Strictly Come Dancing's Amanda Abbington has insisted she's not transphobic after voluntarily deleting her Twitter account when show fans threatened to boycott the series over her views on drag performances.
Many fans however expressed their devastation that she has left the showTrans activist trolls have celebrated Amanda Abbington quitting Strictly Come Dancing telling her 'good riddance' and calling her 'transphobic'.
On March 2 this year, she was accused of being transphobic after she tweeted: 'I lost quite a few followers for saying that a semi-naked man in thigh high boots dancing in a highly sexualised way shouldn't be performing in front of babies and it tells me everything I need to know about where society is heading. How do you not agree with me on this?'
After she was accused of transphobia, she wrote: 'I never mentioned the trans community! How on earth is my post transphobic?At the time MailOnline contacted the BBC and a representative for Amanda for comment. A montage of Amanda's best moments on the series was shown, before host Fleur East added: 'Amanda we are sending you all of our love'
Read more: 'Baby drag act' cancels upcoming shows after backlash - and insists event was never targeted at children but for parents who wanted to have fun with their kids Advertisement 'My son played Jamie in Everyone's Taking About Jamie and he was a wonderful drag queen, he was wonderful in it. 'I'm not transphobic, I'm not a transphobic person, I'm a firm supporter of the legitimate trans community, I always have been. I think they have been infiltrated by some people who want to cause damage and want to cause trouble, and pit people off of each other and cause as much harm as possible.
A montage of Amanda's best moments on the series was shown, before host Fleur East added: 'Amanda we are sending you all of our love'.
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