Here’s the story of a lovely lady…
Susan Olsen, 63, who played the youngest Brady child, Cindy, in “The Brady Bunch,” claimed that the show was planning to do a reboot that got axed because of “cancel culture” and “woke Hollywood.”
During a recent podcast interview on The Walkaway Campaign, Olsen, 63, said that her alleged experience is, “something that I want known, because it’s just another example of cancel culture and woke Hollywood and woke media.”
She added that she thinks what happened to her is, “a certain amount of injustice.”
The former “The Brady Bunch” star explained that CBS was interested in bringing back the classic ‘70s series for a reboot, following HGTV’s “A Very Brady Renovation” in 2019, which got nearly 4 million viewers, in a huge hit for the network.
The original “The Brady Bunch” aired on ABC from 1969 to 1974.
It also got several reunion TV movies and spinoff series, including “The Brady Bunch Hour” from 1976-77, “The Brady Girls Get Married” in 1981, “A Very Brady Christmas” in 1988, and “The Brady Bunch Movie,” in 1995.
For the more recent reboot series that Olsen claims got axed, “We actually worked on it for about a year, we had a showrunner and a producer and we all had a hand in our characters. And that really interested me,” she said.
They also defined each characters’ political ideology.
“My character, Cindy, because she did do radio, and then I ended up doing radio, so she was a podcaster. Not quite as successful as Joe Rogan, but doing well, and a libertarian. Into animal rescue. A lot of stuff that’s me,” she said.
Greg Brady (Barry Williams), meanwhile, would be a Regan republican, and Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) would be liberal.
Olsen said that she doesn’t identify as a staunch Republican, but sometimes joins the party to vote in primaries and that she is a Trump supporter.
“I thought it was important that Cindy is a libertarian, and a little crazy.”
She added, “I was hoping to continue what Roseanne Barr had set out to do, which I really liked,” Olsen said, referring to the short-lived “Roseanne” reboot, which aired in 2018 but got canceled shortly thereafter, over Barr’s controversial Twitter comments.
Olsen said about Barr, “Her reboot had a family with completely different political opinions, and in the end they all love and respect each other.”
Olsen explained that on the new “Brady Brunch” reboot, “I was hoping to be a little bit controversial on the show, I was going to be a libertarian podcaster. And okay, I am what I was going to portray. So what kind of a show would this be if I can’t say anything that’s controversial?”
But, she said, “Things were looking good,” for the show, until, “my agent called me and said, ‘well, the network has a problem with you.’”
When Olsen asked, she recalled that her agent told her, “‘there was some incident where you had a homophobic rant on the air and you were fired.’ And I said, ‘Oh, gosh, that old thing.’”
Her agent was referring to a 2016 incident when Olsen got fired from her radio show, “Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics” on LA Talk Radio,” for making homophobic remarks.
Olsen denied that as, “fake news,” and said, “I’ve been an ally to the gay community since way before it was cool.”
The actress said that after CBS found out about that, “they came back and said, ‘would you be willing to take a course in political correctness?’” and she agreed to do it.
But, she claimed that the network did a further web search on her, and found comments she had made about the Covid vaccine, and transgender people.
“They came up with 50 pages…I stand by everything I said.”
She alleged that she had a follow up call with her siblings and her agent, who communicated to her that “everyone” was saying, “We’re so sorry, but they won’t budge. They just will not have you in this,’” referring to the planned reboot show.
“‘And I’m like, ‘wow. Wow. I’ve been canceled.’ A role that I’ve played for over 50 years – I can’t play it now, because I’m too dangerous.”
The Post reached out to CBS for comment.
