Actors Ryan McPartlin and Eva Tamargo starred in the TV Soap Passions, along with another Hallmark actor, Jesse Metcalfe (Martha's Vineyard).
Rebecca Staab and April Telek, who portray the beauty pageant organizer Mitzi Stewart and pageant mom Olivia Stewart respectively, competed in beauty pageants themselves. Staab was named Miss Nebraska and was a top-12 placer in the Miss USA pageant in 1980. Telek was named Miss Canada in 1994.
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Over the course of the movie, Mitzi Stewart, portrayed by Rebecca Staab, goes from being a long haired brunette to a mid-length streaked blonde. The latter is closer to how Staab usually portrays herself. As such, the brown hair is most-likely a wig and the blonde more likely her real hair.