Jonathan Bennett

Best known for his role as Aaron Samuels in 2004’s Mean Girls, Jonathan Bennett grew up in Ohio and moved to New York after attending Otterbein University. He landed roles in All My Children, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Smallville, among other projects before starring in the Tina Fey comedy.

After Mean Girls, he also starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and Love Wrecked and in 2014. In 2022, Bennett starred in Hallmark’s The Holiday Sitter, which was the network’s first Christmas movie with an LGBTQ+ love story at the center. He also stars in the network’s The Christmas House franchise in addition to many other festive flicks.

Bennett has plenty of reality TV experience. He competed on Dancing With the Stars but was eliminated during week 6. From 2015 to 2017, Bennett hosted Cake Wars on Food Network and in 2018, he released a cookbook titled The Burn Cookbook. In 2019, he competed on Celebrity Big Brother but was the second sent home. In 2024, he started hosting Hallmark’s Finding Mr. Christmas competition.

In November 2020, Bennett got engaged to host Jaymes Vaughan, whom he met four years prior. They married in March 2022.