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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.

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

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.

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!

Jonathan Bent has dubbed himself the “gay kg of Christmas.

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

Jonathan Bent jok he’s the “gay kg of Christmas.

Bent and Gee Krissa star Hallmark’s first Christmas romantic edy centered on a gay uple. Bent, who is openly gay, sistepped the ntroversy. The two are volved OutBound, a gay travel agency that aniz cis.

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. "He also had a msage of support for queer teens stgglg wh their inty and sexualy a homophobic school environment.

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

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