A Good Man Is
Hard To Buy in Oxygen Original Movie
Husband For Hire,
Premiering
Saturday, January 19 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)
All-Star Cast
Features Mark Consuelos, Nadine Velazquez, Mario Lopez,
Erik Estrada and
Tempestt Bledsoe
New York, NY – A
beautiful businesswoman gets more than she bargained for after
hiring a handsome stranger as her groom in the Oxygen romantic
comedy Husband For
Hire, premiering
Saturday, January 19 at 8 p.m. (all times ET/PT). The all-star cast
is led by Mark Consuelos and Nadine Velazquez, with television
veterans Mario Lopez, Erik Estrada and Tempestt Bledsoe rounding out
the cast.
Velazquez stars as
Lola Dia, a career-savvy perfectionist who has twenty-four hours to
find a husband, or she will lose her share of the family business.
In order to satisfy a clause in her late mother’s will that requires
her to be married by the age of twenty-five, Lola hires local
workman Bo (Mark Consuelos) to become her husband, much to the
objection of her ex-fiancee Marco (Mario Lopez). Joined by her
best friend Nina (Tempestt Bledsoe), Lola makes Bo over to fit
squarely into the expectations of her demanding, traditional father
Victor (Erik Estrada) and gain his mandatory approval. Their wild
ride to the altar takes a surprising turn as handsome, fun-loving Bo
turns out to be much more than Lola expected, and they are forced to
stay one step ahead of the scheming Marco, who is determined to win
Lola back.
Husband For Hire
is from executive producers Tim Perell and Howard Gertler of Process
Media and writer/director Kris Isacsson. The movie was shot
on-location in New Mexico.
Mark Consuelos can
be seen in the upcoming feature film
Wedding Daze, opposite
Isla Fisher and Jason Biggs. He is well-known for his role as Mateo
Santos on the long-running soap favorite
All My Children, where
he played opposite his wife Kelly Ripa. His extensive television
credits include Age of Love,
Missing,
Hope and Faith,
Beautiful Girl,
Third Watch and
Friends; and he has
appeared in feature films including
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
and The Great Raid.
Nadine Velazquez
stars as Catalina in the NBC hit comedy
My Name is Earl, with
Jason Lee and Jaime Pressly. In its inaugural season the show
received the People’s Choice Award, SAG Award for Best New Comedy
Series and TCA Award for Best New Show. Velazquez has also been
seen in Kings of South Beach,
Biker Boyz,
Chasing Papi and
Entourage.
Mario Lopez, who
danced his way to America’s hearts on the hit show
Dancing With The Stars,
is also the official host of
Weekend Extra. He recently starred in the ABC Family
movie Holiday in Handcuffs
and has a recurring role on
Nip/Tuck. Mario is also slated to star in the upcoming
CW half-hour comedy Eight Days a
Week, opposite Christina Millian.
Erik Estrada’s
macho, humorous portrayal of Officer Frank Poncherelo (“Ponch”) on
CHiPs has made him a
pop culture icon. He has also been discovered by a whole new
generation and culture who know him as Johnny from the number-one
international series for Televisa, entitled
Dos Mujeres, Un Camino.
Tempestt Bledsoe
is best known for her role as Vanessa Huxtable in the groundbreaking
1980s sitcom The Cosby Show.
She has also appeared in the television series
The Practice,
Strong Medicine and
South of Nowhere.
Tim Perell and
Process Media have previously produced
My Sexiest Mistake,
Tempting Adam and
Romancing the Bride for
Oxygen. Kris Isacsson also served as writer/director of
Romancing
the Bride and Tempting
Adam.
About Oxygen Media
Oxygen is
currently available in over 73 million homes. The network was
launched in 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape --
creating a network targeted to younger women. Oxygen is rewriting
the rulebook for women's television, with a vast array of
unconventional and original programming including
The Janice Dickinson Modeling
Agency, The Bad Girls Club, Tori & Dean:
Inn Love and
Campus Ladies. Through
programs like Oxygen’s Mentors Walk and "Who Cares About Girls,"
Oxygen's documentary series -- Oxygen is creating The New Girls
Network.
