A few weeks ago, Hallmark Channel announced that their daily talk show Home & Family will be ending its run in August. Today, we learned that Cameron Mathison already has a new job lined up. He will be joining General Hospital.
“I am absolutely thrilled to be part of the GENERAL HOSPITAL family! Incredibly grateful to [Executive Producer] Frank Valentini and the writers at GH for including me in such an iconic show. I feel like a kid at Christmas, as I’ll also be continuing making Hallmark movies and be part of that family as well. So so excited… thank you,” Mathison told Soap Opera Digest.
This is not the first time he has worked on a Soap Opera. He starred on All My Children from 1998-2011.
Hallmark Channel, the channel of happy movies, is giving us a sad story today. That is because they announced that this is the last season for their daily talk show.
“The ninth and current season of ‘Home & Family’ will be the series’ last,” a spokesperson for the network said in a statement to Variety. “For nearly a decade, the show has anchored our daytime lineup, featuring countless hours of cooking, lifestyle, DIY, health, entertaining and decorating segments. We want to thank the heart and soul of the show, our incredibly talented cast and crew — led by co-hosts Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison — for their creativity, hard work and dedication. Our audience can look forward to more of the topical segments they know and love when the show returns on Monday, April 5 with a new one-hour, three-day-a-week format. The program’s final episode airs Wednesday, August 4th.”
I think this is a huge mistake because it was a great way to promote their many, many, many movies. Plus, it was fun to watch because there was such great chemistry on the show. You can tell that everyone liked each other. Something that is rare these days in daytime.
Along with the chemistry, there were also some really interesting cooking and crafting segments. It was nice to have something different than the other morning shows to watch.
Welcome Home @CameronMathison! We are so grateful you are feeling better and have been cleared to come back. We missed you and we'll keep supporting you on your road to recovery! pic.twitter.com/ybi882CJFg
Earlier this month, Cameron Mathison told the Home & Family audience that he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Exactly two weeks ago, he underwent surgery to remove the cancer. It was a sucessful surgery and now he is cancerfree.
He is doing so well, that he is back at work today hosting the Hallmark show with Debbie Matenopoulos. Although, the healing process took him longer than he thought it would (he thought he would be back in 3-4 days), being back at work less than 14 days after major surgery is pretty incredible. He is definitely a fighter! Which is why he kicked cancer’s a$$.
Mathison made sure to tell the audience that he is feeling great. He also wanted to let them know how grateful he is for all of their love, support and prayers. We are grateful that he is doing better and not looking like he was in the battle for his life just two weeks ago.
His openness about his cancer diagnosis, surgery and post-op has been very brave. I am sure his story will help others who might be going through what he has been going to.
Tune in to the show weekdays starting at 10a to see him in action and learn a lot of good things to make your house more of a home. They have some mouth-watering cooking segments you don’t want to miss. I send recipes to my baking friend all the time and they are scrumptious.
Last week, Cameron Mathison revealed that he has Kidney cancer and went in for surgery on September 12th to have it removed. The surgery went well and he only lost 20% of his kidney.
Today, the man, who is known as much for his torso as his face, showed off his scars from his successful surgery. He also wrote, “Half of my life I was focused on the aesthetics of my body and about half of my career I spent shirtless… now I proudly bear the scars that made me cancer free.#scarstoyourbeautiful #cancerfree #gratefulwrote” His scars are beautiful because he is a survivor, a cancer survivor.
His bravery makes me more comfortable with my own biopsy scars. I hope other people feel the same way after seeing this picture of the Soap star and Home & Family host.
Thank you, Cameron, for being so open about your cancer and I am happy you are cancer-free.
A week ago, Cameron Mathison revealed on Home & Family that he was diagnosed with Kidney cancer last month. As part of his treatment to beat it, he had surgery to remove it on Thursday. On Friday, he let us know that all went well and he only lost 20% of his infected kidney.
Today, he gave us another update, “Unbelievably grateful to be back home after a successful partial nephrectomy surgery. It was an eventful 4 days in the hospital, and doing well at home now. @inderbirgillmd is a miracle worker, and my whole family is indebted to him and everyone at @keckmedofusc 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
“Thank you to everyone sending prayers, positive thoughts, flowers, cards, stuffed animals, food, love💕… and kidney beans😂
“Love you guys😌 #1.8kidneysleft #cancersucks #cancerfighter #feelingloved”
Now that he is home, he will spend the next two weeks recuperating before going back to work on the Hallmark talk show.
Before, going under the knife, he said that after surgery, since the cancer had not spread, he would not require chemotherapy and radiation. Hopefully, that has not changed.
A big take away from his story is that if you know there is something wrong, not only go to your doctor, but also make sure they check it out. Had he not been insistent about getting an MRI because of his mysterious stomach, who knows when they would have found the tumor that was growing inside of him for at least a decade.
Happy he is on the road for recovery and I will continue to pray it goes smoothly.
