Meghan McCain‘s highly-anticipated final day on The View/last day on Twitter is this Friday. But we haven’t seen the last of her just yet.
John McCain’s daughter has just signed on to produce a new original Lifetime movie tentatively titled Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story inspired by the best-selling 1997 self-help book by the late motivational speaker Dr. Richard Carlson.
Deadline reports:
The film tells the emotional and inspiring true story of Kristine Carlson, co-author of the best-selling book series Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff with her husband, Dr. Richard Carlson, who finds her world crashing down around her after Richard unexpectedly passes away. Faced with unsurmountable grief, Kristine finds her voice and the strength to navigate and rebuild her family in the midst of profound loss.
Sounds riveting.
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The biopic will star ’90s soap opera actress Heather Locklear and will mark her first return to the small screen since completing a 30-day court-ordered rehab treatment in 2019 after she was arrested for felony domestic battery, resisting and obstructing a police officer or EMT, and multiple counts of battery on a police officer and emergency personnel.
McCain revealed this week on Twitter that she’s “beyond excited” to executive produce the “legendary” project starring an “icon” like Locklear, who appears to have had her Twitter account suspended for some unknown reason.
I am beyond excited and honored to be partnering with @lifetimetv and @KristineCarlson to executive produce the legendary “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” book into a Lifetime film with icon @HeatherLocklear starring. Can’t wait to share it with all of you!https://t.co/iUS1Amwx3h
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 26, 2021
Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story is scheduled to premiere later this year.
Here’s how people on Twitter responded to McCain’s big announcement…
And then, irony died.
— Liz 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈Matthei (@Lizmatt7) July 26, 2021
Don’t rush on our account.
— Fenix2020 (@Fenix202018) July 26, 2021
— FELICIA BENSON (@FeliciaBenson) July 26, 2021
Funny, you made fun of billionaires using their own money to go outer space; but it’s ok for you to use your mother’s money to make a crappy movie.
— Marie J. (@MarieJ19) July 26, 2021
This is a bit random but… pic.twitter.com/jVizynHvnu
— JM (@lifeofmiguel07) July 26, 2021
I watch Lifetime constantly but I’m gonna pass on this one. Thanks for the heads up because I refuse to support anything you are involved with.
— SSStarr (@ssstarr14) July 26, 2021
Legendary?
— Vaccinated & Opinionated (@StephenColley18) July 26, 2021
…except when your colleagues voice a different political opinion, and then you’ll have to rudely interrupt them, taking away their air time.
— 🌊🌊🌊Anthony Spina🌊🌊🌊 (@AnthonySpina94) July 26, 2021
Why is Heather Locklears account suspended?
— Piper__33❤🍁❤ (@33_piper) July 26, 2021
OMG the amount of insurance must be astronomical.
— RJ Black (@RJ__Black) July 26, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Cam
Translation: Meghan McCain needed to pretend she left The View voluntarily, so she bought a phony executive producer credit on a TV movie so she can tell people “See, I left because I had other stuff going on”.
Liquid Silver
Even the teaser sounds really boring. Pass, thanks.
Fahd
Is Heather Locklear okay now? There was a big stretch of time where she was in and out of rehab several times and she had some arrests (dui/domestic violence, I think). Seems an unlikely leading actress for a yet to be made movie, even one that’s made-for-tv.
In any case, I won’t be watching. I’m boycotting her and her products. As for the movie’s advertisers, I might boycott those too, especially if I don’t regularly use their products.
Max
so, she makes trash. okay.
TomG
I guess the right wingnut McCain has to do something to make some money now that she has been fired from the “view” Oops, I meant asked to resign.
Mack
ROFLMAO. Heather Locklear? The one that has had so much trouble with alcohol and drugs? That Heather Locklear?
Cam
Now that I think about it, who am I kidding? I’m gonna eat cake frosting out of the can and watch this with the lights off. It’s like Goldie Hawn from Death Becomes Her. I wanna be Meghan McCain.
Cam
@Cam (Name Stolen by Troll)
Sweetie, I love it, you’re still obsessed with me for calling out your defense of right wing anti-LGBTQ bigots, that you keep trying to steal my screenname.
How sad that you couldn’t deflect from the fact that Meghan McCain bought a phony producer credit to try to continue the phony story of why she left the View.
Your troll game is sad and weak.
Kangol2
Everything about this McCain-produced TV movie has “dreck” attached to it. More mediocrity from a true mediocrity.
On a related note, I sincerely hope Heather Locklear is still on the road to drug-free recovery.
Heywood Jablowme
You’d think someone who has ALWAYS sweated the small stuff would see the irony of executively-producing a movie called “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.”
BoomerMyles
This will be easy to miss as I don’t even have Lifetime in my custom channel lineup.
Hey Queerty, you never did cover the story where Me-Again called out Queerty as “bullshit” in her tweet last week.
whereshouldistart
Heather Locklear is still alive?
Jack
Talk about the D-List. McCain, Locklear and TBS….uh I mean, Hallmark Channel…uh I mean Lifetime. Sounds like errbody is desperate for a paycheck.
lykeitiz
Ok, I’ll be the one to watch so no one else has to.
As a young gay in the ’90’s, the best times were the weekly parties for “Melrose Place” at my favorite bar. Every time someone on the show got called a b*tch or someone got slapped, everyone in the bar got a free shot. Good times, and Heather was the Queen B!
I owe it to her.
DarkZephyr
I don’t get why everyone’s gotta attack Heather or trash the project just because they don’t like McCain.
bsg1967
Poor Heather obviously needs some money
Jack Meoff
Heather Locklear and icon, two words I thought I’d never see together.
kevininbuffalo
You people are just as hateful as the Trump people, think about it.
Cam
@ kevininbuffalo
LOL!!! Wow, the troll account is trying THIS old line? Let’s see, Meghan McCain’s husband runs a virulently bigoted website that also pushes out right wing and anti-vax conspiracies. Trump locked kids in cages, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths by lying about Covid and stated he would appoint judges to attack LGBTQ civil rights.
But people who mock a made for TV movie are “JUST AS HATEFUL”. LOL!!!!!
Oh sweetie, go back to troll school.
tomch52
Our new motto is “When you Republicans go low We go lower!”
Mr. Stadnick
Poor Heather Locklear if anything could send her back to drinking like a fish it could be Ms McCain. I hope there is a role for David hasslehoff and an Andy Dick cameo!
tomch52
Locklear is as much of an Icon as much as McCain is an “Ican’t!”
alex1435
It sounds ridiculous.
JromeGervais09
Lifetime has such sappy movies I don’t watch them.