See What Horrible Thing Happened To The Person That Got Paula Deen Fired Paul Deen and Dora Charles had been working together for almost 20 years before Charles started claiming that Deen was racist. When this news broke, Paul Deen was immediately fired from her long-standing career at the Food Network. Since the incident, Deen has been working hard to continue her success, and is on the verge of opening a restaurant with a $75 million dollar investment to help her get started. Contrastingly, Charles, who claims to have helped Paul Deen create the recipes that made her famous, is now living paycheck to paycheck. She claims that she has not been able to find work. What do you think? Would you hire Charles? 