Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has claimed that one of the stars of the hit comedy disagrees with him over trans rights.

Linehan accused Ardal O’Hanlon of “casually smearing me” after claiming the Irish actor disagreed with how he expressed his ‘gender-critical’ views.

“I just called [O’Hanlon] and he apparently disagrees with me that women deserve single-sex spaces, fair sports etc. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news,” Linehan wrote on X/Twitter.

“Of course, when I pressed him, he said it was the way I did things. Like Amelia Bullmore, another actor I never did anything but support, blaming me for my own harassment.”

O’Hanlon, who played Father Dougal McGuire between 1995 and 1998, has said he hadn’t seen much of Linehan since starring in the show and was “baffled” by his views on

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