ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ after star’s ‘repugnant’ Twitter rant

Published May 29, 2018 6:02pm ET



ABC Entertainment canceled the reboot of “Roseanne,” after the show’s star, Roseanne Barr, said on Twitter that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett looked like a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and “Planet of the Apes.”

“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” Channing Dungey, the president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.

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