Melissa Gilbert blasts Megyn Kelly’s ‘woke’ criticism of ‘Little House’ reboot

“Little House connected the Prairie” prima Melissa Gilbert is pushing backmost connected Megyn Kelly’s “woke” disapproval regarding a forthcoming reboot of the TV classic.

In effect to this week’s announcement that Netflix is readying to “reimagine” the 50-year-old bid that launched Gilbert’s career, the erstwhile Fox News personality blasted the streamer for its caller ideas connected the amusement acceptable successful the American West during the precocious 1800s.

“Netflix, if you wokeify ‘Little House connected the Prairie’ I volition marque it my singular ngo to perfectly ruin your project,” tweeted Kelly, who was famously fired from her speech show successful 2018 aft suggesting it was OK for achromatic radical to deterioration blackface connected Halloween.

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Kelly posted a tweet (inset) threatening to ‘ruin’ the project. (Getty)

Gilbert, who played cardinal quality Laura Ingalls Wilder successful the archetypal series, changeable backmost astatine Kelly’s commentary.

“Ummm…watch the archetypal again. TV doesn’t get excessively overmuch much ‘woke’ than we did,” Gilbert replied connected Meta’s Threads. “We tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal maltreatment and each different ‘woke’ taxable you tin deliberation of. Thank you precise much.”

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Melissa Gilbert (right) successful ‘Little House connected the Prairie’, which aired from 1974 to 1983. (Getty)

The authoritative logline for the reboot reads: “Part hopeful household drama, portion epic endurance communicative and portion root communicative of the American West, this caller adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s iconic semi-autobiographical ‘Little House’ books offers a kaleidoscopic presumption of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier.”

There has been nary connection connected whether Gilbert, presently starring successful the Off-Broadway play “Still,” is attached to the reboot.