America's sexiest girl next door is back......Click My Love for the big ones.....

The sad story was this issue was published before the TV sitcom (mentioned in this story) was ceased by ABC Television to continue filming episodes for the 2005 mid-season replacement.

The 2005 photographs by Cliff Watts

Jennifer Love Hewitt first got our attention on PARTY OF FIVE as the most adorable TV adoptee ever (sorry, Emmanuel Lewis) and returns to the networks with the ABC sitcom IN THE GAME. Jennifer plays Riley Reed, a sports reporter struggling to do her job while raising a child as a single mother. MILF-land, you have a new queen.

After a run of films aimed at decidedly younger audiences (it turns out GARFIELD was a children’s movie!), Jennifer is determined to make certain people understand that she has matured. "I think there are three ways of making people see you as an adult for the first time," she declares. "You either play a mom, do a dark and edgy film, or take off all of your clothes and say "I am woman, hear me roar."

And now for the roaring.

I’m not a sports-minded person. My character is basically my mom, who sits and watches the Super Bowl and brawls her eyes out if her favorite team loses. I do love sports fans; the passion they have is incredible. It’s such a deeper thing than we have in Hollywood with celebrities and their fans. But I don’t get it.

One thing you are passionate about is Audrey Hepburn. You’re slated to star in WHY CAN’T I BE AUDREY HEPBURN? Even though you were already Audrey in a TV movie. What’s with the fixation?

My mom showed me one of her movies when I was really young, and I remember never feeling the same way about movie stars. I think she truly embodied what we all want to be.

Did you really have to tape down your endowment to play her?

I did. She was not boobalicious, and I’ve been blessed from an early age---since age 11.

I know. Everybody thought I had a boob job, which is hilarious. PARTY OF FIVE was a follow up to BEVERLY HILLS 90201, and the producers very specifically wanted us to represent the girls who didn’t dress up like the girls on 90201. Then I went and did I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, and my top got smaller and smaller during the movie, so everyone thought I got surgery for my horror movie debut.

It’s weird to have people so obsessed with your breasts?

I’m fascinated with the Jennifer Love Hewitt breast site (From Jim Mix: No longer operating anymore on the Internet), where people speak about what outfits they look best in. It’s fantastic. I think it’s the funniest thing ever, and I love that there are people who spend their time doing it. They take a picture and then give suggestions---like when I’m in corsets, they’re better because they’re lifted or separated or whatever---and they carry on conversations and debates.

Ah, we love to engage in civic discourse! In HEARTBREAKERS, you had to stay "attached" to Ray Liotta’s crotch for hours to shoot one scene. Was your relationship with him forever altered?

Have you had any similarly awkward real-life dating experiences?

Oh, absolutely. Like when a guy is starting to heat things up with you and then starts talking about his mother, or you’re making out and the phone’s ringing and he’s like, "Oh, my mom’s calling," and then he goes to get the phone.

Have men ever disgusted you so much that you’ve thought of switching teams?

I think every girl talks about it once in a while when men are frustrating. And my girlfriends and I always have a joke that if it doesn’t happen for us by the time we’re 30, we’ll just throw ourselves a big wedding and marry each other.

We look forward to that invite in 2009. Which do you prefer: television or movies?

I’m a huge fan of TV. A TV schedule allows you to be yourself a little bit more because you work from nine to six and you can be at home with your friends. But if I could do movies that Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman get to do, I would do movies all the time.

Probably the strangest thing that ever happened to me there was when this guy chased us down in the middle of moving traffic for about four blocks before we noticed that he was behind us. I looked back and I saw him holding up my photo. We pulled over, and I signed it. He was absolutely having a heart attack. I’m not sure if that was because of me or because he had run behind a car in oncoming traffic.

You have an album called LET’S GO BANG. Please explain.

It was suppose to be this dance called The Bang, and the song never hit so we never came up with the dance. Everybody just thought I was a really dirty 16 year-old.

Ashton Kutcher set you up on a fake audition and then had the producer get shaken down for money in front of you. He made you cry. What’s it like to get punk’d?

It was horrible. I was convinced I was going to die, but I love that people I would never normally meet come up to me all the time and feel sorry for me because they watched it and know how absolutely tortured I was.

You’ve said you forgiven Asthon. Is this all part of a master plan for revenge?

Oh, I will get him back.

It’s funny, I went to visit a bunch of troops at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC when they got back from Iraq, and over half of them had my first Maxim cover issue with them at their bedside. They said they were allowed to bring a certain number of things to Iraq, and so many of them felt the need to let me know that they had spent quite a few evenings with me. Under normal circumstances, I would’ve been like, "OK, that’s gross," but I was oddly, very touched.

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