Paula Deen fired from Food Network after admitting to using racial slur

Stick a fork in this butterball she s been deep fried and deep sixed by the Food Network.

Celebrity chef Paula Deen 66 was canned by the cable channel on Friday after releasing a groveling video apology on YouTube for using the N word and cracking racist jokes at her Savannah Ga. restaurant.

YouTube Paula Deen gave a video statement Friday to address her racism scandal.

I want to apologize to everybody for the wrong I have done. I want to learn and grow from this she said in the 45 second video posted on YouTube. Inappropriate hurtful language is totally totally unacceptable.

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Melanie Dunea for PEOPLE Paula Deen photographed at home in Savannah Ga. Deen became a household name with 'Paula's Home Cooking' on Food Network.

But the ham handed apology was not enough to save her job with the Food Network.

Friday officials at the channel where Deen rose to fame with her brand of butter and deep fried fueled down home Southern cooking said they would not renew her contract which expires at the end of the month.

Michael Roman/WireImage Paula Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers attend Paula Deen's Kitchen grand opening at Chicago Harrah's Joliet Casino and Hotel in Chicago.

Between her TV work speaking engagements cookbooks licensing and endorsements Forbes estimates her wealth at $17 million. Network sources said she was paid between $10 000 and $20 000 for each episode of her various shows.

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Paula_Deen via Twitter 'Paula Deen prepares to issue a video statement about her racism scandal on June 21 2013.

Deen's callous language ballooned into a humiliating scandal earlier in the week when the star admitted in a deposition for a $1.2 million discrimination trial that she had of course used the N word in the past.

In her deposition she also said It s just what they are they re jokes ... most jokes are about Jewish people rednecks black folks ... gays or straights black redneck you know I just don't know I just don't know what to say Deen reportedly said in her defense. I can t myself determine what offends another person.

Food Network Paula Deen hosting 'Paula's Home Cooking.' Food Network elected not to renew Deen's contract over the controversy sparked by her choice of words.

The pork and butter loving Deen 66 and her brother Bubba Hiers are being sued by former employee Lisa Jackson who alleged sexual harassment and a hostile work environment at Deen and Hiers restaurant Uncle Bubba s Seafood and Oyster House.

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NBC NewsWire/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Deen issued a video apology about her use of racial slurs just after unexpectedly canceling an appearance on the 'Today' show.

Hoping to quell the controversy on Thursday Deen s reps said her use of the word was the product of her upbringing in the deep South.

Word that Deen had been canned came on the same day that Deen backed out of a scheduled appearance on the Today show about the controversy.

Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images 'I beg for your forgiveness ' Deen said in her statement.

I have to say I was physically not able this morning Deen said on another video. The pain has been tremendous.

I want people to understand that my family and I are not the kind of people that the press is trying to say we are she said.

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