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Tom Arnold Thinks Roseanne Wanted Her Show To Get Cancelled
ROSEANNE - "Twenty Years to Life" - Roseanne and Dan adjust to living under the same roof with Darlene and her two children, Harris and Mark, when Darlene loses her job. Meanwhile, Becky announces she is going to be a surrogate to make extra money; and Roseanne and Jackie are at odds with one another, on the season premiere and first episode of the revival of "Roseanne," TUESDAY, MARCH 27 (8:00-8:30 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Adam Rose)
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In an interview with both CNN and The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Arnold gave his thoughts on the actions of his ex-wife Roseanne Barr and the cancellation of her show Roseanne due to a racist tweet she sent out. He suggested that Barr wanted the show to get cancelled. Here are highlights:
On the end of the series: “It had to happen. And I am going to tell you the truth, she wanted it to happen.”
On feeling it wouldn’t last long: “I was not surprised that what went down and that the show was canceled. I had a feeling this was going to happen when I first heard it was coming back ― that there was a reboot.”
On ABC being partially to blame: “ABC lost maybe $1 billion from this; this show was grinding out money hand over fist and they lost it all because somebody didn’t say, ‘Get that phone out of her hand.’ She’s not going to go on TV and say these things. But you put that phone in her hand and she is a loose cannon.”
On Barr having a history of this kind of attitude: “This monkey thing is something she’s tweeted before about black people.”
On the bright side now that Roseanne Barr is permanently unemployable she can finally get inside the head of Roseanne Connor. Really sink her teeth into the character. Walk in her shoes. Become one with. Inhabit the soul of. Do a whole Daniel Day Lewis thing. Or she could tweet.
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) May 30, 2018
