Hallmark prides itself on treating the people it works with like family, but it was the exact opposite when it came to the talk show “Home & Family.” Instead of treating their employees like family, they reportedly dropped them like flies.
In 2015, Robert Levy, a former executive producer on “Home & Family,” claimed the show’s creator and producer, Woody Fraser, wrongfully terminated Levy and exhibited age discrimination against him, per Patch. The executive producer claimed Fraser would say inappropriate jokes about Levy’s age in a way that made it seem like his “age was unwelcome.” Levy, who was 64 at the time, was fired in July 2015 and believes it was because he was older as his replacement didn’t have the qualifications that he had.
Levy wasn’t the only one who accused “Home & Family” of wrongful termination. In 2018, former co-host of “Home & Family” Cristina Ferrare shared a lengthy post on Facebook claiming she too was fired in 2016 because of her age. She shared, “Two years this week I was fired from Home and Family…Just like that, poof I was replaced with no other explanation other than I was too old and the powers at be at Hallmark wanted to take the show in another direction.” In 2018, Ferrare’s former co-host, Mark Steines, was also fired, which was the reason for Ferrare’s rant. However, Steines also had his own allegations against “Home & Family.”
