Paula Deen

Project: Paula’s Best Dishes

Paula Deen is known as the beloved television personality behind multiple Food Network cooking shows such as Paula’s Party, Paula’s Home Cooking, and Paula’s Best Dishes. The TV show host’s fame slowly morphed into a degree of infamy, resulting in the loss of her show and affiliation with Food Network.

It all started in 2013 when Deen admitted to using a racial slur in the past when being deposed in a case brought against her by Lisa Jackson, the former general manager of her Savannah, Georgia restaurant Uncle Bubba’s Seafood and Oyster House. Deen allegedly wanted her African American employees to act a certain way at a wedding she was preparing, according to Jackson.  Food Network opted to not renew her contract. Nowadays, Deen is hosting her show Positively Paula not on the Food Network, but on RFD-TV. She still lives in Savannah, Georgia, managing her restaurants The Lady & Sons and Paula Deen’s Creek House alongside her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen.