Candace Cameron Bure is fighting back after being accused of homophobia. In a new TikTok video, Miss Benny claims that Bure tried to have her removed from “Fuller House.”
Miss Benny, who was born male and played a gay character on the show before coming out as transgender in June, never mentioned Bure but implied that she didn’t want a queer character on “Fuller House.” The allegations came from a video where Miss Benny mentioned experiencing homophobia on the show’s set. When someone named Bure, she responded with more detail.
Benny explained, “I was on ‘Fuller House,’ I played Casey, the first gay character on the ‘Full House’ franchise. One of the Tanner sisters is very publicly ‘not for the girls,’ if that makes sense?”
She continued, “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. I was also sort of warned and prepared that this person’s fan base might be encouraged to target me specifically.”
Bure responded in a statement, saying, “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. ‘Fuller House’ has always welcomed a wide range of characters. I thought Miss Benny did a great job as ‘Casey’ on the show.”
In Miss Benny’s TikTok, she further noted, “The fact that this teenage actor is coming in to make jokes about, like, a scarf is suddenly a target from an adult is, like, crazy to me. So, 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.”
On “Fuller House,” Bure and Jodie Sweetin reprised their roles as D.J. and Stephanie Tanner. Sweetin has publicly supported the LGBTQ+ community, so Miss Benny’s fanbase assumed she was talking about Bure. Miss Benny laughed, adding, “The positive is that I had a really fun time shooting the show with actors that were willing to talk to me.”
Bure responded to Miss Benny’s claims that she never spoke with her: “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.”