God, I love Paula Deen. I love her and I love her butter. This is a CNN video of Paula Deen donating a truck full of Smithfield hams to a homeless food bank in Georgia, I think. While she and some people are unloading the hams, they start playing around and Paula throws the first ham. I’m not quite sure what happened next in the mind of this douchey guy, but he chucks the ham right back to Paula when she wasn’t paying attention. And she ended up catching the ham. If by “catching” you mean “a rogue ham smashed her pretty face”.
My favorite part of this video and post-ham analysis? Paula’s quote: “It just got hit with a hog, so what can I expect? Ran head-on to a hog.” I love her! Anyway, her face is fine… she’s icing it and her rep released a statement saying she’s fine:
Celeb chef Paula Deen got quite a scare Monday morning when she was smacked in the face with a piece of ham at a charity event in Atlanta.
Deen, 62, was helping unload a truck load of hams at Hosea Feed the Hungry & Homeless to make a Thanksgiving donation on behalf of Smithfield Foods when someone playfully threw a ham.
It missed the storage bucket and ended up hitting the Food Network star on the head and nose, her rep tells Usmagazine.com.
Deen was “startled at first, but quickly regained focus and kept her humor,” says her rep.
Adds the rep, “She’s okay now and is icing her face.”
Deen later laughed off the mishap, telling local station WXIA-TV that the ham “hit me full long in the face and ’bout knocked me cuckoo, but I’m fine.”
[From Us Weekly]
The only thing that would make this video and interview any better is if Paula mentioned anything about “oil”. I love the way she pronounces “oil”. She says it like it’s one syllable – ol’. As in “You’re going to need a pan of ol’ to fry that chicken.” I’m Southern and I don’t even do that! That’s a big-time Southern accent.
But I am glad she’s okay. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Paula!
Paula Deen in New York on April 15, 2008. Credit: WENN.
My son totally loves Paula Deen. I was crushed when I read what happened to her. Having fun is one thing, but someone went too far. I’m from Georgia and grew up on the west coast but I still, to this day, pronounce oil as ‘ol’. Sad. But true. God bless Paula Deen!
Love Paula.
Hate ham.
Who throws a ham, even in jest, at a 60 year old woman? Even if she’s paying attention, odds are bad that she’s gonna catch it with any success.
Poor Paula Deen. She does seem like a sweet lady. A sweet lady full of butter.
I absolutely love my Paula!
“Rogue Ham”… Kaiser, as usual, hilarious.
she’s such a hot mess…love her.
Love Paula!
She just seems like the type that you just gab and gossip with while having a slice of cake (made with eleventy sticks of butter, LOL) and a glass of sweet tea.
LMAO @ Rogue Ham.
Am I the only one who finds “throwing food around for giggles” that is supposed to go into charity a bit…hmm…tasteless? (no pun intended, ham)
She started it.
I know it’s not nice to laugh when people get hurt, but this whole article is hysterical! LMAO.
Poor Paula!
I’m originally from Seattle, but thanks to cooking television, I tend to lapse into Paula-esque dialects at times.
that ham was like “I’m about to be eaten by some people so I have nothing to lose might as well hurt the enemy”
Love her, glad she’s alright.
Lived in the deep south for 20 yrs-its still is “ol” even tho I’m a “yankee” now. Love Paula and ham and butter!!
Hey throw in some biskits and you got HEAVEN!!!
I think Paula plays up her southern accent, but I love her anyway.
Team Paula!
As opposed to team ham….