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RETURN: WHEN CALLS THE HEART Season 6 To Resume On Hallmark But With Lori Loughlin Edited Out.

When Calls The Heart Season 6.

Lori Loughlin and Erin Krakow.

When Calls the Heart season 6 will resume airing this May on the Hallmark Channel but with Lori Loughlin’s Mayor of Hope Valley, Abigail Stanton, edited out of the show and the poster.

Hallmark announced the two night-event today.

Star Erin Krakow shared the news on facebook.

Erin Krakow.

Hallmark cut ties with Lori Loughlin last month in the wake of her indictment in the massive college admissions scandal.

Hallmark statement on March 14th.

The channel immediately pulled a new episode of When Calls the Heart but assured “Hearties” the series would continue.

Related: When Calls the Heart Will Go On But Garage Sale Mysteries Axed in Wake of Lori Loughlin’s Indictment.

The season 6 premiere had netted 3.6 million viewers in Live +3, making it the highest rate premiere in Hallmark history. And two more episodes had aired when the scandal broke.

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Editing out Loughlin’s character required some minor reshoots, according to EW. And in the end there will be one less episode in season 6.

When Calls the Heart wrapped production on season 6 last Fall in Vancouver and is expected to return to film season 7 without Lori Loughlin sometime in the future.

Related: What Does Lori Loughlin’s Indictment Mean for When Calls the Heart and Garage Sale Mysteries?

The Indictment:

Lori Loughlin and fellow actress Felicity Huffman were among the 40 charged in “Operation Varsity Blues” on Tuesday, March 12th.

Loughlin’s husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, was taken into custody that day and she left Vancouver where she was the filming the latest Garage Sale Mysteries — Three Little Murders — to surrender to authorities in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning. She was later released on $1 million bail.

Loughlin and her husband allegedly paid the $500,000 in “exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the U.S.C. crew team” even though neither of them rowed. The daughters posed for photos on rowing machines to sell the scam.

Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend mocked the scam in a tweet.

Olivia Jade went public on her youtube channel with her disdain for college before attending.

But came around and used the college experience for some lucrative endorsements.

Amazon.

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When the scandal broke, Olivia Jane was enjoying Spring Break in the Bahamas on a $100 million yacht owned by billionaire Rick Caruso, the chairman of USC’s Board of Trustees and the father of her new college friend “Gigi”.

Olivia Jane no longer attends USC and her parents are facing jail time.

Loughlin was arraigned in federal court in Boston last week and she and Giannulli were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. The couple will also be charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Somewhere there’s a Lifetime movie writing itself.