Amanda Seales has quit her job at ‘The Real’ after 6 months. Why didn’t she renew her contract?

Amanda Seales didn’t renew her contract at “The Real,” and her fans are applauding her for it.

A report by Power 105.1, says that what ultimately led to her not renewing her contract with the syndicated talk show, is her passion for standing up for her people and what’s right.

According to the report, Seales says that “the show did not allow her to speak to her people the way they need to be spoken to, that people speaking to her in certain ways are not being handled, and the folks at the top don’t respect that black voices need to be a priority.”

Seales said, “I didn’t renew it, because it doesn’t feel good to my soul to be at a place where I can not, speak to my people the way they need to be spoken to. And where the people that are speaking to me in despairing ways are not being handled…I’m not at a space where as a full black woman I can have my voice and my co-workers also have their voices and where the people at the top are not respecting the necessity for black voices to be at the top too,” the report quoted.

Seales also hinted during an Instagram live chat, that the network tried to censor her discussion on what’s currently happening with the Black Lives Matter Movement and various protests around the country, the report said.

According to a report by Showbiz CheatSheet, the 38-year-old comedian announced her decision to depart the daytime talk show during an Instagram Live on June 3.

The report said, Seales, who was hired as a full-time host in January 2020, after winning over viewers during a 2019 guest stint - with her transparency and directness when it came to social issues - “has made many negative headlines throughout her time on the show - from shutting down a guest to making awkward facial expressions in interviews.” In the end, the positive attributes that won over viewers, became some of her biggest criticisms, the report said.
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