ALBANY, Ga. -- As the national media circle the Paula Deen story like sharks who smell blood, Paula's ex-husband Jimmy Deen has found himself caught up in the frenzy, beset by desperate "leeches" looking anywhere for some new tidbit to feed tabloid nation.
"Why didn't these people want to talk to me before this happened?" Jimmy Deen, the father of Paula Deen's celebrity sons, Jamie and Bobby, said Thursday in an exclusive interview with The Albany Herald. "Now, because they're being shielded from Paula, suddenly I'm the most popular guy in town. Well, I've got nothing to say to them; what I want to say I'm telling you."
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