

Handsome Hal Halverson ( Regis Philbin).She appeared in three episodes "Jack's Back", "Natal Attraction", and "Stand By Your Mandi". He planned to marry her, but when the baby was born it was obvious it wasn't his. She comes back in a later episode and tells their father that she is pregnant with his child. Mandi dates Hope and Faith's father Jack for one episode. Mandi has been Faith's best friend since they were in school. Edwin's older brother and someone who Sydney has a crush on. He appeared in five episodes "Hope Has No Faith", "Silent Night, Opening Night", "Mismatch", "Faith Scare-Field", and "The Gooch". He is portrayed as a smart nerd who has many allergies and asthma. Although their marriage is short-lived, he comes back in a later episode and he and Faith re-unite. However, he moves back to the States in hopes of declaring his love for Faith and they eventually elope in the season three première. Later on, the Gooch gets a job offer to play baseball in Japan and leaves their love behind. Upon meeting, he and Faith bump heads, but the pair eventually have the hots for each other and start dating. The Gooch is a baseball player, who was a former hot-shot major league baseball player who ruined his career by failing to catch a slow moving ball. Gary "The Gooch" Gucharez ( Mark Consuelos).He also had an affair with another woman when his marriage with Mary Jo was on the rocks and had an illegitimate son named Jay. The reason he married Hope and Faith's mother is because she was pregnant with Hope. Jack is Hope and Faith's father and ever since his wife (Hope and Faith's mother) Mary Jo died, he has dated women half his age. Jack Fairfield ( Robert Wagner, Harve Presnell, unaired pilot).He usually pals around with his dad and likes his aunt. He is smart and is known to act like an adult with his mature interests (such as Frank Sinatra). Justin Shanowski ( Paulie Litt Jansen Panettiere, pilot episode only Slade Pearce, unaired pilot).She eventually becomes Edwin's girlfriend. Sometimes she belittles her older sister because Hayley is smarter than her. She is also caring and an animal activist. She is portrayed as the smart child who gets promoted to high school in season two. Hayley is Hope and Charlie's younger daughter.


Paggi's version was fairly wholesome but Fox's version was more promiscuous. She is portrayed as popular, vain, boy crazy, mean and kind of ditzy. She particularly likes spending time with her aunt Faith, whom she sees as way cooler than her mother and gets sucked into Faith's schemes. Sydney is Hope and Charlie's elder daughter.
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In season two, one of Faith's schemes involved her and Hope's creating a catering business: as a result, Faith ended up becoming professional caterer. She makes repeated attempts to get more acting work but is never successful. She always hatches schemes and manages to involve her sister in them. Faith is lazy and makes Hope wait on her. She was on Star Search, and starred as Ashley Storm (a character who had an evil twin named Angela) on the fictional soap opera The Sacred and the Sinful. Faith is Hope's younger dim-witted celebrity sister. She likes to bake and garden, and eventually has her own catering business She is married to Charlie and has three kids, Sydney, Hayley, and Justin. Hope is usually the most sensible one, and is always reluctant to go along with her sister's schemes. Hope Fairfield-Shanowski ( Faith Ford).In May 2006, ABC announced that the show would be cancelled when it unveiled its fall 2006 line up. The show began to air its remaining episodes from March 21, 2006, on Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. ABC announced on January 18, 2006, that it was benching Hope & Faith for the February sweeps to make room for an expanded edition of Dancing with the Stars.
