Paula Deen Freaked by 'Today Show' Staffer

10-12-2009 @10:28PM itsjoshjohnson said... I think they handled it very well. You see so many videos on YouTube of newscasters freaking out on their staff for tiny slip-ups, This was clearly a big no-no, but they laughed it off. I wish more people could learn to find the fun in mistakes like that. Kudos.
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10-12-2009 @10:29PM Lotte said... Cathy, you're the idiot...it wasn't Roker she was talking about. IF
you had read and comprehended the entire story, you would have known
it was apparently a staffer! Good heavens, THAT little tidbit was right there in the title of this piece!
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10-12-2009 @10:30PM Katie said... Oh she is too cute! Honestly, can anyone take a joke anymore? Way to make us all laugh Paula Dean. I have to say that guy behind the island was quite a trooper staying there the whole time. LOL
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10-12-2009 @10:37PM Val said... Are you people kidding me, with all the evil people in the world and ya'll are getting on Paula? What the heck, get a life... I'm from Florida and all my relatives from south Georgia, have exactly the same accent if not worse, and they are not fake! It all depends on your parents and where their from, you can be from Alabama, but if your parents are from Maine your not gonna have the same accent.. Give me a Break... God Bless you Paula! People like Paula Prevail... not the morons that write crap about her...
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10-12-2009 @10:30PM hinchcliffe said... I just watched the clip and she did not freak out, she was playing right along. What a big deal about nothing-you can't believe anything you read anymore
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10-12-2009 @10:34PM diana said... I suppose people who aren't from the South don't get our brand of humor. Paula is clearly joking! Why the fuss?? Its not as if she called in the National Guard. She made light of the situation, big freaking deal! I'm amazed at the childishness of some adults in this world....A beautiful woman can't make a joke without it being dissected and picked apart until it becomes this huge issue when the fact remains it WAS and IS JUST A FREAKING JOKE!!!!
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10-12-2009 @10:35PM cantankerousoldlady said... fer all ya'lls informashun, the souths way of jawing was here long before ya'lls way of jawing came to be. Paulas just shootin the breeze on this skit. Heck, I'd be nervous to see a feriner hiding behind a table too. Paula is as purdy as a speckled dog in a little red wagon. I'd put her vittles on my table anyday over gordon ramnseys high falutin crap. to all ya'll complaining out there...seems like you mite be a little teched in the head. in other words, ya aint right............love ya paula, holler at me if ya want a good recipe fer possum and sweet taters, or how to cook a good mess of leather britches.
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10-12-2009 @11:44PM Stefanie said... Just Paula being Paula, an everyday gal doing what she does with humor. I love her and think that this was no big deal and she didn't freak out at all, she took the opportunity to make it funny.
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10-12-2009 @10:39PM Paul S said... This a tough question>who is the bigger bafoon in this segmant Al Roker or Paula Dean?? Hmmmm i am coming up with a tie.Ok lets try another question>which one is more annoying?? Hmmmm once again I am coming up with a tie.
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10-12-2009 @11:27PM Joanna Huggins said... I don't understand what the big, hairy deal was. She was just being cute and making small talk. What the heck. I'd ask the same questions too if I were snuck up on in a studio.
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10-13-2009 @8:14AM johnny said... The media blew that out.I thought that was funny and it appeared they had fun with it as well. RELAX.
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10-12-2009 @10:53PM donna09 said... Paula Dean had a talent for cooking and a gimick. She got famous and raised her sons. She didn't go to the welfare office. In todays ideas women aren't suppose to get ahead on their own because they make men look bad. I WISH I had a gimick that would sell, I would tell all you critical people to kiss my ass. Are you making the money that she is? Maybe that is your problem. Some overweigh person can make more money than you. Having good looks is not all it's cracked up to be. Try to enjoy the inner person, you may be surprised what you find. If you can't do that then shut the hell up.
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10-12-2009 @10:50PM John said... No breaks. Civility is never out of time. Laughter has defused so many cases in TV by people more talented and more famous than her. She perhaps has a case of "i'm famous, you just in the way." No excusable.
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10-12-2009 @10:57PM puddntane said... I saw the show and thought nothing of it except that I thought it was a set up to make Paula nervous or mad. I would be mad as heck to have some jerk horn in on my spot. I think Paula handled herself with class. I think Barbara Walters was also a jerk and was discriminating against Paula Deen. She wouldn't do that to say Tyler Florence or Wolfgang Puck.
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10-12-2009 @10:52PM Lita said... What a stupid story. Nobody lost their cool. So a staffer was unexpectedly caught on camera. They all had fun with it. Some people will say anything to "sell" a story. And other people are stupid enough to eat it up. What a sad state to be in.
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10-12-2009 @10:53PM Mary Louise said... Didn't look like she was too flustered to stop licking her fingers, then touch the food she was handing out. The hick-ish routine is over the top - so tiresome, folks in Savannah must cringe when she says, "I'm from Savannah Georgia, y'all". She may be a good cook with a Southern accent but she's no Southern belle.
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10-12-2009 @10:54PM Ice said... If that was freaking out then I guess I never knew the definition of the term. Freaking out would be if someone threw the knife at the person after being told a stranger running on set & hiding didn't work there. The media needs to get a grip! In regards to the Letterman "scandal", give it a rest. Who cares, or should care other than the actual parties involved? Makes great foder to sell publications, sad as that is that's all it is. People are dying & homeless all over the world, but we are obsessed with who sleeps with who. Sometimes things are just what they appear, poor judgement & sour grapes.
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10-12-2009 @10:56PM Sharain said... This woman has become a flake. She schedules appearances for money, and does nothing. I know this for a fact from personal experiences of close friends. I went to her restaurant in GA, and it is only average. Get a handle on fame Paula......
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10-12-2009 @11:02PM Donna said... I think the comment about the man being from another country was not called for. But as I always says "It's like Prego" it's in there (Paula). For the first time since being on TV you really showed just what's on the inside of you and this time it wasn't room temperature like the butter you use in many of your receipes. What you served up with that statement was at the boiling point of indescretion!
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