What Did These 12 Actresses Do to Get Trapped in Christmas TV Movie Hell?

From Candace Cameron Bure to Lacey Chabert, these Hallmark and Lifetime veterans love their Christmas films.

There's one of those morbid comfort that comes from Lifetime, Hallmark and Other Basic Cable Christmas movies. The same five or six vapidly merry plots get recycled, and you can at all times be expecting a well-known face like Candace Cameron Bure or Melissa Joan Hart coming into vacation hijinks. Though a certain personality sort is certainly overjoyed by way of this predictability, the more ironic viewer watches in horror as Lacey Chabert makes her 400th try to save Christmas. Did these women promote their souls to get steady work, only for the Christmas Krampus to gift them with xmas B-movies? I'm now not certain, however under, 12 actresses who are evidently stuck in the bowels of the TV movie underworld.

1. Candace Cameron Bure

Candace Cameron Bure has a problem. She kicked off her Christmas TV profession with Moonlight & Mistletoe, in which a cold-hearted businesswoman (of course) named Holly (in fact) comes house to an Xmas-worshipping town known as Santaville (in fact) and  softens from the facility of affection (OF. COURSE). Oh, also some overpriced nutcrackers that professional look like they have been finished by means of a 5-year-old save the day. Anyway, she did six more films that I have no longer noticed but are more than likely some variation of that. She’s about to best off her resume as Hallmark’s Christmas Queen with movie number 8: A Shoe Addict’s Christmas, in which she plays a girl named Noelle (kill me) and ugh, never mind, I don’t care. 

P.S., what age were you while you discovered Candace Cameron Bure’s remaining name was pronounced “beret” as a substitute of “burr,” as a result of I used to be these days years old. 

2. Lori Loughlin

Candace’s Aunt Becky, Lori Loughlin, has dabbled a little bit extra recreationally in the Hallmark movie scene. She really brings it as a Christmas-hating occupation lady (...) in Christmas Makeover...or is it Every Christmas Has a Story? Christmas movies get renamed at all times, it’s weird. Catch her doubling up this 12 months in When Calls the Heart's Christmas particular and  Homegrown Christmas, which WEIRD, sounds suspiciously just like the Santaville situation.

3. Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart has been in TV Christmas films since 1986 with a pre-Sabrina, even pre-Clarissa position in Christmas Snow. 2007’s Broadcasting Christmas wins slight originality points for pitting an ambitious small town journalist in a role warfare in opposition to a big-time New York broadcaster. Unfortunately said broadcaster happens to be her ex-boyfriend, leading immediately back to the “falling again in love together with your ex” trope. 

This yr she’s going to fall in love with a picket soldier in A Very Nutty Christmas, as a result of why no longer.

4. Hilarie Burton

At least we understand how One Tree Hill’s Hilarie Burton were given trapped in this recreation. “The very first one I did, Naughty or Nice,” I did on a dare from the Rudds,” Hilarie advised Screener, and yeah that means Paul Rudd and his spouse. “We have been all out at dinner and I got the offer, and so they have been like, “Dude, you will have to do it!” and I was like, ‘Yeah, all right, no matter.’ And then, I cherished it!”

Hilarie’s argument is that it used to be a vivid contrast to the doom and gloom roles she normally played. Whatever you need to tell your self, bb lady. 

Hilarie’s upcoming fourth flick is The Christmas Contract, every other homecoming movie as a substitute of the tale of how she signed her soul to away to Lifetime. She’s expecting an OTH reunion with co-stars Robert Buckley, Danneel Ackles, and Antwon Tanner, a building that’s not doubt exciting to somebody. TBH, I’m more of a Gossip Girl particular person.

5. Danica McKellar

With her perfectly symmetrical face and just right woman pedigree as The Wonder Years’ Winnie Cooper, it more or less is smart that Danica McKellar would fit into the squeaky blank global of holiday films. On the opposite hand, she’s also a serious AF mathematician who developed her personal physics theorem, so the place is she discovering time for, like, 5 Lifetime films? By the way in which, considered one of them is set Coming Home for Christmas, which if you’ve lost count, is the 3rd movie with that plot.

6. Christina Milian

My roommates are midway thru a Christmas Cupid right now (with Chad Michael Murray, I’m assuming he by no means signed anything to land on The Christmas Contract). It’s about an bold career girl re-hashing a Dickensian ghost plot and reuniting along with her ex-lover and I want to die. 

On the upswing, this yr Christina Milian is one of the first black women to big name in a Hallmark Christmas movie, which is a small win for Christmas TV movie range. On the downswing, she’s taking part in a woman named Noelle which is a big loss for Christmas TV movie range. STG, this genre is handiest made up of 3 names: Holly, Noelle, and extra Carols than your human resource division.

7. Lacey Chabert

Get this: Gretchen Weiners and DJ Tanner are neck and neck when it comes to Hallmark vacation motion pictures. Lacey Chabert can have executed 8 Christmas movies via this year's end, including a contemporary Lizzie Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe.  My roommate, who truly delights in Jane Austen and Christmas time and isn’t dead inside is all about this development.

“When does THAT come out,” she’s asking in earnest glee.

“I don’t know, quickly.”

“What channel is it?”

“Hallmark, what else?”

8. Alicia Witt

Fun Fact: Christina Milian starred with Alicia Witt in A Snow Globe Christmas. Interestingly sufficient, she has just about as much experience as a Candace or a Lacey, with seven Hallmark films and one protagonist named Holly. 

9. Jessica Lowndes

Jessica Lowndes spent a while in 90210 — the reboot, now not the unique — but my clearest reminiscences of her is being the underdog decorator in A December Bride. The underdog decorator trope isn’t as prevalent, however you recognize. It’s there. A December Bride wasn’t dangerous, or anything else, however you might as smartly just watch ION’s A Christmas Kiss to see the decorator subplot executed higher.

Anyway, Jessica’s an actual up-and-comer in Hallmarkland, with Merry Matchmaker, Magical Christmas Ornaments, and this yr’s Christmas at Pemberley Manor.

10. Haylie Duff

The different Duff sister filmed 4 Lifetime-ish Christmas movies in the span of two-ish years, which is kind of impressive. Or terrifying. Haylie hasn’t really popped up in an Xmas film since 2014’s Naughty and Nice, however her contemporary resume is most effective TV movies, so by no means say by no means.

11. Tia Mowry

One half of of Sister, Sister, Tia Mowry-Hardrict starred in the ABC(!!!) TV movie The Mistletones a few years again, a half-step above, smartly, pretty much all of the movies mentioned prior. And this yr she's doing double the paintings at Hallmark, starring in My Christmas Inn and A Gingerbread Romance.

12. Jodie Sweetin

OMFG. Jodie Sweetin is the ultimate huge Full House alum in the circuit, and regardless that she's a recent Hallmark inductee with two movies up to now, it is just an issue of time prior to she follows Deej into the seventh holly-jolly layer of hell. RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY BEFORE YOUR EX-BOYFRIEND TRIES TO MAKE YOU MOVE TO YOUR HOMETOWN AND GIVE UP YOUR CAREER!

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