Candace Cameron Bure Denies Wanting Queer Character Off ‘Fuller House’

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 an announcement on Thursday, July 6. “Fuller Home has all the time welcomed a variety of characters. I believed Miss Benny did an ideal 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 the most effective.”

Cameron Bure’s rebuttal comes hours after Miss Benny, 24, posted a video via TikTok claiming that the actress tried to get them ousted from the present as a consequence of their character, Casey, being homosexual. 

“One of many Tanner sisters is very publicly not for the girls,” Miss Benny shared within the Thursday clip. “I keep in mind I received sat down by the writers and the studio to mainly warn me how this particular person 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 House as DJ Tanner — a reprisal of her position from the ’90s hit Full House. 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 title, they did hashtag the actress and famous that “this particular person’s fanbase is likely to be inspired to focus on me, particularly,” including, “The truth that this teenage actor who’s coming in to make jokes about carrying a shawl is immediately a goal from an grownup is loopy to me.”

“To at the present time, regardless of engaged on the present on daily basis 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 “taking pictures the present with all the opposite actors who have been keen to speak to me” and the position finally resulting in them being forged on Netflix’s Glamourous, which premiered final month. 

“So, every little thing occurs for a purpose,” they mentioned. “[But it] repeatedly blows my thoughts how queer folks, particularly queer younger adults and queer youngsters, are being focused and having to advocate for themselves towards 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 desires to inform tales which have extra which means and goal and depth behind them,” she informed The Wall Road Journal’s WSJ. Journal on the time. “I knew that the people behind Great American Family have been Christians that love the Lord and needed 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 maintain conventional marriage on the core.”

After receiving backlash for her controversial remarks, Cameron Bure defended herself in a statement later that month, claiming that she has “nice love and respect for all folks.”