JoJo Siwa Calls Out Candace Cameron Bure For “Excluding LGBTQIA+” & Receives Support From ‘Fuller House’ Star Jodie Sweetin; GLAAD Issues Statement - Deadline

JoJo Siwa is sounding disconnected connected Candace Cameron Bure’s comments that her tv movies connected Great American Family will absorption connected “traditional marriage” and not members of the LGBTQ+ community.

“Honestly, I can’t judge aft everything that went down conscionable a fewer months ago, that she would not lone make a movie with volition of excluding LGBTQIA+, but past besides speech astir it successful the press. This is rude and hurtful to a full assemblage of people,” Siwa posted connected Instagram.

The connection received enactment from Bure’s Fuller House co-star Jodie Sweetin who replied to the station adding, “You cognize I emotion you.”

Siwa and Bure had a small tiff earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile a viral video connected TikTok had the Dance Moms alum claiming the Fuller House histrion was the “rudest celebrity.” It turns retired that erstwhile Siwa was an 11-year-old, she attended a reddish carpet for the Netflix bid and asked Bure for a photo. Bure declined to instrumentality a representation with the dancer and proceeded to instrumentality photos with different people.

Bure reached retired to Siwa to speech things retired and they were capable to wide it with Siwa saying she present understands the unit of being connected a reddish carpet but astatine a young property didn’t comprehend.

Bure’s comments were featured successful a Wall Street Journal nonfiction wherever she reveals the crushed she near Hallmark successful favour of Great American Family.

“It fundamentally is simply a wholly antithetic web than erstwhile I started due to the fact that of the alteration of leadership,” she told the publication.

Her comments travel arsenic Hallmark diversifies its storytelling and is acceptable to premiere its archetypal vacation movie featuring a same-sex mates titled The Holiday Sitter. After Bure’s interrogation went viral GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) issued a connection inviting the histrion to a conversation.

“It’s irresponsible and hurtful for Candace Cameron Bure to usage contented arsenic a guise for exclusion,” GLAAD’s President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said. “I’d emotion to person a speech with Bure astir my wife, our kids, and our family’s traditions. Bure is retired of sync with a increasing bulk of radical of faith, including LGBTQ radical of faith, who cognize that LGBTQ couples and families are deserving of emotion and visibility.”

Ellis said that Bure’s “statement is harmful and insulting to LGBTQ employees, arsenic good arsenic employees with LGBTQ friends and family.”

“If GAF’s program is to intentionally exclude stories astir LGBTQ couples, past actors, advertisers, cablegram and streaming platforms, and accumulation companies should instrumentality enactment and earnestly see whether they privation to beryllium associated with a web that holds exclusion arsenic 1 of its values,” Ellis concluded.