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Problem:Paula Deen CASINO DEAL GOES BUST Caesars Kills Buffet Contract with Chef 
  
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 Et tu, Caesars?The casino company just announced it will be KILLING its professional relationship with-- and will close all 4 of her restaurants that operate on its properties.FYI -- Deen has restaurants in Harrah's Tunica near Memphis, Harrah's Joliet near Chicago, Harrah's Cherokee in North Carolina ... and a buffet at Horseshoe Southern Indiana.But fear not hungry gamblers, Caesars says it intends to rebrand Paula's restaurants and reopen them in a couple of months.Caesars says the move is in the company's "best interest" following the whole N-word scandal. ||||| Getty Images Paula Deen's show ran 11 years. 
  
 Paula Deen's future with the Food Network was in doubt even before a controversy over her use of racial slurs erupted, say people familiar with the situation, a reflection of changing tastes in food television. 
  
 Paula Deen's future with the Food Network was in doubt even before a controversy over her use of racial slurs erupted, but there's evidence to suggest that a second act could still be likely. Lee Hawkins joins the News Hub. Photo: AP. 
  
 For several weeks before the controversy blew up last week, Ms. Deen's agent had been negotiating with the Food Network to extend her contract, which ends June 30, the people said. One issue complicating the negotiations: her ratings had slid substantially over the past season. 
  
 "Things were not going as planned," said one person familiar with the negotiations, noting that an unresolved contract extension so late in the game was unusual. 
  
 Ms. Deen's 11-year run with the Food Network came to a very public end on Friday, just two days after reports widely circulated that she admitted to using the "n-word" in the past and overseeing a workplace where racial jokes were told. 
  
 She made the admission in a deposition for a racial- and sexual-harassment suit filed by a former employee at the restaurant she owned with her brother. Ms. Deen posted a videotaped apology on YouTube on Friday. 
  
 The Food Network, majority owned by Scripps Networks Interactive Inc., didn't cite a reason for its decision to drop her. But people close to the show and the food-television industry say the decision comes as the kind of "dump and stir" instructional food shows in which Ms. Deen and others, like Martha Stewart, specialized have fallen out of fashion. A spokeswoman for Ms. Stewart's company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., declined to comment. 
  
 Ratings for Ms. Deen's show "Paula's Best Dishes" were down 15% in total viewers—and 22% in the 18-49 demographic that advertisers care most about—for the 2012-13 season, compared with last season, according to Nielsen ratings provided by Horizon Media. 
  
 "Her numbers are down," said Brad Adgate, research director at Horizon Media. "She represented in many ways a bygone era." 
  
 Meanwhile, the Food Network has been increasingly shifting away from traditional cooking instruction toward food-themed reality shows and cooking competitions. 
  
 The channel's top-rated shows for the 2012-13 season included "Food Network Star," "Chopped," "Next Iron Chef," "Worst Cooks," and "Great Food Truck Race," "Rachael Vs. Guy" and "Restaurant Impossible"—every one of which had some kind of competitive or reality-show angle. At its "upfront" advertiser presentations this spring, it presented 16 new shows, from "Food Court Wars" to "Extreme Tupperware Ladies," none of which simply aimed to teach viewers how to cook. 
  
 That is a departure from the Food Network's early days, when chefs like Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray and Ms. Deen combined big personalities with the kind of how-to format that fans of Julia Child might still recognize. 
  
 Beyond the changing programming style, analysts said Ms. Deen's ratings were hurt by revelations last year that she had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes shortly before she emerged as a paid spokeswoman for Novo Nordisk A/S, a Danish firm that makes diabetes drugs. The revelation prompted a public outcry claiming that Ms. Deen had been profiting from recipes for the kinds of high-calorie foods known to contribute to the disease while withholding disclosure of her diagnosis, and then sought to profit from diabetes medication. 
  
 Novo Nordisk said it had nothing to add Tuesday beyond its statement last week, which said that it was "following the legal proceedings closely." 
  
 "She lost favorability around the whole diabetes thing," said Billie Gold, vice president of research and programming at media buyer Carat. "She lost audience around then as well." 
  
 After peaking in 2011, ratings for "Paula's Best Dishes" began to slide in 2012, according to an analysis of Nielsen ratings by Ms. Gold. 
  
 As ratings declined, the cost of Ms. Deen's show became too high for the network to support, according to people familiar with the matter, particularly as the network itself faced prime-time ratings declines of 17% in the target demographic and 15% in households for the 2012-13 season as of June 20, according to a UBS analysis of Nielsen ratings. 
  
 Forbes magazine listed Ms. Deen as the fourth-highest-earning celebrity chef last year, with estimated earnings of $17 million. People familiar with Ms. Deen's business, which includes cookbooks, a magazine, restaurants and licensing deals, say the Food Network contributed only a fraction of her income. 
  
 So far, most of Ms. Deen's business relationships seem to be holding, though pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. dropped her as a spokeswoman on Monday. Sears Holdings Corp., which sells Paula Deen-branded cookware, said on Monday it was "currently exploring next steps as it pertains to Ms. Deen's products." 
  
 After skipping a scheduled interview with the "Today" show on Friday, at the height of the media frenzy, Ms. Deen was scheduled to appear live on the NBC program Wednesday to address the controversy. 
  
 —Lee Hawkins contributed to this article. 
  
 Write to Keach Hagey at keach.hagey@wsj.com 
  
 A version of this article appeared June 26, 2013, on page B1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Paula Deen's Other Problem: Stale Ratings. |||||
Solution:
In her much-anticipated Today show appearance this morning, Paula Deen told Matt Lauer she doesn't even know whether the N-word is offensive to black people. "I have asked myself that so many times," she explained before going on to blame kids these days. "I go into my kitchens and hear what these young people are calling each other ... it’s very distressing for me. I think for this problem to be worked on, these young people are gonna have to take control and start showing respect for each other and not [throw] that word at each other. It makes my skin crawl." Needless to say, she also denied being a racist, and said that Food Network shouldn't have fired her. She also claimed she only used the N-word once (a switch from what she said during the deposition), while describing a 1986 incident in which a black man held her at gunpoint. "I is what I is, and I'm not changing," declared a sobbing Deen. Amusingly, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Food Network may have given Deen the boot regardless of the whole brouhaha: Her contract ends Sunday, and her agent has been negotiating an extension for weeks and still hadn't resolved the matter before this controversy erupted. The reason behind the uncertainty? A big ratings dip over the past season. Plus, more bad news for Deen: TMZ reports that the Caesars casino company is severing ties with her, closing all four of her restaurants and then re-opening them with different branding. Not surprisingly, the New York Post reports that Deen has hired a top "crisis PR guru."