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?
I don’t even watch any more it saddens me that Christina is no longer on the show. I have been watching since the beginning, hope everything is ok with her and that your show moves on in spite. : {
I really enjoyed the show when Christina was a co-host with Mark. The show is not the same now with Debbie as his co-host, don’t get me wrong Debbie is good but the combination between her and Mark isn’t like it was with Christina.I feel Hallmark made a HUGE error in letting Christina go. She was an amazing asset to Home and Family. I don’t watch the show like I did before, it doesn’t have the pizzaz let it did with Christina. I really hope that you can get her to come back to the Family.
I miss Christina. Show is just not the same. Big mistake.
So bewildered as to why they would let Christina go. While I have nothing against Debbie, Christina was the one putting the heart in “Home & Family”. It makes me very sad because I had more faith in Hallmark as a “do the right thing” kind of company. I haven’t watched H&F nearly as much now that the heart is gone. Big mistake Hallmark. I’m feeling very disillusioned.
Christina & Mark were awesome TOGETHER! They WERE Home & Family!! She and her charm and warmth are irreplaceable!!. Mark is adorable but he can’t kep it floating without Christina… it’s going down the drain.. No reason to tune in now. Sadly, I’m out!!
Christina was my favorite part of the program. I just recently noticed that the Home & Family commercials didn’t include Christina and I kept wondering what had happened to her. When I found out she had been ‘let go’ I was shocked. She & Mark had a chemistry that made the show what it was and kept me coming back for your holiday programming – even though I am working from home I tuned in! I can’t say I’m going to watch it now. I dont care what the reason was for her dismissal. It was a bad call. Bring… Read more »
You got it ,dead on.. I thought Christina was on vacation..NO ONE can replace her,in short..so sad a disappointed that she is not on ..now I’m Not watching the show..so not right.. Without Christina,there is no show..Call it something else..God bless her xo
I am so upset that Christina is no longer the host of Hime & Family. She made the show worth watching, she was sweet, funny, talented, just a warm person. I quit watching the show back in June. However with the holidays coming up I tuned in again last week hoping that the show got back some of Christina’s charm and could see some great cooking and decorating ideas. Nope!! Turned it off after 5 min. Bring Christina back or give her her own type of Home show.
I was shocked when I had a chance to. , once I got home to watch my daily Home and Family ! So sad to see that Cristina wasn’t hosting with Mark. They are what made Home and Family, their chemistry together made your show great! Now that I’ve read that Cristina was actually fired by your network, besides Cristina and Mark, your program brought something special to me that other programs could not make happen , the loving spiritual fellowship of warmth and family feeling that they were able to make all the viewers, feel. Shame On You !!!!!… Read more »
I missed Cristina and wondered what happened to her. I haven’t watched Home and Family very much lately.
I thought it was a better show with christina. i sometimes watch but not as much now. it doesnt have my intreast as much now
Do miss Christina on the show. She was always a grounding influence. Bring her back.
The show stinks. It is way too long. What tv show goes for 2 hours? Rather watch re-runs.
I like them both, but Christina was the best! I miss her and I don’t think the show is the same.
So sorry for the loss of Christina. The show no longer has the class and warmth. You can see this is just another job for Debbie. The segments are very immature, with silly games and lack of depth in interviews. I use to watch it all the time and i now don’t care for it. Debbie’s kitchen episodes and segments all seem to reverse back to her. Every one seems to be on edge now and wondering when they are going. i appreciated Christina’s love of all and I especially loved to see what she was wearing everyday.
Mark Steines is not a good primary host, He was lightweight goofy player secondary to Christine. He seemed sometimes illinformed and out of his league trying to best Christine at many things. Now the show feels too forced, gimicy and stiffly scrpted. It has lost that friendly warm element that made me want to tune in daily. Very chaotic to watch and really tried to like it. Sadly no longer an interesting show, sorry the new young hostess lacks much in professional flare and dont thing she will be much of an audiance draw. I’m tuned out, bye!