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Candace Cameron Bure's favorite band for KING & COUNTRY performed their new song for her birthday on The View.

Fuller House: Nostalgia, Comedy and Sex... Oh My!

First off, yes,  Netflix's "Fuller House" has its corny moments and certainly scratches a nostalgia itch that fans of the original series will savor.  It's a mostly family-friendly series that is often funny with some laugh out loud moments.

This reboot is a product of our nostalgia culture, Throwback Thursdays and “Things Only a ’80s Kid Would Know” listicles, come to life.

It’s not entirely clear who the audience is meant to be for the new “Fuller House.” Grown-up fans watching with their kids? Today's kids and teens? Nostalgic parents who have put their kids to bed?

It wants to be a warm and fuzzy throwback comedy, complete with laughs and awws from a studio audience — a first for Netflix. But it also wants to trade on the winking meta-humor that’s currently so popular.

Gears shift a lot on "Fuller House."  There are ongoing allusions to the off-screen lives of the stars and applause-rewarded fourth-wall breaking. Such moments contrast with the heartstring-pulling and lesson-learning more standard to traditional sitcoms.

Fans will have to adjust to the biggest contrast to "Full House:" its cringe-making innuendo, suggestive dancing, lots of drinking, revealing clothes and female kisses.

It's probably because of its insistence on being perceived family-friendly that "Fuller House" gets panned by critics including some Christian ones.  However, star Candace Cameron Bure's fans might be surprised by how her character is portrayed.

Bure has responded to the critics:

"The critics never had a good thing to say about Full House and yet it ran for eight years in primetime and then it’s never been off the air in 30 years. So it’s a testament to what the fans want and not what the critics think.  If there are any negative review that’s how we feel about it with Fuller House; we did this for the fans and we think they’re going to absolutely love it."

"The fans are excited about the show," Jodie Sweetin added."We’re not going out there and trying to win an Emmy for Best Drama. We’re a family sitcom that fans absolutely love and adore, and we’re incredibly honored to get to bring that back and I think we’ve stayed really true to that drama."

Candace Cameron Bure In Final Negotiations to Join The View as Co-Host

After multiple guest-hosting stints on The View, Candace Cameron Bure and Paula Faris are in talks to join the show in a more permanent capacity, Variety reported yesterday.

According to the site, the Fuller House actress and the GMA Weekend co-anchor are in "final negotiations" to become co-hosts for Season 19, alongside veteran panelist Whoopi Goldberg and fellow newcomers Raven-Symone and Michelle Collins.

Per Variety, Faris would keep her GMA Weekend job, appearing on The View Monday through Thursday. Bure, meanwhile, is still figuring out her schedule, but could spend some weeks on The View in New York, and others on Netflix's Fuller House, which shoots through November in L.A.
Both stars — like Symone and Collins, who were announced as official co-hosts in June and July, respectively — have filled in at The View multiple times over the past few months. The show has gone through several casting changes since its premiere in 1997.


Bure made a memorable appearance on the series earlier this month, when she and Symone butted heads over the Oregon bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, and was then fined $135,000.

"I don't think this is discrimination at all. This is about freedom of association," the Full House alum said during the July 7 debate. "It's about constitutional rights. It's about First Amendment rights. We do have the right to still choose who we associate with."

Symone's response? "I refuse to associate with you right now!"

Candace Cameron Bure Makes Waves on The View

When actress Candace Cameron Bure defended on “The View” the Christian owners of an Oregon bakery who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding, an audible gasp from one of the co-hosts immediately followed.

Discussing the divisive case, the star revealed she doesn’t think what the bakery did amounts to 'discrimination.' It quickly became clear she was outnumbered on the issue.

“This is about freedom of association, it’s about constitutional rights, it’s about First Amendment rights,” she added. “We do have the right to still choose who we associate with.”

Bure argued the owners of Sweet Cakes By Melissa didn’t refuse to bake the cake simply because the customers were lesbians. In fact, she said, “they baked cakes for them previously.”

“They had a problem with the actual ceremony because that, the ceremony, is what conflicted with their religious beliefs,” Bure said.

Co-host Raven-Symone strongly disagreed, claiming the bakery discriminated against the couple based on their 'sexual orientation' and compared the case to past discrimination of black people.

Bure ended her argument by saying, “Here’s the other thing that I really wish we could do as a society, as a culture, as a country, is to respect that we have opposing views.”

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What's Behind the Current Resurgence of Faith Based Entertainment?

TheWrap.com has an article on the current resurgence of faith-based programming.  It notes that 90 million Americans identify themselves as evangelical Christians — “the country's largest special interest group,” as many in the Christian film industry like to say — have been traditionally underserved; there is only limited appetite for films that are marked by subpar production and story, no matter the message. As a result, the gap in the market remained in place for years, with Christian audiences flocking instead to talk radio and special television networks.

That's where the rush of technology and financing come into play.

Russell Wolfe started Pure Flix in 2005 as both a production and distribution company, putting in place a plan to gradually invest more money into his movies as their quality and fiscal return improved. The P&A costs of theatrical releases was largely prohibitive, so they stuck to DVD and streaming services, but their prolific output quickly made them a profitable industry leader.

“Our market, the family market, we feel that there's few and far between good family movies that are appropriate for all ages, so we want to service that market,” he told TheWrap, “but at the same time, we'll stick to our roots on other films that are faith affirming.”

Not every movie is a huge seller, but the sheer volume available on their site, as well as places like ChristianMovies.com and even at Wal-Mart, make for a tidy profit. And while they may not please mainstream critics — the works of Candace Cameron Bure and Haylie Duff are unlikely to land in the Criterion Collection, though there may be some cult potential around the Danny Trejo film “The Bill Collector” — they hit the right notes with the right people.

The ability to service that market was helped greatly by the rise of digital technology that has made filmmaking accessible and a much more populist endeavor. Production costs went down, so they could spend more on recognizable actors like Teri Polo, as well as bigger names like Greg Kinnear, who starred in “Heaven is for Real,” which cost Sony's Affirm Pictures just $12 million overall and has made $75 million since its release in April.

The other huge religious hit of the spring, “God's Not Dead,” was made for even less — just $2 million — and green lit after extensive research and surveys by Wolfe and his team.

“We surveyed them and asked what does the church need, what kind of message do they need to hear?” Wolfe explained. “We heard several things back, they said marriage and family and money issues and things like that. But one of the things that came back was just to reaffirm with people why they believe what they believe. So much in the media is, when they look at Christians, they go, ‘You're out there, that's just blind faith.’ And it's not blind faith, there's reasons behind it. I think one of the things that made this movie so successful is that it ended up reaffirming with individuals why they believe what they believe, almost vindicating them in their belief in the face of mainstream criticism.”

There is now an overt feeling in the evangelical community that they are being discriminated for being religious — several court battles over government prayer have rallied them to the cause — and “God's Not Dead” played into that sentiment, as well.

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Dancing With the Stars Finalist Candace Cameron Bure and Matthew West to Host K-LOVE Fan Awards at Grand Ole Opry

TV star and current Dancing With the Stars finalist Candace Cameron Bure and Grammy-nominated Matthew West will host the K-LOVE Fan Awards on Sunday, June 1 at the Grand Ole Opry House.

Voting for the K-LOVE Fan Awards is open now until Midnight ET on Saturday, May 31. Partnering with World Hope to aid in revival efforts for the city of Detroit, MI., every half a million votes cast for the Fan Awards will unlock a newly remodeled home for a family in need in Detroit, with a goal of two million votes and four homes total. The first week of voting alone eclipsed 500,000 votes, unlocking the first home.

Winners will be announced live at the awards show in the categories of music, sports, books and movies.

Last week, K-LOVE announced key performers for the award show includingy Chris Tomlin, Hillsong UNITED, Steven Curtis Chapman, MercyMe, Francesca Battistelli and many more.

This year, fans will have more opportunities than ever to see and interact with their favorite Christian music artists at the K-LOVE Fan Awards Weekend. Starting Friday night, May 30, the weekend will start with a bang at the official Weekend Kickoff Concert, featuring performances by Tenth Avenue North, Switchfoot, for KING & COUNTRY, Rend Collective and a surprise headlining artist.

All weekend, fans will be able to participate in the first ever K-LOVE Fan Zone, which will feature a variety of fan-focused events including tours of Jeremy Camp's tour bus, celebrity basketball games, autograph sessions and more. Saturday night will end with the new Songwriters Spotlight, hosted by Steven Curtis Chapman. On Sunday, Michael W. Smith will start the day off with a special Worship Service at the Opryland Resort. The events of the day will lead to the official K-LOVE Fan Awards Show nearby at the Grand Ole Opry House.

Candace Cameron Bure Co-Hosted The View Today

This morning, Candace Cameron Bure joined her friend Sherri Shephard in co-hosting The View. They’ll be posting the episode at this link. She's currently featured on Dancing With The Stars.

Her dancing instructor, Mark Ballas, writes at She Knows of how difficult it was for them to be in the bottom two again this week on Dancing With The Stars.

The former Full House star tells People that she's okay knowing that not everyone is going to agree with her evangelical Christian beliefs:
"As much as you want to try and explain your position to people, sometimes at the end of the day it is not worth it.  I need to invest my time in my family and not trying to please everybody or getting them to see my own point of view."

As a contestant on this season of Dancing with the Stars, she has garnered praise and criticism for her conservative beliefs and her "boundaries" that have left her modestly clothed and with fully-dressed partners (even when pro dancer Mark Ballas wanted to show off his abs).

"They didn't show it on the show but the only reason was because I thought it might be a little uncomfortable for my children," Bure says of asking Ballas to keep his shirt on. "And funny enough, another one of the dancers told me his daughter texted him the day after he went shirtless for the first time and she was not happy."

Candace Cameron Bure Says Her Life Revolves Around Christ, Gets Cheers From Dancing With the Stars Audience

Candace Cameron Bure has continued to make it known that she won't be donning skimpy outfits on Season 18 of Dancing With the Stars. On Monday, the Full House alum received huge support from the audience when she once again spoke about her values and Christian faith during her pre-taped rehearsal footage.

"I'm a Christian. My life revolves around my relationship with Jesus Christ," Bure, 37, said before dancing the rumba with partner Mark Ballas. "So with the overall tone of the dance and the costumes I'm not going to take a backseat. My voice will definitely be heard."

When Bure mentioned her faith, "the entire crowd in the ballroom cheered and clapped really loudly," an onlooker told Us Weekly. She also had several family members attending the live show.

In the ABC clip, Bure and Ballas, 27, also discussed with the show's costume designers what vision they had for their dance. However, when Ballas said he would like to go shirtless, Bure quickly jumped in.

"Not without my permission! No, I have to think about that," she said. "This rumba is not a sexual dance," she added in her one-on-one. After Cameron Bure nixes Ballas' plans to go shirtless, he replies, "You're worse than Bristol Palin. And she was bad."

"This rumba is not a sexual dance," Cameron Bure justifies. "It's a sensual emotional dance. Sensual is more sexy than raunchy sexy, so I think this is going to be a beautiful dance," she said of the rumba, which the duo performed to tune of "Say Something."

After last week's season premiere, Bure opened up to US Magazine about her modest wardrobe choices. "I won't be the sexiest one out there. I am a mom and I want to be a good role model for my children and my husband," she told Us at the time. "I think for each dance we'll wear what reflects the dance but in the most classy way possible."

Candace Cameron Bure hasn't been shy in the past when opening up about her 'submissive' role in her marriage, so how does the former Full House star justify shaking her stuff on a sexy show like Dancing With the Stars?

"You know, I feel like a sexual woman...I've been married for 18 years," the mother of three responded when host Erin Andrews asked the star how she balances her religious beliefs while performing a sexy dance. "I am a sexual woman. But, you know, I want to reserve certain things for my husband. So we did, I think, the best that we could with the rumba that I still felt comfortable doing."

"I'm a Christian. My life revolves around my relationship with Jesus Christ, so with the overall tone of the dance or the costumes, I'm not going to take a backseat. My voice will definitely be heard," the conservative star says in the clip.

Candace Cameron Bure to be on Dancing with the Stars

"Dancing With The Stars" returns for its 18th season and the new crop of celebrity competitors may be the fiercest yet.

Fresh off their gold-medal win at the Sochi Olympics, Meryl Davis and Charlie White headline the star lineup, as well as Drew Carey and swimming legend Diana Nyad.

Former "Full House" actress Candace Cameron Bure, "The Wonder Years" star Danica McKellar and Australian pop singer Cody Simpson are among the other celebs with their eyes set on the mirrorball trophy.

In two "Dancing" firsts, double-amputee snowboarding champ Amy Purdy, who lost both of her legs as a teenager and pushed to become a world-champion adaptive snowboarder, will be the first Paralympian to compete. Sean Avery is the first former hockey player in "Dancing" history.

‘Full House’ Actress Details How She Became a Christian and How Much Her Faith Impacts Her Career

Since taking the role of D.J. Tanner on the hit series “Full House” in 1987, Candace Cameron Bure has enjoyed a successful acting and writing career.

Bure, now 37, and the author of the new “Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose,” told TheBlaze that her Christian faith defines who she is, guiding her actions both on and off screen.

“My faith is my basis of who I am. Not only does it affect the choices I make career-wise, but it also effects the things that I want to do,” said Bure, who has three children and is married to retired NHL player Valeri Bure.

Bure said her faith has had both positive and negative effects on her career in Hollywood.

“I have a really wonderful core audience that has followed me since I was a little girl. They are rooting me on,” she said, noting that her fans know they can trust her work to be family-friendly. “In that way my faith really helps me.”

But Bure said she thinks she’s been overlooked for roles that she’d be comfortable with based on how people in the industry perceive her. In that way, her faith, to a degree, hinders her career.

Bure also made it clear that there’s a distinction to be made between being a Christian actress and an actress who is a Christian.

“I’m a Christian through and through. I’m not a Christian actress,” she said. “I’m an actress who is a Christian. I’ve actually done very few Christian films … I don’t need a Christian label slapped on what I do so that it complements my faith that way.”

“I would say I became a Christian or at least I asked Jesus to be the lord of my life at 12 years old.” Bure said. “Honestly that didn’t mean much to me. That certainly carried with me. I didn’t really understand all of it.”

It wasn’t until she was in her 20s that her faith really began to resonate. Her brother, “Growing Pains” actor Kirk Cameron, gave her a book — Ray Comfort’s “The Way of the Master” — and it was then, she said, that Christianity truly began to make sense to her.

“My whole thing was that I always thought I was such a good person … [I would think] I’m such a good person compared to other child stars,” Bure said. “I was a people pleaser. … I never really understood my need for Jesus, because I never really saw myself as a sinner.”

But Comfort’s book changed all that for her.

“I recognized for the first time, ‘Oh, I guess I’m not as good as I thought I was. I am good by worldly status … but God has a different standard,’” Bure said.

As for the “Full House” cast, the actress said that they all remain extremely close and that they have been like family since the show concluded.

“We’re all really close,” she said. “We hang out individually. We hang out together.”

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Candace Cameron Bure Responds to Controversy: People Think of "Submissive" in a "Perverted" Way

Who knew one little word could cause such a huge controversy? Candace Cameron Bure sparked a heated debate recently when she wrote in her book that she had taken a "submissive" role in her marriage to husband Valeri Bure. Though some people rallied to her defense, others critiqued her admission as anti-feminist and weak. But Bure, a devout Christian, says they're misinterpreting what she said.

"I think [the word "submissive"] sounds so ugly to so many people, especially when they don't understand the biblical definition of the word," the Full House alum said in an interview for HLN on Thursday, Jan. 9. "I think they're thinking of it in terms of a perverted Fifty Shades of Grey kind of definition, or an oppression, or even a dictatorship. And that is not what I'm talking about."

"In the biblical sense, submitting to my husband just means allowing my husband to lead his family because he loves our family and [is] making the best decisions for our family that he can," she explained further. Her so-called "submission," she said, is really just a choice "to respect those decisions and to encourage him to be the best man and father that he can possibly be to our family."

In her book, Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose, the former child star wrote, "My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated about his desire to have the final decision on just about everything. I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work."

Bure stressed to HLN that her 17-year marriage to her husband is a happy one. "We have a very wonderful marriage, and that's why I have felt comfortable sharing about it in my book. I had no idea this was going to stir this much controversy," she confessed. "We have a marriage in which we want to honor God...and so I just was explaining that. But this little word in there is causing everybody to just get into a tizzy about it."

That said, many agree with her views on relationships. "I've had so much support from my followers and my fans, and it's wonderful. And a lot of people agree," she shared. "They say that the people that are in disagreement and are being very ugly and spewing venom towards me about it, just simply don't understand the definition in which I'm using the word."

"Their eyes are not seeking the biblical blueprint of marriage, so I don't expect them to understand, and I do expect that they're going to be upset over it," the mom of three added of her naysayers, "because they're thinking about it from a different world view than I am."

The actress previously defended her views on HuffPost Live, noting that "submissive" does not necessarily mean weak. "It is meekness, it is not weakness," she explained. "It is strength under control, it is bridled strength."

To further prove her point, she shared a picture of herself working out and flexing her impressive arm muscles. "Nothing weak about this," she captioned the Instagram shot. "People talk about what they don't understand."

UP to Host Star Studded Christmas Special on Monday with Host Cameron Cameron Bure

UP and national Christian radio powerhouse, K-LOVE, present the original Christmas special "K-LOVE Music City Christmas," hosted by Candace Cameron Bure (Finding Normal, "Full House").

The hour-long special will include performances of beloved Christmas standards and original songs by leading Christian music artists, including TobyMac, Newsboys with for KING & COUNTRY, Mandisa, Colton Dixon, Kari Jobe, Matthew West, Brandon Heath, Crowder, Big Daddy Weave and Tenth Avenue North, as well as heartfelt and lively holiday memories with the stars.

The special was taped before a live audience in Nashville, TN. It will premiere on Monday, December 9 at 8 p.m. ET.

Recognizing the Best in Christian Music: Dove Awards Airs on UP Tonight

Hosted by Amy Grant & Kirk Franklin, the Dove Awards airs tonight at 8 PM ET on UP and features performances by NEEDTOBREATHE, TobyMac, Michael W. Smith, Newsboys, Gaither Vocal Band, Jason Crabb, Tamela Mann and more.

Presenters include Candace Cameron Bure, Rusty & Julie Bulloch, Pastor Rick Warren, Joyce Meyer, Brandon Heath, Chonda Pierce, David Mann, Isaac Carree, Jaci Velasquez, Lecrae, Bart Millard (MercyMe), Mandisa and Montell Jordan.

Candace Cameron Bure on Finding Purpose in Hollywood

In an interview with Beliefnet, Candace Cameron Bure reveals how she handles being a Christian in Hollywood.

Esther 4:14... probably the most known verse from Esther. And it says “for if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” And that verse has stood out to me in terms of where I have been put in this industry right now. And if I don’t speak up or if I remain silent then God would not be able to use the things, the tools or the gifts that he has given me to use it for his purposes. So I feel like I kind of cling to that verse in terms of being outspoken about my faith and to be a proponent in family programming. To just keep good things out there on television for families to be able to watch and it encourages me to continue to just pick and choose the right projects that are positive and have good messages.

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Candace Cameron Bure: More family shows ‘important’

Actress Candace Cameron Bure, known for her role as DJ Tanner on “Full House,” plays a high-powered surgeon in the upcoming gmc romantic comedy “Finding Normal.”

She tells Today's Kathie Lee and Hoda that it’s important for her to act in wholesome and family-friendly shows that are hard to find these days. 

Watch her appearance on Today below:

Candace Cameron Bure on Brother Kirk Cameron: 'We Have a Different Style of Saying Same Things'

Actress Candace Cameron Bure has opened up about her personal beliefs and her relationship with her equally famous, and openly Christian, brother Kirk Cameron. The interview comes at the same time as the release of "The Heart of Christmas" on DVD and a recent "Full House" reunion.

"Acting is my first passion-and my faith is incredibly important, which flows into every aspect of my life, which includes the decisions that I make on acting," Bure told Yahoo. "I want to focus on great family programming and good movies and the charitable organizations that I'm involved with."

When it comes to dealing with her brother, Kirk, an outspoken Christian advocate who has his own series focused exclusively on evangelism, Bure said she and Kirk "have a different style of saying some of those things. But he is much more in the world of ministry and does a lot of conferences…that's really his main focus."

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Candace Cameron Bure Loves Bob Saget, Not His Comedy

Candace Cameron Bure has a new ABC Family hit show on her hands and a Christian spiritual outlook since her 'Full House' days (her site is titled "Growing in God with Candace").

So there is not a lot of room for 'Full House' co-star's Bob Saget's comedy these days in Bure's life. And Saget understands.

"When there is a [comedy] show he tells me, 'I love you, you're invited, but don't come,'" Bure tells PopEater. "He says, 'You're not going to laugh and you're not going to think it's funny.'"

"[It's a no go] for me and my husband," she adds, talking about her hubby, former NHL star Valeri Bure. "Bob says he doesn't want to offend me or Val."

The actress is busy filming 'Make It Or Break It,' the hit show about gymnastics, which is heading into its second season, and raising three children with Val (proudly without a nanny). So it's not like she has much time to head to comedy clubs.