Duane Chapman, better known as Dog The Bounty Hunter, has fans conflicted after making a splash by proposing to a woman, Moon Angell, just seven months after the passing of his wife.
Beth Chapman passed away in June of 2019.
At the time, Dog indicated that he was not interested in remarrying, saying “There will never another Mrs. Dog,” a sentiment that was repeated by his daughter, who added, “No one can ever replace her in his heart” on her Instagram story.
Rumors began flying about a rumored new romance in Dog’s life with his assistant, Moon Angell.
Dog’s daughter Lyssa added fuel to the fire by tweeting , “If someone who met your family by dating your brother, tried to date your father after your stepmom died what would you do?” in a now-deleted tweet.
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Lyssa’s tweet continued, alleging Moon had replaced Beth’s clothes in the closet with her own.
“If you went to your mother’s closet and saw she moved all her clothes and replaced them with her own, what would you do? #ItsNotWhenOrWhyItsWho,” Lyssa wrote.
Dog addressed these rumors on the Dr. Oz show recently when he shocked fans by appearing with Moon and proposing to her.
While on the show discussing their rumored relationship, Dog turned to Moon and said, “Moon Angell, will you marry me?”
“What? We’re friends, Duane,” Moon responded. “I love you as a friend.”
“I can’t marry you,” Moon continued. “Right at this very moment, I don’t see you as that. I love you and Beth as my friends.”
Dog then stated that the proposal was just a ‘test.’
Dog stated that the whole proposal was so that everyone could see that his and Moon’s relationship was strictly platonic.
Dog and Moon also addressed Lyssa’s claims that she had removed Beth’s clothes and replaced them with her own.
“He would smell Beth and he would go in there and sit down and cry and cry and cry,” Moon explained. “He asked me, ‘Do you think that you could take Beth’s things out of the closet?”
“It was because he just couldn’t do it anymore.”
Dog then chimed in, saying, “So once she did it, I was like, relieved and then I walked by and [the closet] was empty, and I’m like, ‘Oh, God.’ I said ‘Moon, put some of your stuff in there.’ She said ‘No.’ I said, ‘Moon, it’s an order.’”
Dr. Oz then asked the question many fans had been wondering: “Would you call your relationship intimate?”
Moon’s answer was surprising: “It has to be intimate, because there’s a lot of things going on with Dog,” she stated as Dog nodded.
“If you don’t know him, if you haven’t experienced his life…”
“I’ve been here 21 years,” Moon emphasized. “So, it has to be intimate, otherwise, I wouldn’t know how to help him.”
Fans were not all impressed.
Some fans didn’t believe that the proposal was meant to be platonic.
Some fans felt it wasn’t respectful to Beth’s memory to be proposing to one of her close friends, who even served as the maid of honor at her wedding, on television, regardless of the intent.
Others felt it was disrespectful to his family.
Especially given the contentious relationship Moon seems to have with his daughter Lyssa, some fans felt Dog shouldn’t have given publicity to the possibility of their relationship.
However, some fans stood up for him.
Some fans noted that it was Dog’s life to live as he pleases and that only he is in charge of his own grieving process.
What do you think? Are people blowing this out of proportion, or should Dog have kept this private? Let us know in the comments!
