Add 'Murder Threat' to 'Honey Boo Boo' Show's List of Woes

A Decatur man was charged with allegedly sending a Facebook message threatening to shoot reality TV star Honey Boo Boo’s mother and sister.

Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorney Fred Bright said Andrew Kurt Summers, 38, of Decatur, sent a Facebook message to “Mama” June Shannon Nov. 16 saying, “I’m going to shoot you in the head,” reports WSB TV.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says Summers also threatened to kill Shannon’s daughter, Pumpkin.

Summers has been charged with one count of terroristic threats and acts. A grand jury is scheduled to take up the charge Dec. 18.

Summers tells the gossip website TMZ that his threats were not serious, but rather “a joke, a dumb mistake.”

He tells TMZ he was on Shannon’s Facebook page because of the publicity surrounding the end of the rural Georgia family’s reality show after reports surfaced that Shannon was dating a convicted child molester, Mark McDaniel, the website reports.

The AJC says that McDaniel is the father of two of Shannon’s children and he had allegedly abused one of her three daughters. But in an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” Shannon said another convicted sex offender, Michael Anthony Ford, who was caught on ‘To Catch a Predator’ in 2005, is the father of two of her children.

Honey Boo Boo Fame

”Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” debuted in August 2012 on TLC. The show focused on the life of Shannon’s young daughter, Alana Thompson, who gained fame as a child pageant winner on the TLC show “Toddlers & Tiaras,” reports FOX News.

TLC canceled the show in October after TMZ’s story about McDaniel was published. Shannon has denied dating him.

The show followed Alana, her three older sisters, along with her mother June Shannon and father Mike Thompson.

In 2013 the family published a book, “Honey Boo Boo: The Complete Guide on How to Redneckognize the Honey Boo Boo in You.” It offered tips on how to make “sketti” (a dish consisting of butter, ketchup, and pasta), how to play “redneck games,” and offered makeup and fashion tips.

Doomed Endorsement Deal

Shannon’s older daughter, Anna Cardwell, nicknamed Chickadee, has also recently come under criticism for acting as the spokesperson for a company that claimed to sell an Ebola cure. The Food and Drug Administration has begun an investigation into Young Living, the company Anna Cardwell was representing, touting its oils as effective treatments for Ebola, cancer, dementia and other ailments, reports The Daily Beast.

Related stories:

France Hates Youth Beauty Pageants. Should We?

TLC’s Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson Greets Fans in Tysons with Smiles, Scratch ‘n Sniff Books

»Screenshots of June Shannon and Alana Thompson from FOX News