“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” star “Mama June” Shannon is dating a registered sex offender who was imprisoned for molesting one of her own relatives.

And just when you thought reality television’s glorification of stupidity couldn’t get any uglier …

TMZ reports 53-year-old Mark McDaniel was released from a Georgia prison in March, after serving 10 years for aggravated child molestation, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Sex Offender Registry. McDaniel went to jail in 2004 for forcing an 8-year-old child to perform oral sex.

It gets worse.

The child — now 18 — is a relative of Mama June. And, if that’s not bad enough, Mama June was dating McDaniel when he was arrested.

That sound you hear is the rushing wind from advertisers fleeing as fast as possible.

According to TMZ, Mama June has been sneaking away from the reality show’s set to visit McDaniel.

As you may know (and I hope you don’t) Mama June split up with Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson, Honey Boo Boo’s father in June, after nearly 10 years together.

The show’s producer TLC told TMZ “TLC is not currently in production on ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.’ We are very concerned about this new information and are reassessing the future of the series.”

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