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Demi Lovato Upset With Disney Bosses For Joke About Eating Disorders
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Demi Lovato Upset With Disney Bosses For Joke About Eating Disorders
ent Disney bosses into a spin over Christmas after attacking them via
Twitter.com on Friday for airing a joke about eating disorders on one of
their hit TV shows.
The 19-year-old singer/actress, who enrolled
in a rehab programme last year to deal with bulimia and other issues,
became angry when she watched an episode of popular show Shake It Up,
during which one of the characters quipped, "I could just eat you up.
Well, if I ate."
The joke didn't sit well with Lovato, who quit
her lead role on Disney show Sonny With a Chance earlier this year, and
she took to her Twitter blog to vent her fury.
In a series of
tweets, she wrote, "I find it really funny how a company can lose one of
their actress' from the pressures of an EATING DISORDER and yet still
make jokes about that very disease. nice."
Referring to former
child stars Raven-Symone and Hilary Duff, she added, "And is it just me
or are the actress(es) (on Disney Channel) getting THINNER AND
THINNER.... I miss the days of , and ."
But
Lovato wasn't done - she also sent a tweet directly to Disney, writing,
"Dear Disney Channel, EATING DISORDERS ARE NOT SOMETHING TO JOKE
ABOUT."
Disney representatives caught sight of the star's angry
tweets hours later and issued an apology to Lovato, insisting they would
be taking action to prevent offending other viewers.
A
spokesperson replied, "we hear you & are pulling both episodes as
quickly as possible & reevaluating them... It's NEVER our intention
to make light of eating disorders!"
Accepting the apology, a satisfied Lovato wrote back, "thank you."www.T-1771Music.Tk