Home & Family has a new co-host. Today, the Hallmark Channel announced Debbie Matenopoulos will replace Cristina Ferrare as co-host of the daytime talk show.
Ferrare has hosted the series alongside Mark Steines since 2012.
Read the full details below:
STUDIO CITY, CA, June 21, 2016 – Cristina Ferrare, longtime co-host of Hallmark Channel’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated daily series “Home & Family,” will depart the network’s popular original lifestyle program, it was announced today by Hallmark Channel. The network also announced that current “Home & Family” member Debbie Matenopoulos will immediately join Emmy® Award-winning journalist and series co-host Mark Steines as the series’ new co-host.
“Cristina Ferrare has been instrumental in making ‘Home & Family’ one of daytime’s most popular lifestyle series,” said Michelle Vicary, Executive Vice President, Programming & Publicity, Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
“Cristina’s natural flair and expertise, along with her warmth and grace, set a standard for all of us at ‘Home & Family,’ and we are forever indebted to her.
“It is a great pleasure to promote ‘Home & Family’ regular contributor Debbie Matenopoulos to become Mark’s co-host. Debbie has quickly become an audience favorite among our family of multi-talented lifestyle experts and we look forward to Debbie’s continued unique and exciting contributions going forward.”
What do you think? Do you watch Home & Family? Are you sad to see Cristina leave?
Cristina was so comforting to watch, especially during my recovery from bc surgery and treatments. Her beautiful smile, her great cooking. I will no longer watch until Cristina returns. Debbie is annoying. Hallmark clearly does not care about family and I will not be watching any of their programs.
Age discrimination? Isn’t this against the law? Cristina was a class act. How much longer do the new hosts have? A couple of months because of their age?
Cristina made Home and Family. She was on the original show in the late ’90’s. I have nothing against a Debbie M but bring Cristina back. And, while you’re at it, bring Michael Burger back too!
Shame on Woody Frasure for allowing this to happen.
Another show I will no longer watch……
Talk about age discrimination! WOW!
Shame on you Home and Backyard……Hopefully someone will see
What Christine has to offer!!
WOW , I must have been right about Mark! I wrote a post weeks ago and it was never posted! What because I spoke the truth about getting rid of Mark instead of Christine? This is the second co host that has had to leave because oh him, and Woody should be ashamed of himself. Greedy is more like it? Both of them don’t know the meaning of what family is all about. Try to explain to a 5 year old that the nice lady “and I mean Lady” left. She wants to know why she left her family? Explaine… Read more »
I am very disappointed and saddened at Cristina’s being let go and I am totally disappointed in the way Hallmark just did this with no class whatsoever. So much for what I thought Hallmark stood for. I will not be watching this show again. Cristina was real and had class and grace. I hope she knows how much she is missed.
Love the show, loved Christina and Mark together. Nothing against Debbie…just will really miss Christina.
So sad Christina is no longer on the show and what a SHOCK!! I thought she was on holiday and could not figure out what was going on!! The sneaky way it was done was not correct!!! I will miss her the new lady is better on her other entetainment show in the evenings! Christina was way better and I seemed to click with her!!
Love Christina had not been watching cause she was not there . Didn’t know she had left . But need to give Debbie Time if i was in her place i would like for ever one to be happy for me . Life is short . Just be nice and give her a chance . Deb your sweet,kind, special , people if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say it. What kind of example are you for children and others. Deb wish only the best good for you be happy.
Please don’t think most comments are against Debbie, just really hate the way Cristina was ousted. Debbie will be okay . I didn’t care for the way the show was heading. WAY too hyperactive. So I haven’t been interested for awhile.
Well I won’t be watching Home and Family,I don’t like Debbie M,she is just too full of herself,she tries to take over the show.I only watch because of Christina,she’ a lady and relateable and classy!!!
I’m sorry but Christina didn’t look right with Mark and I never understood the pairing up of the two. Debbie breathes life into the show and look great together. I have now started watching the show again.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Home and family has sent the wrong message to their fans. What to do with that family member that’s getting older? Why, you get rid of them!!! It feels like Cristina died!! There was no closure. People didn’t get to say goodbyes! I love the show. I don’t love the message you sent. I just watched an episode about someone who started a facility for Alzheimer’s in their hometown. Why? Who cares about loved ones aging? I do and so do the viewers!! Cristina is beautiful. Shame on you Home and Family!!
You lost a fan. I miss Christina
Love love love Christina! Christina really resonated with 40’s and 50 year olds! She was real , not false . Unfortunately, probably will not watch Debbie, she tries too hard! Just my opinion.
Debbie is great!
She brought new air in the Show. Much more interesting now than ever!!!
Christina was nice but got boring!!!
Love Debbie!!!!!
Debbie is very talented and energetic. But she can’t fill Christina’s place. There are many of us who valued Christina’s charm and grace, which is gone now. If you like Debbie, you would also like Kelli and whoever in the morning, and the Fab life in the afternoons, (which I heard was cancelled). Those are shows where Christina would fit in better. Many of us loved the ‘ Home and Family’ concept just exactly for that . It’s just the same as other shows now.
I meant that those are the kind of shows Debbie, not Christina, would fit in better as a host–not H&F.
Debbie is great, just not as a host for Home & Family.