Danica McKellar Has a Holiday Treat in Store for Viewers of "Christmas She Wrote"

quotWe all need a little more cheer this Christmasquot she shared during an exclusive interview with MediaVillage quotDuring both the East and West Coast airings if you tweet using the hashtag ChristmasSheWrote along with my handle DanicaMcKellar my goal is to answer every single tweetquotI will also be picking a couple of winners to get signed pictures of me along with notes I wrote on set from the moviequot she added quotI saved a bunch of them and thought it39d be fun since the movie is called Christmas She Wrote and I wrote all over themquot In keeping with the Christmas spirit she also plans to give back via the app Cameo with all proceeds going to children39s charityquotIt was great to get back to work after the shutdownquot McKellar beamed quotI didn39t know what to expect because of COVID I had to quarantine in Canada for two weeks before being allowed to go anywhere or shoot as they39re very strict with their restrictions It wasn39t bad and I got tested regularly everyone had masks temperature checks and hand sanitizer I39m not giving anything away by saying this is a romantic comedy so there might be a kiss and we had to gargle with hydrogen peroxide beforehandquotI was worried that this film might not have happened and we actually just finished this in Octoberquot she continued quotI39m sure they are still working on it and somehow it will air on time and be great I can39t believe that Hallmark managed to get 40 Christmas movies out there I mean that39s the same as the year before and that39s absolutely incredible It was all hands on deck They made them all really close together I39m just so grateful that I got to be a part of one of them This movie has Christmas in every scenequotIn Christmas She Wrote McKellar stars as Kayleigh a popular New York writer whose column quotYour Best Selfquot is abruptly dropped before the holidays Distraught she reluctantly heads home to evaluate her life and spend time with her family a place she is wary to visit due to fear of running into her exfiance Dan Dan Payne pictured at top right When Tripp Dylan Neal top left the grinchy managing editor who canned her column shows up full of regret and tries to woo her back Kayleigh decides to stick to her plan of staying put But as the two spend quality holiday time together and she gets to know the real Tripp Kayleigh begins to wonder if she was too hasty in judging him Then pesky old flame Dan comes along with hopes of rekindling their relationship and extinguishing any feelings Kayleigh may have developed for TrippAdvice columns are nothing new to McKellar whose own social media is an array of helpful hints ranging from homeschooling to parenting quotThis character is probably the one closest to me I39ve playedquot she laughed quotI actually started writing an advice column when I was 14 I wrote one for Teen Beat magazine called 39Dear Danica39 I did that for about four years so even back then I liked advice columns and liked to reach out and chat with people and give ideasquotKayleigh39s column is actually very similar to the 39McKellar Motivational Monday39 live streams I do weekly on Facebook Live Instagram Live and Twitterquot McKellar continued quotIt39s about being the best versions of ourselves You could call my 39Motivational Monday39 posts 39Your Best Self39 as that39s what it39s all about So reading the script I was like 39This is me I do this already and I love it39 Then I read the iceskating scenes and was like amp8216You are going to have to get someone else for thoseamp8217amp160Thankfully for McKellar Hallmark listened quotI did a behindthescenes TikTok about what they had to do for me to be skatingquot she laughed quotNot only did I need a photo double for wide shots but also for closeups moving across the ice I can dance I did Dancing with the Stars right but come on It became my most viral TickTok with about 87 million views People loved seeing how bad I am at skating Meryl Davis and I were on the same season of DWTS she39s a 2014 gold medalwinning ice dancer and good friend so maybe she could39ve given me some pointersquotAdding to the fun was the fact the shoot became a sea of familiar faces for McKellar and a family affair quotDan Payne Dan who played my exboyfriend in Matchmaker plays my exfiance Maybe Hallmark thinks he looks like the guy that will never happen for me I worked with Andrew Francis Stephen on Coming Home for Christmas April Telek plays my sister Amy and her reallife daughter Ava plays Charlotte my niece They39re both adorable and so fun I worked with April on Love and Sunshine last year she39s a fantastic actress and we had a great time I helped Ava with her math on a few occasions and we decided that I39m now her honorary Aunt Danica Now I check in with her to see how her math is coming and what39s going on Dylan was the only one I hadn39t worked with and he was greatquotChristmas She Wrote will be telecast Sunday December 6 at 8 pm on Hallmark Channel as part of its 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