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Candace Cameron Bure released a connection responding to Miss Benny’s claim that she tried to person her quality Casey removed from Fuller House on Thursday, July 6. Candace disputed the allegation that she tried to person Miss Benny’s quality Casey—the archetypal cheery quality successful the Full House franchise—removed from the amusement successful a connection to Entertainment Tonight.
Miss Benny, 24, posted a TikTok video responding to a fan, who asked her astir homophobia connected the acceptable of Fuller House, asking if Candace, 47, had been homophobic. Benny didn’t sanction Candace successful the clip, referring lone to a quality connected the show. “One of the Tanner sisters is precise publically ‘not for the girls’ if that makes sense? I retrieve I got sat down by the writers and the workplace to fundamentally pass maine however this person, allegedly, was trying to get the quality removed and not person a queer quality connected the show,” she said. “I was besides benignant of warned and prepared that this person’s instrumentality basal mightiness beryllium encouraged to people maine specifically.”
Candace denied trying to person Miss Benny’s quality removed from ‘Fuller House.’ (OConnor Lisa/AFF/ABACA/Shutterstock)
Miss Benny continued and claimed that she lone had a speech with 1 of the Tanner sisters during the 2 weeks she was moving connected the show. She yet expressed however she couldn’t judge that LGBTQ+ young radical had to basal up to adults. “A affirmative is I had a truly amusive clip really shooting the amusement with the different actors who were consenting to speech to me, and the amusement yet led to maine being connected Glamorous on Netflix. So, everything happens for a reason,” she said. “Continuously blows my caput however queer people, specifically queer young adults and queer children, are being targeted and having to advocator for themselves against adults.”
In her statement, Candace denied trying to person her removed. “I ne'er asked Miss Benny’s quality to beryllium removed from Fuller House and did not inquire the writers, producers oregon workplace executives to not person queer characters connected the show,” she told ET. “Fuller House has ever welcomed a wide scope of characters.”
Candace besides explained that she didn’t stock immoderate scenes with Miss Benny, and that was wherefore they didn’t speech connected set. She besides complimented the actress’s performance. “I thought Miss Benny did a large occupation arsenic ‘Casey’ connected the show,” she said. “I privation Miss Benny lone the best.”
This hasn’t been the archetypal clip that the Full House star has faced backlash. The prima was subjected to overmuch criticism aft she joined the Great American Family channel, and said that her Christmas movies would “keep accepted matrimony astatine the core.” Many stars called her out, including Jojo Siwa, who had antecedently feuded with the actress calling her the “rudest personage I’ve ever met,” though they reconciled pursuing the comment.
Following the GAF backlash, Candace released a statement, sharing emotion and promising for diverseness connected the channel. “To everyone speechmaking this, of immoderate race, creed, sexuality, oregon governmental party, including those who person tried to bully maine with name-calling, I emotion you,” she said. “People of each ethnicities and identities person and volition proceed to lend to the web successful large ways some successful beforehand of and down the camera, which I promote and afloat support.”
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