Steamy, not fried: Colonel Sanders getting sexy KFC mini-movie on Lifetime

Your secret is out, chicken man.

>> Read more trending news

And it’s not a recipe for chicken. Sure, there will be discussions about 11 herbs and spices, but Sunday’s 15-minute movie that will appear on Lifetime this weekend will have plenty of romantic spice.

“A Recipe for Seduction” will air Sunday at 12 p.m. ET, Variety reported.

Mario Lopez will star as a young Colonel Harland Sanders in a pot-boiler that focuses more on dysfunctional dynamics and forbidden love than chicken recipes, the website reported.

Sanders, who died at the age of 90 in 1980, was an American businessman who dressed as a Southern gentleman, complete with a white goatee, white double-breasted suits and black string ties. Those symbols became synonymous with the company he founded, Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Sanders opened a cafe in the back of a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky, in 1929. He received an honorary colonel’s title from Kentucky Gov. Ruby Laffoon in 1935 and again in 1950 by Gov. Lawrence Wetherby.

In 1939, Sanders perfected his recipe for “finger-lickin’ good” chicken.

He sold the restaurant chain but remained a well-paid spokesman for the company until his death. KFC is now owned by Yum Brands.

The plot for “A Recipe for Seduction” reads like a typical soap opera, according to Entertainment Weekly.

“As the holidays draw near, a young heiress contends with the affections of a suitor handpicked by her mother,” according to the movie’s official description. “When the handsome chef, Harland Sanders, arrives with his secret fried chicken recipe and a dream, he sets in motion a series of events that unravels the mother’s devious plans. Will our plucky heiress escape to her wintry happily ever after with Harland at her side, or will she cave to the demands of family and duty?”

As an old KFC commercial once informed viewers, “If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me.”

The plot will certainly thicken in “A Recipe for Seduction,” but viewers can get a good deal while watching it. People who order KFC on Uber Eats for delivery during the show can get six of the chain’s extra crispy tenders for free when they buy more than $20 worth of food, Variety reported.

Cox Media Group