Paula Deen could also be all about Southern hospitality, however she reportedly couldn’t muster something good to say about her late critic Anthony Bourdain in her new documentary.
“Canceled: The Paula Deen Story” largely follows the superstar chef’s fall from grace after she admitted to utilizing the N-word whereas beneath oath throughout 2013 authorized proceedings, however the movie additionally touches on Deen’s feud with globetrotting chef and tv persona Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018.
“God rest his soul. I felt like he didn’t like anybody. Not even himself, maybe,” she says within the documentary, which Entertainment Weekly coated after it premiered on the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant on Saturday.
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The origin of the 2 cooks’ public squabble largely performs out by archival footage featured within the movie.
In a single classic clip, Bourdain slams Deen’s decadent, deep-fried cooking type, saying, “This is not Southern food she’s been selling. Her brand has been, all these years, novelty food,” EW reviews.
One other reveals 2011-era information clips of journalists describing how Bourdain known as Deen the “worst, most dangerous person in America” due to her undeniably unhealthy delicacies.
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In response, Deen knocked the famously adventurous dishes showcased on Bourdain’s reveals “No Reservations” and “Parts Unknown.”
“Let me tell you something, girlfriend,” the Southern chef says in a clip from an previous look on “The Joy Behar Show.” “Maybe [my food] is bad for you, but I don’t go around eating or serving unwashed anuses of wildebeests.”
Years later, Deen apparently hasn’t modified her tune.
Within the documentary, she reportedly says, “I don’t know what he was off in these foreign countries eating. Bat brains, or something like that. I think I’ll just stick with my fried chicken.”
Previous to his dying, Bourdain appeared to shrug off Deen’s disses whereas suggesting there was nothing real about her status as a Southern charmer.
An previous piece of footage included within the documentary reveals him saying, “I like the quote [of hers,] it was, ‘Well, he has had his demons, I hope he had them under control.’ He’s probably still shooting dope, is probably what she’s saying in a nice kind of Southern way.”
