Duck Dynasty alum Phil Robertson died on Sunday, Could 25, only a week earlier than the scheduled premiere of Duck Dynasty: The Revival on Sunday, June 1.
“We have a good time at present that our father, husband, and grandfather, Phil Robertson, is now with the Lord,” his members of the family stated, partially, on social media that day.
However followers gained’t see Phil in any posthumous appearances within the new A&E collection. He wasn’t a part of the revival, in line with Selection, and the explanations could also be myriad…
Phil had been identified with Alzheimer’s illness earlier than his dying.
Phil didn’t take part within the Duck Dynasty revival due to his Alzheimer’s prognosis, in line with the Shreveport Occasions. His sons Jase and Al Robertson revealed that prognosis on the household’s Unashamed podcast in December 2024, including that Phil additionally had “some type of blood illness that’s inflicting all types of issues.”
Then, this April, Jase stated on the podcast that his father’s situation was getting worse. “Let you know the reality, it hasn’t been good,” he stated. “I’m simply giving the blunt reality. I’ll say, ‘Not good.’”
He was additionally embroiled in controversy throughout the authentic Duck Dynasty’s run.
Even when Phil hadn’t been coping with well being points, it’s unclear whether or not A&E would have welcomed him again on display screen. The cable community briefly suspended him from the unique Duck Dynasty in 2013 after Phil made homophobic and racially insensitive feedback in a GQ interview.
When GQ requested Phil what was sinful, Phil stated, “Begin with gay conduct and simply morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping round with this girl and that girl and that girl and people males. … Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the gay offenders, the grasping, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers — they gained’t inherit the dominion of God. Don’t deceive your self. It’s not proper.”
In one other a part of the interview, he steered that Black individuals have been happier within the Jim Crow period, saying, “I by no means heard one in all them, one Black particular person, say, I let you know what: These doggone white individuals—not a phrase!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Have been they glad? They have been godly; they have been glad; nobody was singing the blues.”
Amid stress from followers, A&E reinstated Phil as a Duck Dynasty forged member after a nine-day suspension. Phil returned to anti-gay rhetoric in 2014, telling a church congregation that his critics “railed towards me for giving them the reality about their sins,” per Leisure Weekly. At a prayer breakfast the next yr, Phil shared a state of affairs involving the rape and homicide of atheists, as EW reported on the time.
By means of his TV appearances and companies, Phil was reportedly a multi-millionaire.
The web site Superstar Web Price estimates the Duck Dynasty star had a web value of $10 million on the time of his dying after constructing the A&E franchise’s titular empire.
Phil was born in rural Louisiana in 1946 and attended Louisiana Tech College on a soccer scholarship, in line with his New York Occasions obituary. He acquired a bachelor’s diploma in bodily schooling and a grasp’s in schooling, and he labored as a trainer in Louisiana faculties for a number of years.
Then, in 1972, Phil created a duck name that might be the idea of his Duck Commander, a Robertson household enterprise that was the inspiration for Duck Dynasty. The unique A&E present ran for 11 seasons from 2012 to 2017 and have become the most-watched nonfiction cable collection in historical past.
Now his members of the family will proceed on with Duck Dynasty: The Revival. The present “reunited audiences with the Robertson household as they stability life, household, and the way forward for their Louisiana-based enterprise,” A&E says. “The collection will function Willie and Korie Robertson alongside beloved members of the family Miss Kay, Uncle Si, and the following era of Robertsons.”
Duck Dynasty: The Revival, Sunday, June 1, 9/8c, A&E