[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Finding Mr. Christmas Season 2 Episode 1 “The Search for Mr. Christmas.”]
Like Santa on December 24, the first contestant on the new season of Hallmark’s hunk hunt, Finding Mr. Christmas, was sent packing during the October 27 Season 2 premiere, but in the true spirit of the season—and the network—the ousted hopeful is optimistic about the whole thing.
“I felt like it just brought a new surge of energy for me,” Jake Schum, the former Green Bay Packers punter who got the boot, told Swooon. “I’ve been having this missing piece ever since football, and felt like I was just trying to find that thing. Just being part of this, again, having that brotherhood again and being around all those guys and really sinking my teeth into something that was fun and exciting…I can definitely see myself doing [again].”