Sherlock star Amanda Abbington has deleted her Twitter account amid a backlash over her being cast in the latest season of BBC entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing. Abbington was among the firs…
, but she was almost immediately accused of being a “transphobe” and a “TERF” by fans of the dancing competition. Some threatened to boycott the show.
Abbington addressed the uproar in an Instagram video, which she titled: “A few thoughts on my Twitterboycott.” Abbington said the outcry resulted from a tweet she posted in March, in which she criticized a video of a drag artist performing in a “highly sexualised way” in front of children.
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