Effective immediately, Roseanne Barr is no longer a client.' 'Consequently, we have notified her that we will not represent her. 'What she wrote is antithetical to our core values, both as individuals and as an agency.'
'We are all greatly distressed by the disgraceful and unacceptable tweet from Roseanne Barr this morning,' ICM said in an internal note to employees that was obtained by the Hollywood Reporter. Shortly after Barr's show was cancelled, talent agency ICM Partners revealed they were dropping her as a client. 'He wanted me to know before he made it public that he was canceling the show,' she said, according to NBC News. She also said that Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, which owns ABC, had called her before announcing the cancellation. Many on Twitter were appalled by Barr's tweet, which was in response to an article from a conspiracy website I'm worried about all the people out there who don't have a circle of friends and followers coming to their defense.' 'First of all, I think we have to turn it into a teaching moment,' she said. Jarrett responded to Roseanne's comments during a town hall on MSNBC called 'Everyday Racism in America' and said ABC made the right call in cancelling her show. 'We have decided to cancel her show,' Channing Dungey, President of ABC Entertainment, announced.ĭisney CEO Bob Iger also tweeted about the decision, saying: 'There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.' Disney owns ABC Television Group.īarr was widely condemned after she tweeted that Jarrett looked like the 'Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby'. The network released a statement on Tuesday afternoon, calling Barr's tweets 'abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values'.
ABC has cancelled Roseanne Barr's television show just hours after the comedian posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett.