We have a winner! On December 15, 2025, “Finding Mr. Christmas” host and co-creator Jonathan Bennett crowned the winner of season two with lead judge Melissa Peterman and guest judge Erin Krakow by his side.
After a season that started with 10 hunky contestants competing in increasingly unhinged “Festive Face Off” challenges and acting in “Star Quality” scenes opposite top Hallmark actresses, the finale featured the last three men standing in the competition: Angel Garet, Craig Geoghan, and Rustin Sailor.
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Who Won ‘Finding Mr. Christmas’ Season 2?
For the final challenge, all three men filmed a complicated scene — complete with background actors, a cameo from Kristoffer Polaha, multiple cameras, popular Hallmark director Maclain Nelson advising them, and an onscreen kiss with Krakow.
All three finalists did great under pressure, pretending to chase down the love of their life at an old-time train station, just before she boarded her train. In addition to seeing their chemistry with Krakow (she did admit they were all good kissers!), viewers got a fascinating look at how a typical Hallmark scene is filmed.
In the end, though, only one hopeful could win the grand prize: a major role in a Hallmark Christmas movie, which turns out to be Hunter King and Evan Roderick‘s “A Make or Break Holiday,” premiering on December 20. During the elimination ceremony, Bennett outlined why they chose the winner they did.
He explained, “The winner is a guy who’s grown, taken every piece of feedback we’ve given, adapted to every scene, and always added a piece of themselves into the characters he played. He’s kind to everyone on and offscreen; he’s an actor that has grown not only in his craft, but in his heart.”
Bennett then announced, with dramatic music playing as all three contestants stood nervously in their suits, that the season two winner is Craig Geoghan!
‘Finding Mr. Christmas’ Winner Craig Geoghan Says He Filmed Hallmark Movie Debut a Few Weeks After His Big Win
HallmarkGeoghan, who hails from New York, told Entertainment Weekly that when his name was called as the winner, he let out a big sigh, explaining, “It was almost like a deep breath. A sense of relief, a big sigh. And then the emotions kind of hit me after that.”
Unlike season one winner Ezra Moreland, who went on to star in “Happy Howlidays” with Jessica Lowndes, Geoghan received a lead role — but not as the only star. That was a decision producers made before the season began, Bennett told EntertainmentNow, so that the winner could learn from major Hallmark stars rather than having to carry the movie.
Geoghan told Entertainment Weekly, “We got to shoot that in Vancouver maybe a month and a half after the wrapping of ‘Finding Mr. Christmas.’ And it’s funny shooting a holiday movie when it’s, you know, 75 degrees outside. And what an unbelievable cast and crew. I’m still in touch with all of them. It was truly like a family.”
In “A Make or Break Christmas,” he’ll play King’s brother Reid, whom he called “a total knucklehead.”
Bennett told Geoghan at the end of the “Finding Mr. Christmas” finale, “You have the ability to infuse the heart and humor that we love at Hallmark, but you also manage to show the depth we’re looking for with a leading man.”
We’re excited to see him bring those qualities to the screen and watch his career take off! Catch up on “Finding Mr. Christmas” on Hallmark+ and watch Geoghan’s first Hallmark movie — “A Make or Break Christmas” — on December 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
So disappointed. I was really hoping Rustin would win.
I was also hoping that Rustin would win. he now looks good with his hair cut shorter and his facial hair shaved off.
Me too