Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose Deletes Her Twitter After Copping Major 'Batwoman' Backlash

Monday, August 13, 2018 - 11:58

ICYMI, Aussie actress Ruby Rose made headlines last week when it was announced she has been cast in the CW's new Batwoman series as masked vigilante Kate Kane - the first gay superhero to lead a TV series.

Ruby took to Instagram to call the role a "childhood dream," adding, "This is something I would have died to have seen on TV when I was a young member of the LGBT community who never felt represented on TV and felt alone and different."

The Bat is out of the bag and I am beyond thrilled and honored. I’m also an emotional wreck.. because this is a childhood dream. This is something I would have died to have seen on TV when I was a young member of the LGBT community who never felt represented on tv and felt alone and different. Thank you everyone. Thank you god.

A post shared by Ruby Rose (@rubyrose) on Aug 7, 2018 at 10:53am PDT

Sadly, the announcement didn't go down well with some members of the LGBTQI community who don't think the breakthrough lesbian role should have gone to Ruby, who has previously described herself as "gender-fluid."

Following the criticism, Ruby deleted her Twitter account, but not before telling fans she wished "we would all support each other and our journeys."

Everyone seems to live with the fact that Ruby Rose quit twitter because of the bullying,so now I'm here to say that this isn't the case.Ruby herself said that she's quitting twitter to focus on 2 of her projects. pic.twitter.com/Y4X57dnZbu

— JustKatie🌸 (@kashymcgrahx) August 12, 2018

"Ok tied up some loose ends, read a tweet from my idol, and am deleting Twitter now to focus on my next two projects, so I won't be on here for a while...but can I clear up one last thing that has had me laughing but also baffled?" she tweeted.

"Where on earth did "Ruby is not a lesbian therefore she can't be batwoman" come from - has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I've ever read. I cam out at 12? And have for the past 5 years had to deal with "she's too gay" how do y'all flip it like that? I didn't change," Ruby added.

Ruby has kept her Instagram alive, but by the looks of it, she's limiting her interaction with fans.

Found inappropriate props at @lamusica and made the most of them 😂

A post shared by Ruby Rose (@rubyrose) on Aug 10, 2018 at 12:32pm PDT

Batwoman is set to debut this December.

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25 Things You NEED To Know About 'Orange Is The New Black' Star Ruby Rose

Ruby was born in Melbourne on March 20, 1986 and is a Pisces.

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She came out as gay aged 12.

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She wanted to be a boxer and her godfather is bantamweight champ Lionel Edmund Rose.

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When she was just 14 she found a dead body and had to be treated for PTSD.

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She lived in Germany when she was 16 and got her tongue pierced which led to her first inking.

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She now has around 30 tattoos including Leonardo from TMNT and 'just love' across her knuckles.

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She first rose to fame when she entered into the Girlfriend model search competition.

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She came runner-up to Catherine McNeil with the pair later becoming romantically involved. They got engaged but later split in 2010.

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Her curent fiancee is Phoebe Dahl, granddaughter of legendary writer Roald Dahl.

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They met after she took a shine to her pet pig, Hazel.

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Rose created a youtube channel in late 2010 and by early 2015 she had over 27,000 subscribers and almost 2,000,000 individual views.

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Rose considers herself to be entirely gender neutral.

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She became a LGBT icon after she released a film on gender-fluidity 'Break Free' in 2014, which has since had over 2 million views.

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Before playing Stella in OITNB she was one of our very own MTV VJ's!

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Ruby was a huge fan of OITNB and believed her film 'Break Free' helped her land the role of Stella.

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She was the first ever lesbian FHM cover girl.

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She was once reported to be in a relationship with Jess Origliasso from The Veronicas.

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Gypsy & The Cat keyboardist Lionel Towers is her only male crush.

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She's also a model and designer and launched her Milk & Honey designed by Ruby Rose fashion line in 2010.

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She's the face of Maybelline New York in Australia.

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Ruby claims to once have slept with Demi Lovato.

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She stopped drinking after she threw up on Katy Perry when the two crashed a high school party together

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She once made out with Wednesday Addams aka Christina Ricci in the film Around The Block.

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Ruby soul-cycled for a week to prepare for THAT naked shower scene in OITNB with Taylor Schilling.

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After being compared to Justin Bieber in OITNB, the pair were caught #twinning in Las Vegas.

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