Candace Cameron Bure addresses Miss Benny’s homophobic claims on ‘Fuller Home’ set

Candace Cameron Bure is talking out after Miss Benny insinuated the Christian actress needed her queer character faraway from Fuller Home. In a press release, Bure denied she had something to do with the 24-year-old’s arc on 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. Fuller Home has all the time welcomed a variety of characters,” Bure tells Yahoo Leisure on Friday. “I believed Miss Benny did an awesome job as ‘Casey’ on the present. We did not share any scenes collectively, so we did not get an opportunity to speak a lot whereas filming on set. I want Miss Benny solely one of the best.”

The 47-year-old’s response got here after Miss Benny’s TikTok about her expertise on Fuller Home went viral — this is a rundown of what is going on on.

Miss Benny claimed ‘one of many Tanner sisters’ was unwelcoming on set

The favored social media star performed Casey, the primary brazenly homosexual character within the Full Home world, on the Netflix revival. Miss Benny, who got here out as transgender final month, responded to a fan asking if Bure “was homophobic.”

“One of many Tanner sisters is like very publicly, uh, not for the women, if that is sensible. I keep in mind I bought sat down by the writers and the studio to mainly warn me how this particular person allegedly was making an attempt to get the character eliminated and never have a queer character on the present,” Miss Benny shared.

“I used to be additionally form of warned and ready that this particular person’s fanbase is likely to be inspired to focus on me, particularly,” she continued. “The truth that this teenage actor who’s coming in to make jokes about carrying, like, a shawl is instantly a goal from an grownup is loopy to me. So, to today, 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. Constructive is that I had a extremely enjoyable time truly taking pictures the present with the entire different actors who had been prepared to speak to me.”

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Though Miss Benny, who now stars on Netflix’s Glamorous, did not identify Bure, she included the hashtag #CandaceBure.

Bure and actress Jodie Sweetin performed sisters D.J. and Stephanie Tanner. Yahoo reached out to a rep for Sweetin, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.

Bure has come underneath fireplace earlier than for anti-LGBTQIA+ feedback

Final 12 months, the previous Hallmark Channel darling confronted backlash for saying her new faith-based community, Nice American Household, will produce content material that options “conventional marriage” moderately than homosexual and queer love tales.

“My coronary heart desires to inform tales which have extra which means and objective and depth behind them,” Bure advised the Wall Avenue Journal. “I knew that the individuals behind Nice American Household had been Christians that love the Lord and needed to advertise religion programming and good household leisure.”

Hallmark, underneath new management, had been that includes extra progressive storylines because the community launched its first authentic vacation movie that includes an LGBTQ love story. Bure declined to particularly tackle why she left Hallmark, however shared: “It mainly is a totally totally different community than after I began due to the change of management.”

Bure stated same-sex {couples} won’t be highlighted at GAF, including, “I feel that Nice American Household will hold conventional marriage on the core.”

The feedback made headlines with actress Hilarie Burton calling Bure a “bigot.” It additionally reignited her feud with queer star JoJo Siwa — who beforehand indicated that Bure was the rudest celeb she’d ever met.

Bure responded to the uproar in a press release

The actress, by no means one to draw back from her religion, stated she has nice “affection for all individuals” however did not essentially stroll again her feedback.

“All of you who know me, know past query that I’ve nice love and affection for all individuals. It completely breaks my coronary heart that anybody would ever suppose I deliberately would need to offend and harm anybody. It saddens me that the media is usually in search of to divide us, even round a topic as comforting and merry as Christmas motion pictures. However, given the poisonous local weather in our tradition proper now, I should not be stunned. We want Christmas greater than ever,” she advised Leisure Weekly. “I’m a faithful Christian. Which implies that I imagine that each human being bears the picture of God. Due to that, I’m known as to like all individuals, and I do. If you already know me, you already know that I’m an individual who loves fiercely and indiscriminately. My coronary heart yearns to construct bridges and convey individuals one step nearer to God, to like others properly, and to easily be a mirrored image of God’s large love for all of us.”

She added, “To those that hate what I worth and who’re attacking me on-line: I really like you. To those that have tried to assassinate my character: I really like you. To everybody studying this, of any race, creed, sexuality, or political get together, together with those that have tried to bully me with name-calling, I really like you.”