{"id":1771240,"date":"2022-12-10T13:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771240"},"modified":"2022-12-10T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:04:46","slug":"hallmarks-self-described-king-of-gay-christmas-wont-comment-on-candace-cameron-bures-marriage-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hallmarks-self-described-king-of-gay-christmas-wont-comment-on-candace-cameron-bures-marriage-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmark\u2019s Self-Described \u2018King Of Gay Christmas\u2019 Won\u2019t Comment On Candace Cameron Bure\u2019s Marriage Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhallmarks-self-described-king-of-gay-christmas-wont-comment-on-candace-cameron-bures-marriage-remarks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor Jonathan Bennett has declared himself the \u201cking of gay Christmas\u201d after producing and starring in Hallmark Channel\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hallmarkchannel.com\/the-holiday-sitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Holiday Sitter<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the network\u2019s first holiday romance centered around a same-sex couple \u2014 which debuts on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/12\/10\/jonathan-bennett-jokes-hes-the-gay-king-of-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bennett<\/a>, who made a name for himself starring opposite actress <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/lindsay-lohan-reacts-to-news-that-her-return-to-acting-in-christmas-film-hits-number-1-on-netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lindsay Lohan<\/a>\u00a0in Tina Fey\u2019s smash hit teen comedy \u201cMean Girls,\u201d plays a hard-working bachelor who finds himself stuck babysitting his sister\u2019s children over Christmas. Completely clueless about taking care of kids, he relies on the help of a handsome neighbor \u2014 after which one thing, apparently, leads to another.<\/p>\n<p>GLAAD\u2019s Anthony Allen Ramos actually coined the phrase, introducing Bennett as his guest in an interview shared via YouTube on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited. Sam is, of course, played by \u2014 I\u2019m just going to say it \u2014 the king of gay Christmas, Jonathan Bennett,\u201d Ramos said, prompting laughter from Bennett. \u201cI love it, how are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean \u2014 I love that title!\u201d Bennett exclaimed. \u201cI think I\u2019m going to change that on my \u2014 on my Instagram right now. Jonathan Bennett, the king of gay Christmas! I\u2019ll take it. I\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett, who is openly gay and has been married to partner Jaymes Vaughan since earlier this year, went on to talk at length about how much he had enjoyed being with the film from start to finish as a story writer and producer. As an aside, he noted that perhaps his future might be in directing: \u201cMaybe I should be a director one day because I feel like that\u2019s what I love doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramos turned the topic to Great American Family (GAF) actress <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/it-absolutely-breaks-my-heart-candace-cameron-bure-responds-to-backlash-over-marriage-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Candace Cameron Bure<\/a>, who recently sparked controversy when she said her move from Hallmark Channel was part of a plan to tell more faith-based stories that focused on traditional marriages. Actor Neal Bledsoe even followed her comments with an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/my-choice-is-clear-great-american-family-actor-exits-stage-left-over-candace-cameron-bure-marriage-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abrupt exit<\/a> from GAF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would imagine that when someone like Candace Cameron Bure says \u2014 you know, building off of what you just said \u2014 when she says, you know, \u2018I only want to make stories that are about traditional families,&#8217;\u201d Ramos said. \u201cObviously, Candace previously had a long history with Hallmark, now is doing her own thing at Great American Family \u2014 I would imagine that probably hurt you and probably hit pretty close to home with everything that you\u2019re trying to do at Hallmark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett declined to take the obvious bait, however, simply stating that he was happy with the direction Hallmark was taking with regard to bringing in more inclusive storylines \u2014 and adding that he couldn\u2019t speak for what any other networks were doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t speak to what other people are doing on their network, but all I know is that I\u2019m proud to be a part of Hallmark Channel. [They\u2019re] making extremely huge strides in making sure that there is inclusivity in their programming to make sure that everyone feels like they have a seat at the holiday table,\u201d he told Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHallmark Channel has done such a great job of making sure that everyone knows that Christmas is for everyone and that the Hallmark Channel is for everyone \u2026 and has created a safe place for queer filmmakers to tell stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Jonathan Bennett has declared himself the \u201cking of gay Christmas\u201d after producing and starring in Hallmark Channel\u2019s \u201cThe Holiday Sitter\u201d \u2014 the network\u2019s first holiday romance centered around a same-sex couple \u2014 which debuts on Sunday evening. Bennett, who made a name for himself starring opposite actress Lindsay Lohan\u00a0in Tina Fey\u2019s smash hit teen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1890696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7648,7645,7646,5722,6922,5901,6202,7644,7649,6205,5112,7647,6195,4324],"class_list":["post-1771240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-king","tag-bures","tag-cameron","tag-candace","tag-christmas","tag-comment","tag-daily","tag-gay","tag-hallmarks","tag-marriage","tag-remarks","tag-self-described","tag-wire","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}