GAF Star Neal Bledsoe Exits Over Candace Cameron Bure’s ‘Conventional Marriage’ Feedback

The “Full Home” star had garnered controversy when she stated in a profile interview with The Wall Road Journal that she was departing Hallmark and partnering with GAF as each a star and chief inventive officer, promising the community would “hold conventional marriage on the core.”

Actor Neil Bledsoe, who starred in GAF’s 2021 movie “The Winter Palace” and “Christmas on the Drive-In” for 2022, introduced in a prolonged assertion to Selection Monday that he was severing ties over Bure’s feedback and the perceived path she gave the impression to be indicating.

“As an artist, I yearn to be happy with the work I create,” Bledsoe advised the outlet. “However, the thought that my work may very well be used to intentionally discriminate in opposition to anybody horrifies and infuriates me.”

“I hope GAF will change, however till everybody could be represented of their movies with satisfaction, my alternative is evident,” his assertion continued. “I sit up for working with creators who put no limits on the tales we inform and comply with by means of on their message of values with open arms.”

Hallmark Channel has begun increasing its vacation choices to incorporate same-sex {couples} and relationships after years of criticism, with the community’s first same-sex kiss taking place within the 2020 movie “The Christmas Home.”

This yr options their first movie with a same-sex couple because the leads. “The Vacation Sitter” stars Jonathan Bennett and George Krissa and lands on Hallmark Channel December 11.

“As somebody who struggled as a younger man with our society’s extraordinarily slender definition of masculinity, it was [the LGBTQIA+] group that offered me with refuge and a guiding mild when my life felt misplaced,” Bledsoe stated in his assertion.

“If I can not rise up for that group of their time of want, my debt to them means nothing,” he continued. “So, I wish to be very clear: my help for the LGBTQIA+ group is unconditional — nothing is price my silence or their means to dwell and love freely in a world that we’re fortunate sufficient to share with them.”

In response to the controversy that erupted after her “conventional marriage” feedback, Bure took to her Instagram to write down, “I’ve nice love and affection for all individuals. It completely breaks my coronary heart that anybody would ever suppose I deliberately would wish to offend and damage anybody.”

“It saddens me that the media is commonly in search of to divide us, even round a topic as comforting and merry as Christmas motion pictures,” she continued. “However, given the poisonous local weather in our tradition proper now, I should not be shocked. We’d like Christmas greater than ever.”

Invoice Abbott, chief govt of Nice American Media — who used to move Hallmark — famous within the preliminary WSJ article, “it is definitely the yr 2022, so we’re conscious of the tendencies. There isn’t any whiteboard that claims, ‘Sure, this’ or ‘No, we’ll by no means go right here.'”

“One Tree Hill” alum Burton — who starred in a ton of Hallmark vacation motion pictures herself earlier than taking her skills to Lifetime — was fast to name them each out.

“Bigot. I do not keep in mind Jesus liking hypocrites like Sweet,” wrote Burton. “However positive. Make your cash, honey. You trip that prejudice wave all the way in which to the financial institution.”

“Now they’re simply overtly admitting their bigotry. I known as this s— out years in the past when Abbott was at Hallmark,” she continued. “Glad they dumped him. Being LGBTQ is not a ‘pattern.’ That man and his community are disgustig [sic]. You too Sweet. There may be nothing untraditional about same-sex {couples}.”

JoJo Siwa, who lately quashed a public beef with Bure over a years-old picture controversy, weighed in as effectively, calling her feedback “impolite and hurtful.” Siwa is a member of the LGBTQIA+ group.

“Actually, I can not imagine after all the things that went down just some months in the past, that she wouldn’t solely create a film with intention of excluding LGBTQIA+, however then additionally discuss it within the press,” Siwa, 19, captioned a photograph of a information article about Bure’s feedback.

Candace Cameron Bure’s Daughter Praises Mother, Trashes Media Over ‘Conventional Marriage’ ControversyVIEW STORY

In the meantime, Bure’s “Full Home” and “Fuller Home” co-star, Jodie Sweetin, expressed her help for Siwa after she slammed Bure. Sweetin, 40, commented on Siwa’s Instagram put up, writing, ” I really like you ❤️❤️.”