'Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars' cast news & update: 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' star Mama June and ex-husband Mike Thompson return to TV
Mama June Shannon and "Sugar Bear" Mike Thompson are back on TV in a new show.
The TLC show "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" was cancelled in 2014 over a pedophile scandal. The allegations state that Mama June was reportedly romantically involved with a convicted sex offender who believed to have molested Anna Caldwell when she was eight years old, Mirror reports.
The new reality show will broadcast in WEtv where Shannon and her ex-husband Mike Thompson. They will be joining other reality TV couples including Sarah Oliver and Jimmy Coney from "Bad Girls Club," Sean and Catherine Low from the "The Bachelor," Benzino and Althea Heart from "Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta," according to PEOPLE.
Shannon and Thompson were reportedly the surprise addition after Season 4's cast has been announced. Shannon tells PEOPLE that she hopes that the show will help her relationship with Thompson as their "last resort."
"I feel like he had cheated for quite some time, and I needed some answers," she said. "It was either you go here or we end our 11 years."
She adds that they're doing well despite what they've been through, but they still live separately.
"We're doing pretty good, and we're getting along, but we still live in two separate households because we have to still work on things," Shannon explained. "We spend weekends together. It's a work in progress, and it's not going to happen overnight."
The couple split a month before the scandal broke out that Shannon was reportedly dating ex-boyfriend Mark McDaniel, a registered sex offender.
In another article by PEOPLE, Shannon denied the allegations.
"It isn't true i promise," she wrote on Facebook. "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."
Huffington Post reports that is unknown "which network is responsible" for their comeback. Shannon posted an announcement on the Facebook page of their daughter, Alana Thompson "Honey Boo Boo."
Ok for everyone it was asked if we are going to be back on TV the answer is yes and it will be very soon it will not be...
Posted by Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo) on Saturday, October 31, 2015
Alana Thompson first appeared on "Toddlers and Tiaras" before a spin off show "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" was created where it premiered in 2012.