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Candace Cameron Bure denied claims that she tried to have Miss Benny — who portrayed a queer character on Fuller Home — written out of the Netflix sitcom.
“I by no means requested Miss Benny’s character to be faraway from Fuller Home and didn’t ask the writers, producers or studio executives to not have queer characters on the present,” Cameron Bure, 47, informed TVLine in a press release on Thursday, July 6. “Fuller Home has all the time welcomed a variety of characters. I assumed Miss Benny did a fantastic job as ‘Casey’ on the present. We didn’t share any scenes collectively, so we didn’t get an opportunity to speak a lot whereas filming on set. I want Miss Benny solely one of the best.”
Cameron Bure’s rebuttal comes hours after Miss Benny, 24, posted a video by way of TikTok claiming that the actress tried to get them ousted from the present resulting from their character, Casey, being homosexual.
“One of many Tanner sisters could be very publicly not for the ladies,” Miss Benny shared within the Thursday clip. “I keep in mind I bought sat down by the writers and the studio to principally warn me how this individual allegedly was attempting to get the character eliminated and never have a queer character on the present.”
Cameron Bure starred on all 5 seasons of Fuller Home as DJ Tanner — a reprisal of her function from the ’90s hit Full Home. Miss Benny, for his or her half, appeared as Casey for 2 separate season 4 episodes, most notably because the platonic date of Soni Bringas, who portrayed Ramona Gibler on the sequence.
Whereas Miss Benny by no means talked about Cameron Bure by identify, they did hashtag the actress and famous that “this individual’s fanbase could be inspired to focus on me, particularly,” including, “The truth that this teenage actor who’s coming in to make jokes about sporting a shawl is abruptly a goal from an grownup is loopy to me.”
“To today, regardless of engaged on the present daily for 2 weeks straight, I’ve solely had a dialog with one of many Tanner sisters,” they continued.
Miss Benny concluded their video by sharing the positives from their expertise on Fuller Home, together with “capturing the present with all the opposite actors who have been keen to speak to me” and the function finally resulting in them being solid on Netflix’s Glamourous, which premiered final month.
“So, every part occurs for a motive,” they mentioned. “[But it] repeatedly blows my thoughts how queer individuals, particularly queer younger adults and queer youngsters, are being focused and having to advocate for themselves in opposition to adults.”
Cameron Bure beforehand made headlines in November 2022 when she revealed her motive for exiting Hallmark in favor of Nice American Media. “My coronary heart needs to inform tales which have extra which means and function and depth behind them,” she informed The Wall Road Journal’s WSJ. Journal on the time. “I knew that the individuals behind Nice American Household have been Christians that love the Lord and wished to advertise religion programming and good household leisure.”
When requested if GAC had plans to incorporate LGBTQIA+ motion pictures of their programming, Cameron Bure replied, “I feel that Nice American Household will preserve conventional marriage on the core.”
After receiving backlash for her controversial remarks, Cameron Bure defended herself in a press release later that month, claiming that she has “nice love and respect for all individuals.”
