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Toddlers and Tiaras Season 6 premieres June 5 on TLC

May 9, 2013 | By Lori Acken
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Toddlers and Tiaras, TLC’s jaw-dropping reality hit that introduced America to Eden Wood and Honey Boo Boo returns for a sixth season of spray-tanned pageant tots, overbearing parents, Pixy Stix and tantrums June 5 at 9pm ET/PT. And Boo Boo Mama June, you and your Go-Go juice are about to enjoy a little vindication. T&T fans, get ready for the phenomenon of “Tinker Tea” — Mountain Dew, bottled sweet tea and Pixy Stix powder, all mixed together and served up in a nice pink sippy cup. To a two-year-old. A two-year-old who has been starting her day with another sippy [...]

Toddlers & Tiaras wins Most Extreme Lifestyle Series in Channel Guide’s 2012 Viewer’s Voice Awards

October 29, 2012 | By Channel Guide Contributor
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No, these moms don’t ingest inedible substances, modify their bodies or stockpile rations for the apocalypse or the hell of it like their category brethren. But their propensity for putting false teeth, hair and eyelashes, tons of makeup and awfully grown-up costumes worth several mortgage payments on their little bitty kids helped Toddlers & Tiaras take our “Most Extreme” crown. The series made a minor star of pageant stand-out Eden Wood, and a pop culture phenomenon of Alana Thompson — AKA “Honey Boo Boo Child” — who scored herself her own TLC series even if she never took home the [...]

“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” video: The Lemonade Honey Boo Boo Stand!

September 11, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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Extreme couponing isn’t the only way that the Thomspon/Shannon clan amass cash to send Alana to her pageants. Even the youngest member has ideas on how to score those dollars that make her holler. • RELATED: Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with June “Mama” Shannon! In this preview of tomorrow night’s all-new episode, Honey Boo Boo and June set to work on a lemonade stand featuring June’s family recipe for the drink du jour (“a good five pounds of sugar and, maybe, two gallons of lemon juice”). The episode will also feature a daddy-daughter day at the Fun Factory, during which [...]

“Toddlers & Tiaras’” Honey Boo Boo Child Alana Thompson gets her own show!

July 20, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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Say what you will about the kiddie pageant industry, TLC’s jaw-dropper reality hit Toddlers & Tiaras has still produced some of the most amusing tots on TV — few more so than 6-year-old rural Georgia resident Alana Thompson, a highly quotable, Kewpie-faced cutup who famously renamed herself Honey Boo Boo Child in one of the show’s most talked about episodes. Thompson’s antics — combined with the plain-spoken parenting style of her mother June Shannon — made her an overnight YouTube sensation. And now Honey Boo Boo’s coming back to TV in her own TLC docuseries, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. [...]