Candace Cameron Bure denies that she tried remove queer Fuller House character
Glamorous star Miss Benny accused "one of the Tanner sisters" of trying to write her out of the show in a Tik Tok posted Thursday
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The Fuller House cast isn’t exactly one big happy family. In a Tik Tok posted Thursday, Miss Benny—a trans actor who played 17-year-old aspiring event planer Casey, the Full House franchise’s first openly queer role—called out “one of the Tanner sisters” for allegedly trying to write out her part.
“One of the Tanner sisters is very publicly, uh, ‘not for the girls,’” Miss Benny said in her video, before continuing: “I remember I got sat down by the writers and the studio to basically warn me how this person, allegedly, was trying to get the character removed and not have a queer character on the show.” She also claimed to be warned that this person’s fanbase might be encouraged to target her specifically, and that “to this day, despite working on the show every day for two weeks straight, I have only had a conversation with one of the Tanner sisters.”
https://www.tiktok.com/@southernbelleinsults/video/7252784188447788330
While she never actually names names, it’s pretty obvious that Miss Benny was talking about Candace Cameron Bure, who played D.J. Tanner on both Full and Fuller House. Bure is now perhaps more widely known for leaving the Hallmark Channel right as they made moves to include more LGBTQ+ storylines (to spearhead her own, more religious network) and saying the word “traditional” a whole lot. It was obvious enough that Bure took it upon herself to make it even more clear who the unnamed, alleged homophobe in this situation was and respond to Miss Benny’s allegations in a lengthy statement to Entertainment Tonight.
“I never asked Miss Benny’s character to be removed from Fuller House and did not ask the writers, producers or studio executives to not have queer characters on the show,” Bure said. “Fuller House has always welcomed a wide range of characters.”
“I thought Miss Benny did a great job as ‘Casey’ on the show,” she continued. “We didn’t share any scenes together, so we didn’t get a chance to talk much while filming on set… I wish Miss Benny only the best.” Whether or not Bure is to be believed in this specific instance, loaded comments such as she has made in the past concerning “traditional marriage” can create an unsafe and uncomfortable environment for queer people—something that Miss Benny is not the first to bring up.
Still, the young actor did say that her overall experience on Fuller House was a good one. “The positive is that I had a really fun time actually shooting the show with all the other actors were willing to talk to me, and the show ultimately led to me being on Glamorous on Netflix, so everything happens for a reason,” she said.
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Yeah, I don’t believe Bure at all.
How would you have any basis for believing anyone in this story? You don’t know these people and you have zero actual information.
This guy somehow manages to never actually say shit AND to be wrong in every single conversation.
I’m not going to ungrey you, Recoegnitions. Fuck off to somewhere else.
You just did, dumbfuck!
She’s a liar? Well AV Club sure did Bure the lede….I’m sorry.
Damn you. I loved that.
You don’t believe her? She’s a liar? She should pray it fuckin’ loud!
She also claimed to be warned that this person’s fanbase might be encouraged to target her specificallyDoes Candace Cameron Bure have a “fanbase?”
Right, of right-wing evangelicals who are scary and over the top on the internet with queer kids.
Yeah, about thirty state legislative majorities.
Sad but true.
And 6 Supreme Court justices
The fanbase as her brother Kirk: the right-wing, evangelical nutties.
I would say she has probably a bigger fan base than her brother’s. By having the same hardcore conservative beliefs, but also being able to present them in a way that isn’t weird and off-putting.And I have also said it before but if she really cared about traditional marriage, her name would be Candace Bure. So really she only cares about maintaining marriage traditions that don’t inconvenience her in any way.
I thought the same thing about the Duggar daughters! Some of them hyphenated their names after they got married so…women need to be traditional unless they’re famous, then they get to do whatever to keep the money coming in.
How has it taken this long for me to realize she’s Kirk Cameron’s sister
Enough to get a Hallmark Channel ripoff, I guess?
She does now!
I think despite that she has followers, your point holds: she has “fans” who want her to purge gayness from public life, not fans who actually like her acting (shit, there are people who still watch Kevin Spacey movies because despite hating him they love his acting, people who still listen to R. Kelly in private…those are FANS)
I despise Kevin Spacey and all he stands for, but I am not willing to forgo LA Confidential over it. (It helps that he is not one of the leads.)
Yeah how far should the cancel extend? Can I not listen to an album Ye guests on one-track of? Can we listen to thing that were from before we reasonably think MJ molested kids? Early Polanski? I Spy?
Serious answer to the question: I don’t think there’s an easy solution. Everyone has to decide for themselves on a case-by-case basis, while being aware that there will always be a spectrum of opinion from those who will excuse the worst possible behaviour and, at the other end of the spectrum, those wanting public humiliations for trivial, sometimes completely confected, transgressions.
And also there will be people who want the people with the transgressions to suffer in areas that are unrelated to the transgressions because they think those people deserve to suffer. For example: I hope Samuel Alito has an anal polyp explode right this second.
For Alito, that seems pretty generous.
Maybe too generous, right? But in any case, the people who are “fans” of Alito, i.e., bad people, actually fucking hate him and think he’s a worm also, and probably don’t even think he is a good judge or writes opinions well, that is what “fandom” is worth when it is not based on actually being a fan of someone, you wind up watching Kevin Sorbo movies and pretending Bo Derek should have won an Oscar. Compare to people who read Lovecraft or Kipling despite that they were both racist bastards, THOSE are fans.
She used to have me.
Reading between the lines, Bure refused to do any scenes with Bunny, and possibly threatened to quit if she had to do the scenes.
And from what Miss Benny said initially, Netflix may have been genuinely concerned about what Bure might do just by virtue of knowing her and wanted to get ahead of it.
Anything else you want to wildly speculate about despite not having any actual information?
It was actually Mary-Kate Olsen who tried to have her removed. Ashley loves the gays, but Mary-Kate is a raging homophobe. Though they’ve never appeared on the show or even watched an episode, they’re very protective of it.
Is one of the Olsen’s also married/dating a FOX News pundit?
Tia & Tamera Mowry… I think you are a little confused!Olsen Twins…
I think you’re confused. Those are clearly the Gelfling puppets from the Dark Crystal.
So Ashley drew the short straw? Sad
is that true? because in this crazy world I can imagine that being the actual answer
No. They weren’t even on that show.
the writers and producers of the show were not “on” the show either
The people who worked on this show worked on this show.The Olsen twins did not.This is not a complex concept.
If you are a very powerful and rich person associated with a thing, it is possible you can still exert control over that thing even if you are not actively involved with it currently, genius.
Why are you trying to hard to make the people who had absolutely no association with this production the villains of the production? Why would the person who didn’t work there be the homophobe in the story, rather than the explicit homophobe who did work there?This is so futile and bizarre.
I’m doing no such thing. To summarize: Kinsey made something up, I said in this crazy world it could actually happen, and you acted like a nutbag.
Okay, enjoy your fantasy then. I thought we were talking about this universe.
I was, I was talking about something that could happen in this universe without saying I thought it actually took place in this universe (or caring), you interpreted that, with no basis, as me fervently insisting that it had actually happened, take your pills
No. I made it up.
She worked overtime not to use a pronoun in her statement….
I feel like “Tanner sisters” probably does a lot of the lifting that swapping woman out for “person” leaves unsaid, right? I doubt anyone thinks of uncle Jesse as one of the Tanner sisters.
I meant Candace Cameron Bure who uses Miss Benny’s full name about a dozen times in her statement instead of using a pronoun for a trans woman.
Oh sure, fair enough.
I try to avoid “they” as a trans pronoun because it can create ambiguity. Take for example the following sentence from this week’s And Just Like That review:
Che (Sara Ramirez) is back in town, along with their ex-husband Lyle (Oliver Hudson), who drove them and their stuff across the country to move into a new apartment.
Did Lyle drive just Che’s stuff across country, or his and Che’s stuff?
“I doubt anyone thinks of uncle Jesse as one of the Tanner sisters.”Well, I do now!
Have mercy…!
Bure said Benny’s full name more than DJ Khaled shouts his name on a song.
Saying “Fuller House has always welcomed” vs “I have” or “We have” is doing a lot of work too. Bet she had to hide some spite in her voice when she said that
Does Candace Cameron Bure think that the Good Lord HIMself will strike her dead if she even acknowledges the existence of people who aren’t 100% cis gender heterosexual?
She obviously doesn’t agree with personal pronouns that don’t match biological sex. Which is her right.
Woketards now offended that people dont use any pronouns at all!
Can’t even write a proper fuckin headline, this site lol
She boldly claims to love “traditional marriage” and left Hallmark to be the CCO with a Christian conservative production company. Nuff said. We know where she stands from her very vocal dog whistles and possible KBG husband.
https://www.etonline.com/candace-cameron-bure-says-great-american-family-network-will-focus-on-traditional-marriage-stories
In July 2015, the former Hallmark actress made headlines when she seemingly defended an Oregon bakery that refused to make a cake for a lesbian wedding. “I don’t think this is discrimination at all. This is about freedom of association,” she said during a debate on The View. “It’s about constitutional rights
Rights for her, none for Them.
Yeah. Turns out she’s just not a good person. Oops!Her bereft Hallmark fans better hope they make more Murder 101 movies or whatever.
I wonder if she thinks it’s freedom of association if people only want to make something for other White folks.
“Rights for me but not for thee” was right there
Not every piece of entertainment needs to have a queer character.
If I had a Dial of Destiny, Fuller House is what I’m going after. I feel like it all started there.
And her husband refused to backcheck. Asshole. I’m glad Keith Primeau broke his wrist.
“Candace Cameron Bure Denies That She Tried Remove Queer Fuller House Character”How the fuck do you even get the headline copy wrong? What kind of low-rent operation is this nowadays?That’s rhetorical BTW. We all know what kind of low-rent operation this is.
At least your comments are readable in the greys – mine disappear.
The editors have brought in a strict preposition budget.
The only Bure worth listening to:Okay, I had to deliberately ignore the spelling but…Shut up. Tull rocks.
The Cameron siblings suck.Also, event planers ensure everything goes smoothly.
Did you mean “event planners” because I think there’s an unintended pun in your comment: “planing” and “smoothly,” you know, as in wood planing? That actually works and I may steal it, thanks.
In a Tik Tok posted Thursday, Miss Benny—a trans actor who played 17-year-old aspiring event planer Casey, the Full House franchise’s first openly queer role…Unless this is a crazy coincidence the pun is very much intended, though that in no way diminishes from the overall hilarity.
Your headline – it’s missing a preposition.
It does have a weird sort of pseudo posh Victorian thing going on, though
Lol. That’s very inventive. I just see a big hole where a word should be.
First they came for the pronouns, now it’s the prepositions!
Gotta love when they tell on themselves like Bure did.
I love how conservatives so poorly hide their bigotry. 👍
They’re just stretching and warming up because in a few years they’ll have to openly tout their bigotry in order to stay with the in-crowd.
Correct, we will need them to be open and stupid, in order to identify all the Nazis and racists, bigots and transphobes for…reasons.
Some of us aren’t going to stand by and let these bigoted fucks roll back the world to the Dark Ages, threaten our loved ones and treat them like trash. None of us should stand for it though.
Wait lol are you trying to tell me that a woman married to a former NHL player is a bigot? That’s seriously weird considering the NHL is such a progressive organization that they literally stopped doing Pride Jersey Night because three players whined that simply wearing rainbow-themed jerseys in warm-ups to acknowledge the humanity of other people violated their deeply-held religious beliefs.
Good for Candace. No homo coz nobody wants to see that disgusting shit. Hot lesbos are fine, obviously.
I have a tremendous idea for a reality show Candace her Brother and Kevin Sorbo are all trapped on an island with nothing but gays and trans people
I sure that’s how they already perceive their life in Hollywood.
Event “planer”? Like she shaves down events?