'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo's' Sugar Bear Hospitalized After ATV Accident

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo patriarch Mike Thompson -- aka "Sugar Bear" -- was recently hospitalized following an ATV accident.

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The reality star had to have surgery over a small infection that, according to E! News, was the result of a "mud-boggin" crash.

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Mike is the father of 7-year-old beauty pageant queen Alana ("Honey Boo Boo Child") and the partner of June ("Mama"), who wrote on Alana's Facebook page Wednesday that he had been released from the hospital.

"Well we got more awesome sugarbear is able to come home today woohoo so we r mcintrye bound now will b so glad to b home," she wrote (the family resides in McIntyre, Ga.).

Earlier in the day, she explained what happened.

"Sorry I didn't update everyone after surgery but it was a very stressful day with everything going on the surgery went great the irrigated the knee it was the start of a small infection but they caught it early which was good got the echo results back this am its was good but now today he will have a scope down his throat to c behind the valves to double check to make sure no infection there," she wrote.

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As viewers of the TLC reality show know, one of the Thompson family's favorite pastimes is hopping on four-wheelers and driving them around in the mud -- also known as "mud-boggin'."

News of his hospitalization comes the same day that TLC announced it had ordered more episodes of its hit reality show, a spinoff of Toddlers & Tiaras, as well as holiday specials timed to Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The hourlong season finale airs at 10 p.m. Wednesday.