Paula Deen’s handlers flew into a tizzy during a taping of the “Dr. Oz” show last week after host Mehmet Oz confronted the newly confessed diabetic chef about her high blood pressure.
A source said Oz asked the corpulent creator of fried butter balls and bacon cheeseburger meatloaf, “You have another secret, don’t you? You have high blood pressure.”
A panic-stricken publicist interrupted the interview and pointed out that Deen hadn’t signed a consent form yet, and told Oz, “You can’t air that.”
“It took an hour to straighten out, and then they redid the interview,” a source spilled to Flash.
Four days after Flash first broke the news, the queen of Southern comfort cuisine admitted on the “Today” show last week that she had indeed been diagnosed with diabetes three years ago.
But Deen — who has built a media empire dishing out her signature deep-fried, butter-drenched recipes — apparently doesn’t want to discuss that she also has high blood pressure, a fact she let slip in a 2007 interview with the Orange County Register.
As we reported on Saturday, Deen is being paid $6 million over two years as a pitchwoman for Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drugs.
Maybe now, she can score another deal to hawk a hypertension remedy?
A source said Oz asked the corpulent creator of fried butter balls and bacon cheeseburger meatloaf, “You have another secret, don’t you? You have high blood pressure.”
A panic-stricken publicist interrupted the interview and pointed out that Deen hadn’t signed a consent form yet, and told Oz, “You can’t air that.”
“It took an hour to straighten out, and then they redid the interview,” a source spilled to Flash.
Four days after Flash first broke the news, the queen of Southern comfort cuisine admitted on the “Today” show last week that she had indeed been diagnosed with diabetes three years ago.
But Deen — who has built a media empire dishing out her signature deep-fried, butter-drenched recipes — apparently doesn’t want to discuss that she also has high blood pressure, a fact she let slip in a 2007 interview with the Orange County Register.
As we reported on Saturday, Deen is being paid $6 million over two years as a pitchwoman for Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drugs.
Maybe now, she can score another deal to hawk a hypertension remedy?
