Former StarKist® Tuna Creations spokeswoman Candace Cameron Bure has finally reached the last straw with one of the industry’s sweetest stars.
The homophobic ex-Hallmark-hasbeen landed herself firmly on the naughty list last week when she announced she’d be jumping ship over to the new “Great American Family” network.
Bure hailed the new network as “faith programming” and “good family entertainment” that will “keep traditional marriage at its core” — or, as the community understands it, No Queers Allowed TV.
A whole host of folks from queer rights org GLAAD to Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan chimed in to drag the actress by her scalp. Most notable of all was the response from Dance Moms alum and young queer icon JoJo Siwa, who had a mini-feud with Bure this summer.
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She laid it all out:
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“I can’t believe after everything that went down just a few months ago, that she would not only create a movie [network] with intention of excluding LGBTQIA+, but then also talk about it in the press,” Siwa says. “This is rude and hurtful to a whole community of people.”
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In a new statement to People, the dancer doubled down on her statements even more definitively. When asked if the two had talked things over, she simply responded, “We have not, and I don’t think we ever will again.”
Do you know what you have to be doing wrong to make perpetual sunshine-generator JoJo Siwa never want to talk to you again?
She even extended grace to Bure in holding discriminatory beliefs, as long as they’re internal only.
“You not liking gay marriage, do your thing girl. You being religious, do your thing girl. Of course, I would want everybody to do what they want to do. But to purposely exclude someone because of who they love? That’s sh*tty.”
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Siwa noted the amount of backlash Bure is receiving, and stands by her decision to speak out on the situation.
“I am being honest and maybe being a little disruptive to somebody’s life, but it’s what I believe in,” she said. “And so to have good people stand behind you with it felt really nice.”
Siwa knows that the community’s in her corner. Honestly, if they ever want to bring back Celebrity Boxing just for these two, we would literally be in her corner. Just say the word, girl!
G R
Like her brother Kirk, Candace is another bible-thumper that hates and uses her religion to do so. Go away.
Rob
The talentless Cameron family is full of hypocrites and trash. They use their religion to belittle and invalidate other people. You dont like the way other people live their lives? Keep it to yourself.
Mack
Perhaps Great American Family network will hire all those right wing no talent losers like Scott Baio to act in their crappy holiday hate movies. There’s a bunch of the no talent losers who whine constantly because “liberal Hollywood” won’t hire them. Never mind that the only jobs they had was because of their looks and not their abilities.
Jas
Well I was a fan of the Aurora Teagarden series. I wouldn’t watch it now if you paid me. I would never watch GAF. NO CAMERON FAMILY CRAP FOR ME. Keep your religious and sexual hatred to yourself. No thank you.
Jimmynj
Candace Cameron Bure is like her idiot brother and trying to stay relevant thumping the Bible. They both should go away and never be heard from again.