Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Star Fires Back at Megyn Kelly’s Threat Against Netflix Reboot
Megyn Kelly trolled too close to the sun when she sent off a tweet chastising Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie reboot, getting a prompt clap back from the original show’s star Melissa Gilbert.
The conservative pundit posted a link announcing the show’s reimagining at Netflix on Wednesday, with a warning tagging the streamer, “if you wokeify Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.”
.@Netflix if you wokeify Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project. https://t.co/RkAO8vPq65
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 30, 2025
Gilbert, who played main character Laura Ingalls Wilder on the long-running show from 1974 to 1983, caught wind of Kelly’s tweet and responded on Threads.
“Apparently Megyn tweeted (I’m not on that platform) asking that Netflix not ‘woke-ify’ their Little House remake,” Gilbert wrote in screenshotted text. “Ummm…watch the original again. TV doesn’t get much more ‘woke’ than we did.”
Gilbert schooled Kelly that the original Prairie “tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, tape, spousal abuse and every other ‘woke’ topic you can think of.” She finished the message off with a curt “Thank you very much.”
The 60-year-old actor told People last year that she was glad she “escaped” Hollywood when she did. “When you live in Los Angeles, it’s like living at the mall when you work at the mall. Literally, everyone is in the business,” she told the magazine. “I had to get out of there, because it felt like I was not being authentically myself.” The Prairie star left the city in 2013 and now runs Modern Prairie, a lifestyle brand for women over 50.
Gilbert also ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2015 before dropping out of that race. In October, she took to Instagram to announce she was “voting to protect reproductive rights,” as a clear rebuke to then-candidate Donald Trump.
As Kelly railed against “wokeness,” Gilbert suggested she “watch any [Prairie] episode on any streaming platform anywhere in the world” to see how the show championed several issues the pundit would now label as “woke.”
