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 Lifetimes holiday movies, the network announced on September 15 that change is a-coming this festive season. Canadas 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 Nannys Fran Drescher, and was co-written by members of the LGBTQ community. A home-for-the-holidays type of story will unfold as both Ben and Blakes 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.
Theres good-weird and bad-weird. 2020 has been bad-weird, Lewis wrote in his caption, encouraging people to vote in this years American election, but starring alongside my husband @blakeleeblake (not to mention my old friends @ellewongster, @chadjc and the ICON @officialfrandrescher) in Lifetimes first gay Christmas movie (directed by @patkmills) definitely qualifies as good-weird. In fact, its 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 Wrights choice to cast him in Scott Pilgrim profoundly changed his career and also his personal life. At the Hollywood premiere, in the mens room of Graumans Chinese Theatre, I met a friend of Aubrey Plazas 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.
It’s not a queer thing that I never watch Lifetime.
Look at it this way, they may be married in the eyes of the state, but knowing the reason God destroyed the city of Sodom, does anyone really believe they are married in the eyes of God?
“Probably 75% of Lifetimes viewers are senior citizens.”
...yeah but they’ll replace them with Americas 2.5% total LGBTQ crowd!!
I’m willing to bet it stinks all ready.......
“...very heterosexual love stories...”
Is that a thing? Is it like some stories being “really gay”?
Will there be a scene showing their "lively" wedding party down at the local bath house?
Careful,Judy...the RCMP just might soon be knocking at you door.
Will there be a scene showing their “lively” wedding party down at the local bath house?
Paul Simons,”Slip Slidden Away” just started playing in my head.
who are Ben Lewis and Blake lee?
3 out of four with Andrew Gillum.
Will they abuse drugs and alcohol, experience serial infidelity, suffer from depression and other mental disorders and have a shortened life span?
It’s the most fabulous time of the year!
Was Slip Sliding about perverted stuff?
No i was just filling in the blanks in my head and i figured after they have some “fun” together that Slip Sliddin Away might be apt.
A d*ck flick?
Nah.
Brokeback Mountain redux.
I stopped watching it when they aired the homo Christmas ad. At first they apologized, but then they reversed their decision. I only watched "When Calls the Heart," "The Good Witch," and the Garage Sale Mystery movies. The rest of the movies they show are just repetitive crap. Same stories with different people.
I never watched “Brokeback Mountain” either. Had no desire to watch two men making out. There’s enough of that on network programs, which I watch very little of. You can’t watch a TV program today without there being a homo couple in the cast. With the number of homos being represented in network programming today, if you didn’t know better, you’d think that homos were the majority population in the U.S.
>>>who are Ben Lewis and Blake lee?<<<
The guys in another remake of The Green Hornet?
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