Paula Deen's Food Network Shows: No Changes To Her TV Cooking Until At Least 2013

After the shocking revelation that Food Network host Paula Deen was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years ago, many questions remain. High among them: what happens to her television career? According to Food Network insiders, the celebrity chef has no plans to change the way she cooks on TV until at least 2013.

"Before Paula's announcement the producers of her show, Gordon Elliott's Follow That Productions, had delivered enough shows to run until the end of 2012," a source close to the network said. "None of the shows address her bombshell statement and none of the shows make any attempt to change the way she cooks, even though they obviously knew what was going on when she filmed them."

From a studio on her property in Savannah, Georgia, Deen shoots several shows a day over the course of several days to keep costs down. She has delivered around 34 completed episodes to the network.

"Paula shoots in February, May and the fall. There have been no major conversations between the network and her team about re-editing the shows or making changes," a network insider tells me. "As far as [Deen's people] are concerned, they have met their contractual obligation and have moved on. However, this doesn't mean that the network has to air what they have been given. They have hired a crisis PR company and are having internal conversations -- even if Paula's team doesn't wish to be part of them -- about how to proceed in this very ugly situation."

The Food Network declined to comment on the matter, while Paula Deen's representatives have yet to respond to our inquiry.

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Comments

[rettskitchen]

09:52 PM on 02/26/2013

Paula Deen has a big following (kind of like the followers of a religious cult). Granted, she is a good cook and a hard worker. She reallly wowed me when I first saw her shows on Food Network. Now however, I am dissappointed in her. She has NO education in the world of diabetes or any other disease. She is now putting forth information on medicine she is taking for her disease (which I am sure she gets compensated). She should stick to the cooking arena, tell the world she has a very complicated and destructive disease that can kill you. Take her talents to help people eat well with good, healthy. nutritious and tasty food. She is making comments that you can eat good foods as long as you take this drug she is taking. If I could ask her a question, it would be "where can the public get the trials for "Victoza"? Please Paula, this is not a willy-nilly subject. My whole family has Type II diabetes and has been struggling for years. Lost my Mom and 2 brothers from the disease. Good luck and do the right thing. Stick to what you know...good cooking that can help people enjoy eating again within the limits of their disease.

[anitacamarowon]

04:42 PM on 02/24/2012

I hope she keeps doing what she has been doing. I love her and her show, Paula I would love to have a set of your cookware set. I can not afford it now I have been laid off from my job if you read this. Lol


All my prayers
Anita Ware

[Ginny510]

03:41 PM on 02/24/2012

I love Paula Dean and I have alot of her receipes especially for things I make for my book club. Every one remains thin too.

[bmwracer]

09:30 AM on 02/10/2012

Nice dentures, Paula.

[Ryan Megan]

02:52 PM on 02/27/2012

she doesn't wear dentures - she has veneers.

[Pauline Jaing]

07:51 PM on 02/09/2012

The fundamental issue is why is she on television in the first place! But then McDonalds has become a symbol of America.

Selling POISON is now what capitalism is known for.

[Facts R stubborn things]

11:47 AM on 02/12/2012

You don't have to buy what anyone is selling. You may use your own sense of judgement and decline to purchase. If enough people do that, then the seller has no market and fails. It's called a free market and it works. When you make sweeping, ridiculous statements like "selling poison is now what capitalism is known for," what you are really saying is, "I'm just a sheep who blindly buys what anyone is selling." Lack of self discipline is not the fault of capitalism.

[Pauline Jaing]

03:21 PM on 02/12/2012

On, I was not being so mundane.

I was refeerring to the fact that the commodity (you know we have a commodity production economy) is divided into use value and exchange value. When the exchange value aspect becomes so dominant that people will eat poison at McDonalds or swill down 40 tablespoons of high fructose corn syrup hidden in their bread by rthe day, and the fact is kept from them by the government, that is a kind of parasitic commodity produciotn that is very destructive to capitalism itself.

Keep it up and you will find everyone is too fat to serve in the military.

I REMEMBER when that high fuuctose corn syrup hit -- I coudl smell it and did not like it at all, same brand, stopped eahing it, THANK GOD, but it was at me in ohter ways and I got very sick.

[Facts R stubborn things]

09:13 PM on 02/12/2012

You're nothing more than an alarmist.

[gypsynomad]

06:44 PM on 02/09/2012

Paula lost an opportunity to offer great services to the country, but she blew it, still wants to remain a giddy southern belle instead...sad..

[PollyTics]

09:11 AM on 02/09/2012

Funny thing that the Food Network has had so many scandals in the last few months. First we had Ina Garten who (continually) refused the request from the young dying boy to meet with her just once, then we have the Guy Fieri (actually spelled Ferry...not kidding) who wouldn't go into a restaurant where gay men were working unless he was forewarned and now...it's Paula Deen, the empress of fat and carbs teaching everyone just how to encourage Diabetes while she herself had that very disease and hid it even from the network.

I certainly hope the network is taking note, because I know we are...

[nj fl]

09:01 AM on 02/09/2012

I'm sorry, but where is everyone's personal responsibility. Paula isn't in the grocery store with you and she certainly isn't in your kitchen when your cooking. Just because she shows you how she makes something doesn't mean you have to do it her way.

[tangelan]

03:12 PM on 02/09/2012

I think the personal responsibility is criticizing her behavior and not watching her show anymore.

[PollyTics]

09:00 AM on 02/09/2012

I think that Paula Deen is despicable in her 3 year secret disease (while cooking to encourage it amongst others), but what I am most curious about is how the Food Network will handle this situation.

I remember how the Food Network have fired other "talent' merely because they fibbed on their resumes...but this? An out and out deception that one of their "stars" had diabetes while cooking to replicate that disease amongst the vulnerable seems to be so much more egregious!

IF they don't take her off the air, we will all know just where their allegiance lies...and it isn't with their viewers!

[xstevejx]

12:33 AM on 02/10/2012

What does a personal health issue have to do with unethical behavior in this case? It's her own business, she doesn't tell people they should eat some of the worst things she makes health-wise like it's her magic diet, and it's not up to her to fix everything that uptight other people think are wrong. The viewers mostly don't care about this nonsense.

[PollyTics]

02:57 AM on 02/10/2012

Perhaps you aren't familiar with entirety of the story on Paula. She has been cooking using heavy fats, flour and tons of sugar for years now and would NOT have come out and told her fans her own effects from eating this type of food except that a drug company wanted her to be their spokesperson.

It also just so happened that the drug they wanted her to represent was for Diabetes, the very disease that she has hidden from her fans (and the television network for which she worked). That's a 3 year secret where she could have actually helped educate her viewers while giving her network the chance to decide how they wanted to handle it.

But Paula decided to keep it all a secret, to heck with those who might have been helped by her advise on how to eat. The Food network has remained mum on how they are going to handle this, but they have fired people for far lesser "crimes" than this.

I come from a family riddled with Diabetes and have seen what it does to a person or family and only wish they had reconsidered how they had eaten over the years to have prevented the kinds of loss they suffered.

So, no, it's NOT just her business since she is a public figure who could have helped, but only "came out" because she had a very lucrative contract with a drug company. It's such a sham...

[Eric Graff]

07:50 AM on 02/09/2012

I never liked her or her phoney balloney "southern charm" now cashing in on a sickness $$$$$$$$$$ WOOOO HOOO! The american way!

[lbdmt]

05:18 PM on 02/10/2012

I feel the same way. Such a phony!

[ThinkCreeps]

07:01 AM on 02/09/2012

Is she going to last until 2013?

[cyoohoos]

06:05 AM on 02/09/2012

Seems odd watching Paula continue to scarf down unhealthy, carb rich, fatty laden goodies on her show. Also seems reckless.

[Passenger57]

05:43 AM on 02/09/2012

It kinda sounds like they shot the shows already and don't want to shoot new ones...

[signgrrl]

06:07 PM on 02/09/2012

could be . . . . .

[Passenger57]

05:20 AM on 02/10/2012

I'd like to THINK so, anyway...

[Nosquares]

03:56 AM on 02/09/2012

"Now if you lose that leg to diabetes, don't throw it out! Take it to your butcher and have him saw it up into steaks. Yup! Dredge 'em in flour- the White kind is the Right kind!- dip 'em in eggs and cream and deep fry 'em. If you're gonna lose it, use it!"

[Alicia Johns]

01:39 AM on 02/09/2012

How long will her restaurant make it, she serves the same food to her customers I'd be thinking twice about returning.