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The cat is out of the bag on when Chiefs Hallmark Christmas movie will air

Happy Holidays at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium from Hallmark.
Happy Holidays at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium from Hallmark.

While on the “Today” show last week, Jenna Bush Hager revealed a couple of interesting tidbits about the Hallmark Christmas movie about the Chiefs and her time at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.

First, Bush Hager penned a letter for Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. His mother, Donna, who is in the film, helped make sure that note was put into Kelce’s locker at Arrowhead Stadium. Kelce is at training camp so it will be a few weeks before he sees it.

Bush Hager wrote that her daughters have become football fans since he started dating international singing star Taylor Swift.

The main stars of “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story,” also left a note for Kelce: Hunter King and Tyler Hynes, People magazine reported.

And then there was this from Bush Hager: the movie will air the week before Thanksgiving (“So set your DVRs,” she quipped).

Thanksgiving is on Nov. 28, which means the Chiefs movie will be coming out in time for the holiday.

Hynes and Donna Kelce also shared an Instagram video from Arrowhead Stadium that shows many of the people who will appear in the movie: Ed Begley, Jr., Diedrich Bader, Richard Riehle, Christine Ebersole, Richard Christy, Chiefs coach Andy Reid and players like Trey Smith, Mecole Hardman, Clyde Edwards-Helaire and George Karlaftis.

Ava and Gracie Hunt, the daughters of Chiefs CEO/chairman Clark Hunt, also are in this video, along with Catrick Mahomes.

That’s a cat that has 10,000 followers on Instagram and is better known as Sly James the Cat.

Here is the video that shows those stars who were at Arrowhead Stadium.

Sly James The Cat/Catrick Mahomes has his own Instagram account, so this movie is going to be very Kansas City-centric.

Pete Grathoff
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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