Paula Deen Fired From Walmart! 48 Hours Cook Terminates 3 Endorsement Deals[VIDEO]

Paula Deen has been fired by Walmart, her biggest endorsement deal yet.  Walmart has carried Paula Deen branded products since 2011, and their ties were finally cut today. In the past 48 hours Paula Deen has managed to get fired from a total of three huge companies.

Walmart said in a statement about Deen, "We are ending our relationship with Paula Deen Enterprises. And we will not place new orders beyond those already committed. We will work with suppliers to address existing inventories and agreements."

The last company to have Paula fired was Caesars, which will close all four of Paula Deens restaurant's inside their Caesars casinos. Paula Deen's empire seems to be plummeting daily with each new endorsement deal she's being fired from. 

Caesars says it intends to rebrand Paula Deen's restaurants and reopen them in a couple of months, so gamblers can still eat butter! Caesars says they fired Deen because it is  in the company's "best interest" following the whole Paula Deen N-word scandal.

After the food network fired Deen, the ball just kept rolling for the cooking queen.

The Food Network, which made Deen a star with "Paula's Home Cooking" in 2002 and later "Paula's Home Cooking" in 2008, fired Deen and weighed in with a terse statement Friday afternoon.

"Food Network will not renew Paula Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month," the statement said. Network representatives declined further comment. A representative for Deen did not immediately return phone and email messages seeking comment on the decision.

Then Smithfield Foods cut ties with Deen and her name was dropped from the Pork company. Keira Lombardo, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communication said about Paula Deen's termination:

"Smithfield condemns the use of offensive and discriminatory language and behavior of any kind. Therefore, we are terminating our partnership with Paula Deen. Smithfield is determined to be an ethical food industry leader and it is important that our values and those of our spokespeople are properly aligned."

Smithfield Foods is $7.1 billion food company, as valued during a merger last month with Shuanghui International. According to their press materials, Smithfield is "the world's largest pork processor and hog producer." Deen had worked with Smithfield since September of 2006.

The news came as Deen worked hard to repair the damage to her image, which has spawned a vast empire of cookbooks, a bimonthly cooking magazine, a full line of cookware, food items like spices and even furniture.

Last year, Forbes ranked Deen the fourth-highest earning celebrity chef-hauling in $17 million-thanks a slew of lucrative endorsement deals, most of which have evaporated in the past 48 hours.

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