Reality TV > Dog: The Bounty Hunter gets canceled for racial slurs
November 1, 2007
Written by John Lichman
Ouch, guess all that stuff about God doesn't translate to simple etiquette.
A&E has canceled Dog: The Bounty Hunter following a tape that--of all people--The National Inquirer found where Dwayne "The Dog" Chapman repeatedly uses racial slurs for his son's black girlfriend. TNI is carrying two versions of the audio on their website.
Fishbowl NY runs a partial transcript from the tape, where Chapman asks the film crew to not record the girlfriend:
"I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore, whatever. It's not because she's black, it's because we use the word n- - - - - sometimes here [...] "I'm not going to take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for, for 30 years, because some f- - -ing n- - - - - heard us saying n- - - - -. [...] It's that we use the word n- - - -. We don't mean, 'You f- - -ing scum n- - - - - without a soul... We don't mean that s- - -, but America would think we mean that."
carries an excerpt from a statement that Chapman gave:
The Dog apologized last night, and said he was ripping the girlfriend's character and not her race."I am deeply disappointed in myself for speaking out of anger to my son and using such a hateful term in a private conversation," Chapman said in his written apology.
A&E also released the following statement, "A&E has just learned of the story released by the National Enquirer concerning Duane Dog Chapman. We take this matter very seriously. Pending an investigation, we have suspended production on the series. When the inquiry is concluded we will take appropriate action."
