Candace Cameron Bure has been dubbed the “Queen of Christmas Movies,” as she has starred in numerous romantic holiday films for the Hallmark Channel and Great American Family. The actress, 48, recently revealed that her husband, former NHL player Valeri Bure, doesn’t enjoy watching the romantic movies she’s in. After “a lot of conversation and prayer” over the years, Valeri is “supportive” of his wife’s career. At the same time, he chooses to not watch her movies because he doesn’t like seeing her “being close to someone else.”
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Watching kissing scenes is uncomfortable for her husband.
The holiday rom-coms that Candace Cameron Bure stars in typically end with a kiss. “In all of the TV movies that I do, there’s always one kiss at the end,” she said on an episode of the Candace Cameron Bure Podcast. “We all look forward to the kiss at the end. We all know it’s going to happen.”
Her husband, however, does not look forward to the kiss at the end. She understands why her husband doesn’t like watching those scenes.
“I don’t think it’s as comfortable for anybody – maybe if you’re an actor married to another actor – it’s just never comfortable to watch your spouse in the arms of someone, even though it’s a peck or a kiss or anything,” Candace said during an interview with Fox News, per the New York Post.
At one point, Candace contemplated giving up her acting career because of her husband.
Over the years, Candace and Valeri had many conversations about the Christmas movies she stars in.
“Val was like, ‘I don’t even really like watching you being, regardless of the kiss at the end, I really don’t like watching you being close to someone else,'” Candace explained on her podcast. After “those struggles and a lot of conversation and prayer,” Candace thought, “I have to give this up.”
When “some movies came up,” Candace’s husband mentioned them to her because he’s “supportive” of her career. “I said, ‘yeah, but I’m not going to do it because there’s a kiss at the end. And I know that makes you unhappy and I don’t want to dishonor our marriage,'” she explained.
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Eventually, her husband realized he didn't want to stop her from doing what she loved.
Though Candace emphasized that it took years to reach this point, Valeri eventually “came to a point where he said, ‘I can handle it. And I don’t want you to give up your entire career.’”
From there, they discussed their boundaries. “He was like, ‘But I don’t want to watch the movies and if you’re OK with me not watching, I want to support you. I want to be there for you. But I just don’t want to watch them,'” Candace said on her podcast.
Candace's longtime friend and fellow TV movie star Danica McKellar has a different solution to the same problem.
During their interview with Fox News, Danica admitted that her husband “doesn’t like” the kissing scenes in her movies either. She might “fast-forward” through certain scenes or kiss her husband during the kissing scenes to distract him from the on-screen kiss. “When that part of the movie happens, I just kiss him,” Danica told Fox News.
In 2022, Candace left Hallmark and joined the Great American Family channel.
The move was controversial because Candace said she liked that “Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core.”
After some fans labeled her as a “bigot,” she shared a statement via Instagram in 2022. “It absolutely breaks my heart that anyone would ever think I intentionally would want to offend and hurt anyone,” she wrote at the time. “It saddens me that the media is often seeking to divide us, even around a subject as comforting and merry as Christmas movies. But, given the toxic climate in our culture right now, I shouldn’t be surprised. We need Christmas more than ever.”
Elsewhere in the statement, she claimed that her comments about “traditional marriage” were taken out of context.
“I have long wanted to find a home for more faith-based programming,” she said. “I am grateful to be an integral part of a young and growing network. I had also expressed in my interview, which was not included, that people of all ethnicities and identities have and will continue to contribute to the network in great ways both in front of and behind the camera, which I encourage and fully support.”
