Is it possible the hunky guys-next-door who star in Hallmark Channel’s current 24/7 rotation of Christmas movies are really as charming, earnest and emotionally intelligent as they seem?
After years of interviewing and getting to know many members of this rare species, I can definitively say the answer is, remarkably, yes. They’re really that nice (and quite cute, to boot), but brace yourself for this bombshell: they’re also not perfect. Under those sensibly warm winter layers are regular humans with insecurities, hardships, opinions and mortgages to pay. Shocking, right? And such a relief.
In a brave move, three of them — longtime Hallmark heartthrobs Benjamin Ayres, Paul Campbell and Wes Brown — have decided to reveal who they really are away from their small town sets and hair & makeup trailers.
On Thursday, November 12, the trio released the first two episodes of their new Mr. Nice Guys podcast, willing to get real with each other in weekly episodes, from being hysterically funny to vulnerably open.
Paul Campbell onstage, with Wes Brown and Benjamin Ayres behind him, aboard the 2025 Hallmark Christmas Cruise.Kim Nunneley for Hallmark Media
Campbell, a longtime Hallmark star and screenwriter widely known to diehard fans as one of the network’s class clowns, told Parade that while there will be plenty of laughs and fun stories, he’s looking forward to diving deeper, too.
“A lot of our conversation is the fun stuff,” he said, “but then every once in a while, you know, something profound will happen, or something significant will happen in one of our lives, and we’ll share that as well.”
Until a few years ago, Hallmark’s core group of leading men didn’t have many opportunities to spend quality time together. They would film their rom-coms and cozy mysteries with one of Hallmark’s fan-favorite actresses, and go on their merry way until the next script arrived.
But with the advent of days-long fan experiences like the annual Hallmark Christmas Cruise, that’s changed. They’re not only meeting and entertaining fans together, but bonding during downtime over everyday life, from fitness to parenting.
“We’ve had a lot of really tough conversations, and we’ve gone pretty deep on some and debated some really big, real-life things,” Campbell told Parade. “And I think a lot of the inspiration (for the podcast), as much as it was sharing the lighter side, was that we talk about a lot of things that a lot of guys don’t typically just chat about.”
“I don’t know, maybe because we’re actors we are all willing to be a little more vulnerable and have conversations that sometimes can be uncomfortable,” Campbell continued, “but they’re actually conversations that we think guys generally need to be having. So we were like, ‘Maybe there’s a way to bring this to a bigger audience and inspire people to sort of debate certain things that often go un-discussed.'”
Ayres, who stars in the hit Hallmark+ series Hope Valley: 1874, said the Mr. Nice Guys podcast will also give them a chance to dispel rumors and rampant clickbait posts that appear across social media. Searching online for virtually any Hallmark star inevitably produces AI-generated images of untrue health crises, or fake headlines about their relationships, families, and pasts.
“There are a lot of tabloidy-type things that create false narratives about us that are really hard to read sometimes,” Ayres told Parade, “and you want to respond, but you don’t. And then you see all of the (comments) underneath. So in a way, (the podcast) also kind of gives us ownership of our own story, so that people can’t make those assumptions, and hopefully we can clarify some things.”
In fact, they want fans to submit questions to them via their Instagram posts and YouTube videos, many of which they’ll answer in future podcasts. Ayres said, “We’ll dive in and we’re not scared to kind of answer anything and get personal. And I think as it continues to go, we’ll get more and more personal.”
“We’re figuring it out as we go,” Brown said, noting that they plan to eventually bring on special guests, from fellow Hallmark stars to family members. “But yeah, I think it’s going to be largely fan-driven because, you know, we give the people what they want.”
Ayres, Brown and Campbell are thrilled to have the Mr. Nice Guys podcast out in the world after ruminating on it for over two years, and plan to release new 45-minute episodes every Thursday, even when one of them is in the middle of filming. The first two episodes are available to watch via YouTube.
Meanwhile, they each have Christmas movies premiering in the next several weeks (of course!). Brown co-stars with Autumn Reeser in Christmas Delivered on November 26 and appears in A Grand Biltmore Christmas on December 5; Campbell co-stars with Rachel Boston in Return to Santa on November 27; and Ayres co-stars with Torrey DeVitto in Noelle Nomads on December 13.
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