‘Curious Caterer’ Stars Nikki DeLoach and Andrew Walker Reveal Why They Continue to Team Up for Hallmark: ‘They’re Real Stories’

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Keeping it real! Curious Caterer costars Nikki DeLoach and Andrew Walker are still team Hallmark after some of the network’s stars moved in 2021 and 2022 to Great American Media.“Let’s start with the family that is Hallmark,” DeLoach, 43, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, February 1, while promoting her and Walker’s second mystery film together, Curious Caterer: Grilling Season. “I’ve been fortunate enough to work on a lot of different networks … this is the only network I’ve ever worked at in my 30-something years of being in this industry where you truly are family from the top all the way through.”The Cranberry Christmas actress added: “I don’t know many networks where you can pick up the phone and call the head of the network or reach out to any and all executives.”Hallmark Media made headlines in January 2020 when its former CEO Bill Abbott left the company following a controversial choice to pull a same-sex commercial from the network.

He launched Great American Media — which includes Great American Family — one year later and many of Hallmark’s big stars followed him, including Candace Cameron Bure and Danica McKellar.DeLoach, however, signed an exclusive, multi-picture overall deal with Hallmark Media in December 2022.

Walker, meanwhile, announced his exclusive multi-picture contract with the network in April 2022.“I think in this industry, you either evolve or you die or you just, like, get left behind.

And I think that’s what Hallmark has been doing and they’re leaders in this [industry], especially with these incredible women that are now running this company,” the Three Wise Men and a Baby actor, 43, told Us on Wednesday. “There [are] some really interesting things that they’re taking on.