack Obama on Jimmy Kimmel:

Did Honey Boo Boo get a raise?

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:34:00 +0000

According to TMZ, the cast of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," a show about an uppity family of Scottish sheep-herders, has gotten a raise:

Sources very familiar with the situation tell us ... the family received between $5,000 and $7,000 an episode at the beginning of the series. We're told after the second episode it was apparent to TLC they had a big hit on their hands, so network honchos approached the family and told them they were boosting their salary. Our sources would not be specific ... but they say the increase gave them somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000 an episode.

This GIF sums up America's (aka the reality community's) reaction:

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Honey Boo Boo has a message for all of humanity

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:43:00 +0000

Honey Boo Boo has a knack for laying it all out there in a way only she can. Haters and fans alike, listen up, and check out her recent pro-gay message:

h/t Towelroad

Don’t judge Honey Boo Boo

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:08:00 +0000

“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” TLC’s new show about an energetic, self-identified redneck family that, to a member, follows the law of honey badger — they don’t give a shit — has become the latest must-see reality TV show since its premiere two weeks ago. The show, which stars Honey Boo Boo, the nom de reality TV of the 6-year-old energy-ball Alana Thompson, who first came to America’s attention when she appeared in the horrifying pageant series “Toddlers & Tiaras, is averaging about 2 million viewers an episode and a whole lot more buzz. But winning the reality TV fame roulette is, as ever, to have won a sharply double-edged fame, and in the case of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” that edge has come down squarely on the hefty neck of Alana's mama, June.

“Honey Boo Boo”: Lovable racist dysfunction

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:59:00 +0000

“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” which premiered last night on TLC, stars a 6-year-old named Alana with a huge personality and a habit of imitating the speech patterns of the “sassy black woman.” Alana became Internet famous after a few searing appearances as a beauty pageant contestant on TLC’s “Toddlers & Tiaras,” a long-running exercise in documenting the supremely dysfunctional mother-daughter relationships of the future.

On “Toddlers” Alana shared her feelings, made her tummy talk to the camera, happily farted, and generally exhibited the sort of high-energy fearlessness and lack of inhibition that has served reality TV stars three to 10 times her age very well. She also birthed a number of viral videos, one that showed her extremely hyper interaction with “go go juice”(not alcohol, but a mixture of Mountain Dew and Red Bull, if that’s any better) and another that captured her way with urban slang, complete with fierce snapping, head shaking, and the dubbing of herself “honey boo boo child," from her quote, “Girls must be crazy if they think they’re gonna beat me honey boo boo child!”