JoJo Siwa criticizes Candace Cameron Bure for recent comments “excluding LGBTQIA+”
Jodie Sweetin also swooped in to side with JoJo Siwa in her dispute with Candace Cameron Bure
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That supposedly buried hatchet between singer-dancer JoJo Siwa and Fuller House’s Candace Cameron Bure now seems dug up and above ground. The So You Think You Can Dance judge has slammed Bure’s recent anti-LGBT comments on creating programming at Christian network Great American Family that centers on “traditional marriage at the core.”
“Honestly, I can’t believe after everything that went down just a few months ago, that she would not only create a movie with intention of excluding LGBTQIA+, but then also talk about it in the press. This is rude and hurtful to a whole community of people,” wrote Siwa on Instagram.
The post received support from one of Bure’s Fuller House co-stars Jodie Sweetin (who played Bure’s younger sister Stephanie Tanner in the original series and reboot), who commented, “You know I love you.”
Earlier this year, issues arose between Siwa and Bure after the former Dance Moms star made a TikTok that called out the Hallmark actor as the “rudest celebrity” she’d ever met. In typical TikTok fashion, the video spiraled into viral fame, causing Siwa to give an interview with Page Six where she explained that the bad experience stemmed from her asking for a photo with Bure while at a red carpet event, with the Full House actor saying no to the request before moving on to take photos with other people.
The two seemed to move past the event at the time, with Bure saying via her Instagram that she had apologized to Siwa and the two had resolved the conflict privately.
Well, it doesn’t look like the apology from earlier this year will stick, as the former Hallmark actor has decided to forge ahead with her controversial comments on why she left the cable channel for Great American Family in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal.
“My heart wants to tell stories that have more meaning and purpose and depth behind them,” Bure told the outlet. “I knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians that love the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment.”
While Bure isn’t outright saying that she doesn’t want to work on movies with queer romances or storylines, her comment, “I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core,” doesn’t require too much reading between the lines as to why she left Hallmark for Great American Family, along with the channel’s former CEO Bill Abbott. Known for its holiday content, Hallmark has been working to be more inclusive in recent years, with the first film focused on an LGBTQ+ couple airing this December.
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Sweetin swoops to side with Siwa in same-sex show-biz squabble!
I do know who these people are, I just wish I didn’t.
I had to google “JoJo Siwa”, because, you know: old.
She has exactly the same expression in every picture (except for the ones where she’s kissing her little girlfriend there; you can’t really see, maybe she makes out that way too, doesn’t look fun or comfortable). Doesn’t her face start to hurt after a while?
Why? You know who was in the cast of a popular 80’s sitcom that had a recent revival and well going to be honest I don’t know much about Jojo Siwa other than kids like her. Is she a Nickelodeon person? She seems like one of those.
She started in some reality shows like Dance Moms before becoming a YouTube sensation in her own right. But she has been in some Nickelodeon/Disney stuff so you’re not far off.
I’m not saying Jodie Sweetin should spend the rest of her life repurposing Stephanie Tanner’s catch-phrase, but this really would have been the time to drop a “How rude!”
You got it, dude!
“I knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians
that love the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good
family entertainment.”“Bitch, do not drag me into your Dollar Tree level drama again.” – The Lord
Jojo Siwa looks like a toddler who never grew up, but just got bigger.
I think that’s her schtick.
She’s “White Webster”!
Pretty much!
FYI that commenter is a bigot troll. Leave them to die alone.
I loved Hilarie Burton’s savage response.https://ew.com/tv/hilarie-burton-slams-candace-cameron-bure-lgbtq-exclusionary-christmas-movies/
Me, I’m just shocked at how much Candance Cameron and Geri Horner look alike.
Bure’s first two films for the channel are My Best Friend’s Rapture and Exclusively White Christmas.
Yo feels like there’s a bunch of letters missing. Whatever happened to the 2S or whatever? Maybe you should call it LGBTX
Lemme guess. The fugly bitch on the left is trans?
I don’t get the reasoning behind telling people what they should put on their channel or platform. Its Christian, not for you. No more then when Christians complain about gays on platforms they don’t watch.
Should this have been posted to Jez…because ..this just reads like a Jez article? .