Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman and Moon Angell are not getting married.
After a teaser for “The Dr. Oz Show” went out last week that appeared to show Chapman — whose wife Beth died of throat cancer in June 2019 — proposing to Angell, it turns out it was just a “test.”
“I didn’t tell you I was going to do this, but this is a ‘Dr. Oz’ show. I think this will put a stop to a lot of this. Moon Angell, will you marry me?” Chapman, 67, asked Angell.
A shocked Angell shakes her head no and responds, “What? We’re friends, Duane. I love you as a friend.”
Dr. Oz then says it was a “test.”
“So now you won’t, right? You can say no, it’s alright,” Chapman said in the interview that aired Monday.
“I can’t marry you,” Angell said. “Right at this very moment, I don’t see you as that. I love you and Beth as my friends.”
Chapman, who referred to Angell as one of his “dearest friends,” explains that he was already aware of this, but wanted everyone else to know the pair have a strictly platonic relationship.
The family drama boiled over last month when Chapman’s 32-year-old daughter, Lyssa, slammed her father and Angell on social media.
“If someone who met your family by dating your brother tried to date your father after your stepmom died, what would you do?” she wrote on social media at the time. “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.”
While on the talk show, Angell addressed why she’d moved her things into Beth’s closet after she passed away.
“He would smell Beth and he would go in there and sit down and cry and cry and cry,” she said. “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.”
Chapman added, “So once she did it, I was like, relieved and then I walked by and it 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.'”
Chapman was married to Beth — with whom he had two children — from 2006 until her death in 2019. He was married four times before Beth and has 10 other children from previous relationships.