Jonathan Bent Says The Holiday Ster Is The Gay Versn Of This '80s Classic - Exclive

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• JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
• HALLMARK'S JONATHAN BENT TALKS INCLIVY AMIDST FIRST GAY-LED ROMANCE AND RIVAL NETWORK GAF’S ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ DRAMA
• JONATHAN BENT SAYS HE AND HIS FIANCé WERE REJECTED BY WEDDG VENUE FOR BEG GAY
• JONATHAN BENT REVEALS HE AND FIANCé WERE REJECTED AT WEDDG VENUE FOR BEG GAY
• JONATHAN BENT GAY, BOYIEND, DATG, NET WORTH
• ‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR JONATHAN BENT JOK HE’S THE ‘GAY KG OF CHRISTMAS’
• JONATHAN BENT SAYS THE HOLIDAY STER IS THE GAY VERSN OF THIS '80S CLASSIC - EXCLIVE
• 'MEAN GIRLS' STAR JONATHAN BENT SAID HE AND HIS FIANCé WERE REJECTED BY A WEDDG VENUE BEE THEY'RE GAY

JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER

Bent knew om the age of 5 that he is a gay man.

The otherns needs to be removed om gay weddgs. "If I saw a movie that had a storyle like this – wh a gay uple who are adoptg a child and startg their own fay wh unndnal love – I thk I would’ve felt a ltle ls sred at Christmas, " he says.

HALLMARK'S JONATHAN BENT TALKS INCLIVY AMIDST FIRST GAY-LED ROMANCE AND RIVAL NETWORK GAF’S ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ DRAMA

Christmas bells have turned to weddg bells for “Mean Girls” star Jonathan Bent.The 39-year-old actor — one of the stars of the first Hallmark holiday movie to feature a gay lead, “The Christmas Hoe” — said “Y! In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage. '" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022.

JONATHAN BENT SAYS HE AND HIS FIANCé WERE REJECTED BY WEDDG VENUE FOR BEG GAY

" And that turned to me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie wh John Candy that I grew up on, and I kd of put those ias together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay?

Sam is beg really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022 and what that experience is. As gay men, we're navigatg what our liv look like wh kids, or gettg married, or whout kids, and 's not black or whe — there's so many different avenu to startg a fay and havg a chosen fay.

JONATHAN BENT REVEALS HE AND FIANCé WERE REJECTED AT WEDDG VENUE FOR BEG GAY

Somethg I found so funny is how Sam realiz that Jason is gay — when Jason ments on Sam's sho. Like, "Oh wow, he is gay. "Beg a closeted gay teen heartthrob, livg misery, I never would have thought a ln years that one day I would be on the ver of the biggt weddg magaze the world wh my fiancé, who I love, a picture that is pure pri and joy, " Bent tells Yahoo Life.

"While the uple has been livg loudly and proudly sce gettg together 2017, the impact of Bent's exposure as a gay man isn't lost on Vghan. ""We want to make sure that we help to intify bs and vendors that gay upl n go to om the moment they want to get engaged until their honeymoon and fd plac where they're safe and celebrated, " Vghan 's for this exact reason that the uple also teamed up to create OUTbound — a travel pany lookg to create memorable excursns for the LGBTQ muny.

JONATHAN BENT GAY, BOYIEND, DATG, NET WORTH

Now, Hallmark star Jonathan Bent has talked about the channel’s creased ph for clivy amid all of the Did Jonathan Bent Say About Hallmark’s Inclivy And Its First Gay-Led Romance?

However, until the 2022 Christmas movie schle entry, The Holiday Ster (which was one of the upg Hallmark movi until this past weekend), viewers hadn’t seen one of the films foc on a gay Girls star Bent, who’s one of the leads of the new movie and also executive produced , spoke to USA Today about the importance of the film’s clivy, and said:What's so special about The Holiday Ster is that 's the first time we'll see two men meet-cute and fall love at Christmas. Bent told followers the school's theatre partment was not only his safe space om the daily homophobic abe and bullyg at school, but also celebrated his differenc and gave him the chance to she on stage and later life.

"Emotnal post warng, " Bent opened his post, notg that to celebrate World Theater Day, he was sharg vio of himself as "16 year old gay boy Oh" who he said suffers om "a pchy voice, no rhythm, and n't dance to save his life.

‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR JONATHAN BENT JOK HE’S THE ‘GAY KG OF CHRISTMAS’

"He also had a msage of support for queer teens stgglg wh their inty and sexualy a homophobic school environment. Bent stars the groundbreakg new holiday movie The Christmas Hoe on the Hallmark Channel, the first of the work's holiday films to star a gay lead.

Bent, who stars the new edy “Take Me to Tarzana” and had a recent gut stt on ABC’s “Statn 19, ” told the magaze that he and Vghan ially planned to have their ceremony at a Palace Rorts property Mexi, but allege that they were turned away bee they are gay.

JONATHAN BENT SAYS THE HOLIDAY STER IS THE GAY VERSN OF THIS '80S CLASSIC - EXCLIVE

Easton Schirra/The KnotBent, 39, broke h ground on the small screen last fall as the star of “The Christmas Hoe, ” the Hallmark Channel’s first holiday movie to feature a gay storyle.

'MEAN GIRLS' STAR JONATHAN BENT SAID HE AND HIS FIANCé WERE REJECTED BY A WEDDG VENUE BEE THEY'RE GAY

The Hallmark Channel is set to make history — and make good on s promise for more LGBTQ-cln — wh s first holiday movie featurg a gay lead character.