Bennett, a GLAAD Award recipient and five-time nominee, has become a staple at Hallmark.
Can you give me one of those Hallmark movies?
Becauseeveryone loves them so much.
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What if we watch the journey to get there?
And that was really interesting to me.
Now, why do you think that it was time for a new leading man?
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Because as a Hallmark fanatic, I feel like we’re fine with the recycled facts that we get.
BENNETT: You don’t know what you haven’t got yet.
Soyou don’t know what you’re missing until you see it.
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And look at you coming for my job [laughs].
You’re like, We’re good.
No, you don’t know what you don’t have until you see it.
We’re not a competitive family.
We’re a family of support, an undeniable support of the web link.
So it’s great that we have all these seats at the holiday table.
But who are we turning around and grabbing the hand up and bringing to the table next?
The world’s always evolving, things are growing.
We have Hallmark Plus.
We have Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
We have Hallmark Channel;there’s so many places to watch content.
Like I said, this is unchartered territory.
They’re all charming.
They all have a great sense of humor.
They all have a great wit about them.
They are kind people as people, just as humans.
And you were like, This is my chance.
HAYDEN MAHER: Here’s something really cool.We don’t have the Hallmark Channel in Australia.
So my beginnings for Hallmark were when I moved to America.
I actually lived in Vancouver for a little while and Hallmark’s huge in Canada.
I like not being from America or from here.
So Isaac, talk to us about the competition.
Were you surprised by anyone?
Like was there someone who you thought was going to be an underdog?
And then you were like, Oh, that’s the one I need to be.
ISSAC RAMIREZ: Oh, that’s a great question.
as soon as I walked into the room, I knew all these guys were gonna be competition.
They’re all such great guys.
I want the guy next to me to be good.
I want everybody to do great.
So it’s hard to see it that way.
But I’m a very competitive man myself.
I grew up with seven siblings.
We supported each other,we wanted each other to be successfulin whatever it was that we were doing.
Don’t get me wrong though.
We were very, very competitive.
BENNETT: Its like brothers.
So it was like 10 competitors walked in as competition andthey left as a brotherhood.
RAMIREZ: That was it.
So it was beautiful to be a part of that.
Bennett says Finding Mr. Christmas delivers fun while staying true to the brand.
Now, while Hallmark may be good, clean fun, reality TV is not.
So I’m wondering as the competition goes along, how dirty this gets.
So was there any drama that made it feel like you guys were in on the action?
BENNETT: I guess you’re going to have to watch to find out, aren’t you?
I think whatFinding Mr. Christmasis doing is changing the face of reality television.
it’s possible for you to still have kindness and heart and make a great show.
You just have to do it correctly.
And that’s exactly what we did withFinding Mr. Christmas.
RAMIREZ:And to add to that if I may, this is real.
Everything you see, it’s us.
So you get to experience who we really are behind it.
If the person you see right now, this is what you get with all of us.
We don’t produce you guys on the show, they’re just who they are.
It’s a beautiful thing.
So be ready for that.
you could begin streamingFinding Mr. Christmason Hallmark Plus on October 31.
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