{"id":2246914,"date":"2026-01-23T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2246914"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:10:06","slug":"guarding-stars-leighton-meester-and-jared-padalecki-holiday-rom-com-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/guarding-stars-leighton-meester-and-jared-padalecki-holiday-rom-com-movie-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Guarding Stars: Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki Holiday Rom-Com Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What do you get the person who already has everything for Christmas? A security professional, perhaps.<\/p>\n

Leighton Meester (Good Cop\/Bad Cop, I Love LA, The Buccaneers<\/i>) and Jared Padalecki (Supernatural<\/i><\/a>, Walker<\/i>) are set to star in Guarding Stars<\/i>, an upcoming holiday romantic comedy movie about a no-nonsense bodyguard assigned to protect a charming action star over the holidays. Of course, sparks fly, secrets unravel, and Christmas gets a lot more complicated!<\/p>\n

Guarding Stars<\/i> is inspired by the 2022 novel The Bodyguard <\/i>by Katherine Center. Directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (Aquamarine, <\/i>Purple Hearts<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>Ginny & Georgia<\/i><\/a>), written by Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith (Isn\u2019t It Romantic<\/i>, Virgin River<\/i><\/a>), and executive produced by Robin Fisichella, the rom-com will also star Andie MacDowell (Groundhog Day<\/i>, Four Weddings and a Funeral<\/i>), the country singer Walker Hayes in his acting debut, Noah LaLonde (My Life with the Walter Boys<\/i><\/a>), Toby Sandeman (Running Point<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>Voicemails for Isabelle<\/i><\/a>)<\/i>, Rachael Ancheril, Phil Brooks, and Ava Max. Producers include Gina Matthews with Little Engine Productions, Grant Scharbo with Little Engine Productions (Isn\u2019t It Romantic<\/i>, 13 Going on 30,<\/i> Reminders of Him<\/i>), and Jared and Genevieve Padalecki with Living in the Asterisk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI began paying close attention to BookTok culture around the success of my last Netflix film, Purple Hearts,<\/i>\u201d says Allen. \u201cThe overwhelming enthusiasm on social media and with readers for Katherine Center\u2019s novel was a major factor in my decision to come on board as director. It\u2019s been amazing to work closely with Katherine so far and to see her so excited about moving her witty story about a no-nonsense bodyguard [for] an A-list actor into the holiday season. It makes the most gorgeous backdrop for the sparks that fly between them to be even brighter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no release date for the movie yet, but keep coming back to Tudum for more updates on Guarding Stars<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.netflix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you get the person who already has everything for Christmas? A security professional, perhaps. Leighton Meester (Good Cop\/Bad Cop, I Love LA, The Buccaneers) and Jared Padalecki (Supernatural, Walker) are set to star in Guarding Stars, an upcoming holiday romantic comedy movie about a no-nonsense bodyguard assigned to protect a charming action star […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2246915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Guarding-Stars-Leighton-Meester-and-Jared-Padalecki-Holiday-Rom-Com-Movie.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246916,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246914\/revisions\/2246916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}