Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has had more than her share of romantic upheavals or, as she puts it, “dating crap.”

She’s the star of the television series Ghost Whisperer, playing Melinda Gordon who has the gift to help trapped spirits. Now the 31-year-old actress has written a book, The Day I Shot Cupid, available in bookstores at the end of the month, offering advice to help hopelessly romantic souls.

The actress, also known for her roles in the television series Party of Five and the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, spoke to the Star about a Tiffany diamond, the 72-hour misery rule and the soundtrack from Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Q: What prompted you to write this book?

A: About 4 1/2 years ago after a bad break up, I went to Mexico with girlfriends of all different ages. The topic we got on the fastest was men, how they can mess up and how we women can mess up, too. I wrote up thought pages for everyone. A couple of weeks later, my friend called saying she had sent around the thought pages and some of her friends wanted to get dating advice from me. She said I had a little following. They started calling me and I thought, “Maybe I should turn it into a book.”

Q: So we should call you the Love Whisperer?

A: Yes. Thank you. I like that.

Q: Once a month since you were 12, you write in the book, you’ve gone to your favourite jewellery store and tried on your dream engagement ring. Why is a ring so important to you?

A: It’s like a guy’s hot car he drives around to show off. For girls, the ring is a symbol to the world that they finally did it. They don’t have to date anymore, hopefully. It’s just a vain outward show of love. It’s definitely not what your relationship should be based on.

Q: What does your dream ring look like?

A: It’s a 3 1/2 (carat) solitaire from Tiffany’s in platinum. It’s so beautiful.

Q: How much?

A: I never looked. That’s for him to worry about. (Laughter).

Q: It sounds like you really want to get married.

A: It’s funny. I’ve always really wanted to get married. But the older I get, the more I think there’s something to just spending your life with somebody and not adding all that pressure. My thoughts are sort of in limbo about it at the moment. But I definitely do believe in strong commitment.

Q: You were engaged to actor Ross McCall. What happened?

A: Oh, you know, it just wasn’t meant to be. I write in the book that the most important thing about an engagement is that – after the ring brouhaha and the celebrations – you have to slow everything down and ask yourself all the big questions….I have no regrets about who I’ve been with. I’m very grateful I took the time to ask myself all those questions.

Q: What’s your advice for getting over a breakup?

A: Working out was a really big thing for me. I feel 72 hours is appropriate for eating everything in sight and feeling abnormally down on yourself. But then you have to suck it up.

Q: One guy you were dating told you, “Leave your balls at home.” Your reaction?

A: First, I was like, “Balls?” Then I realized he had a point.

I was struggling at the time to prove myself in Hollywood, that I had good business sense, that I was smart. I essentially was carrying balls. I would complain that he didn’t treat me like I’m girlie, sweet and sensitive. But how’s a guy supposed to do that when you show up for your date like you’re meeting the head of Sony?

I had to learn to switch between the two. If I need to decompress after work, I cook dinner. For me, there’s something about making dinner for my boyfriend or friends that gets me back into my softer, feminine side.

Q: For all your dating ups and downs, what have you learned? Any advice?

A: It’s the dumbest thing women do. A guy will tell you and show you in, I don’t know, four dates exactly who he is, who you’re going to be in a relationship with in six months. But if you are busy dressing him up in the Knight in Shining Armour outfit or listening to the Bridget Jones soundtrack in your head, you are going to miss it.

I have learned that you can be a hopeless romantic in love, but you cannot be a hopeless romantic when trying to find love.

Q: You surprise me. You’re a successful actress, producer, singer. Yet you say you struggle with feelings of worth. Every day you make a point to tell yourself 10 things you like about yourself. Jennifer, what’s all that about?

A: Part of it is being in this business, which is awesome. But from a young age, my worth has been measured by my success in the business. People have judged what I look like, what I sound like, who I date. It’s hard to figure out where in the middle of that you actually find your worth.

In the last three years, I’ve been learning that I am worth it, not because of what movies I’ve been in or what other people think but how I feel about me. That’s a struggle a lot of young women go through but it’s an extra challenge in this business.

From The Toronto Star

Buzz about an impending breakup between Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy is just that – buzz, according to the Ghost Whisperer star.

“I’m not going to lie – it’s not annoying, it’s hurtful,” Hewitt told PEOPLE Saturday at the Children’s Institute Hosts Poker for a Cause in Commerce, Calif., to benefit Ghost Whisperer costar Camryn Manheim’s charity.

“It’s really hurtful that people say that,” says Hewitt, 30, who attended the event with her beau of 8 months, costar Jamie Kennedy. “Because he is like the most awesome person.”

Adds Hewitt: “I really hate that people would make it seem like he’s not really a good guy, and not treating me well. He treats me very well.”

A recent report suggested that Kennedy, 39, is still hung up on a former flame while dating Hewitt, a report Hewitt’s rep dismissed as a false claim by a disgruntled former employee.

“We are just trying to be really happy,” Hewitt says. “It makes it hard to do that when everybody is putting negative energy out there.”

Kennedy, who stood beside Hewitt, added: “I am lucky to be with her. And I love her very much.”

From People

When “Ghost Whisperer” returns tonight for its fifth season, it will be five years in the future and Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Jim (David Conrad) are the parents of a five-year-old son Aiden (Connor Gibbs).

“We felt that we could tell more interesting stories with Jim and Melinda’s child being five years old,” Hewitt tells ET’s Mark Steines, who is on the set of the hit CBS series.

That said, fans of the show will remember that earlier, Melinda didn’t want to have a child because she was worried that it would inherit her gift, which brought her a lot of pain when she was a child.

But when Jim died and his spirit jumped into another body and, then, it took him a while to remember who he was, Melinda decided she needed a piece of him.

“She is overwhelmed,” Hewitt continues. “Her son is special because he is hers, but is he ’special’ in the ‘Ghost Whisperer’ way?”

Hewitt directs the premiere episode and she jokes, “I am so bossy by nature, it is perfect.”

But that isn’t the only way in which she is spreading her wings. She is also the author of a book that will be released in spring of 2010, which she has been working on for four years.

“It is my thoughts on dating,” she tells Steines. “Most books are anti-guy. My book is about how guys probably aren’t as wrong as we think … and we should look at ourselves.”

“Ghost Whisperer” returns will all-new episodes tonight at 8 p.m. on CBS.

From ET Online

Jennifer Love Hewitt is dead serious about her new gig as a comic book creator, and her first title is set for release in November.

Jennifer Love Hewitt’s The Music Box from IDW Publishing is a 10-issue anthology series involving a mysterious music box that causes strange occurrences for the people who possess it. It’s not necessarily the most novel concept, as cursed objects passing from one person to another is as old as The Monkey’s Paw. It’s all in the execution.

And, Hewitt will have a role to play in that, too, as the issues will be co-written by Hewitt and veteran comic scribe Scott Lobdell. The first issue will showcase painted art by Michael Gaydos. Other issues will feature artists such as Casey Maloney (G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra), Adam Archer (Friday the 13th), and Joe Rubenstein.

This could be a neat little 2D Twilight Zone — or it could be a hacky rehashing of old radio stories. But Music Box offers something TV is afraid to do these days — an anthology series. Once a key genre from the 1950s into the early 1980s, anthologies are all but DOA now. And that’s too bad, because they offered writers a chance to let their imaginations run wild.

TV execs now believe fans tune in only to see characters and need someone to tie themselves to beyond a mere premise. If that had been the thinking decades ago, we’d have no Twilight Zone, no Outer Limits, no Police Story, etc.

From TV Squad

Jennifer Love Hewitt may be dating Jamie Kennedy, but that doesn’t mean that the “Ghost Whisperer” star isn’t pining for the man who plays Edward Cullen. You see, Twilighter Hewitt is all about Team Edward.

“Who’s not Team Edward?” she asked MTV News at Comic-Con, where she and her “Ghost Whisperer” co-stars talked about the fifth season of their supernatural CBS series. “There is not a girl in the world who’s not Team Edward! Have you met girls who are not Team Edward? Well, they are not girls! They’re aliens from another planet who should not be allowed to exist.”

Unfortunately for Hewitt, she didn’t get a chance to meet Robert Pattinson at Comic-Con, but at the same time, she isn’t sure she’d have the capabilities to handle an encounter with him in the flesh. “I’d pass out. I can’t talk about it, ’cause I’d pass out,” she said. “It’s because he’s Edward. Listen, Edward can fly you through the forest. He’s like Aladdin with vampire teeth — there’s magic-carpet rides. He can sing. He can watch you sleep. He plays music. He sniffs your neck. I mean, please!”

Although Hewitt missed out on the “Twilight” panel at Comic-Con, she was holding out hope she’d get the chance to meet another much-loved vampire cast. “I’m bummed because I missed ‘Twilight.’ I wanted to see them so badly, but they were here before I got here, so I was bummed that I missed them. But I’m hoping that some of the ‘True Blood’ people are still here so that I can see them, ’cause obviously I have a vampire thing.”

With her former “Can’t Hardly Wait” co-star Peter Facinelli in the cast, is there any chance that Hewitt may find herself in one of the next “Twilight” films? She hopes so. “I want a part so bad. Any part’s fine. I will be the vampire who carries Robert Pattinson’s luggage in the airport, that is the part that I will play if they need it,” she said. “Jamie wants to play a werewolf, so we’re both putting it out there.”

From MTV