{"id":32700,"date":"2022-12-11T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/11\/danica-mckellar-reacts-to-neal-bledsoe-exiting-great-american-family-over-candace-cameron-bure-comments\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T23:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T23:23:07","slug":"danica-mckellar-reacts-to-neal-bledsoe-exiting-great-american-family-over-candace-cameron-bure-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/11\/danica-mckellar-reacts-to-neal-bledsoe-exiting-great-american-family-over-candace-cameron-bure-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Danica McKellar Reacts to Neal Bledsoe Exiting Great American Family Over Candace Cameron Bure Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/neal-bledsoe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neal Bledsoe<\/a> received\u2019t have one other <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/christmas-at-the-drive-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas on the Drive-In<\/a><\/em> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/danica-mckellar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danica McKellar<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/network\/great-american-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great American Family<\/a>. The actor just lately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1072410\/neal-bledsoe-leaving-great-american-family-candace-cameron-bure-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his determination to depart the cable channel<\/a> over feedback made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/candace-cameron-bure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Candace Cameron Bure<\/a>, its chief artistic officer, and Bill Abbott, its chief govt. But McKellar, his costar on this yr\u2019s <em>Christmas on the Drive-In<\/em>, thinks he acquired Bure\u2019s phrases fallacious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeal is a wonderful person. He\u2019s such a great actor, and I have enjoyed working with him so much. He and I both share our love and support of [the] LGBT community, for sure,\u201d McKellar informed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/danica-mckellar-co-stars-exit-candace-cameron-bures-comments-traditional-marriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News Digital<\/a><\/em> on Saturday, December 10. \u201cYou know, I don\u2019t agree with his interpretation of her comments. I just didn\u2019t see them the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The feedback in query got here from Bure\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/candace-cameron-bure-great-american-family-11668205295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> interview,<\/a> during which she mentioned that she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1069947\/hilarie-burton-candace-cameron-bure-gay-great-american-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">didn\u2019t anticipate Great American Family to characteristic same-sex {couples} because the leads of vacation films<\/a>. \u201cI think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core,\u201d the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/full-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full House<\/a> <\/em>alum added.<\/p>\n<p>In that very same profile, Abbott gave his ideas on the subject, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s certainly the year 2022, so we\u2019re aware of the trends. There\u2019s no whiteboard that says, \u2018Yes, this\u2019 or \u2018No, we\u2019ll never go here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1072434\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1072434\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1072434 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/neal-bledsoe-394x570.jpg\" alt=\"Neal Bledsoe\" width=\"394\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/neal-bledsoe-394x570.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/neal-bledsoe-200x289.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/neal-bledsoe-768x1111.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/neal-bledsoe-1416x2048.jpg 1416w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/neal-bledsoe.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1072434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Macon\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a consequence, Bledsoe, who additionally appeared with McKellar within the 2021 Great American Family film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/the-winter-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Winter Palace<\/a><\/em>, informed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/neal-bledsoe-leaves-great-american-family-lgbtq-1235449812\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em> final week that he\u2019s stepping away from the channel. \u201cI hope GAF will change, but until everyone can be represented in their films with pride, my choice is clear. I look forward to working with creators who put no limits on the stories we tell and follow through on their message of values with open arms,\u201d he mentioned partly. \u201cMy support for the LGBTQIA+ community is unconditional \u2014 nothing is worth my silence or their ability to live and love freely in a world that we are lucky enough to share with them. \u2026 The recent comments made by leadership at Great American Family are hurtful, wrong, and reflect an ideology that prioritizes judgment over love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, nevertheless, McKellar defended Bure\u2019s feedback. \u201cWhen she was talking about the portrayal of heterosexual couples in the movies, she started the sentence with \u2018I think,\u2019 which is not definitive, and she ended it with \u2018at its core,\u2019 which doesn\u2019t mean exclusively,\u201d the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/the-wonder-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonder Years<\/a><\/em> alum mentioned. \u201cBut I love [Bledsoe] to death and wish him well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Neal Bledsoe received\u2019t have one other Christmas on the Drive-In with Danica McKellar on Great American Family. The actor just lately announced his determination to depart the cable channel over feedback made by Candace Cameron Bure, its chief artistic officer, and Bill Abbott, its chief govt. But McKellar, his costar on this yr\u2019s Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}