3. Paula Deen
“wp-caption aligncenter”>With her white hair and down-home charm, Deen was tailor-made for the Food Network, breaking out in the late 1990s with her various cooking books promoting a menu of Southern cooking. Soon, Deen got her own show on the Network and was among their more popular faces, fans loving her charm and humor. The first issue were the complaints about Deen’s cooking being too fatty and her trying to brush aside any health concerns. That was added onto when she revealed she had diabetes and naturally a backlash about still promoting such cooking. But that was nothing compared to the outrage in 2013 when Deen was slapped with a lawsuit accusing her of using racial epitaphs at black people. Deen did herself no favors when she openly admitted to using the N-word a few times but never meant as an insult. That didn’t go over well with viewers as Food Network canceled her show and she lost numerous sponsorships like Walmart, Target and QVC. She’s tried a comeback with her own TV show but it’s nothing like it was as folks can forgive a lot but a racism viewpoint is not among them.
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