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Actress Hilarie Burton says she walked away from a job for the Hallmark Channel earlier this year after executives ignored her requests for an “LGBTQ character, an interracial couple and diverse casting.”

But after the execs gave their notes on the script and NONE of my requests were honored, I was told ‘take it or leave it,’” Burton wrote.

“I’d walk away again in a heartbeat,” Burton wrote.

— Hilarie Burton Morgan (@HilarieBurton) December 15, 2019The Hill has reached out to Hallmark Channel for comment.

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