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News 2023 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays
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DisneyFanatic12
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Apologies if this has already been posted, but the celebrity narrator for tonight has been changed to Ashley Eckstein. The announcement posted to MDE reads as follows:
Candlelight Update
Tonight, the Candlelight Processional will now be narrated by Ashley Eckstein. Happy holidays!
Candlelight Update
Tonight, the Candlelight Processional will now be narrated by Ashley Eckstein. Happy holidays!
ToTBellHop
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Next three nights are no longer Simu and are someone named Bart Millard.
Zummi Gummi
Pioneering the Universe Within!
He’s the lead singer in Mercy Me, a Christian rock band.
I wonder if the actors' strike upended a lot of schedules...
ToTBellHop
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Well, I’d be canceling my dining package if I had one.
Zummi Gummi
Pioneering the Universe Within!
Oh, I would, too.
SaucyBoy
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Talk about dipping into the pool of irrelevance lol. I haven't heard that band name in 20 years.
Zummi Gummi
Pioneering the Universe Within!
Is it possible this was a last minute change and he's all they could get? I don't know where he lives (and I had to google him to find out who he was), but is it possible he's local and was already in the area?
Brian
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I hear they're reanimating the corpse of Carman to come back and narrate as well.
SaucyBoy
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This is definitely a last minute change. I read somewhere that one of the narrators from last night (maybe?) look ill on stage. Don't know how true that is though.
Zummi Gummi
Pioneering the Universe Within!
That would have been 83 year old Ann Margaret, no?
Correct.
Plenty of locally-based celebrities, or celebrity-adjacent, around Orlando (or even the entire state of Florida which is a short flight away). Must have been a real last minute issue to resort to a D-lister... Even if he's previously appeared in 2018 and 2021 (both times originally scheduled as far as I know). He doesn't seem to live in Orlando either, which makes this even odder.
That may be a little bit of a stretch
I still think WDW can do a heck of a lot better. There are residential houses better decorated than Living with the Land.
It's getting there!
At night, they should replace then narration with Christmas music!
It's getting there!
At night, they should replace then narration with Christmas music!
This is more like it.
Epcot82Guy
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This is more like it.
While I totally agree, knowing how the LwtL facility works - I really don't want to compare those for fear of impact on the plants.
Now a new/updated massive Lights of Winter successor in World Celebration...
Brian
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pdude81
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Just saw this pop up. Hope all is well with Simu.
nypost.com
‘Gutted’ Simu Liu drops out of Disney World event over ‘health scares’
“I’m so absolutely gutted to have to drop out.” — Simu Liu
nypost.com
Sounds like not all is well, if he's the one suffering from the health scares?Just saw this pop up. Hope all is well with Simu.
‘Gutted’ Simu Liu drops out of Disney World event over ‘health scares’
“I’m so absolutely gutted to have to drop out.” — Simu Liu