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Posted on 09/17/2020 2:15:56 PM PDT by Ennis85
History is being made! After lots of talk over the past few years about the very heterosexual love stories featured in Lifetime’s holiday movies, the network announced on September 15 that change is a-coming this festive season. Canada’s own Scott Pilgrim vs the World star Ben Lewis will star alongside Parks and Recreation alum Blake Lee in the first Lifetime holiday movie to feature an LGBTQ love story. And the best part is Lewis and Lee are already married in real life. They say art imitates life, but in this case, art imitates Lifetime. According to TV Line, the special, entitled The Christmas Setup, will also star The Nanny’s Fran Drescher, and was co-written by members of the LGBTQ community. A home-for-the-holiday’s type of story will unfold as both Ben and Blake’s characters Hugo and Patrick meet and fall in love after some cunning matchmaking skills by Kate, played by Drescher. Lewis, who splits his time between Toronto and Los Angeles, also made the announcement today on his official Instagram account.
“There’s good-weird and bad-weird. 2020 has been bad-weird,” Lewis wrote in his caption, encouraging people to vote in this year’s American election, “but starring alongside my husband @blakeleeblake (not to mention my old friends @ellewongster, @chadjc and the ICON @officialfrandrescher) in Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie (directed by @patkmills) definitely qualifies as good-weird. In fact, it’s the most surreal, wonderful early-Xmas gift I could ask for.” Recently on Twitter, Lewis also told the story of how he and Lee met and fell in love during the premiere of Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
https://twitter.com/benlewishere/status/1263288013859090433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1263288021538881536%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theloop.ca%2Flifetimes-first-lgbtq-love-story-will-star-ben-lewis-and-blake-lee
In two-tweet thread, Lewis explained how director Edgar Wright’s choice to cast him in Scott Pilgrim profoundly changed his career and also his personal life. “At the Hollywood premiere, in the men’s room of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, I met a friend of Aubrey Plaza’s who would become my husband. Julie Powers was in our wedding party, and Ramona Flowers sang our first dance,” he tweeted, posting a photo of that fateful night.
If ever I wanted to post a barf emoji, this would be the time.
Probably 75% of Lifetime’s viewers are senior citizens. I doubt they’ll be happy with Lifetime after this.
This is the only thing that MIGHT lead to a bump in NFL and NBA ratings.
Are there any heterosexual men who watch Lifetime?
Maybe, but they must be Democrats.
So... squishy dirty butsecks?
Must-see TV for sure!
Hopefully responsible butsecks with hints how to clean that mess up afterwards.
I hope you can appreciate how tragic it is that we need to be reminded of this. Up until now, every generation in the history of humanity has held this as so obviously self-evident it didn't merit discussion.
They should show this before and after the show on deviance and perversion
BOYS BEWARE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTn7ALbLYPI
Too many “Married With Children” reruns to watch for the eighth time.
I guess I’m just a hopeless knuckle-dragger./s
I thought Lifetime was the man haters channel my ex wife used to binge watch before we got divorced. If it was this would be in line with their theme.
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Eww.
Not Don Sucka LeMon?
I think its good to give us fair warning....
They didn’t need to. The TV station played the advertisement for it several times Christmas morning that year.
Try to a find series or movie where this agenda isn’t being pushed as a significant aspect of the story line.
Who is Lewis and Blake? I know who Fran Drescher is. She’s funny, esp. in “The Nanny” and I think she got her start in “Hollywood Knights”.
I do worry there will come a time when this point I will hold to the bitter end will lead to a personal backlash in real life. Like I will never attend a so called same-sex “wedding” nor will I ever acknowledge them as real marriages. Its never a position I’ve ever had to maintain in real-life before(apart from the time of our country’s referendum on the issue, when my sister gave our mother s**t because she said she wasn’t sure how she was going to vote).
Will it include promiscuity, bath houses, and intentional HIV transmission?
I hope it’s a homosexual guy and a lesbian women falling in love with each other.
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