Celebrity cook Paula Deen is back with a new subscription based series.
Paula Deen announced on her website that she plans to launch her own online network later this year. She is launching a subscription based online video network in the fall. The network is the latest move for Paula Deen to reclaim her food empire that is reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars.
Signups for the Paula Deen Network will begin in July according to an announcement from Paula Deen Ventures, a company formed after Paula Deen under oath admitted to using racial slurs.
“We’re going to have so much fun being together and cooking up some wonderful new and classic dishes,” Deen gushes in a news release. “Y’all can get my recipes, tips and cooking anytime you want — this is for you. I can’t wait to crank up the oven and get cooking for the people I love: my family, my friends and my fans!
Paula Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates The Lady & Sons restaurant with her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen. She has published fourteen cookbooks.
In June 2013, Paula Deen was the target of a lawsuit alleging racial and sexual discrimination. It claimed that Paula Deen made derogatory remarks regarding African Americans in the presence of a female employee whose nieces are bi-racial with an African-American father.
The case was heard in August 2013, with the judge dismissing the suit with prejudice, meaning it cannot be re-filed.Both sides agreed to dismiss the lawsuit “without any award of costs or fees to any party”.
Paula Deen stated in her deposition that she had used the “N-word” at times.
Specifically, she recalled telling her husband about an incident “when a black man burst into the bank that I was working at and put a gun to my head. […] I didn’t feel real favorable towards him.”
Asked if she had used the word since then, she said: “I’m sure I have, but it’s been a very long time […] maybe in repeating something that was said to me […] probably a conversation between blacks. I don’t – I don’t know. But that’s just not a word that we use as time has gone on. Things have changed since the 60’s in the south.”
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