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 first celebrities confirmed for Strictly, but she was almost immediately accused of being a “transphobe” and a “TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) 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 Twitter Strictly boycott.” 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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