Little Home on the Prairie alum Melissa Gilbert is about to visitor star in a Hallmark collection, practically 11 years after leaving Hollywood to embrace life on a Michigan farm.
The 60-year-old actress, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, will seem in a two-episode arc within the upcoming twelfth season of When Calls The Coronary heart, premiering in 2025.
Her character, Georgie McGill, will share ‘a stunning previous with one particular Hope Valley resident,’ in keeping with a press launch.
Gilbert’s cameo can be tied to Little Home on the Prairie, as When Calls the Coronary heart’s govt producer is Michael Landon Jr., son of late Michael Landon, who performed Pa on the enduring household present.
Kelly Garrett, Hallmark Media’s vice chairman of programming, highlighted the parallels between When Calls the Coronary heart and Little Home on the Prairie in a current assertion, saying each exhibits have ‘charming and compelling tales of hope, human connection and frontier survival.’
Little Home on the Prairie alum Melissa Gilbert is about to visitor star in a Hallmark collection, practically 11 years after leaving Hollywood to embrace life on a Michigan farm
The 60-year-old actress, who performed Laura Ingalls Wilder on Little Home on the Prairie , will seem in a two-episode arc within the upcoming twelfth season of When Calls The Coronary heart, premiering in 2025
Garrett added: ‘It was solely becoming that the primary folks to listen to this particular information have been the Hearties — devoted followers who’ve celebrated the present yr after yr and made it so successful.
‘The power being right here with them to share this information is electrical, and we can not watch for them to satisfy Georgie subsequent yr.’
The announcement comes after Gilbert revealed she left LA in 2013 to ‘age,’ liberating herself from Hollywood’s harsh, unrealistic expectations for actresses, regardless of her success in Tinseltown.
‘All the pressures, I confronted all of them. Whenever you dwell in Los Angeles, it is like dwelling on the mall whenever you work on the mall,’ she instructed People.
‘Actually, everyone seems to be within the enterprise. Whenever you stroll right into a restaurant, each head turns to see who walked in.
‘All people’s all the time wanting, curious, competing and that is a extremely tough factor, particularly for a feminine actor. It places numerous strain on staying skinny and staying younger and actually it makes it laborious to really feel comfy in a single’s personal pores and skin, as a result of [of] the growing old course of.
‘So are you going to age comfortably and fortunately? Are you going to battle it, be unhealthy and really feel like there’s one thing fallacious with you for growing old and that you just’re faulty since you’ve gotten older?
‘I needed to get out of there [L.A.], as a result of it felt like I used to be not being authentically myself.’
Her character, Georgie McGill, will share ‘a stunning previous with one particular Hope Valley resident,’ in keeping with a press launch; (Lori Loughlin pictured)
Gilbert’s cameo can be tied to Little Home on the Prairie, as When Calls the Coronary heart’s govt producer is Michael Landon Jr., son of late Michael Landon, who performed Pa on the enduring household present
The Diary of Anne Frank actress, now married to Timothy Busfield, has two sons—Dakota, 35, together with her first husband Bo Brinkman, and Michael, 28, together with her second husband Bruce Boxleitner.
After relocating to Michigan and ultimately New York, she shared that every one her anxieties melted away after leaving California.
She mentioned: ‘Within the 5 years that I used to be in Michigan, all of that stopped. … I ended the whole lot and simply centered on being as bodily and emotionally wholesome as I may.
‘And I feel that exhibits, ‘Sure, I am growing old, however it’s not a curse — it is a blessing.”
She was on the favored TV present Little Home On The Prairie from 1974 till 1983, showing in over 200 episodes.
Gilbert has a clothes assortment referred to as Trendy Prairie.
The actress additionally fashions for the model.
‘Crafted in partnership with our unbelievable artisans, each bit is exclusive and particular, reflecting our imaginative and prescient and their laborious work,’ she mentioned earlier this yr.
‘From linens to ceramics, aprons to toys, there’s one thing for everybody to convey a smile to your face. Have you ever checked it out but? Higher mosey on over to the Trendy Prairie web site as a result of these limited-edition treasures are flying off the cabinets!’
In November she launched an app for her Modern Prairie lifestyle brand targeted toward older women.
She cofounded Trendy Prairie with retail and merchandising knowledgeable Nicole Haase.
‘The retail business has underestimated girls our age— and our capacity and need to spend,’ Gilbert instructed People.
‘There was little or no area for growing old girl. We have been both marginalized as a spaced-out outdated girl or as a cranky outdated girl you need to keep away from. There’s clearly a lot extra to us than that.’
Trendy Prairie to succeed in Gilbert’s imaginative and prescient as a ‘area the place girls can join’ additionally has launched an app.
Seen far proper with Melissa Sue Anderson, far left, and Lindsay Greenbush, heart, on Little Home On The Prairie
With costar Mitch Vogel on the hit household present that’s nonetheless common because of streamers
‘Girls must know they don’t seem to be alone,’ Gilbert mentioned of eager to create a neighborhood. ‘There’s all the time somebody there to assist us by way of, to stroll forward of us, to stroll behind us, to carry us up if want be.
Gilbert portrayed Laura Ingalls Wilder aka ‘Half Pint’ within the Seventies NBC collection Little Home On The Prairie tailored from the best-selling collection of Little Home books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Little Home On The Prairie premiered with a pilot movie in March 1974 and celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.
‘There are individuals who will perennially assume that I am 12 years outdated,’ Gilbert mentioned. ‘And I’ll all the time be that lady, stuffed with surprise and working by way of the fields. Half Pint is inside me all the time. However we’re all growing old.’
The Trendy Prairie model model presents clothes and residential items impressed by the Little Home values of ‘love, neighborhood and household’ and are made by women-owned or women-run companies.
Gilbert lives on a 14-acre farm with husband Busfield.
‘We simply love doing our foolish little chores collectively, like cleansing out the hen coop, and ensuring they’ve their treats, and taking part in with the canines,’ Gilbert mentioned.
‘We play numerous backgammon. We prepare dinner collectively. And actually, we identical to to sit down subsequent to one another in a room regardless of the place we’re. We simply actually get pleasure from being collectively.’
Gilbert has a clothes assortment referred to as Trendy Prairie
Gilbert lives on a 14-acre farm with husband Timothy Busfield, proven in January 2020 in New York Metropolis
Gilbert and Busfield have been married since 2013 and she or he credited him for providing her assist as she embraced growing old naturally.
‘And after I would say, ”I feel I will cease coloring my hair,” he’d say, ”Cannot wait to see what shade it’s. That is so thrilling!” After I mentioned, ”I feel I need to get my breast implants taken out completely,” he mentioned, ”Do it!”,’ Gilbert mentioned. ‘It is extremely uplifting to be with somebody who says, ‘I really like you precisely the way in which you might be.”’
Each Gilbert and Busfield had just gone through second divorces with their respective former companions after they began relationship.
After getting married, Gilbert and Busfield moved to Howell, Michigan into an enthralling, restored Victorian-era dwelling in August 2013, however later moved to a picturesque 14-acre Catskill Mountain cottage in New York.