The Duggars’ TLC Future Increasingly in Doubt as Advertisers Flee

Walgreens, General Mills among companies cutting ties

If TLC thought that the long Memorial Day holiday would make audiences—or advertisers—forget about its latest reality-show molestation controversy, then the network misjudged the severity of the situation almost as much as the Duggar family itself did. 

Last Thursday, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, stars of TLC's hit reality show 19 Kids and Counting, confirmed allegations that their oldest son, Josh Duggar, had molested several underage girls when he was a teenager in 2002 and 2003 (including, reportedly, his own sisters).

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