deenpaula2 NEW YORK (AP Jun 27, 2013) – Target Corp. is announcing Thursday that it is ending its relationship with celebrity cook Paula Deen as fallout builds from revelations that the Southern celebrity chef used racial slurs in the past.
 
     The discounter, based in Minneapolis, said that it will phase out its Paula Deen-branded cookware and other items in its stores as well as on Target.com.
 
     The company says that once the merchandise is sold out, it will not be replenishing the inventory.
 
     The announcement comes as diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk says it and Deen have “mutually agreed to suspend our patient education activities for now.”
 
     On Wednesday, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it was ending its relationship with Deen. Last week, the Food Network said that it would not renew Deen’s contract.

NEW YORK (AP Jun 26, 2013) – Paula Deen sobbed during an interview on the “Today” show where she denied being a racist. Deen had admitted using a racial slur in the past, but she says anyone who has never said something they wished they could take back could take a stone and throw it so hard at her head that it killed her. Dean says “I is what I is and I’m not changing.” She suggested that someone was out to get her. She said “there’s something evil out there that saw what I worked for and wanted it.” Dean has been dropped by the Food Network and Smithfield Foods and is in danger of losing other business, too.