Jennifer Love Hewitt and her fiance, Scottish actor Ross McCall, broke up over Christmas. The couple was first linked nearly three years ago, in the spring of 2006, and got engaged in November, 2007. There was a lot of speculation over when they would make it official, but sadly it doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen for these two. Someone close to the couple confirmed the news to People, which usually doesn’t speculate about these things:

“They broke up over the holidays and have ended their engagement,” says a source close to the couple. “They’re both really sad about this. Even their friends are surprised; they seemed really happy. Everyone just wants the best for both of them.”

Reps for both Hewitt and McCall had no immediate comment.

The Ghost Whisperer star, 29, got engaged to the Scottish actor, 32, in November 2007 after dating for two years.

While the couple hadn’t announced a date, in October Hewitt told PEOPLE her svelte new look was prompted not by those infamous 2007 bikini pictures – and the ensuing controversy over body image after she took to her blog to defend herself – but by her upcoming nuptials.

“I’m getting ready to turn 30 and get married and all those things,” Hewitt said. “This year was my year to try to glow from within and feel better.”

McCall, who costarred in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and stars in the USA drama Crash, appeared in one episode of Hewitt’s hit show Ghost Whisperer, in 2006.

[From People]

It’s too bad that Hewitt and McCall couldn’t make it work. In September there were photographs of them looking like they were in an argument as McCall hauled suitcases to his car, but it was hard to tell if that’s exactly what was going on. Otherwise these two seemed like a very stable and happy couple. They were often photographed out together and were even seen hanging out at the mall recently. McCall seemed like a low-key kind of boyfriend who was content to go to events and support his more famous other half. Their last public appearance that I could find was serving Thanksgiving dinner at the LA Mission on 11/26/08.

For some reason, probably because they both seem like nice, down-to-earth people, I’m kind of hoping for a reconciliation for these two. They always struck me as the type that would have a happy ever after together. If they ultimately weren’t compatible it’s probably for the best that they broke up now before they got married though.

Photo credit: WENN

Jennifer Love Hewitt was seen with a suspicious-looking lower belly protrusion (forgive the awkward word – I’m trying not to use the B word) at the Hollywood Film Festival Awards on Monday. She wore a gorgeous red one-shoulder dress dress that could have been puffing out at just the right angles, but it looked more to me like she’s in the beginning stages of pregnancy. Maybe it was wishful thinking as I’d love to see her as a mom.

Hewitt, 29, lost over 20 pounds this summer. US Weekly ran a cover story on Hewitt’s weight loss including an interview with her trainer. The Ghost Whisperer actress later stated that it was not an authorized cover story and that magazine featured her on the cover without asking about it first.

People were calling Hewitt pregnant back when she was a little heavier and was photographed in a bikini to celebrate her engagement to fiancé Ross McCall. She issued a denial through her publicist.

This time she really looks pregnant to me and I’m willing to bet it’s not just the way her dress is gathered as you can see the same thing from several angles. If it’s true, congratulations to Hewitt and McCall! These two have not announced a wedding date, and Hewitt has said that she would prefer to keep their wedding “small and private and romantic.”

She strikes me as the type to release a few tasteful wedding photos and I wonder if we’ll be seeing her filled out more than usual in her wedding gown and if her nuptials will be sooner rather than later. She’s easily one of my favorite celebrities and I think she’ll make a great mom.

Jennifer recently announced that she and fiance Ross will dress up as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for Halloween. She said “We’re just gonna have lots of babies! And I’m going to look really sultry and really drop dead gorgeous.” That won’t be hard for her, and maybe she had a little inspiration chosing her costume. Ross told ET that “We can’t wait to have a family.” Angelina Jolie attended the same event honoring Clint Eastwood where Ross and Jennifer were interviewed on Monday night.

Photo credit: Fayes Vision/WENN (photo names start with WENN) and Juan Rico/Fame Pictures (photo names start with FP)

Jennifer Love Hewitt and her fiance Ross McCall out in Toluca Lake, CA on 9/13/08. That dress is not doing her any favors. Credit: VAH/Fame Pictures

Some people were calling Jennifer Love Hewitt a hypocrite for the US Weekly cover story in August that featured her 18 pound weight loss and promised to tell us how she did it. Hewitt blogged late last year after criticism of her normal-looking bikini body that the media standards for women’s bodies were unreasonable and that she loved her figure. She wrote “To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini – put it on and stay strong.” When she lost weight and seemed to be bragging about it, some wondered why she seemed to be changing her tune.

Hewitt insists the cover wasn’t her idea, though, and that she didn’t even know about it until it was well underway. Apparently US called her trainer and got the story from him. She says she would rather not focus on her weight and that people’s bodies change all the time.

TVGuide.com: Having lashed back at the media about that “controversy” [Hewitt blogged, "I've sat by in silence for a long time now about the way women's bodies are constantly scrutinized.... I'm not upset for me, but for all of the girls out there that are struggling with their body image"], did you hesitate about participating in that Us Weekly cover story about your 18-lb. weight loss?
Hewitt: You know what’s funny is I didn’t participate in it. Everybody thinks I did, but…. They talked to my trainer, who I think was just trying to say nice things and it kind of went on. I literally got a phone call saying, “P.S. You’re going to be on the cover of Us, and they’re talking about you losing weight.” I was like, “What?!” [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: I myself thought, “How could she do that, having criticized the media for obsessing on body image?”
Hewitt: I know, and that’s what everybody keeps concentrating on, but I had nothing to do with it. I didn’t go lose weight because of that. I’m not a “work out” kind of girl — I’d rather shop or see a movie! — but I got this “bug” in me to run a marathon for my 30th birthday [next Feb. 21]. I started training, and when you’re doing anything like that which you’re not used to, you drop weight. When I heard all the compliments and nice things, it made me nervous. I didn’t want people to think what I said [last year] wasn’t true, because I stand by what I said. People’s bodies are going to change. Sometimes you’re going to go up, sometimes you’re going to go down…. I wish people would stop talking about it all together, to be quite honest.

[From TVGuide as found on Defamer]

I’ve always liked Love Hewitt and she just endeared herself to me a little more. She could have told us a lot earlier that the US Weekly cover wasn’t her idea and that she was kind of railroaded into it, but she waited until someone asked her specifically about it and then set the record straight. She was criticized about it and she kept her mouth shut for a while. It’s not like she even brought up the subject in this interview. Good for her for keeping her integrity about it and letting it blow over. She looks great, and in my opinion she didn’t even need to lose weight.

Jennifer Love Hewitt looks pretty amazing after losing nearly 20 pounds and a lot of people assumed that her motivation was her upcoming wedding day. Earlier stories had the 29 year-old actress marrying her fiance, 32 year-old actor Ross McCall, in a small ceremony sometime this summer. Her wedding could be on hold, though, reports In Touch, which quotes an insider saying that “things aren’t great between them.” They usually look incredibly happy and in synch with each other, and if it is true that their wedding has been pushed back I would bet there’s another reason, like logistics:

“Things aren’t great between them,” the insider says of the couple, who got engaged last November.

“It’s hard because he’s filming in New Mexico and she’s in LA. The relationship is strained and their wedding won’t happen anytime soon.” While Jennifer has revealed that this summer is out – “I won’t be a sweaty bride,” she has said – another friend insists that everything’s fine. “Jennifer and Ross are very excited,” says the pal. “It will be an intimate ceremony and Ross is having fun helping Jennifer plan it.” Adds her rep, “The wedding is going ahead as planned.”

[From In Touch, print edition, August 25, 2008]

Love Hewitt told reporters in February that her wedding would be “small and private and romantic and wonderful,” and that she might just get married on a whim. “If we kind of wake up and say, ‘Let’s go do it,’ that’s how we will do it.”

I doubt these two are having problems, but if they are it’s probably the things we all go through when we have to be apart from our partner. They’re together now despite their busy woek schedules. The two were photographed out in LA wearing lookalike outfits on Tuesday. It’s hard to judge people in photos, but there’s a quality to McCall that makes him look like an incredibly good guy and I get the impression he’ll make a great husband and dad someday. Love Hewitt is also one of the most genuine and likeable celebrities and it’s nice to see her happy and in love. I’m crossing my fingers for these two to make it official because they’re one of my favorite celebrity couples.

Credit: VAH/Fame Pictures

Jennifer Love Hewitt became the poster girl for gorgeous regular-sized women after a minor controversy over the fact that she doesn’t look super toned or scary skinny. The 32 29 year-old Ghost Whisperer actress was photographed in a bikini in Hawaii late last November, with many outlets calling her heavier. The Daily Mail said she’d “piled on the pounds” while TMZ quipped “We know what you ate this summer, Love – everything!”

Hewitt wrote about how wrong it was for people to pick on her and to scrutinize women’s bodies so rudely in the press, affecting many girls’ self esteem. She said she loved her body and that it was shame people were focusing on that when there was happy news that she had just gotten engaged. She concluded “To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini – put it on and stay strong.” She also wrote “A size 2 is not fat,” but she was criticizing the media characterization of small women as fat, not saying that she was a size 2.

Hewitt looked pretty sexy and didn’t need to lose weight by many people’s estimation. She said at the time that if she did lose weight she would do it for longevity and health, not to fit some ideal standard.

Now she has lost weight and she looks great. She looked pretty hot before, but if she’s happier this way more power to her. US Weekly reports in its latest issue that she’s lost 18 pounds in under three months.

In the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now, the 32-year-old [sic] shows off the new body she got after just 10 weeks and her trainer reveals to Us exclusively how she lost 18 pounds.

“I am in a pretty good workout regimen that I like, so it inspired me to keep it up,” Hewitt tells Us. “The energy level and the way I feel now is great.”

“With her, it’s not, ‘I want to look good in that dress,’” trainer Stevie Sant’Angelo tells Us. “She wanted to start moving around because she thought it would make her feel better.

“She told me, ‘They said some rude, mean things, but that’s not why I wanted to change,’” Sant’Angelo says.

[From US Weekly]

Hewitt is thought to be planning a small summer wedding with herfiance, Scottish actor Ross McCall. Maybe that’s why she wanted to lose weight.

Whatever her motiviation, it sounds like she did it the right way and not by starving herself. I wondered why we haven’t seen her in a little while and I guess now we have our answer.

Hewitt is shown in the header at the 2008 CBS/CW/Showtime Summer TCA Partyon 7/18/08 and you can tell she’s thinner there. She is also shown at the Saturn Awards on 6/24/08. Credit: PR Photos.

Ghost Whisperer star Jennifer Love Hewitt, 29, and her boyfriend of just over two years, Scottish actor Ross McCall, got engaged last November. McCall presented Hewitt with an antique engagement ring that has been in his family for over 100 years. Hewitt has said that she’s in no hurry to get married, but that she wants a small intimate ceremony and that they may have it at the spur of the moment if they feel like it.

Now the National Enquirer claims that Ross’ immigration status is threatened by the looming actor’s strike and that his work visa will no longer be valid if the strike happens. He could easily be deported back to the UK if that happened. In order to ensure that he’s a candidate for a green card, Jennifer is planning a wedding in the middle of the summer. From what I understand, he would still have to apply for a green card and go through a lengthy process in order to get permanent resident status even if they’re married. He’s a good candidate for a green card, though, considering how well documented and legitimate their relationship is:

If Ross remains single and an actors’ strike did occur, it’s likely he would be kicked out of the country and have to reapply for a new visa to return.

While negotiations continue and some show business analysts say the possibility of a full-on strike is unlikely, Jennifer is taking no chances, the soure said. The former “Party of Five” star, 29… because engaged to Ross in Hawaii in 2007…

Ross, 32, who’s had bit parts in the HBO series “Band of Brothers,” and “Ghost Whisperer,” was less bothered by his immigration status than Jennifer.

“She’s planning a small but elegant wedding to take place in midsummer, and can’t wait to become his bride.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 16, 2008]

Even though Hewitt has said she wants a “private” wedding, I hope she releases some photos because I would love to see her dress and get some idea of the decorations at her reception. She seems like a genuinely good person, and someone who has managed to stay down to earth and keep their integrity in Hollywood.

In these photos of Hewitt and McCall taken on5/9/08 at the Step Up Women’s Network luncheon, I thought that McCall might be wearing a wedding ring already. It looks more like an insignia ring, though, and he’s worn it for some time.

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

If you have children, you were probably subjected to Nickelodeon’s 25th Annual Kid’s Choice Awards ceremony on Saturday night. You have my sincerest condolences. I, too, had to watch, and it was often eyeroll-inducing: lame banter between celebrity presenters; boring and unfunny “behind the scenes” skits; stupid slime stunts that dragged out the show even longer and wayyyy too much Disney product, in the form of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. Miley Cyrus won favorite female television star and favorite female musical artist, much to my daughter’s delight.

There were a few bright spots in the broadcast, including host Jack Black’s over-the-top opening musical number, in which he wore a bright green superhero costume and rocked out with a giant octopus playing guitar to the Kiss song “I Was Made for Loving You,” with the lyrics changed to “I Was Made for Sliming You.” (In my opinion, Black was the only funny, high-energy part of the show and should have been allowed to riff and get crazy even more.) The theme of each Kids’ Choice Awards, you see, is that celebs and kids in the audience get buckets of green slime poured on their heads at random moments. Slimed celebs included Harrison Ford, who recreated a famous scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” which concluded with him being covered in green slime. Other mildly amusing segments included a celebrity belching contest that featured Jodie Foster attempting to burp along to the song “YMCA.”

All in all, the show had the same problems as most other awards shows: it went on too long, there was too much unfunny dialog, and the host didn’t get enough chances to do what he does best. But if you are at all interested in the winners, here they are.

Favorite TV Show: Drake and Josh
Favorite Reality Show: American Idol
Favorite TV Actor: Drake Bell (from Drake and Josh)
Favorite TV Actress: Miley Cyrus
Favorite Cartoon: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Favorite Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks
Favorite Movie Actor: Johnny Depp
Favorite Movie Actress: Jessica Alba
Favorite Animated Movie: Ratatouille
Favorite Animated Voice: Eddie Murphy (Shrek The Third)
Favorite Music Group: The Jonas Brothers
Favorite Song: “Girlfriend” by Avril Lavigne
Favorite Female Singer: Miley Cyrus
Favorite Male Singer: Chris Brown
Favorite Male Athlete: Tony Hawk
Favorite Female Athlete: Danica Patrick
Favorite Book: Harry Potter Series
Favorite Video Game: Madden NFL 2008
Wannabe Award: Cameron Diaz

If anything, the Kids’ Choice Awards gives parents a glimpse into the music, movies, and other pop culture their kids like– which should scare the crap out of you. I know I had a hard time sleeping knowing that the youth of America wants to be just like Cameron Diaz.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and her fiance, Ross McCall, are planning what they call an “intimate” ceremony for their upcoming wedding. Though Jennifer won’t give details about the date or location – probably to avoid the nasty comments of Internet bloggers who might make fun of her backside or something – she did say that she and Ross want something romantic but low-key.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is already plotting out her upcoming wedding to Scottish actor Ross McCall.

“You know Diana and Charles – it’s going to be a little like that!” she joked with Usmagazine.com at SBE’s The Abbey on Sunday.

Kidding aside, “it is going to be small and private and romantic and wonderful,” Hewitt, 29, told Us. “We have nothing picked out yet.”

“We are very low-key people,” McCall, 32, added. “If we kind of wake up and say, ‘Let’s go do it,’ that’s how we will do it.”

The actress — who met McCall on the set of her CBS show Ghost Whisperer — got engaged in November, around the time those controversial bikini photos of her surfaced.

“We fell in love,” she told Us of how she spent her downtime during the recent writers’ strike. “We had a lot of fun, did a lot of traveling.”

So was it love at first sight for the pair?

“Absolutely,” Hewitt told Us. “As soon as I saw him.”

[From Us Weekly]

I never thought much of Jennifer before Bikinigate, but she has really conducted herself with dignity, class and a sense of humor since then. I’m rooting for her to be able to pull off this wedding without too much privacy invasion, and for the marriage itself to work. That said, you will not catch me watching “The Ghost Whisperer.”

Note by Celebitchy: In honor of Hewitt’s upcoming nuptuals, here’s a link to our very first post of her out with Ross McCall on her 27th birthday almost two years ago. McCall is Scottish and I bet he has the cutest accent.

Photos are from “The Envelope Please” 7th Annual Oscar Viewing Party on 2/24/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

80s fantasy chick and Weird Science babe Kelly LeBrock, now 47, lost 31 pounds on VH1′s Celebrity Fit Club back in 2005, but has since gained it back and says that the way she lost the weight wasn’t healthy. She told OK! Magazine that she’s “never going to diet again” and that she will “never eat lettuce again.”

Now I understand never dieting if it’s something that means starving for you, as long as you’re not talking about taking it to the extreme and eating huge portions of bad food, which would be someone’s prerogative I guess, but never eating lettuce? Maybe she just means that crappy iceberg lettuce that has no nutritional value, because there are a lot of different kinds of lettuce that make a nice salad and I can’t see swearing them all off.

OK! caught up with Kelly at the Oscar party Night of 100 Stars, where she was fighting mad — because, she said, a nasty magazine recently implied she was fat.

“I’m not fat!” Kelly declared. “I don’t look like a 400-pound heifer! I’m going to keep eating. I eat normally. And I’ve had three kids.”

She added that actresses like herself, “have to be role models for all these young girls” so they don’t become scary skinny.

Two years ago, Kelly, now 47, lost a total of 31 pounds on the VH-1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club, but the Weird Science star found dieting just wasn’t right for her. “I didn’t eat for three months,” she explains. “It was dangerous. It was a really bad way to lose weight. I will never eat lettuce again!”

[From OK! Magazine]

LeBrock said that she doesn’t weigh herself and that “If I can fit into a ten/twelve, I’m happy.”

If she’s happy and comfortable with herself, and from the looks of that plunging neckline on her dress she is, that’s all that matters. She looks fine apart from those chemically enhanced lips and not everyone has to be a stick. We do need more normal-sized actresses as role models, but it’s not like she gets much exposure.

There are health issues associated with being moderately overweight, and a lot of the articles I consulted about this stated that “studies show that by losing as little as 10 to 20 pounds you can dramatically improve your overall health status.”

So maybe she thinks dieting means starving yourself and eating only iceberg lettuce, but it also means getting more vegetables and maybe cutting some of those empty carbs in favor of more nutritional food.

Jennifer Love Hewitt recently said that she’s not going to exercise just to look good, and that she’ll do it for her health and so that she can live a long and happy life. That sounds like a more sensible approach to all this body criticism instead of just saying “f’ck it”

Jennifer Love Hewitt is shown at “The Envelope Please” 7th Annual Oscar Viewing Party and Kelly LeBrock is shown at Night of 100 Stars Gala Viewing Party both on 2/24/08, thanks to PRPhtoos.

Ghost Whisperer star Jennifer Love Hewitt is negotiating with the networks to have her own daytime talk show. She wants to create an inspirational show that is aimed at young women.

[Jennifer Love Hewitt] is in talks with different networks to headline her own daytime show, a source tells Star exclusively. “Jennifer has always admired Oprah Winfrey’s ability to inspire people and hopes to do the same, especially for young girls,” says the source. “She really wants to be a positive role model.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, January 21, 2008]

A talkshow seems like a very risky venture, but if anyone can do it’s Love Hewitt, and it’s certainly a better career strategy than a reality tv show. Love Hewitt is known for her caring and empathic personality, which could be put to good use on a television show if it’s presented well.

There was a really cute story about Love Hewitt a couple of years ago in which she said she often tries her best to help elderly people who confuse her with her character on television. She said she once spoke with a 75 year-old woman for 20 minutes before she realized the woman was talking about her deceased husband and asking her for help contacting him. Love-Hewitt said “I was broken-hearted because I didn’t know how to be the Ghost Whisperer in real life.”

As for Britney’s latest troubles, Love Hewitt said that she feels bad that people judge her and thinks that they should try to help instead of making the problem worse, “I feel bad because everyone kind of judges her and splatters her business everywhere. No one goes, ‘Why is this happening?’ They just judge and judge and judge. It’s too bad.”

She seems like she would make an excellent talkshow host, but they may need a sidekick or some other way to give her a little more presence with the guests. She’s got that “too nice” vibe about her, but it definitely comes off as genuine and that’s rare.

Love-Hewitt, 28, is engaged to her boyfriend of nearly two years, Scottish actor Ross McCall, 32.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is shown at the 7th Annual Awards Season Diamond Fashion Show Preview on 1/10/08, thanks to PRPhotos.