Danica McKellar who has starred opposite Neal Bledsoe in three movies, says she doesn’t agree with his decision to stop working with Great American Family after Candace Cameron Bure‘s controversial comments.
McKellar, 47, who may be most famous for her role in the show “Wonder Years”, told Fox News Digital in a recent interview, “Neal is a wonderful person. He’s 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. You know, I don’t agree with his interpretation of her comments. I just didn’t see them the same way.”
Bledsoe, 41, left the network after Cameron Bure told WSJ. Magazine about the network’s plans to focus on traditional marriage when she stated, “I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core.”
In the same interview, Great American Story CEO Bill Abbott said that they are “aware of the trends” but confirmed they have no plans to include same-sex love stories.
McKellar, who costarred in the network’s new film Christmas at the Drive-In with Bledsoe, defended Bure’s comments saying, “When she was talking about the portrayal of heterosexual couples in the movies, she started the sentence with ‘I think,’ which is not definitive, and she ended it with ‘at its core,’ which doesn’t mean exclusively, but I love [Bledsoe] to death and wish him well.”
After Bure’s initial comment created controversy, Cameron Bure, 46, responded with a statement shared on Instagram saying, “All of you who know me, know beyond question that I have great love and affection for all people. It absolutely breaks my heart that anyone would ever think I intentionally would want to offend and hurt anyone. … I am a devoted Christian. Which means that I believe that every human being bears the image of God. Because of that, I am called to love all people, and I do. If you know me, you know that I am a person who loves fiercely and indiscriminately.”
