‘Hollywood Hillbillies’ Actuality Collection Star ‘Mema,’ AKA Dolores Hughes, Dies At 76 – Deadline

Dolores Hughes, a star of the 2014 actuality present Hollywood Hillbillies generally known as Mema, has died at 76.

Hughes died of coronary heart failure at a hospital in her hometown of Grayson, Georgia on Nov. 9, supervisor David Weintraub advised media outlet TMZ.

The Reelz actuality present adopted YouTube star Michael Kittrell and Mema as they moved from small city Georgia to Hollywood. They introduced alongside Kittrell’s aunt, Dee Dee Peters, her boyfriend Paul Conlon, and Kittrell’s uncle, John Cox.

Hollywood Hillbillies lasted for 23 episodes earlier than being canceled.

Though Kittrell was the star, Mema turned the breakout attraction of the clan. Weintraub defined her enchantment to TMZ: “Mema was the best, most outspoken ‘tell-it-like-it-is personalities the world had ever seen on TV. I do know that she is going to nonetheless be bossing all of us round from heaven.”

Survivors embrace her husband, Paul Conlon, daughter Dee Dee Peters, son John Cox, and grandson Michael Coppercab Kittrell. No memorial plans have been introduced