Did ‘Christmas at the Catnip Cafe’ Just Give Update on ‘Nine Lives of Christmas’ Romance?

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Christmas at the Catnip Cafe.]

Hallmark, especially in recent years, loves a cameo. Faves show up in each other’s movies all the time, and that includes, of course, Paul Campbell and Kimberley Sustad, who have starred in and written Hallmark films together. Sustad has appeared in all three movies of the Three Wise Men trilogy (which she co-wrote with Campbell). And she also makes a cameo in his Christmas at the Catnip Cafe, which costars Erin Cahill and premiered on Sunday, November 30, as part of the annual Countdown to Christmas.

The film follows Campbell’s Dr. Ben Kane, a veterinarian, and Cahill’s Olivia Pierce, a marketing executive, who have both been left half of a cat café and the obstacles they run into when they have very different ideas about what to do with the location. It’s during an event at the café that Sustad shows up as an unnamed character (as tends to be the case with these Hallmark fave cameos).