Candace Cameron Bure denies trying to remove Miss Benny's queer character from 'Fuller House' after Miss Benny implied Bure wouldn't talk to her on set

• Netflix star Miss Benny implied that Candace Cameron Bure tried to get her queer character axed from "Fuller House."

• In a TikTok video, she also implied that Bure wasn't "willing" to talk to her on set.

• In a statement to Insider, Bure denied the allegations and added "I wish Miss Benny only the best."

Netflix star Miss Benny implied that "Fuller House" star Candace Cameron Bure refused to speak to her when she was playing the show's first queer character and tried to have the character removed — but Bure has denied it.

In a TikTok video posted on Thursday, Miss Benny responded to a fan who asked: "Fuller House? Who was homophobic was it Candace?"

In her response, Miss Benny didn't explicitly name Bure but said that when she got the role of Casey, the first gay character on the show, "one of the Tanner sisters was, like, very publicly... not for the girls." Miss Benny claimed that writers and other employees on "Fuller House" sat her down to "warn me how this person allegedly was trying to get the character removed" from the show.

"I was also sort of warned and prepared that this person's fan base might be encouraged to target me specifically," Miss Benny continued. "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." (The Tanner sisters — DJ and Stephanie — were played by Bure and Jodie Sweetin, respectively.)

While she said she had a positive experience on the "Fuller House" set with other actors on the show, she implied that Bure wasn't "willing" to talk to her.

When reached for comment by Insider, Bure sent a response via her representative, saying that she "never asked" that Miss Benny's character be removed from the show, nor did she ask writers, producers, or studio executives not to include queer characters.

"'Fuller House' has always welcomed a wide range of characters. I thought Miss Benny did a great job as 'Casey' on the show," Bure said in an email to Insider via her representative. "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."

Although Bure was not named in the video, many immediately assumed that Bure, not Jodie Sweetin (who played Stephanie Tanner on the show), was the "Tanner sister" Miss Benny referenced. Bure is a well-known conservative in Hollywood.

Bure, a fixture of the Hallmark Channel, left the network in April 2022 for the recently established Great American Family channel, taking on an executive role to develop and star in what she called "heartwarming family and faith-filled programming." In November, Bure told the Wall Street Journal that Great American Family would keep "traditional marriage at its core" and would not feature same-sex couples. Celebrities like JoJo Siwa and Hilarie Burton Morgan called Bure's comments "rude and hurtful" to the LGBTQ community.

Bure had followed Bill Abbott, the head of Great American Family's parent company GAC Media, to the new network after Abbott left Crown Media and Hallmark in 2020 when controversy erupted over Hallmark censoring a Zola commercial featuring two brides kissing each other. (The commercial was later reinstated.)

In her video, Miss Benny also said she found it "crazy" that while on the "Fuller House" set as a teenager, she was "targeted" in such a way by an adult.

"[It] continuously blows my mind how queer people, specifically queer young adults and queer children, are being targeted and having to advocate for themselves against adults," Miss Benny said. But she noted that her experience on "Fuller House" helped her to land a starring role on her new Netflix show, "Glamorous."

On the show, which premiered in June, Miss Benny stars as a queer young adult working for an iconic makeup brand. She stars alongside Kim Cattrall, who plays makeup mogul Madolyn Addison.

Representatives for Miss Benny and Netflix didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

"Glamorous" is available to stream now on Netflix.

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