SAVANNAH, Ga. — Watching Paula Deen’s cooking show was a weekend ritual for Marilynne Wilson, who says she’s furious at the Food Network for dumping the comfort-food queen after she acknowledged using racial slurs in the past.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Food Network said Friday it’s dumping Paula Deen, barely an hour after the celebrity cook posted the first of two videotaped apologies online begging forgiveness from fans and critics troubled by her admission to having used racial slurs in the past.
A cataclysmic event. A disparate band of survivors. Plenty of actors of the oh-there’s-that-guy/girl-again variety.
It’s getting pretty crowded in Bon Temps.
It’s as much of a given in reality TV as treachery and tears: Cooking contests need a Las Vegas angle.
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