Candace Cameron Bure Denies Asking ‘Fuller House’ Writers to Remove Queer Character: We ‘Always Welcomed a Wide Range of Characters’

It’s a "Full House" of nostalgic look-back podcasts from the beloved sitcom’s cast. Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber, who played Stephanie Tanner and neighbor Kimmy Gibbler, respectively, just released a rewatch podcast for the series on iHeartPodcasts titled "How Rude, Tanneritos!" Their co-star, Dave Coulier, who played Joey Gladstone on the series, also released a rewatch podcast a week ago on PodCo, titled "Full House Rewind." Despite the close timing of their releases, Sweetin and Barber told People in a joint interview there’s "no competition at all." "Dave's is so different, too, than what ours is," Sweetin explained.

Despite his retrospective love for the beloved sitcom, John Stamos is the first to admit he “couldn’t deal” with some of his younger costars on Full House.

Dave Coulier is standing by his former Full House costar Candace Cameron Bure following her public drama with Miss Benny.

Apparently, there was almost a world where John Stamos didn’t portray Uncle Jesse on Full House!

John Stamos is best known for portraying Uncle Jesse in the ABC sitcom Full House. Although Stamos loves the recognition he gets from the show, it wasn’t always like that.

“Full House” creator Jeff Franklin is going down memory lane on Dave Coulier‘s new series, “Full House Rewind”. Franklin appeared on the first episode of the PodCo series, where he and Coulier reminisced about the pilot episode of the popular family comedy, which starred the late Bob Saget, John Stamos, Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.

To this day, fans of Full House see Uncle Jesse every time that John Stamos steps onstage or onscreen in a new role. However, the actor just revealed that he almost quit the show before it became a classic.

creator Jeff Franklin is going down memory lane on Dave Coulier's new series, . Franklin appeared on the first episode of the PodCo series, where he and Coulier reminisced about the pilot episode of the popular family comedy, which starred the late Bob Saget, John Stamos, Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.During the episode, which Coulier dedicated to Saget, Franklin revealed Sweetin was the first actor cast on He shared that after they held the first cast table read, Stamos was ready to get off the show because he was concerned Sweetin and the younger actors would take the spotlight.«I remembered our first table read,» Coulier said.«Where there's a room full of studio and network executives.

John Stamos recounted his early worries about playing Uncle Jesse in “Full House” after his young co-star Jodie Sweetin stole the show during a table read to the point where he “hated” the show.“We did a table read of it, and I was the star. I was coming off of ‘General Hospital,’ and all the mothers were like (gestures fawning over him),” Stamos said during an episode of “Hot Ones.” We sit down, and we start reading.

John Stamos still has a love-hate relationship with his role on "Full House."  On the latest episode of "Hot Ones," the actor revealed he wanted his agents to get him "the f--- off" the show after an early table read.  The 59-year-old revealed "Full House" was initially pitched to him as being like "Bosom Buddies," the '80s sitcom that starred Tom Hanks, with "a couple of kids in the background." "And as we’re casting it, I was like, ‘They’re spending a lot of time casting these kids that are going to be in the background,’" Stamos recalled. It was at an early reading of the script when Stamos realized the show wasn’t going to be what he initially expected. "We did a table read of it, and I was the star.

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The tumultuous divorce between Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner continues to get more contentious.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Hayley Atwell is currently kicking butt in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” but the Tom Cruise-led action tentpole is not the actor’s first go-around with a Hollywood mega-franchise. Atwell joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Peggy Carter in 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger.” It’s a role she would flesh out in two seasons of ABC’s “Agent Carter” series, before lending her voice to an alternate version of Peggy in Marvel’s Disney+ series “What If…?” Atwell’s Peggy Carter is a passionate fan favorite among Marvel lovers, which is why fans were so delighted when the character popped up as an alternate Captain America in 2022’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and then made furious when she was almost immediately killed off by Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen). In a new interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Atwell called the cameo “a frustrating moment.”

Candace Cameron Bure is firing back after being accused of homophobia. In a new TikTok video, Miss Benny claims Bure attempted to have her removed from "Fuller House." Miss Benny, who was born male and played a gay character named Casey on the show before coming out as transgender last month, never mentioned Bure by name but implied that she did not want a queer character on "Fuller House." The allegations stemmed from a video, shared earlier this week, in which Miss Benny mentioned experiencing homophobia on the show's set.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director When Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” finally opens in theaters later this month, it will mark the end of a long, long journey to get the iconic Mattel doll to the big screen. Sony Pictures originally had the rights to Barbie and spent years trying to get a movie off the ground. Actors such as Amy Schumer and Anne Hathaway came and went. Schumer said last month that she exited her “Barbie” movie because the script wasn’t “feminist and cool” enough. Another talent that left “Barbie” during the film’s development at Sony was Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Juno.” She exited the film in 2018 and told ScreenCrush at the time, “I was literally incapable of turning in a ‘Barbie’ draft. God knows I tried.”

Candace Cameron Bure is coming under fire (yet again!) for claims she tried to get the first queer character “removed” from Fuller House!

Candace Cameron Bure denied claims that she tried to have Miss Benny — who portrayed a queer character on Fuller House — written out of the Netflix sitcom.  

Candace Cameron Bure is reacting to allegations of homophobic behavior on the set of Fuller House from guest star Miss Benny.

Candace Cameron Bure is addressing claims that she attempted to get the first queer character on removed from the show.On Thursday, Miss Benny posted a video to TikTok in which she claimed that she was told «one of the Tanner sisters» wanted to have her role axed back when she was playing Casey during the show's fourth season.«I was on, I played Casey, the first gay character on the franchise,» Miss Benny shared in her post. «One of the Tanner sisters is very publicly 'not for the girls' if that makes sense? [And] 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.»Miss Benny — who never used Bure's name directly in her video — went on to claim, «I was also sort of warned and prepared that this person's fan base might be encouraged to target me specifically.»«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,» Miss Benny claimed.In response to her TikTok post, Bure released a statement to ET denying that she ever attempted to get the role axed.«I never asked Miss Benny’s character to be removed from  and did not ask the writers, producers or studio executives to have queer characters on the show,» Bure shared in her statement.

It appears Netflix’s “Glamorous” star, Miss Benny, is not too fond of how things folded out on set between her and one of her fellow “Fuller House” co-stars.