Nicole Arbour loses potential job due to ‘Dear Fat People’ video: director

Canadian comedian Nicole Arbour’s week isn’t looking too good.

Her controversial “Dear Fat People” video, where she jokes about obesity, was temporarily taken down by YouTube following a massive backlash online.

Now Arbour has reportedly lost out on a potential job as a result.

Toronto-based director, Pat Mills, saw the “fat-shaming” video over the Labour Day weekend and, like many others, didn’t find it humorous.

“I felt like I had been lied to,” Mills told the Huffington Post. “[The video] went against everything my script did, and I found it so offensive.”

Mills is making an anti-bullying dance movie called “Don’t Talk to Irene” and needed a choreographer, Zap2it.com reports.

Arbour used to work with the Toronto Argonauts cheerleaders and did dance choreography in the past, so she seemed to be “a perfect fit for the film,” Mills told the news outlet.

This week Mills and Arbour were supposed to get together for a “choreo party” to watch some of his favourite dance scenes and come up with ideas, according to Zap2it.com.

“It’s a body-positive teen dance movie set in a retirement home,” Mills told Zap2it.com “It’s about a 16-year-old girl who dreams of being a cheerleader, but she is constantly being bullied for being fat.”

The comedian has fired back and is denying that she ever had anything to do with the film in the first place.

“Pat Mills is using my YouTube story as a reason to get a low budget film that has not yet even started production press,” Arbour told the Huffington Post in an email. “I’ve have never formally been attached to this project. We had spoken of it, and last I heard the team was doing a re-write.”

Mills, who is gay, was bullied in high school and is “no stranger to ridicule and loneliness.”

He only has one message for the comedian: “Bullies like Nicole Arbour are the reason I am making this movie,” he told Zap2it.com. “I’m tired of body shaming. It’s everywhere.”