: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrity bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman is set to return to television after his reality TV show was pulled from the air three months ago in a controversy over his use of a racial slur, cable channel A&E said on Tuesday.
A&E took the popular show, "Dog the Bounty Hunter," off its schedule last November after a private phone call in which Chapman, an ex-con, used an offensive term to describe his son Tucker's black girlfriend hit the Internet.
It transpired that Tucker sold the tape of the conversation to The National Enquirer, for a reported $15,000.
A teary Chapman apologized repeatedly on television and to the African American community after the tape was made public and promised to make amends.
He acknowledged using the epithet "nigger" on a heated call with his son but admitting he was probably interfering in his son's life and he still loved his son.
An A&E spokesman said the network had decided to start production again of "Dog The Bounty Hunter" but no airdate has yet been scheduled.
"Over the last few months, Duane "Dog" Chapman has taken and continues to take the appropriate steps in reaching out to several African American organizations in an effort to make amends for his private comments to his son which were released publicly," said a statement from the network.
"Since the premise of "Dog The Bounty Hunter" is about second chances - we have decided to give him one."
Honolulu-based Chapman, 55, who has 12 children and has been married five times, rose to fame after his 2003 tracking and capture of Max Factor heir and serial rapist Andrew Luster in Mexico.
This led to an offer for a reality TV show which follows Chapman with his trademark scraggly long blond hair and leather wardrobe, his wife Beth, and his "posse" tracking down people who jump bail.
The show is broadcast in more than 10 countries.
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What did we expect to happen? Our own people advertise the N word so much that now when other races say it, it's not taken seriously. Anywho, to hell with Dog, I aint like his mullet Gumbo face any damn wayz [SPAM]_
THANK YOU! The fock ya'll up in arms about this [EXPLETIVE] for? Seriously?! Our OWN PEOPLE say it. Some even call white people NIGS. So what the focks the big deal? Quite all the hypocrisy for petes sake.
We can't get mad that he uses the N-word, when we call our own kids Nig-as. How hypocritical!
Black people need to realize that The N-Word does not mean ignorant, it is a derogatory term used by whites to demean blacks. There is no double meaning... so the next time you use it, think about your ancestors that heard this word right before their neck snapped from the noose hanging aroung their neck.
1st Imus, now Dog. Yeah, he apologized, but why didn't they let the Black dude from Grey's Anatomy back on after he apologized?
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Don't watch the show my sistas and brothas! Let his ratings tank so he can eventually get kicked off!!!
He said what he said and he meant it! I don't give a damn how many black leaders and friends he met with recently to clean this up; he is what he is and that doesn't change overnight.
His ass doesn't deserve 5 seconds more of fame!!
THEY DONT CARE BECAUSE WE DONT CARE WE CALL EACH OTHER [EXPLETIVE] WE DOWN THE ONES THAT GET AHEAD INSTEAD OF SUPPORTING THEM WE ARE A [EXPLETIVE] UP RACE WE DO NOT STAND TOGETHER LIKE THOSE [EXPLETIVE] DO UMAS.DOG BOUNTY THEY KEEP WORKING WHEN WE DO OR SAY SOMETHING WRONG ON TV WE ARE OUTTA HERE PERIOD SO STOP BEING A UNCLE TOM AND SUPPORT OBAMA AND YOUR RACE STAND TOGETHER OR FALL ALONE
we are a tough culture and we r the best when comes to music,dancing,sports, building, modeling, aging, creating,spirituallity,and expecially sex, right. lol
got to love our culture. but we still have issues and most people r practically jealous of us and still r tripping us up in life. be careful.
dog the bounty hunter should have his show taken from him. he has shown disregard for a sister and a son-all this so his family can feel free at home hating on black people.
first of all look n/i/g/g/e/r up in the dictonary it dont even mean black person it means ignorant person but as in all words they have more then one meaning its context you fools the context of the word has changed in many years so black people useing it has not a got damn thing to do with white people useing it in a offensive manner you no when sum1 is calling you a [EXPLETIVE] in a disrespect an when they not just like sea an see sound the same they are not the same word an black people need to stop useing that so called point cause its geting old as far as dog is concerned if he is sincere in his faults let the man have his show back even tho the issiah was situation was [EXPLETIVE] up two wrongs dont make a right
wow why am i not surprised? black people how do you expect someone to take us seriously, when we do even take ourselves seriously?! we need to stop sayin the word n.i.g.g.a. in order to get this fools off of tv for good! i bet if all black people came together as a whole and respect eachother we can one unstoppable force!
I knew it, I knew it. I knew A&E would lay low for awhile and bring this show right back. They were too vague when it happened anyway. They said "we'll see what the future brings." These good for nothing networks could care less about people but more about ratings. A&E probably needs to bring this show back for financial reasons.
I'm highly PISSED!! This is some Bullshyt!!! I was an AVID fan of Dog The Bounty Hunter and a fan of all his family members and thought Beth was the baddest bytch around.....UNTIL I heard about his racial slurs. Can anyone tell me, WHAT YEAR IS IT AGAIN? And we still have stupid people out there saying stupid things. AND I understand it was in the privacy of his own home BUT he has kids there and he admits to using racial slurs on a regular. This just saddens me. I don't think he should be celebrated or glorified after finding this out and I think by allowing his show to air again, that's exactly what we're doing here! I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS....AND i WILL DO MY BEST FOR MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO ALSO NOT SUPPORT THIS RACIST!
Now if you go over to tmz you will see the readers over there are more than overjoyed that his show is coming back on. Just goes to show how ignorant some people really are. Once a racist always a racist. And yes I think he should not be permited back on. If he was ignorant enough to get kicked off the first time than he will do something stupid again and hopefully they won't let him back on!
Man, please believe Dog the Bounty hunter gonna get ran up on sooner or later.. That's why his ass in Honolulu chasing after ppl.. He won't take his ass to the hood and bounty hunt no damn body.. A&E aint major anyway! I emailed them bastards 5 times already. . . lol. They punk ass aint got back at me..
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Ni99a & Ni99er are two diff things! I know the word may have derived for Ni99er..but the meaning is totall diff.
Ni99er is in the dictionary look it up..so when he called her that that's exactly what he was refering to. Every one that is saying oh we say it all the time..Please let a white person call you a NI99ER..I bet you stomp that azz out!
Don't watch this show..and @ Renea411 you said it BEST babes..
Exactly right where is the surprise? If you don't respect yourself then why should anyone else. I guess the network executives at A&E decided that making money was more important than having a conscious. Do any of you remember Isaiah Washington from the show Grey's Anatomy? Well he was canned and he should have been for his behavior and they (the show) did not bring him back. The difference here is that Isaiah was not the sole money maker for the show and network. No one respects us not even ourselves. The more things appear to change the more that they remain the same.
C'mon people. Why are you surprised by this. Dog is a money maker for A&E.
All they did was take him off the air, do damage control, wait until the uproar died down and put him back on the air. There was never any intention on keeping him off the air permanently.
I agree with Mandingo777, if Isaiah Washington was a top money maker on Grey's Anatomy he would still be on the show, but that is an ensemble show and by pulling him off they knew the show would still be popular and strong.
No, none of this sh#t is right, but in the entertainment world money talks.
They put Don Imus BACK on the air AND added a couple of blacks to his on-air staff, as if to say "see world, he has nothing against blacks" and I guess they think we are suppose to believe everything is fine now.
Don't be angry people, just see it like it REALLY IS, because it will NEVER be like we want it to be when it comes to people of color.
What so fukked up is the word n!gga is WWWWAAAAYYYYYY worse than the gay word my boy Isiah Washington from Grey's Anatomy said. The brother gets fired and not able to return. Oh but the NASTY AZZ TRAILER PARK LOOKIN,FILTHY, UNEDUCATED, LOW CLASS WHITE BOY GETS TEMPORARILY FIRED THEN REHIRED. WHAT THE FUKK IS THAT!!!GREY'S AINT BEEN THE SAME SINCE MY MAN WAS FIRED. THATS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW WHITE FOLK LOOK OUT FOR THEIR OWN.
Dog The Bounty Hunter is returning to TV, and his no-good, backstabbing punk of a "son" Tucker is returning to prison!
Tucker didn't listen to his father when he warned him about hanging around with criminals and doing drugs, and instead, returned his father's devotion with the darkest treachery!
Tucker didn't sell that tape to the Enquirer for any noble purpose, he did it for the money!
All of the hate mongers and hypocrites are steaming with rage now, while I, and milions of other loyal Dog fans are laughing and celebrating this wonderful victory!!
To the haters and the morons I can only say that justice (and karma) have prevailed once again!! So now maybe you losers can get off the Dog's back and go out and get a life!!
who cares yeah hes a racist bitch but its a free country.im gettin tired of the double standards anyway.white guy talks [EXPLETIVE] here come al sharpton and the naacp.black guy talks [EXPLETIVE] and its ok.now im tired of white people having to walk on eggshells while other races can say whatever the fucc they want.
