Donna Kelce on Her ‘Awesome’ Acting Debut on Hallmark — and the Sweet Reaction from Her Grandkids (Exclusive)

Donna Kelce on Her ‘Awesome’ Acting Debut on Hallmark — and the Sweet Reaction from Her Grandkids (Exclusive)

Donna appears in Hallmark Channel’s ‘Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story,’ which premieres on Nov. 30, and ‘Christmas on Call’
Donna Kelce is opening up about her experience as an actress.

Donna Kelce on Her ‘Awesome’ Acting Debut on Hallmark — and the Sweet Reaction from Her Grandkids (Exclusive)

On Friday, Nov. 29, PEOPLE caught up with Donna at Arrowhead Stadium as she watched her son Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Las Vegas Raiders.When asked about making her acting debut in the Hallmark Channel movies Christmas on Call, which was set in Philadelphia, and Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, which is set in Kansas City, Donna, 72, says it was “so awesome.”

“There was so many fantastic veterans of Hallmark movies and I just had a blast learning from all of them,” she says. “It’s so much fun for them to be doing the movie in Kansas City for the first time and being in the stadium that I’ve been here for the past 11 years,” she adds. “So it was just really fun.”

Donna also says that her grandchildren couldn’t get enough of seeing her in Christmas on Call: “[They] kept saying, ‘Play it back, play it back! We want to see DeeDee!’ So that was kind of fun.'”
Holiday Touchdown follows a love story between the Chiefs’ director of fan engagement (Tyler Hynes) and one of the team’s superfans (Hunter King). Donna plays the manager of a barbecue restaurant, who can be seen offering advice in the trailer.