If you thought Jax Taylor of “Vanderpump Rules” was the biggest lothario on reality television, think again.
Apparently a pudgy, edentulous fella from the South is getting so much tail, he had to go on “Marriage Boot Camp” to sort out his horny ways.
Sugar Bear (a k a Mike Thompson) from the now-canceled TLC hit “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and his better half, Mama June, have landed on the relationship therapy show, which premieres Dec. 4. And Mama June is airing all of Sugar Bear’s dirty laundry, tying it to her pickup truck, and riding through town.
“People are gonna see a side of Sugar Bear they didn’t see on ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,’ ” June tells gossip site toofab.com. “I think the fans are gonna be shocked a little bit, people in the house were even shocked, because they were fans of the show. I just told him to go in there and be open and honest, it’s not a vacation.”
The family’s popular TLC reality show was dropped last fall after it was revealed Mama June was romancing a convicted sex offender. She and Sugar Bear had previously split over his alleged Internet hookups.
Mama June says it was her spouse’s fame that catapulted the shy country bumpkin to hillbilly-heartthrob status.
“I told him a lot of times, people aren’t liking you for Mike Thompson, they’re liking you because, Sugar Bear, you’re Honey Boo Boo’s dad. You gotta realize who’s really there for you, and who’s a fanatic and just wants to say, ‘Oh my God, I slept with Sugar Bear,’ ” adds Mama June.
Sugar Bear’s cheating ways were so rampant that he even romanced June’s co-worker right under his unsuspecting baby-mama’s nose.
“It was really hurtful because one of [them] was a good friend of ours that we’ve known for quite some time. The woman had been to dinner [with us] several times.”
The couple is still living apart, but Honey Boo Boo’s father is contrite and still trying to patch up his family.
“My biggest issues was my cheating,” adds Sugar Bear. “I’ve done that and shouldn’t have, and I look back on it, I regret it, and I wanted to go to ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ and get the help that I need.”
