Jill Wagner is certainly not an unfamiliar face to viewers ofHallmark Channel’s heartwarming movies.
“It was terrifying,” she toldGQ.
Well, that was pre-Tom Cruise.
Now, you couldn’t do that.
She’s like royalty."
“I challenge anyone to come down and do my job and keep a straight face.”
“She said, ‘Hallmark movies.’
Grandma wants a Hallmark movie; she gets one.”
“Every movie that I film …
I just feel my grandma smiling,” she toldGood Housekeeping.
“Jason was actually my first acting partner in class,” Wagner revealed in an interview withHuffPost.
“The teacher paired us up, and it all went downhill from there…
He’s been one of my dearest friends since moving to L.A. 15 years ago.”
In her post, she shared a photo from her 2017 wedding to retired hockey playerDavid Lemanowicz.
Wagner offered more details when the couple appeared on Hallmark Channel’s “Home and Family” talk show.
“I was 17, he was 20.
I snuck out and met him.
Fell completely head over heels,” she recalled.
However, that was when things ended.
“I hadn’t seen her in 17 years,” Lemanowicz recalled.
Later, fate intervened again when she was out for dinner in Los Angeles with some friends.
“We were leaving [the restaurant] … and then I hear, ‘Jill!’
and David had just walked in the restaurant I was walking out of and boom!”
As Wagner revealed in an interview withThe List, that particular movie remains particularly meaningful for her.
“And I think that that automatically attracted me to the script.”
“I just think it’s so special and it’s just so heartwarming how they tell the story.
And so I was really proud to be a part of it,” she said.
It’s just fun to play a character like that because it gets you into the role."
I think music is something that really helps me."
As she toldAutoblog, she’d been the Mercury spokesmodel for about five years.
In 2016, she was tapped to host"Handcrafted America"for the INSP channel.
Speaking withHuffPost, Wagner gushed about the people she met during the show’s one-and-only season.
“They’re so incredibly talented.
Their level of artisanship takes years of work.
It takes dedication, passion, and above all … “I can get a little frustrated not getting things right the first time,” she confessed.
“This has been a humbling experience, learning from people who are masters in their fields.”
“Being completely honest, I wanted to host it for selfish reasons at first.
