Paula Deen: Food Network Gives Her the ax

[R B Garr]

71. I'm wondering if this is just for show by the Food Network and they bring her back

sometime in the future when the dust settles. It's not like they can't be aware that she's quite an unpredictable firecracker. On one version of her previous shows where she had celebrity guests, it looked like she was intoxicated quite often. There's a YouTube video of her in front of a crowd where she looks drunk and is pulling her pants down. I've watched some of the documentary type things about her show, and she's cussing up a storm. Not just cute little granny cuss words, but full on vulgar eyebrow raising cussing (these were the outtakes. They obviously were edited out). On the show where she looks intoxicated, it seriously looks like she's grabbing at the private parts of her male guests and she hoots and hollers at them while she's doing it. It's not like Food Network couldn't see that she was a loose cannon, and they still invested in her.

Don't get me wrong, I think that FN did the right thing here. However crude she is, this is definitely going too far. It's just that she does have quite a following, so I'm wondering if they'll feel pressured to bring her back.

This with that Nigella Lawson domestic violence incident and all that publicity -- it isn't a good week for celebrity chefs!