A former Long Island football star, now a Los Angeles working actor, is one of 10 Hallmark-handsome men vying for a role in one of the cable channel’s signature holiday movies on the reality-TV competition “Finding Mr. Christmas." Season 2 premieres Monday at 8 p.m.

And whether or not he wins, says Lake Ronkonkoma-raised Craig Geoghan, being on the show proved a gift.

“This was like a crash course in acting, almost like a boot camp for acting," says Geoghan (pronounced GAY-gun, “like President Reagan but with a G"), 34, who was born in Smithtown. The show domiciles 10 actors in a holiday-themed house where they live together and compete in what Hallmark calls “festive physical challenges [and] emotional acting scenes." As in many reality shows, that combination of bunking together whil

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