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

JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
JONATHAN BENT SAYS HE AND HIS FIANCé WERE REJECTED BY WEDDG VENUE FOR BEG GAY
‘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

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 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. 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. 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? 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 SAYS HE AND HIS FIANCé WERE REJECTED BY 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. 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.

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

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. 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. Christmas bells have turned to weddg bells for “Mean Girls” star Jonathan 39-year-old actor — one of the stars of the first Hallmark holiday movie to feature a gay lead, “The Christmas Hoe” — said “Y!