Jonathan Bent Talks Starrg Hallmark's 1st Gay-Led Holiday Film

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

The Hallmark Channel is gettg to the gay Christmas a part of s Countdown to Christmas event, Hallmark Channel has announced s first Christmas movie that foc on a gay Holiday Ster will be released on December 11 on The Hallmark Channel and will star Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent, Gee Krissa, and Chelsea — Becky VanValkenburg (@Becky VanValkenburg). He mak the trip wh his hband Jake, played by Brad Harr, and the pair wa to hear about the possible adoptn of their first 's only September, but wh Hallmark announcg s slate of holiday movi, and other platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Lifetime havg also announced holiday movi and specials, so far, The Holiday Ster is the only one to foc on gay characters.

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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. " 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?

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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.

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.

Gay characters have been featured Hallmark movi before; Bent, fact, has played married gay man The Christmas Hoe and The Christmas Hoe 2 2020 and 2021.

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“We felt that was time for a story wh a gay uple, ” says Daly, who April signed Bent to an exclive, multi-picture al.

The Holiday Ster lands at a time when gay rom-s are havg a moment.

The tradn ntu 2021, wh films starrg RuPl, Michael Urie, Jonathan Ben and more — pl appearanc by gay favor like Jennifer your holiday season bge-watchg ssns acrdgly wh the upg movi and specials. 2, NetflixTony-wng director Michael Mayer (“Sprg Awakeng”) helms Netflix’s first gay holiday film, which se perpetually sgle Peter (Michael Urie) beggg his bt iend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to e home wh him and pretend to be his boyiend to put an end to his fay’s nstant meddlg.

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But the se is put to the tt when his mother (another gay fave, Kathy Najimy) sets him up wh her hunky traer (“Brothers and Sisters” actor Le Macfarlane) to “Sgle All the Way” for stg three out actors as gay characters — and for stg Jennifer Coolidge, perd. 3, NetflixFormer nttants return to the tents for a pair of holiday-themed episos: In “The Great Christmas Bakg Show, ” out ic Tom Allen subs for Noel Fieldg to -host wh gay prenter Matt Lus as season ne’s Jon Jenks and Kim-Joy Hewlett and season 11’s Herme and Rowan Williams whip up wondro Yuleti treats. “The showstopper challenge, they’ve got to make a ftive feast illn ke, ” judge Pl Hollywood teased, acrdg to “The Great New Year’s Bakg Show, ” 's season five wner Nancy Birtwhistle up agast season ne champn Rahul Mandal and two nttants om season 19: Gay nerd Henry Bird and wchy Helena Garcia.

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Baneatta’s gay son, Kenny (Anthony Chatmon II), brgs his boyiend, Logan (Derek Chadwick), home for the holidays but is given an icy receptn. 18, Hallmark ChannelLast year, after sparkg outrage by pullg a jewelry ad featurg lbian bris, Hallmark ma amends by featurg the first gay uple one of s many, many holiday movi: "The Christmas Hoe" sred more than 13 ln viewgs over the 2020 holiday season, so a sequel was a no-braer.

In the origal, Bill and Phylis Mchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) ved their adult sons home for the holidays, then drop a bomb that they’re sellg the fay time around, gay son Brandon (Jonathan Ben) and his hband, Jake (Brad Harr), pete wh Brandon’s straight brother, Mike (Robert Buckley), to see who n create the most ftively rated Christmas hoe. 19, LifetimeLast year, Lifetime buted s first gaycentric holiday flick, "The Christmas Setup, " and this season, 's brgg a lbian romance to the small this holiday tale om "The Christmas Setup" screenwrer Michael J.

In an terview wh Out, Bent reflected on the fact that he's the face of gay holiday movi as of 2022. "Am I the gay Kg of Christmas? "In the movie, Bent plays Sam, a gay man who babyss his niece and nephew durg the holidays and asks for help om a handsome neighbor, Jason, played by Gee Krissa.

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Merry & Gay.

Watch “Merry & Gay” on the brand new lbian & queer streamg service, DIVA Box Office TV. In 2020, Hallmark e QUITE the drama when they promised they would fally create a gay Christmas film for their work – and then “fot” to clu when they announced their listg. But was hard to overlook the fact that while both films featured a gay uple, they were mor characters – or at bt, part of an ensemble st!

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I do have to ll out somethg I’ve noticed this year, everyone seems to be promotg Hallmark’s 2022 film The Holiday Ster the channel’s “first gay Christmas rom-” – umm, exce me? Have we fotten all the drama of 2020 and “The Christmas Hoe”, what they promised at the time to be the first gay Christmas Hallmark film?

YOU CAN'T ENTERTA & BE WOKE AT THE SAME TIMECEO WONYA LUS HAS SGLE-HANDLY CIMATED ONE OF THE LAST CLEAN, FAY-IENDLY CHANNELS AVAILABLE ORR TO EMBRACE WOKE IOLOGY WHICH SEEKS TO DOCTRATE RATHER THAN ENTERTA.  SHE CLAIMS HER EFFORTS ARE TO "BETTER REFLECT SOCIETY" BUT HER ACTNS SHOW SHE IS TRYG TO BETTER REFLECT CULTURAL MARXISM.  AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN "RACIALLY PROFILED" FOR LIVG A WHE NEIGHBORHOOD AND HAS RECEIVED ATH THREATS AS SHE CLIMBED HIGHER HER PROFSN, LUS APPEARS TO BE BASG HER CISNS ON HER OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENC.  HER FATHER WAS THE FIRST BLACK GM FOR A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM, AND HER UNCLE WAS HANK AARON.  SHE WATCHED BOTH OF HER RELATIV FIGHT RACISM, YET SHE END UP BEG THE RACIST.  HERE'S WOKE WONYA LUS, THE WOMAN RPONSIBLE FOR G HALLMARK.LUS'S IAL CHANG WERE SUBTLE, BUT HALLMARK IS NO LONGER HIDG THEIR MARXIST AGENDA ANY MORE THAN DISNEY--ANOTHER PANY ONCE SYNONYMO WH FAY ENTERTAMENT (UNTIL CID TO MORPH TO A SEXUAL PREDATOR).  IF THERE IS ONE HALLMARK MOVIE THAT ENPSULAT THEIR WOKE AGENDA, WOULD BE 2021'S EVERY TIME A BELL RGS.  THIS MOVIE HAS ALL:  THREE PENNT ADOPTED SISTERS (ONE OF WHOM IS ASIAN); THE ASIAN SISTER IS MARRIED TO A BLACK MAN; ALL THREE SISTERS LET A MAN KNOW THEY DON'T NEED HIS HELP FIGURG OUT THE CLU TO A SVENGER HUNT; ONE OF THE WHE SISTERS STARTS A LBIAN RELATNSHIP WH A BLACK WOMAN;  ONE SISTER IS A DO-GOOR WHO BUILDS HO FOREIGN UNTRI;  THE MARRIED SISTER REF TO GET PREGNANT EVEN THOUGH HER HBAND WANTS A FAY BEE SHE'S FOCED ON HER REER.  THIS IS NOT RELATABLE TO MOST FAI!  EVERY TIME A BELL RGS IS SO WOKE, FEELS LIKE A SPOOF ABOUT LEFTISTS.  IMAGE:  CROWN MEDIAIN 2022'S A ROYAL RUNAWAY ROMANCE, PRCS AMELIA REMARKS HOW BRAVE HER UNCLE IS TO HAVE E OUT ABOUT BEG GAY.HERE'S WHAT'S TLY BRAVE:  SPEAKG OUT AGAST THE LGBTQ AGENDA AND THE WOKEISM THAT IS STROYG OUR CULTURE WHILE PROCLAIMG TTHS THAT AN ANGRY MOB DON'T WANT TO HEAR.  PRINT TMP IS RIGHT WHEN HE SAYS, EVERYTHG WOKE TURNS TO SHI* BEE HALLMARK MOVI HAVE CERTALY GONE DOWN THE TOILET. WHAT CAN BE DONE?

However, I mt give Hallmark some props – at least they’ve acknowledged that ’s their first “Leadg Gay Couple a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Saskatchewan-born actor Gee Krissa is helpg make the yuleti a ltle extra gay this 's one of the stars of the new Hallmark Channel movie The Holiday Ster, which marks the first time ever that the work has had a same-sex uple at the centre of one of their films.

Krissa also popped by the set of our vio terview seri Here & Queer to talk about beg a part of Hallmark's historic first foray to sayg gay. A married uple (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) v their adult children, cludg gay son Brandon (Jonathan Bent) and his partner (Brad Hardner), to stay wh them the weeks leadg up to Christmas to revis the old fay tradn of transformg their childhood home to "The Christmas Hoe" — a procs that means extensively ratg the home for the Christmas holiday for what uld possibly be the last "The Christmas Hoe" has a sequel, 's not nearly as good as the origal.

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Jonathan Bent Talks Starrg Hallmark's 1st Gay-Led Holiday Film.

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