Lori Loughlinis making her return to the small screen just in time for the holiday season.
On Friday, GAC Family released a first look atLoughlin’s acting comebackwith asneak peekof her starring role in the two-part season two premiere ofWhen Hope Calls, a spinoff of the Hallmark Channel’sWhen Calls the Heart.
Titled “A Country Christmas, Part 1” and “A Country Christmas, Part 2,” the episodes will premiere Dec. 18 on GAC Family, formerly Great American Country, and see Loughlin, 57, reprise her role of Abigail Stanton.
TheFull Housealum previously starred on the Hallmark Channel’sWhen Calls the Heart’s first six seasons, but following her arrest in 2019, she was written out of the show.
At the time, Hallmarksaid in a statementthat it was “no longer working with Lori Loughlin and have stopped development of all productions that air on the Crown Media Family Network channels involving Lori Loughlin, includingGarage Sale Mysteries, an independent third party production.”
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The longtime couplepleaded guiltyin May 2020 to paying $500,000 to falsely designate daughtersOlivia Jade Giannulli, 22, andIsabella Rose Giannulli, 23, as recruits to the University of Southern California crew team, even though neither ever participated in the sport.
Loughlin received two months in jail, a $150,000 fine, and 150 hours of community service, while Giannulli, 58, was sentenced to five months in jail, a $250,000 fine, and 250 hours of community service.
Loughlin started her prison sentence in October of 2020 and served nearly two months before she wasreleased from the federal correctional facilityin Dublin, California, in December. Giannulli, meanwhile, was booked into federal prison on Nov. 19 and wasreleased from home confinementin May 2021, marking the end of his five-month sentence.
When Hope Calls: A Country Christmaspremieres Dec. 18 on GAC Family.
source: people.com
