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“Full Home” star Candace Cameron Bure has gone public to talk out in opposition to allegations made by trans actor Miss Benny about experiences she says she had on the set of “Fuller Home.” The transfer is a bit odd given the circumstances, and has had the other impact she probably meant, lending validity to Miss Benny’s claims fairly than refuting them.
Candace Cameron Bure denies allegations she was homophobic and transphobic on the set of ‘Fuller Home’ following a TikTok from trans co-star Miss Benny.
After lately popping out as trans, actor and singer Miss Benny is hitting one thing of a profession peak, presently starring on Netflix’s new sequence “Glamorous” alongside Kim Cattrall. However her rise hasn’t been with out its challenges, as she revealed in a current TikTok.
Miss Benny says considered one of her earlier roles as Casey on Netflix’s 2016 “Full Home” reboot, “Fuller Home,” was removed from optimistic because of incidents of homophobia she skilled on set from an unnamed co-star. Followers of the present, and just about anybody accustomed to star Candace Cameron Bure’s lengthy historical past of homophobia, have crammed within the blanks and assumed the homophobia was perpetrated by her.
In response, simply hours after Miss Benny’s TikTok went stay, Cameron Bure issued a public assertion to Leisure Tonight denying the allegations.
She instructed the present, “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.” It is a unusual transfer on her half, since Miss Benny by no means named her within the first place.
Miss Benny stated a homophobic ‘Fuller Home’ co-star, believed to be Candace Cameron Bure, tried to get her written off the present and that she was warned of retaliation from the co-star’s followers.
Miss Benny’s TikTok was in response to a fan who requested if it was Candace Cameron Bure who had been homophobic in direction of her. The actor declined to substantiate if the co-star was in actual fact Cameron Bure, as a substitute saying that “one of many Tanner sisters is, like, very publicly not [supportive of LGBTQ people]” and leaving it at that.
Miss Benny, who was nonetheless an adolescent on the time her “Fuller Home” episodes started capturing, went on to recount being “sat down by the writers and the studio to mainly warn me how this individual allegedly was attempting to get [my] character eliminated and never have a queer character on the present.”
She stated she was additionally “kind of warned and ready that this individual’s fan base is likely to be inspired to focus on me particularly,” a stunning factor for somebody so younger to need to confront. “The truth that this teenage actor… is all of the sudden like, a goal from an grownup is, like, loopy to me,” Miss Benny stated.
Candace Cameron Bure denies allegations she shunned Miss Benny on set as nicely. In her TikTok, Miss Benny stated that “to at the present time” she and Cameron Bure have by no means spoken, which the latter stated was as a result of “we did not share any scenes collectively, so we did not get an opportunity to speak a lot whereas filming on set.”
Candace Cameron Bure has a historical past of homophobic statements, which she attributes to her Christian religion.
After an extended tenure as one of many reigning queens of the Hallmark Christmas film, Cameron Bure made waves in 2022 when she introduced her departure from the community to signal as a substitute with new community Nice American Household, or GAC, a community with deep ties to the Republican Occasion and former President Donald Trump.
Bure’s departure got here simply weeks after Hallmark introduced its first gay-themed Christmas film, “The Vacation Sitter,” starring overtly homosexual “Imply Ladies” star Jonathan Bennett.
On the time of her departure, Cameron Bure instructed The Wall Avenue Journal that she opted to maneuver to GAC as a result of “I knew the individuals behind Nice American Household have been Christians that love the Lord and needed to advertise religion programming and good household leisure.”
When The WSJ adopted as much as ask whether or not GAC’s content material could be inclusive of LGBTQ individuals like Hallmark’s, Cameron Bure responded that “Nice American Household will hold conventional marriage on the core,” a homophobic by-phrase employed by Christians and conservatives for many years to dismiss same-sex marriage as deviant.
Cameron Bure denied the assertion was homophobic on the time, chalking up the uproar that arose to “cancel tradition.”
Cameron Bure is after all additionally the sister of far-right Christian Republican activist and former actor Kirk Cameron, who has been publicly and vociferously outspoken about his anti-LGBTQ views, together with calling homosexuality “unnatural” in tv interviews.
Cameron Bure is not liable for her brother’s actions, after all, and her transfer to GAC might be only a easy enterprise determination. However her denial of Miss Benny’s claims is an odd transfer regardless.
Miss Benny’s implication of Cameron Bure was clear, nevertheless it was nonetheless simply an implication. If Cameron Bure is genuinely not homophobic and anxious with being considered as such, why reply to allegations of homophobia that by no means even formally named her?
It not solely makes her look like she has a responsible conscience, it is also shed much more consideration on Miss Benny’s claims than ever would have come to them in any other case. The Streisand Impact strikes once more.
Whether or not this flap will do any actual harm to her profession is an open query, however one factor is for positive: Cameron Bure ought to fireplace her publicist.
John Sundholm is a information and leisure author who covers popular culture, social justice and human curiosity subjects.