‘Brady Bunch’ star Susan Olsen said revival axed over her political views

Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady in the television series “The Brady Bunch,” said a planned revival of the show was canceled because she voiced her support of Donald Trump and her views on COVID-19 and LGBTQ issues.

Speaking this week on the “Walkway Campaign” podcast, she said that the decision to cancel the revival is an example of “cancel culture and woke Hollywood and woke media.” 

According to the actress, the revival was slated for 2019 and would follow the adventures of the Brady children as adults. Ms. Olsen would have played Cindy Brady, who, like Ms. Olsen in real life, would have been a libertarian podcaster in the series.

She said her agent told her that CBS had nixed the idea because of what her agent described as a “homophobic rant” on her political radio show, “Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics.” Ms. Olsen described the allegation as “a news story that was fake news.”

While Ms. Olsen didn’t elaborate, she was fired from the radio show in 2016 after openly gay actor Leon Acord-Whiting revealed a homophobic slur she called him on social media.

After Mr. Acord-Whiting blasted her on-air comments, he shared screenshots of messages she sent him in which Ms. Olsen allegedly called him a “Lying f——-.”

She was fired from the radio show soon afterward.

The Washington Times has contacted CBS for comment. 

Ms. Olsen said CBS found out about the radio comments and was still willing to move ahead with the revival if she took a course in political correctness, which she said she agreed to do.

But she said the network did a further web search on her and found comments she had made about the COVID-19 vaccine and transgender people that it deemed controversial.

“They came up with 50 pages” of “dangerous” statements, Ms. Olsen said, but added, “I stand by everything I said.”

After that, her agent told her that CBS “won’t budge” and would “just not have you in this.”

“And I’m like, ‘Wow. Wow, I’ve been canceled,’” Ms. Olsen said. “A role that I’ve played for over 50 years — I can’t play it now because I’m too dangerous.”