The only conclusion that I can draw is that the Law & Order: SVU casting director is a crackhead. That is literally the only explanation for the line of crazy, horrible casting decisions that Law & Order: SVU has faced in the past few years, notably last year, when Sharon Stone almost single-handedly destroyed my beloved series. I hated her character so much, I longed for Christine Lahti’s drunken paleo-feminist ADA to show up again. And Lahti sucked too! Ugh. Anyway, Jennifer Love Hewitt got a job! She’s going to guest star on SVU on one of their first episodes of the new season. I guess she’s playing a rape victim?

Jennifer Love Hewitt is best known for her girl next door looks. But she made a startlingly transformation as she appeared battered and bruised to play a woman who has suffered a terrifying rape attack.

With her face scrubbed clean of make-up, clothes ripped and distressed, the only embellishment was the fake blood she had been daubed with.

The 31-year-old Ghost Whisperer actress is appearing as a guest star on show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. And in between takes she was seen relaxing with the show’s star, actress Mariska Hargitay , 46, who plays Detective Olivia Benson.

Love Hewitt is playing a woman named Vicki who has been raped multiple times and is afraid to leave her house.

The show’s executive producer Neal Baer said, ‘One of the reasons we wanted to do this episode is because it addresses Mariska Hargitay’s passion for rape kits, which helps gather evidence to convict the rapists.’

Hargitay co-founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, a charity that supports women and children who are victims of sexual assault, child abuse and domestic violence.

[From The Daily Mail]

I mean, I love Det. Benson and everything, but do we really have to describe it as a “passion” for rape kits? Aren’t rape kits just sort of a necessity and something you should do in a horrible situation? That’s like saying someone has a “passion” for enemas.

I also find this somewhat funny because Jennifer Love has been hustling ever since The Ghost Whisperer got cancelled. She’s been everywhere the past few months, setting up paparazzi “candids” and giving interview after interview about how confident she is, etc. All for the hustle. And this is what all that hustling gets? A guest shot on SVU? Oh, J. Love.

Jennifer Love and Mariska Hargitay on August 9, 2010. Credit: Fame.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is probably no longer dating Jenny McCarthy’s no good ex, who was the last guy she was linked with after her split with Jamie “I’ll call you pear ass” Kennedy. According to US Weekly, she’s with a new actor/director named Alex Beh, and he’s 27.

Jennifer Love Hewitt has a new guy, the new Us Weekly reports.

She is seeing actor/director Alex Beh, 27.

“She’s so into him,” a pal tells Us of the actress, 31, who split from her Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy, 40, in March after a year of dating.

“It’s relatively new,” adds the source of the pair, who enjoyed a romantic date at Katsuya in L.A.’s Encino July 18. “But they’re really cute together. They were holding hands the whole night!”

Hewitt has dated Carson Daly, John Mayer and Jenny McCarthy’s ex-hubby, John Asher, and was engaged to Scottish actor Ross McCall, 34, in 2007.

[From US Weekly]

I was going to complain that she took the guy to Katsuya, a paparazzi hotspot, but there are several Katsuya branches and they went to one in Encino so it’s not like she intended to be seen. Still, I wouldn’t put it past her. Kaiser and I had a little back and forth this morning about our respective opinions on J. Love. She jokes that I love Hewitt but I just find her likable and less annoying than other celebrities in that kind of harmless “do-nothing get a lot of press” category, like Jessica Simpson. However, my opinion of her was changed when Kaiser pointed out that Hewitt is out getting herself papped all over the place lately.

I think that Hewitt’s intentions are good but that she’s going to sabotage this relationship if she goes public with it. Maybe it doesn’t matter and this guy would love the publicity, though. It’s not like we’ve heard of him before. I’m sure we can look forward to a whole barrage of senseless advice from Hewitt about how she’s finally found a good man because she’s “learned to love herself.” She is working on yet another self-help book, after all. That’s like Britney Spears putting out hair care products.

Here’s the only photo I could find of this guy Alex Beh:

Here’s Hewitt trying to look sexy while paying the meter on 7/27. She also went out to La Scala restaurant with her agent. Credit: Michael Wright/WENN.com. She’s also shown out shopping the same day and with her dog. See what Kaiser means about calling the paps? And she got a ticket on her Bentley. She drives a Bentley? Credit: Fame Pictures

Bill Murray is a genius – that much we know. He’s also one of the funniest people ever, and one of my very first celebrity crushes (along with Eddie Murphy and Kermit the Frog). Bill Murray is a reclusive bastard. He only makes movies when he wants to make movies, and that’s a rare thing. Rarer still is actually getting Bill Murray to promote one of his films. Maybe he’ll do Letterman. Beyond that, not much. So it’s surprising that he granted a really extensive interview to GQ Magazine to promote a supporting part in his latest outing, an independent film called Get Low, which stars (in the lead role) Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek. Since I don’t want to waste any more space with my prattle, here are the highlights of Murray’s GQ piece (full GQ piece here).

You have a lot of lines in [Get Low] that get tons of laughs I doubt were on the page. It’s all in the rhythm, the delivery. How do you pitch something like that? How do you make something out of nothing?
I have developed a kind of different style over the years. I hate trying to re-create a tone or a pitch. Saying, “I want to make it sound like I made it sound the last time”? That’s insane, because the last time doesn’t exist. It’s only this time. And everything is going to be different this time. There’s only now. And I don’t think a director, as often as not, knows what is going to play funny anyway. As often as not, the right one is the one that they’re surprised by, so I don’t think that they have the right tone in their head. And I think that good actors always—or if you’re being good, anyway—you’re making it better than the script. That’s your f-cking job. It’s like, Okay, the script says this? Well, watch this. Let’s just roar a little bit. Let’s see how high we can go. But you asked how you get the comic pitch. Well, obviously a lot of it is rhythm. And as often as not, it’s the surprising rhythm. In life and in movies, you can usually guess what someone is going to say—you can actually hear it—before they say it. But if you undercut that just a little, it can make you fall off your chair. It’s small and simple like that. You’re always trying to get your distractions out of the way and be as calm as you can be [breathes in and out slowly], and emotion will just drive the machine. It will go through the machine without being interrupted, and it comes out in a rhythm that’s naturally funny. And that funny rhythm is either humorous or touching. It can be either one. But it’s always a surprise. I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.

Is the third Ghostbusters movie happening? What’s the story with that?
It’s all a bunch of crock. It’s a crock. There was a story—and I gotta be careful here, I don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. When I hurt someone’s feelings, I really want to hurt them. [laughs] Harold Ramis said, Oh, I’ve got these guys, they write on The Office, and they’re really funny. They’re going to write the next Ghostbusters. And they had just written this movie that he had directed.

Year One.
Year One. Well, I never went to see Year One, but people who did, including other Ghostbusters, said it was one of the worst things they had ever seen in their lives. So that dream just vaporized. That was gone. But it’s the studio that really wants this thing. It’s a franchise. It’s a franchise, and they made a whole lot of money on Ghostbusters.

Oh, sure, I remember. The soundtrack. The lunchboxes. The action figures.
Right. And it’s still one of the biggest movies of all time. And ever since that story broke, everywhere I go people are like, “So are you gonna make that movie?” I was down in Austin at South by Southwest, and you go at it hard down there—fun but, man, you need to sleep for days afterwards. Anyhow, I got into it one night with a bunch of younger people who were like, Oh, I love Peter Venkman! I grew up with Peter Venkman! We got to talking, and the more we talked about it, the more I thought, Oh Christ, I should just do this thing.

A generation awaits, for sure. You weren’t even supposed to play that role, right?
Yeah. Originally it was Belushi. Like a lot of my movies. [beat] God, John died, what was it, twenty-five years ago?

It was ’82, right?
Yeah, I think it was ’82. I dunno. That part of life is getting fuzzy.

I read that you wanted to play a ghost in the movie. That’s kind of brilliant.
Well, I hadn’t wanted to do the movie. They kept asking, and I kept saying no. So once upon a time I said, just joking: “If you kill me off in the first reel, then fine, I’ll do it.” And then supposedly they came up with an idea where they kill me off and I was a ghost in the movie. Kinda clever, really.

But has the Zombieland cameo stolen that gag?
[genuinely confused] But that was a zombie. Not a ghost.

Okay. Well, how about Garfield? Can you explain that to me? Did you just do it for the dough?
No! I didn’t make that for the dough! Well, not completely. I thought it would be kind of fun, because doing a voice is challenging, and I’d never done that. Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, “So-and-so and Joel Coen.” And I thought: Christ, well, I love those Coens! They’re funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, Yeah, I’d like to do that. I had these agents at the time, and I said, “What do they give you to do one of these things?” And they said, “Oh, they give you $50,000.” So I said, “Okay, well, I don’t even leave the f-ckin’ driveway for that kind of money.”

And it’s not like you’re helping out an indie director by playing Garfield.
Exactly. He’s in 3,000 newspapers every day; he’s not hurtin’. Then this studio guy calls me up out of nowhere, and I had a nice conversation with him. No bullsh-t, no schmooze, none of that stuff. We just talked for a long time about the movie. And my agents called on Monday and said, “Well, they came back with another offer, and it was nowhere near $50,000.” And I said, “That’s more befitting of the work I expect to do!” So they went off and shot the movie, and I forgot all about it. Finally, I went out to L.A. to record my lines. And usually when you’re looping a movie, if it takes two days, that’s a lot. I don’t know if I should even tell this story, because it’s kind of mean. [beat] What the hell? It’s interesting. So I worked all day and kept going, “That’s the line? Well, I can’t say that.” And you sit there and go, What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense? And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, “Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we’re dealing with.” So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, “Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the f-ck was Coen thinking?” And then they explained it to me: It wasn’t written by that Joel Coen.

And the pieces fall into place.
[shakes head sadly] At least they had what’s-her-name. The mind reader, pretty girl, really curvy girl, body’s one in a million? What’s her name? Help me. You know who I mean.

Jennifer Love Hewitt?
Right! At least they had her in good-looking clothes. Best thing about the movie. But that’s all ugly. That’s inappropriate. That’s just… [laughs] That’s why, when they say, “Any regrets?” at the end of Zombieland, I say, “Well, maybe Garfield.”

Just out of curiosity, since you crossed paths way back in the day: Have you seen Community? What do you think of what Chevy Chase is doing?
I’m hoping it’s funny. It looks kind of funny. Chevy in life can really be funny. I don’t see him that often anymore, but in life he’s a hell of a lot more fun than I am—he’s always going; he really, really, really wants to make people laugh. But I haven’t watched it. What about the other show that has the girl from Saturday Night Live?

Parks and Recreation? That is the best comedy on TV right now, to my eyes.
That’s good. I want those things to work, but I’m out of touch. I have no idea. I never saw the original Office. I never saw this Office. I never even saw Clerks. Like I never saw, what’s-his-name, Larry David’s show.

Curb Your Enthusiasm?
No! The other one. With the other guy.

Seinfeld?
Seinfeld! I never saw Seinfeld.

Come on.
Really! I never saw Seinfeld until the final episode, and that’s the only one I saw. And it was terrible. I’m watching, thinking, “This isn’t funny at all. It’s terrible!”

So what the hell do you watch, then? Sports?
I watch sports, I watch movies, Current TV on the satellite—I kind of like that. Honestly, I’m just easily bored. C-SPAN can be really great. Like the night Obama won the election, C-SPAN was the greatest. There were no announcers, just Chicago. It was just that crowd in Grant Park, and it was just f-ckin’ jazz. You know, it was just wow. And that’s my town, you know? It was just: “Oh, my God, it’s gonna happen! [getting genuinely excited] It’s gonna happen!” You just saw the pictures of it, like, oh, there’s someone from the Northwest Side, there’s someone from the South Side, someone from the suburbs. It was the most truly American thing you’ve ever seen. [pause] Oh God, I get jazzed just thinkin’ about it. I don’t know anyone that wasn’t crying. It was just: Thank God this long national nightmare is over.

You haven’t spent a lot of time in LA? I would have thought that would have dragged you out there all the time.
No, no, no. Never. It just never took. It’s like the first day you check into a hotel in L.A. there’s a message under your door. The second day, there’s eleven messages under your door. The third day, there’s thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy messages. And I realized that they just want fresh blood. They. Just. Want. Fresh. Blood. You gotta get the hell out of there. And you really feel, if you live in New York, that you’re three hours ahead of them—I mean that literally. It’s like, Oh man, we gotta help these people! And the longer you stay there, the less ahead of them you get, and then you’re one of them. No way, man. Not for me.

Did you cross paths with John Hughes at all? Both of you are Chicago guys. He worked with some of your friends.
I don’t think I’d have known him if I bumped into him. I was kind of surprised they gave him a big thing at the Oscars. I mean, I remember Hal Ashby barely got mentioned, and this guy made half a dozen unbelievable movies. The Breakfast Club is really an American gem, though. An amazing film. As important as any of Marty [Scorsese]‘s movies. It’s just a real f-ckin’ piece. And those kids were never better than that, and he let ‘em roll. Dunno. Never met him. I guess he was famous for shooting 10 million feet of film. Steve Martin said to me once, “You’d hate him. He’d say, ‘Do this, where you stick something in your nose!’ ” That kind of stuff drives me nuts.

[From GQ]

There’s so much more in the whole piece that I didn’t have the space to include. He talks about his 800 number – the one that producers, writers and directors can call if they want to offer him a part, and Bill just says matter-of-factly: “Well, it’s what I finally went to. I have this phone number that they call and talk. And then I listen. I just sort of decide. It’s exhausting otherwise. I don’t want to have a relationship with someone if I’m not going to work with them. If you’re talking about business, let’s talk about business, but I don’t want to hang out and bullsh-t…. I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.” There’s also Bill talking sh-t about Dan Ackroyd (“Danny is… Canadian.”). He also talks about how much he wants to direct again, and how he’s friends with a few of the older film critics and he hangs out with them in Venice! Also – now that we know Bill Murray is a fan of Jennifer Love Hewitt (or her body), should we give her a temporary pass? Yes, I think we should.

Bill Murray on April 27, 2010, June 26, 2010 & October 14, 2009. Credit: WENN.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is dutifully promoting that housewife-turned-hooker Lifetime movie she stars in, The Client List. It airs tonight at 9pm and is getting mixed reviews. Some are bashing it as a sad commentary on the state of Hewitt’s career, but others say there’s a kind of joy in how cheesy, trashy and over the top it is.

In her latest interviews Hewitt is of course spouting the same kind of contradictory faux-empowering crap she usually does. I like her and find her kind of endearing in her clueless way, but it gets old hearing the same thing over and over again from her. She’s told us she wants a body like Gisele Bundchen while saying just a moment earlier that we should love ourselves as we are. Now she’s telling us to throw away our scales because it’s no use keeping track of our weight, and that we should be happier with who we are so that we can date better men. Oh and Hewitt also thinks in all seriousness that her Lifetime movie about a woman turning tricks to support her family is “about female empowerment.”

On how her movie is “about female empowerment”
“It really struck me, particularly where we are in the world economically. This is real stuff that people are dealing with,” Hewitt says. “And I loved that, in this, it was about female empowerment. It was really her taking care of her family and I loved her struggle.”

For the role, Hewitt trained by taking pole-dancing classes (she now has a pole in her house for her work-out regimen), but did little other research before filming began.

“I wanted to learn as Sam was learning it and I think it helped me in doing that,” Hewitt says. “This project in particular, I really went on the journey with her because I didn’t do any real research or any preparation. … I really felt for Sam and her story and her struggle.”

It was this emotional journey with Samantha that makes the character, and the film, one of Hewitt’s favorite roles in her 20-plus-year acting career.

“Emotionally, this was one of the hardest things I ever had to do because it was work that I didn’t understand. It was, quite honestly, a world that I was judgmental of before I did the part,” she says. “It was difficult, but it would probably be a tie now between Sam and Audrey [Hepburn in The Audrey Hepburn Story].”

Besides showing her emotional range, the film is also a testament to Hewitt’s personal growth and being “at the right place” in her life to take on this part.

“I’ve had these types of things come around a lot and I never did them because I was like, ‘I couldn’t even act that if I tried. I don’t know that woman yet, I don’t know that part.’ And I do right now, where I am in my life,” she says. “I was ready to be open to a new side of life and see why certain woman do things and find themselves in this situation.”

“You do root for her and you do judge her, and you love that you judge her and by the end of it, you really forgive her for all that she’s done,” Hewitt says. “Sometimes the best role models, and the people you should look up to the most, are the ones who actually do make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them.”

[From Fox News. Last quote from Celebrity Cafe]

Wow, she really is suited to playing these type of one dimensional characters. Here’s her quote about how we should throw away our scale and not be at all concerned about how we’ll look in lingerie on screen:

On how we should never weigh ourselves
Love Hewitt refuses to step on a scale outside the doctor’s office. “I don’t have scales anymore and I don’t weigh myself. I would urge women everywhere to throw out their scales,” she stated. “Even when I go to the doctor’s office I’m like, ‘Don’t tell me’. Just write it on your chart and don’t tell me.’ It does you no good to know,” she further urged

[From Celebrity Cafe]

In yet another interview, with USA Today, Hewitt reveals that she’s working on a “prequel” to her self help book, The Day I Shot Cupid. It’s all about how you need to feel good about yourself so you can find a better man. Because that’s the only reason to feel good about yourself, right? She said “I realized that (in Cupid) I had helped people through the process of finding a man. But there’s a whole group of women out there, me included, that don’t realize the reason they haven’t found that right man is they haven’t learned how to love themselves first. Once you really love yourself, the caliber of men you can be with goes up.” So we should be happier with ourselves because we’re not happy without a good man, according to J-Love. Poor gorgeous conflicted TV-hooker playing J-Love.

Photos from Lifetime via Daemon’s TV

Jennifer Love Hewitt stars in a new Lifetime movie premiering in July as a housewife who saves her family from financial ruin by secretly turning tricks. It looks melodramatic and cheesy as hell, but it isn’t anything new for Hewitt, apart from the “playing a hooker” part. (I think, although she did play a Stripper in some kind of ghost-taking-over/dream scenario in The Ghost Whisperer.)

Jennifer Love Hewitt plays a mother who secretly turns to prostitution in the upcoming Lifetime movie ‘The Client List.’

As you can see in the trailer below, she starts turning tricks to get her family through the economic downturn and soon is buying her husband expensive gifts and deceiving Cybill Shepherd in a Southern drawl. Her whoring eventually catches up with her and she ends up in jail, forced to out her list of high-profile clients to keep custody of her kids even though she “doesn’t want to hurt any of those guys.”

‘The Client List’ airs Monday July 19 on Lifetime.

[From Huffington Post]

Kaiser does not care for J-Love, but I have a kind of affection for her. Sure she has a messed up body image and gives conflicting statements about it, but people constantly ask her about it and it’s not like she’s lying. She’s still coming to terms with this stuff. That doesn’t explain why she put out a dating and self help book despite the fact that she could use help in both departments, but I can’t hate on her. She is who she is.

As for the state of Hewitt’s career, she seems to be hustling for work after Ghost Whisperer was canceled. I’m kind of surprised she’s resorting to Lifetime movies, but after checking her IMDB page it seems more like a natural progression. The last film I remember seeing her in was 2001′s Heartbreakers and those Garfield movies, although in the past 10 years she’s done a few other films that I’d never heard of. From my quick check this is her first movie for Lifetime, but she did a 2005 TV movie for Oxygen called Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber. She’s not exactly movie star material at this point, but she’s hanging in there and still working. I would love to see her get another starring role on a television series. I know she has a lot of fans. Hell, I might be one of them. I thought Ghost Whisperer was cheesy as hell but I actually watched it – occasionally.

This is just more of the same schizophrenic messaging from Jennifer Love Hewitt, but for some reason, she’s really pissing me off this morning. Love gave an interview to People Magazine, all about dieting and body image and how bad she felt when People Magazine put a photo of Love’s bigger, bikini-clad booty on their cover with the headline “Don’t Call Me FAT!” Love would have had a really good point about unrealistic body images and loving yourself the way you are, except for one little thing: Love insisting that she’s a size 2, and the fact that in every interview she makes it clear how much she dislikes her figure by incessantly talking about her diet and exercise habits, and how she dates dudes who call her “Pear Ass” and tell her to go on a diet. This interview in People is just more of the same:

In a world that’s overly focused on body image, Jennifer Love Hewitt is urging young women not to obsess about weight – because it’s simply not worth it.

“When I meet young girls, I’m always like, ‘Just do me one favor,’ ” she tells PEOPLE in its new issue. “Love what you look like right now – and remember I said it 10 years from now because it’s the greatest gift I can give.”

Having already witnessed first-hand how tough it can be to love your own figure – the 31-year-old spoke out against critics in December 2007 when unflattering photos of her on the beach surfaced – Hewitt says she first focused on getting a mind makeover.

“I just really worked on my mental part for a couple of weeks, got myself in a really good mindset,” she says, adding that she was “bummed out” and “had to get over the embarrassment of the photos.

Then, the Ghost Whisperer star decided to give up her beloved donuts and make time to squeeze in workouts during her busy schedule – to get healthier, but not slim down drastically.

“I think I’m a work in progress,” she admits. “[But] I feel it’s so much better than [it was] a year-and-a-half ago, and I feel like in another eight months, it’s going to be so much better than it is today.”

Even with her new-found confidence, the 5-foot-2-inch Hewitt, whose Lifetime movie The Client List airs July 19, still fesses up to dreaming about having a certain body type.

“I’d want to have Gisele Bundchen’s body. Even though she’s tall and skinny, she does have curves … and I think that’s hot,” says Hewitt. “Halle Berry also is kind of amazing.”

[From People]

She exhausts me. My advice to young girls and women? Whatever you do, don’t listen to Jennifer Love Hewitt. Or just listen to the part about loving yourself and not the other stuff where she’s telegraphing how much she actually hates herself. Here’s another question – why a random People interview? Her show got cancelled, she’s not promoting anything. Oh, I get it. She’s hustling the Pear Ass for a job. She needs some work after The Ghost Whisperer was cancelled. That’s also why there are so many “candid” paparazzi photos of her lately. She’s also trying to lobby for the role of Wonder Woman… seriously. Sigh… good luck, Love.

So I’m kind of bored sitting around wondering what else to report on today and am watching some taped episodes of The View. (I’ve already watched all the good shows, don’t judge me! It’s for work.) Elisabeth Hasselbeck was on vacation yesterday and Jennifer Love Hewitt was the guest host. It was a particularly tolerable episode and one that didn’t require fast forwarding while Hasselbeck got indignant over something or other. Anyway the ladies were talking about cheating men in light of the Jesse James interview. Sheri said that she checked her now ex-husband’s Blackberry and e-mail once she found out he was fooling around and found plenty of evidence. Hewitt chimed in and said “I was cheated on, and I did check. And I’m really happy I did and I’d do it again.”

She laughed and explained “I knew in my gut that something was going on… you have to trust [that instinct]… I checked and I found that out of the almost two year relationship I was in for a year and a half he’d been having relationships with not just one woman but a few. And it was really heartbreaking to me, but it saved me staying another year in that relationship.”

When Joy asked Jennifer what signs she saw that lead her to check up on the guy, she said “I just knew his behavior was different. He was caring more about his appearance… which is a big sign. They start to work out more and they’re like ‘no I just want to get in shape.’ ‘For who? Because you haven’t been in shape our whole relationship.’”

This isn’t the first time Hewitt revealed that she was cheated on. In April she told Ryan Seacrest on his show that she was cheated on “a lot” and that “Once I found out on television and that was awesome. And then another time I found them together.” She then said she had a feeling about a different boyfriend, probably the guy she talked about on The View, and found “phone stuff” to confirm it.

Who is this guy that cheated? I’m guessing it’s her boyfriend before Jamie Kennedy, Irish actor Ross McCall. She was with McCall for just about two years and they broke up in January, 2009. There were rumors at the time that McCall was cheating on her. Good for her for trusting her feelings and checking up on him. I love how she gives us enough clues to figure out who she’s talking about without naming names. It must have been a relief to figure out what was going on and to get out of the relationship. I wonder if she celebrated by having her mons bedazzled with something empowering like “Never Again” with little curlicues around it.

These photos are of Hewitt at the premiere of Sex & The City 2 on 5/24/10. Credit: : L. Gallo/WENN.com

US Weekly has an amusing story this week about how Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ex, Jamie Kennedy, is trying to remain relevant after his split with the famous star. In terms of how their relationship ended, it’s hard to tell whether Hewitt or Kennedy broke it off, but Hewitt kept saying the split was “mutual” and not contentious. There were rumors before the breakup that Kennedy was cheating on Hewitt with one of his ex girlfriends, which he denied, but which Hewitt might have vaguely referred to while doing the press tour for her book. Then we heard that Hewitt was almost immediately coupled up with Jenny McCarthy’s ex, John Asher, who did a guest stint on her TV show, Ghost Whisperer. Maybe Hewitt is the one who dumped Kennedy when a better option came along.

Whatever happened, Kennedy is anxious to get back some of the fame he enjoyed as J-Love’s boyfriend. He had a date with a hot brunette set up and he called the paparazzi to make sure it was well documented. He even showed photographers pictures of the woman so that they could better spot her. That’s all rather pathetic. US says he’s doing it both to make Hewitt jealous and earn some press:

Jamie Kennedy, 40 – who split from his Ghost Whisperer costar Jennifer Love Hewitt, 31, in March after a year of dating – recently tipped off paparazzi to catch him with a buxom actress. Why? “He wants to make Jennifer jealous,” a source tells Hot Stuff. The insider adds that Kennedy even showed some snappers a picture of Deanna Russo, 30, who appeared on three episodes of Gossip Girl in 2009, before a planned meal with her May 6 – though the photo shoot didn’t pan out. Responds Kennedy’s rep, “There is no truth to this whatsoever.”

[From Us Weekly, print edition, May 31, 2010]

So the why did the “photo shoot” not “pan out”? Did Kennedy’s would-be date ditch him at the last minute or did the paparazzi realize that it wasn’t worth waiting around for pictures of Jamie Kennedy with some random actress who once had a stint on Gossip Girl? Kennedy will soon have other things to worry about. The show he starred on with Love Hewitt, Ghost Whisperer, has been canceled by CBS after five seasons. There’s hope that ABC or another network might pick it up, but there’s no news yet. He can always fall back on his lame standup comedy.

Here’s the girl Jamie allegedly had a date scheduled with:

Yesterday I considered covering the news that CBS had announced its fall schedule, and that several shows were canceled. It’s the upfronts week, when the networks present schedules hoping to woo advertisers, and there’s plenty of news about what shows we can look forward to seeing more of and which we have to say goodbye to. (If you’d like to know more, here are the 2010-2011 schedules for ABC, CBS, NBC and The CW.)

Among the shows canceled by CBS are the cheesy but good Ghost Whisperer, with Jennifer Love Hewitt, and comedy The New Adventures of Old Christine, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Ghost Whisperer has been on for five seasons and I have to admit I’ve enjoyed it on the few (ok, many) occasions I’ve watched it. It’s like reading one of those Chicken Soup for The Soul books, you know it’s supposed to suck and won’t challenge your brain but you still enjoy it. My mom watches New Adventures of Old Christine, which also wasn’t renewed for a sixth season. I’ve only watched a couple of episodes. At first I found the jokes lame but it was kind of funny once I gave it a chance. There’s something annoying about Louis-Dreyfus’ self centered lead character, although I love her sarcastic best friend, played by Wanda Sykes.

EW’s Mark Ausiello reported that Old Christine and/or Ghost could potentially get picked up by ABC, so there’s hope that the shows will continue on. Old Christine’s creator isn’t holding her tongue in an effort to woo another network however. In an interview with TV Guide, creator Kari Lizer slammed CBS for not supporting the show and practically called the network sexist:

The creator of The New Adventures of Old Christine has criticised the show’s cancellation.

Speaking to TV Guide Magazine, Kari Lizer suggested that CBS’s decision to axe the series was sexist.

“As far as what happened at CBS, we’ve suffered from a serious lack of support from them since the beginning,” she said. “I hate to say it, but I’m afraid they don’t care much for the female-of-a-certain-age point of view over there. How else do you explain them squandering the talents of Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and Wanda [Sykes]?”

Lizer played down speculation that the show will be picked up by ABC, but added that she wants the series to continue.

“I don’t think we’re going to know anything about ABC for a few days,” she said. “I’m hoping for life after CBS.”

[From Digital Spy]

It’s possible that Kari encountered a lot of resistance from the good ‘ol boys network at CBS, but is it wise to mention that? The show was on for five seasons and it’s not like it was canceled in its freshman year. Maybe she dealt with an unbelievable amount of crap, though, and is actually being reserved in the way she’s explaining it. We have no way of knowing unless more information comes out.

I personally wouldn’t care either way if the show was picked up by ABC, but I know it will make a difference to my mom. And, you know, I’m kind of hoping Ghost Whisperer comes back.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, her ex Jamie Kennedy and her new bf John Asher, in a Ghost Whisperer episode called “Dead Eye.” It airs tonight 4/9/10.

Jennifer Love Hewitt waited a hot minute before dating another co-star in the wake of her breakup with Jamie Kennedy. According to both Life & Style and The National Enquirer, Hewitt, 31, is dating an actor named John Asher, 39, who divorced Jenny McCarthy in 2005. (Jenny and John have son Evan, 7, together.) Hewitt hooked up with Asher the same way she met her last two boyfriends – on the set of her hit TV show, Ghost Whisperer. Enquirer and L&S have Hewitt and Asher spotted at different events looking coupled up, so it sounds like this is happening.

Less than a month after her romance with Jamie Kennedy ended, Jennifer Love Hewitt appears to have found a new Mr. Right — and he’s a friend of Jamie’s! Jennifer was spotted at a small March 27 dinner party with actor and director John Asher, Jenny McCarthy’s ex-husband (and father of Jenny’s 7-year-old son, Evan). “Jennifer was all over him,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style. “They were holding hands and canoodling. She was not hiding her affection or attraction to him at all. ” – From Life & Style

Jennifer was spotted getting cozy with… Asher, 39, at a bookstore where she was signing copies of her new book…

“The two of them definitely gave off a ‘new couple’ vibe, very into each other. There were lots of smiles and touchy-feely playfulness,” an eyewitness told the Enquirer.

Jennifer got chummy with Asher after he guest-starred on a new episode of “Ghost Whisperer” as the ghost of a private eye named Charlie. – From The National Enquirer, print edition, April 19, 2010

Would it kill Jennifer Love Hewitt to wait a while before she jumps into another long term relationship? She’s admitted on her book tour that she doesn’t date much and just has boyfriends. It’s like she’s so focused on that damn engagement ring she visits every month that she can’t relax and enjoy life. I like her, though, and hope she’s happy. She’s practically holding her breath until she gets married and maybe it will finally happen for her. It’s not the best sign that the guys a divorcee who already has a kid, but it could work out.

That said, Asher might not be the best catch. He kisses and tells and once told a radio station about threesomes he had with McCarthy and other women. He also called her a “freak in the sack.” Apparently their relationship ended due to the stress over their son Evan’s autism. Maybe the guy has matured since he spilled the beans on his ex wife last year. It’s not the best sign, though, when a guy brags to the press about his ex being a sex freak. Given Hewitt’s penchant for oversharing, she may have met her match.