She's a Real Peach

New allegations of racism from a different Paula Dean employee.

From TVGuide.com

Paula Deen's longtime cook has come forward with new racism allegations against the chef.

In an interview with The New York Times, Dora Charles, who helped Deen open her famous Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah, Ga., said Deen often used racial slurs, wanted her to dress like Aunt Jemima and once asked her to ring a dinner bell.

"I said, 'I'm not ringing no bell.' That's a symbol to me of what we used to do back in the day," Charles said.{...}

Deen talked about her relationship with Charles in her 2007 memoir It Ain't All About the Cooking. "If I lost Dora, I would have been devastated," Deen wrote.

Charles said that Deen also told her, "Stick with me, Dora, and I promise you one day if I get rich, you'll get rich." But Charles said she was paid less than $10 an hour, even after Deen became a Food Network personality.

Deen is denying Charles' allegations. "Fundamentally Dora's complaint is not about race but about money," her publicity team told the Times. "It is about an employee that despite over 20 years of generosity feels that she still deserves yet even more financial support from Paula Deen. "

To that, Charles said that she was not seeking any money. "I'm just trying to put my story out there that she didn't treat me fairly and I was her 'soul sister,'" she said.

This is just the latest in Deen's racism scandal. In June, a leaked deposition in a discrimination lawsuit revealed Deen's use of racial slurs. Soon after, Food Network fired Deen, who was subsequently was dropped by a number of sponsors.

GOT Casting

A favorite Rome veteran is joining HBO’s Game of Thrones.

From EW.Com:

Actress Indira Varma has been cast in season four.

Varma will play Ellaria Sand on the show, the sexually adventurous paramour of a key new character, Prince Oberyn Martell “The Red Viper” (played by Pedro Pascal).

Last year, the production added fellow Rome actor Ciarán Hinds.

Varma joins fellow season 4 new hires Pascal and Sherlock writer-actor Mark Gatiss. Coming off the show’s highest-rated and most-Emmy-nominated season yet, last week at Comic-Con, Thrones producers and cast told EW they expect season 4 will be the show’s best.

“We got more action, which is obviously more time consuming,” says showrunner David Benioff. “It’s a brutal shooting season ahead. But if we can make it through, yeah, I think it’s going to surpass season three. The last 3 episodes, there’s so many scenes we’ve been waiting for so long to do. And it just gets more and more fun to write for these characters. After three years of doing it, we have that much more comfort to make everything uncomfortable for them. We’re very excited for it.”