The Young and the Restless Spoilers: Alum Hunter King’s Surprising Taylor Swift Connection

The Young and the Restless (Y&R) spoilers tease that Hunter King made her mark playing Summer Newman on the CBS sudser. Since then Hunter, the sister of The Kissing Booth’s Joey King, has gone on to star in several Hallmark movies.

A recent project had a Taylor Swift connection and here’s what you need to know about Hunter and the Shake It Off singer.

Hunter King Played Summer Newman

Hunter stars in Hallmark’s upcoming film, Holiday Touchdown: A Kansas City Chiefs Love Story. Taylor Swift is dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and his mom Donna Kelce was cast in the film with Hunter King and Tyler Hynes.

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Hallmark promoted the movie on Facebook with this post: “Look who’s joining Hunter King and Tyler Hynes in #HolidayTouchdown: A The Kansas City Chiefs Love Story! Please welcome America’s football mom #DonnaKelce to the cast.

Don’t miss the world premiere later this year during #CountdownToChristmas. ”Donna became famous as the mom of two sons, Travis and Jason, who played on opposing teams in the Superbowl. Since then she’s started a chocolate chip cookie line and dabbled in acting.

Y&R spoilers: Hunter King Was Summer Newman

The Hallmark film is about Alana Higman (King) who is a die-hard Kansas City Chiefs fan. She and her family compete to win the team’s Fan of the Year contest which is judged by the director of fan engagement, Derrick (Hynes).

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The movie is part of Hallmark’s famous Countdown to Christmas event and fans can see it later this year. We’re not sure if Taylor Swift showed up during filming and met Hunter, but clearly the actress now has an in after working with Travis’ mom.

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Back in Genoa City, the role of Summer Newman is now being played by Allison Lanier. Summer is on the front burner right now with a custody battle plot involving Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor).

Tell us Y&R fans, what do you think of the fact that Kyle has thrown in Summer’s face the fact that she is not Harrison Abbott’s (Munsell Redding) biological mom? Does that make her less of a mom in your eyes?

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