50 Top 10 Lists of 2007

Top 10 Scandals

#9. Dog in the Doghouse

The A&E network halted production of its hit reality show, Dog the Bounty Hunter, after star Duane "Dog" Chapman was caught repeatedly using a racial slur. According to Chapman's lawyer, Chapman's son sold The National Enquirer a recording of his father telling him to break up with his African-American girlfriend. "It's not because she's black," Chapman says on the tape. "It's because we use the word 'n-----' sometimes here, and I'm not going to take a chance ever in life of losing everything ... because" — and we'll paraphrase here — an African-American person heard us use the slur "and turned us in to the Enquirer." Oh, the irony!

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