To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Danny Pellegrino has opened up about adding a rare LGBTQ+ love story – and a sprinkling of sass – to Hallmark’s newest ‘bucket list’ Christmas movie.
![[Deck the Walls (Picture: Hallmark)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232981287-e23e.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The 39-year-old, who hosts the Everything Iconic podcast, wrote and starred in Deck the Walls, which premiered on the channel last month as part of the annual Countdown to Christmas celebration. Ashley Greene leads the cast as Chicago-based designer Rose, who returns to her hometown to help her brother, Sal (Danny) with a house-flipping project for charity.
![[Deck the Walls (Picture: Hallmark)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232981283-9a8c.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
During her brief trip back to Ohio, she finds herself teaming up with foe Brysen (Wes Brown) to get the property fixed up before their Christmas deadline – while Sal is forced to work with high school nemesis Jake (Claybourne Elder) to ensure the project makes a splash.
![[Deck the Walls (Picture: Hallmark)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232981285-c5ce.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
In the last few years, the network has included multiple movies with queer romance themes and central plots. Deck the Walls also follows suit with a will-they, won’t-they romance between Sal and Jake as they attempt to overcome their initial hostilities, for the sake of the charity renovation.
![[Deck the Walls (Picture: Hallmark)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232981305-ea30.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The flick has some of those Hallmark tropes that we’ve come to know and love but, speaking to Metro, Danny insisted that there were ‘little twists’ along the way that he’s ‘really proud of’. ‘I wanted to do that and celebrate what we love about these tropes and hopefully make just a really great one,’ he told us. ‘But I love that – I love the big city gal that goes home, and I hope that people, after they watch it, see that there are little twists that I’m really proud of.
![[WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE WITH ANDY COHEN -- Episode 20180 -- Pictured: Danny Pellegrino -- (Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232980761-b392.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
