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  • The five best Victor Webster Hallmark romance movies

    The five best Victor Webster Hallmark romance movies

    Over the years, actor Victor Webster has graced the small screen as a soap opera star, a sitcom guest, and the leading man in 18 movies for Hallmark. With such a long list of Hallmark credits to his name, it’s hard to choose the top five. But we made the sacrifice, watching every single Hallmark movie he has made to come up with the best.

    Victor Webster

    Who is Victor Webster? The actor was born in 1973 in Calgary, Alberta. When he was 13 his family moved to San Clemente, California. He took up martial arts and eventually became an instructor. After attending Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, he moved to Los Angeles to become a stock broker.

    While in LA he began to pursue acting and eventually landed the role of  Nicholas Alamain on the NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives. He went on to appear in the TV shows Sex and the City, Charmed, Castle, Baywatch, Reba, Criminal Minds, Bones, Drop Dead Diva, Chesapeake Shores, and Workin’ Moms.

    Hallmark movies

    His first Hallmark romance movie was the 2012 film Puppy Love, which co-starred Candace Cameron Bure. He went on to co-star with Danica McKellar in the Matchmaker Mysteries and played opposite Alison Sweeney in The Wedding Veil series.

    The following is a countdown of his top five films for Hallmark:

    5. A Harvest Wedding (2017)

    Jill Wagner starred in this Hallmark romance about a New York City wedding planner hired to coordinate a wedding in her small Massachusetts hometown. The bride is set on having her wedding at the family farm, which is run by her older brother (played by Victor Webster) who also happens to be Wagner’s ex-boyfriend.

    The gorgeous backdrop of autumn in New England (or at least autumn in a BC town passing as New England) makes this one of our favorites.

    Alison Sweeney and Victor Webster in the new Hallmark mystery One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery. (Image: Hallmark Media)
    Alison Sweeney and Victor Webster in the new Hallmark mystery One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery. (Image: Hallmark Media)

    RELATED NEWS: Victor Webster joining the cast of Hallmark mystery series

    4. Five-Star Christmas (2020)

    Victor Webster co-starred with Bethany Joy Lenz in this hilarious Christmas comedy about a family that tries to influence a travel writer’s review of their inn by posing as guests and talking the place up.

    3. Summer Villa (2016)

    In this romantic comedy, Victor Webster plays a celebrity chef who retreats to a French villa for some time off after receiving a horrible review. He meets a romance novelist (played by Hilarie Burton) and sparks fly.

    2. A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe (2022)

    We love this one because it features Victor Webster with Rachel Boston, another of our Hallmark favorites). In the movie, Victor Webster plays a baker who helps a woman recreate her grandmother’s cookie recipe.

    1. One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (2024)

    What can we say? We love a good mystery and Victor and Alison have such great chemistry. Many Hannah Swensen fans were devastated when Hannah (Sweeney) broke things off with her fiancé (played by Cameron Mathison), who had been a constant throughout the series.

    But when Hallmark announced that Victor Webster would be brought on board the series as a new potential love interest, fans were thrilled. After all, Sweeney and Webster played well opposite each other in The Wedding Veil series so it stood to reason they could re-create the magic in a cozy mystery.

    And recreate the magic they did. Webster nailed it as Eden Lake’s by-the-book prosecuting attorney Chad Norton, who ends up going head-to-head with Hannah (Sweeney) when one of her colleagues is found dead under mysterious circumstances.

    Which Victor Webster film is your favorite? Let us know in the comments.

  • Victor Webster and Alison Sweeney race to find a killer in new Hallmark mystery

    Victor Webster and Alison Sweeney race to find a killer in new Hallmark mystery

    Victor Webster and Alison Sweeney will reunite on the small screen in a new Hallmark mystery. The actors, who played husband and wife in Hallmark’s The Wedding Veil series, will join forces to find a killer in the movie One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery.

    “So excited for the new #HannahSwensen mystery One Bad Apple to premiere this Friday night!!” wrote Alison Sweeney in a social media post promoting the movie. “Thank you @hallmarkmystery for helping us make these fun movies.”

    “Think you’ll figure it out before we do?” wrote Victor Webster in his own post.

    Victor Webster and Alison Sweeney

    Victor Webster and Alison Sweeney have starred in several Hallmark movies together. Webster played Sweeney’s love interest in the popular Hallmark series The Wedding Veil.

    But this is his first appearance in the popular Hannah Swensen series. One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery is the ninth movie in the series, which is based on novels by Joanne Fluke.

    Up until the last film, A Zest for Death: A Hannah Swensen Mystery, Cameron Mathison starred opposite Alison Sweeney as Mike Kingston, a local detective and her fiancé. Their romance developed over the course of the series. But fans were left reeling when the characters broke off their engagement in the seventh film, Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery.

    Though they reunited to solve a case in the next movie, they never reconnected romantically.

    New Hallmark mystery

    In One Bad Apple, Hannah is asked to teach a baking class at the local college. Her equipment is tampered with causing an explosion that the fire department rules accidental. But then one of her new colleagues is murdered and Hannah finds herself on the list of suspects.

    While trying to prove her innocence, she comes face-to-face with handsome local prosecutor Chad Norton (Webster) and sparks fly.

    What about Cameron?

    Cameron Mathison has moved on from Hallmark to work for Great American Media, a company founded by former Hallmark CEO Bill Abbott.

    In an interview with TV Insider, Alison Sweeney talked about the changes in Hannah and Mike’s relationship.

    “Mike is attracted to Hannah and her crime-solving ways, her mind, the fact that she is so interested, the fact that she’s good at it,” she told TV Insider. “She does get people to talk to her in a way that sometimes Mike or other detectives aren’t able to get them to open up. She does have really good instincts and a unique way of getting people to open up to her. I think the cookies help. Mike respects that, and he loves that about her, but it causes him a lot of trouble at work, and for good reasons and maybe also not-so-good reasons, the sheriff isn’t too keen to have Hannah getting involved in the crime-solving business. So that’s been a tricky thing for [Mike] to navigate. And unfortunately, I think Mike is a little old school, so he struggles with how much of that to share with Hannah.”

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  • Everything you need to know about Victor Webster

    Everything you need to know about Victor Webster

    Victor Webster will co-star with Alison Sweeney in the Hallmark movie One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery. The actor will replace Cameron Mathison as the romantic lead in the series, playing a handsome prosecutor who faces off with Hannah as she tries to solve another mystery.

    Though Webster is new to the Murder, She Baked mystery series, he is no stranger to Hallmark. Over the years, the actor has starred in more than 15 movies for the network, co-starring with everyone from Catherine Bell to Candace Cameron Bure.

    Webster has said he appreciates how positive and uplifting Hallmark movies are.

    “After you watch a Hallmark film, you have a big smile on your face and you feel positive about the values that can be enjoyed by the entire family,” he said in an interview with Digital Journal. “Everybody can watch these movies together and they are the perfect family bonding experience.”

    Victor Webster

    Victor Webster was born in Calgary, Alberta, and moved with his family to California at the age of 13. In an interview, Webster said his parents enrolled him in martial arts classes in an attempt to improve his behavior. He excelled and went on to compete as an amateur kickboxer with an undefeated record and as a heavyweight in Tae Kwon Do.

    Though Webster enjoyed doing school plays, he didn’t set out to become an actor when he graduated college. Instead, he worked as a stockbroker and started his own import-export business before landing a role on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.

    Despite his success, the actor had words of caution for anyone thinking of pursuing a career in Hollywood.

    “Don’t become an actor, unless you are absolutely 100 percent drawn to it and have to do it,” he told Digital Journal. “The life of an actor is very unpredictable, and there is a very small percentage of actors that work all the time. If you are drawn to the artistic value of acting, then do that. Make sure you are doing it for the right reasons and that it fulfills you.”

    Days of Our Lives

    Webster landed the role of Nicholas Alamain on the NBC series Days of Our Lives in 1999. He said he learned a lot from working on a soap opera.

    “That show involved a lot of memorization,” he said. “We would shoot an episode a day so I had to learn 20 to 30 pages each time.”

    “In my last day that I worked there, I came in and did 75 pages of dialogue, which was 31 scenes, and we filmed them all in five hours. It really trained my brain on how to get dialogue to stick,” he added.

    He went on to appear in Sex and the City, Charmed, Reba, CSI: Miami, NCIS, and Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. He is well-known to fans of the Scorpion King movies as Mathayus.

    Hallmark

    Webster’s first movie with Hallmark was the 2012 rom-com Puppy Love, which co-starred Candace Cameron Bure. He went on to have parts in Chesapeake Shores and the Matchmaker Mysteries series and starred in The Magic Stocking (2015), Summer Villa (2016), Love Blossoms (2017), A Harvest Wedding (2017), Home for Christmas Day (2017), Homegrown Christmas (2018), Hearts of Winter (2020), Five Star Christmas (2020), The Wedding Veil Legacy (2022), A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe (2022), The Wedding Veil Journey (2023), and Mystery On Mistletoe Lane (2023).

    Personal life

    Webster met his ex-wife, Shantel VanSanten, when they co-starred in the movie Love Blossoms. The couple had three separate wedding celebrations in 2021. The first was a civil service at Pasadena City Hall in California on Aug. 9, her grandparents’ wedding date.

    “When my grandfather unexpectedly passed away on Father’s Day, the heartbreak was unbearable; I had been planning on him walking me down the aisle in Minnesota,” VanSanten told Brides. “In the midst of my grief, I looked at Victor and said I wanted to do a spontaneous civil ceremony on my grandparents’ wedding date, August 9.”

    The second celebration was in Napa in October and the third was in the bride’s hometown of Luverne, Minn.

    Webster filed for divorce in January 2023. Neither he nor VanSanten have spoken publicly about the reasons for their separation.

    Working with Alison Sweeney

    Alison Sweeney and Victor Webster have worked together several times, both on Days of Our Lives — where she plays Sami Brady — and in Hallmark movies.

    The pair appeared as a couple in The Wedding Veil series, which also starred Laci Chabert and Autumn Reeser.

    “I’ve always loved working with Victor — from our years in daytime [TV] to our work together on ‘The Wedding Veil,’” Sweeney said in a statement through Hallmark. “When writing the script and developing this movie, I knew he’d be a great addition to the Hannah Swensen family and am thrilled that he said yes.”

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  • Erica Cerra and Victor Webster solve a Christmas mystery in new Hallmark movie

    Erica Cerra and Victor Webster solve a Christmas mystery in new Hallmark movie

    Erica Cerra and Victor Webster will star in the new Hallmark movie Mystery On Mistletoe Lane. In the film, they discover a Christmas-themed treasure hunt that brings them closer together.

    Christmas mystery

    In Mystery on Mistletoe Lane, Erica Cerra plays a divorced mother of two who takes a job as the director of the historical society for a small New England town.

    She and her children move into a long-abandoned house and soon after they begin to find mysterious clues. They find out that the house used to be known as Mistletoe Mansion and the clues are for a Christmas treasure hunt.

    As they work to solve the mystery, they enlist the help of David (played by Victor Webster), the man who used to run the historical society. They try to solve the mystery and return the home to its former glory days.

    About the cast

    Erica Cerra starred in the hit SyFy series Eureka as Jo Lupo from 2006 to 2012. She has also appeared on Supernatural, Power Rangers, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Lucifer, and iZombie.

    Victor Webster

    Victor Webster starred as Nicholas Alamain on the NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives. He has also appeared on the TV shows Baywatch, Reba, Criminal Minds, Bones, Drop Dead Diva, Chesapeake Shores, and Workin’ Moms.

    He has starred in the Hallmark movies Magic Stocking (2015), Summer Villa (2016), Love Blossoms (2017), Home For Christmas Day (2017), A Harvest Wedding (2017), Homegrown Christmas (2018), Matchmaker Mysteries: A Killer Engagement (2019), Hearts of Winter (2020), Five Star Christmas (2020), Matchmaker Mysteries: A Fatal Romance (2020), Matchmaker Mysteries: The Art of the Kill (2021), The Wedding Veil Legacy (2022), A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe (2022), and The Wedding Veil Journey (2023).

    Mystery on Mistletoe Lane will premiere on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries on Thursday, November 9 at 8/7c.

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