Canadian comedian Nicole Arbour lost out on a film job amid backlash to her now-viral fat-shaming video "Dear Fat People," Zap2It reported. Director Pat Mills recently announced that he no longer wishes to work with Arbour after her highly controversial YouTube rant.
Arbour was originally asked to provide choreography for Mills' upcoming anti-bullying, body-positive dance movie. The film follows a 16-year-old girl who is bullied for her weight and throughout the course of the movie, gains the confidence to fulfill her dream of becoming a cheerleader, Mills said.
"I was supposed to get together with her this week for what she called a 'choreo party' to watch my favorite dance scenes and talk ideas," Mills told Zap2It. "And then a crazy thing happened on Saturday - I saw something on the Internet that made me never want to see her again."
Arbour's "Dear Fat People" cruelly mocks and makes fun of overweight and obese people and the mean-spirited fat-shaming message disguised as a helpful wake-up call didn't sit with well Mills.
"I'm gay. I was bullied a lot as a kid," he said. "I am no stranger to ridicule and loneliness."
Arbour has defended herself and her video since going viral and maintains that she meant the video to be taken as a joke.
"I feel it's really important that we make fun of everybody," she told TIME. "I think [what] brings us together and unites us as people is that we can poke fun at all of us."
She also responded to reports that she was fired from Mills' project on Twitter and denied ever being a part of the film.
"I'm not currently, nor have I been attached to any feature films as of late," she wrote.
See her tweet below.
I'm not currently, nor have I been attached to any feature films as of late.
