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So Fetch! Lacey Chabert is getting her own Hallmark show
Lacey Chabert will host and produce a new unscripted TV show for Hallmark Media. Celebrations With Lacey Chabert will follow the actress as she helps deserving kids, families and adults, who are making a positive impact in their communities by throwing them the celebration of a lifetime.
“As a lifelong DIY enthusiast, I fell in love with party planning while coming up with creative ways to bring my daughter’s birthday parties to life,” said Chabert in a statement through the company. “I am so excited to lend my love of crafts to create joyous moments for deserving people. This is going to be an epic party as we celebrate real-life heroes, complete with the ups and downs that only unscripted television can capture.”
Lacey Chabert
Lacey Chabert is a Hallmark Media staple, having appeared in 38 movies for the network. The Mean Girls star is also active in charity, working with the non-profits the American Humane Association, Starkey Hearing Foundation, Opportunity Village, and Race to Erase MS.
“Lacey Chabert shares the same passion for celebrating everyday heroes as we do at Hallmark,” said Lisa Hamilton Daly, executive vice president of programming at Hallmark Media. “Lacey’s natural warmth and genuine nature make her a perfect fit for this series that is sure to leave our Hallmark audience feeling uplifted as they experience these heartwarming stories and spectacular events. This show provides the perfect opportunity to expand our work with Lacey in meaningful and innovative new ways.”
In Celebrations With Lacey Chabert, the actress will have three days to plan a party to give back to kids, families, and special adults who are making an extraordinary impact on their communities. According to Hallmark, “With the help of professional party planners, loving family members and a team of volunteers, Chabert will have just three days to plan and execute a mind-blowing, one-of-a-kind event that will create lasting memories for each worthy guest of honor and their families.”
Hallmark show
Chabert’s series will be the third Hallmark Media show to premiere in recent years. In 2023 it launched two new shows: The Way Home, starring Andie MacDowell and Chyler Leigh, and Ride, starring Nancy Travis. Though The Way Home was renewed for a second season — it will premiere in January 2024 — Ride was canceled.
Where to watch
Hallmark has not yet given a premiere date for the series. The company indicated that the show, which will debut sometime in 2024, will be available through Hallmark Media’s subscription service.
We will update this story as more information becomes available.
Wes Brown and Lacey Chabert star in new Hallmark movie Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up
Wes Brown and Lacey Chabert will reprise their roles as Emily (Chabert) and Jared (Brown), childhood friends reunited by their neighborhood’s Christmas decorating competition in Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up.
Wes Brown
Wes Brown posted a photo to Instagram from the set of the movie with his friends and co-star Stephen Tablowsky.
“This little teapot here,” he wrote in the caption. “This man is a treasure. Can’t believe I’ve gotten to do not one, but now two comedies with Mr. Stephen Tobolowski. Actor, Director, Author, Yogi master and by far the best beekeeper I know! Now a great friend. If you loved him last year, you’re gonna love him even more this Saturday night in ‘Haul Out The Holly: Lit Up’ Love ya man!”
Another round
Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up is the sequel to 2022’s Haul Out the Holiday, which premiered to rave reviews from fans. In that film, Chabert played Emily, a woman who has just gone through a brutal breakup and heads home to mend her broken heart at her parents’ house. But her parents are planning on heading out of town for the holidays, so they leave her in charge of participating in the neighborhood’s Christmas festivities.
She butts head with Jared (Wes Brown), the head of the local homeowners’ association. In the end, she joins in with the holiday fun and ends up falling hard for Jared.
In the new movie, Emily and Jared are happily in a relationship. While they prepare to decorate the neighborhood for the holidays, they realize that one of the homes on the block is going up for sale. When they find out that the new owners are holiday decorating royalty, the competition ramps up.
In addition to Chabert and Brown, Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up features appearances by Melissa Peterman and Ellen Travolta.
Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November 25 at 8/7c.
Lacey Chabert teases new Hallmark movie set in Scotland
Lacey Chabert gave fans a glimpse at her new Hallmark movie on Instagram. In a post promoting A Merry Scottish Christmas, she shared a photo from the film, which will premiere as part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas lineup.
“I’m so excited that I finally get to share this with you!” she wrote in the caption. “Reuniting with @iamscottwolf for #AMerryScottishChristmas for @hallmarkchannel was a dream come true! Scott is forever family to me and this reunion with him was pure joy.”
New Hallmark movie
Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf played siblings on the hit TV series Party of Five. The show, which also launched the careers of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Neve Campbell, followed a group of five brothers and sisters forced to band together when their parents are killed in a car accident.
Chabert has said she and Wolf have looked for opportunities over the years to work together again.
“Scott and I have talked for years about doing another project together. When we first read this story about these siblings at a crossroads, we both knew it was the perfect opportunity,” Chabert said.
A Merry Scottish Christmas
In A Merry Scottish Christmas, Chabert plays Dr. Lindsey Morgan and Wolf plays Brad Morgan, siblings who have drifted apart over the years. When their mother invites them to spend Christmas at her childhood home in Scotland, they both reluctantly accept.
Once there, they fall in love with the idyllic Glencrave and its beautiful 15th-century castle, unique Christmas traditions steeped in history, and warm and friendly townspeople.
But the holiday visit becomes complicated for everyone when the Morgan siblings discover a colossal family secret that their mom has been keeping from them. As the siblings work hard to restrengthen their relationship — and Lindsey becomes smitten with Glencrave’s handsome estate manager (played by James Robinson) — they must each decide what is important to them to determine their own futures.
Both Chabert and Wolf were executive producers for the movie, which was filmed on location in Scotland.
In a statement made through Hallmark, Wolf said he is thrilled to be working with Chabert again.
“Working with Lacey on ‘Party of Five’ was one of my favorite experiences ever,” he said. “Reuniting after all of these years to tell such a beautiful story together is a dream that I’m so glad is coming true.”
A Merry Scottish Christmas will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November 18 at 8/7c.
Two Hallmark favorites will reunite in new movie
Hallmark stars Lacey Chabert and Will Kemp will reunite in a new movie for Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. The actors, who starred together in the 2019 movie Love, Romance & Chocolate and the 2020 movie Christmas Waltz, will put their dancing skills to use in The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango. The mystery is currently in production in Malta.
“I’m thrilled to be working with my good friend @iamwillkemp again on a new movie for @hallmarkmovie,” Chabert wrote in an Instagram post. “We are currently filming in Malta and having such a great time bringing this mystery to life!”
Kemp also posted on Instagram.
“The game is afoot! Thrilled that we have this amazing opportunity to bring The Dancing Detective to life with The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango. Filming is underway in Malta with a release date later this year.”
New movie
In The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango, Chabert plays Constance Bailey, a no-nonsense detective who prefers to work alone. When a high-profile CEO is murdered on the eve of his company’s corporate event in Malta – a ballroom dance competition between senior executives – Bailey is sent undercover as one of the contestants.
The only problem is she can’t dance. She reluctantly teams up with charismatic and free-spirited performer Sebastian Moore (Kemp). But with a killer on the loose and a growing list of suspects, it’s going to take more than a little fancy footwork to solve this case.
Charismatic duo
Chabert and Kemp have proven to be a winning team for Hallmark. An exec said that fans have been asking for more movies featuring the two stars.
“After the success of Christmas Waltz, viewers have been clamoring for another movie with this charismatic duo,” said Elizabeth Yost, senior vice president of programming and development at Hallmark Media. “When Will came to us with this fun spin on a whodunnit, we knew that it was the perfect opportunity to reunite him with Lacey.”
Both Kemp and Chabert will serve as executive producers on the movie. The script was written by Aubrey Day based on a story and characters created and developed by Aubrey Day and Will Kemp.
The dancers
Though Chabert grew up on stage — she played the young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Miserables — her experience with ballroom dancing was limited before she was paired up with Kemp in Christmas Waltz.
To prepare for the movie, she trained for three weeks at home before undergoing nine days of intensive training.
Kemp attended the prestigious Royal Ballet School in England before joining
Matthew Bourne’s dance company Adventures in Motion Pictures. During an appearance in Swan Lake, Kemp was spotted by the head of Paramount Studios. He appeared in a commercial for Gap and then snagged a role in the 2004 movie Van Helsing.
Lacey Chabert shares epic pic of her Hallmark boyfriends
Lacey Chabert shared an epic pic of herself with four of the men who have played her boyfriends in Hallmark movies.
“When you run into many of your Christmas movie boyfriends at the same time,” she wrote in a caption of the picture, which shows her with Wes Brown, Brennan Elliott, Will Kemp, and Paul Greene.
Fellow Hallmark star Holly Robinson Peete responded with laughing emojis. Rachel Boston weighed in with, “Hahahaha.”
Brendan Penny, who starred with Chabert in the 2018 Countdown to Christmas movie Pride, Prejudice & Mistletoe also commented.
“All of them?…” he wrote.
Chabert responded with, “@therealbrendan_penny MOST. Horrible typo. Apologies.”
Lacey Chabert
In a recent interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Chabert revealed that she had starred in 33 movies for Hallmark.
“Now, more than ever, like, we just need some goodness in the world,” Chabert said. “People come up to me all the time and they go, ‘You know, it’s my husband and I, it’s our favorite thing to do together. This movie has helped bring my family together.’ So I consider it an honor to be a part of.”
Fallon said he had seen every single movie she had made for Hallmark.
“I watch them with my dad,” he said.
Chabert then asked if he wanted to be in one.
“Like, I have some stuff next year,” she said. “I would love to be in one with you.”
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The photo of Chabert with her co-stars was taken at Christmas Con 2022, where Hallmark actors met fans and promoted their latest projects.
Wes Brown and Chabert starred in the 2022 Countdown to Christmas favorite Haul Out the Holly. Brennan Elliott and Chabert starred in the All Of My Heart series of movies, which includes All Of My Heart (2015), All Of My Heart: Inn Love (2017), and All Of My Heart: The Wedding (2018). Elliott and Chabert also co-starred in the Crossword Mysteries series on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.
Will Kemp and Chabert starred in the 2019 movie Love, Romance & Chocolate and the 2020 Countdown to Christmas movie The Christmas Waltz. Paul Greene and Chabert starred in the 2016 movie A Wish For Christmas.
Chabert has also starred in Winter in Vail and Sweet Carolina with Tyler Hynes; Christmas in Rome with Sam Page; Christmas at Castle Hart and Time For Us to Come Home For Christmas with Stephen Huszar; and My Secret Valentine with Andrew Walker.
In 2022, Chabert co-starred with Alison Sweeney, Autumn Reeser, and When Calls the Heart star Kevin McGarry in the Hallmark trilogy The Wedding Veil. Chabert recently announced that three new movies in The Wedding Veil series will premiere in January.
Alison Sweeney, Autumn Reeser, and Lacey Chabert send fans their love from the set of the new Wedding Veil movies.
Alison Sweeney posted a video from the set of Hallmark’s new Wedding Veil movies, calling the experience “an incredibly fun adventure.”
“It has been so much fun filming #TheWeddingVeil in Greece & Bulgaria,” she wrote. “I’m so grateful to everyone on the cast & crew for making this shoot so special.”
New Wedding Veil movies
Sweeney’s co-star Lacey Chabert broke the news that three new Wedding Veil movies were coming to Hallmark during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
While promoting her new Christmas movie, Haul Out the Holly, Chabert revealed that she was heading to Greece to film the next movies in the series.
“We’re going to be back,” Chabert said.
The Wedding Veil trilogy
Fans were excited earlier this year when they found out that three of their favorite Hallmark stars — Lacey Chabert, Alison Sweeney, and Autumn Reeser — would be starring in a trio of movies together.
The Wedding Veil trilogy followed three college friends who reunite every year for a weekend visit. During a trip to San Francisco, Avery (played by Lacey Chabert) bought an antique wedding veil alleged to be enchanted. The shop owner told her that the person who has the veil will find true love. Soon after, Avery met the man of her dreams (played by When Calls the Heart’s Kevin McGarry), and the two married. She then passed the veil along to Reeser’s character, who found true love on a trip to Italy to research the veil’s origins. After Reeser’s character said, “I do,” she passed the veil along to Sweeney’s character, who — yup, you guessed it — ended up falling in love as well.
In a Facebook Live interview to promote the original movies, Chabert said the movies were, at their core, about friendship.
“I think the sisterhood is at the heart of these stories,” Chabert said.
On the set
In posts from the set of the new movies, all three actresses have said how wonderful it is to be working together again.
“I am so grateful to have such incredibly supportive friends!!” Sweeney wrote in another post. “We were filming late together on a night which happened to be the premiere of #amagicalchristmasvillage. So while we were filming #theweddingveil everyone cozied up to watch and enjoy the movie during our breaks in between takes.”
The Wedding Veil Expectations will premiere on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 8/7c.
New Lacey Chabert clothing line with HSN: ‘I want women to feel stylish while being comfy and cozy.’
A Lacey Chabert clothing line has launched with HSN. The Lacey Chabert Collection features everything from dressy Mommy and Me looks to chic loungewear.
“Collaborating with HSN on this has been a dream come true,” Chabert said in an interview with E Online. “Clothing is such a way to express yourself, and I’m actually a longtime HSN shopper!”
Prices range from $30 for a French Terry pullover to $79 for a hooded jacket with a drawstring waist.
Lacey Chabert clothing line
In a post on Instagram, Chabert showed off one of the Mommy and Me looks with her 6-year-old daughter, Julia.
“Julia and I are wearing our matching dresses in Meadow Plaid,” she wrote. “The link in my bio takes you to HSN.com where you can shop for these looks! @hsn This dress comes in 4 colors. Sizes XS-3X. If you purchase one please tag me in your photos! I’d love to see.”
She also posted a video to celebrate the launch.
“This is a dream come true!! I’m so excited to announce my very first line of loungewear exclusive to @hsn,” she wrote.
Hallmark star
Chabert made her television debut in 1994 as 11-year-old Claudia Salinger in the Fox series Party of Five. She appeared in the movies Lost in Space, The Wild Thornberrys, and Mean Girls.
Her first film with Hallmark Channel was 2010’s Elevator Girl. Chabert played Liberty Taylor, an eccentric, free-spirited young woman who gets trapped in an elevator with an uptight lawyer. She went on to star in the Hallmark movies Matchmaker Santa (2012), A Royal Christmas (2014), A Family for Christmas (2015), and A Christmas Melody (2015).
She and Brennan Elliott co-starred in the All of My Heart movie series for Hallmark Channel, as well as the Crossword Mysteries for Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, which she also helped produce.
In February, Chabert announced she had signed a multi-year deal with Hallmark Media to write, produce, and star in several movies for the company. In a Forbes interview, she said she appreciates the network because it tells stories driven by women.
“It’s a very unique place in our business where it’s female-driven stories,” she said in a recent Forbes interview.
The Lacey Chabert Collection is available on the HSN website. Click here for a link.
New Hallmark movie starring Lacey Chabert to air in August
A new Hallmark movie starring Lacey Chabert is in production in Hawaii. Groundswell, which is based on the novel by Katie Lee Biegel, will premiere in August on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.
“Aloha y’all!!!!” Biegel wrote in an Instagram post. “First day on set of Groundswell! Could not be more excited! Pinch me moment! @hallmarkchannel @hallmarkmovie.”
Chabert replied to the post with, “So happy you’re here!!!!!!”
Groundswell was Biegel’s first novel. The Food Network star published the book in 2021.
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According to a synopsis from the network, Chabert stars as Emma, an Atlanta-based chef who suffers a setback at work and decides to take some time off with a vacation in Hawaii. She meets a handsome surf instructor who helps her regain her confidence. The instructor will be played by Ektor Rivera, who starred in the 2021 Hallmark Christmas movie Sugar Plum Twist.
“I am a huge fan of Lacey’s movies, and she has been my dream choice to play Emma, from Day 1,” said Biegel in a statement to Deadline. “This project is close to my heart, and there is no one better to bring us along on Emma’s journey.”
A co-host of the Food Network series The Kitchen, Biegel has more than a million followers on Instagram. She lives in the Hamptons with her husband and her 20-month-old daughter, Iris.
Biegel began cooking at the age of 4 under the guidance of her grandmother. Her first cookbook, The Comfort Table, was released in 2008, soon followed by The Comfort Table: Recipes for Everyday Occasions (2009) and Endless Summer Cookbook (2015). Biegel sits on the Celebrity Board for Feeding America.
Culinary drama
Groundswell is Hallmark’s latest foray into the world of culinary drama. In February, the network debuted the rom-com Welcome to Mama’s, starring Lorraine Bracco and Melanie Scrofano as a woman trying to restore her family’s restaurant to its former glory.
In April, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries debuted Curious Caterer: Dying For Chocolate, a mystery starring Nikki DeLoach as a crime-solving chef, and Always Amore, starring Autumn Reeser as a widow trying to keep her late husband’s restaurant in business.
Groundswell will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on August 21.