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  • Jennifer Love Hewitt: Why She Left ‘Criminal Minds’ After Just One Season

    Jennifer Love Hewitt has said goodbye to Criminal Minds after starring on the CBS crime thriller for only one season. Why did her time end so soon?

    E! Online reports it was her choice to leave.

    If you missed the Wednesday, May 6th episode of Criminal Minds, then let this serve as a spoiler alert. You’ve obviously learned from the title and opening line that Jennifer Love Hewitt left the show–but you still don’t know what her final episode entailed.

    That final episode was a case of life imitating art–or perhaps it was the other way around. Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character, Kate, saw her daughter and friend kidnapped in the season 10 finale. The character, like the Party of Five and Ghost Whisperer star, was also expecting another child, and decided to take some time away from work to focus on her family.

    Showrunner Erica Messer said that wasn’t the original plan, but the writers worked it in.

    “It felt like we had every opportunity to write to the truth of it: She’s having another baby. Although on the show she hasn’t had, physically, two babies, she does have two kids: She has Meg, who she’s been raising since she was an infant, and we wrote in that the character is going to have another baby. There was an opportunity there to write towards the truth. Jennifer wanted to be able to give this second baby everything she gave her first, and that’s taking time off to be a full-time mom. Because she’s due in July, when we would start shooting season 11, timing-wise there was no way for her to do both, to be able to give that baby everything she wanted to give that baby and still be on our show,” Messer said during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “We wrote to that, and that’s how season 10 ends. It’s a bittersweet idea of, ‘Life is full of choices and they define who you are.’ She makes the decision to leave the team for a while. It’s really lovely and real, not only because it was happening off-screen, but because I know those things happen in real life too.”

    Might Jennifer Love Hewitt return to Criminal Minds after she spends some time at home with her new baby and daughter Autumn, who was born in November of 2013?

    Never say never.

    There is in fact a chance of that happening. For now, however, it’s not part of the foreseeable future on Criminal Minds.

    Were you disappointed to learn Jennifer Love Hewitt said goodbye to Criminal Minds on Wednesday night’s episode?

  • Jennifer Love Hewitt Thought She Was Being Punk’d When She Got the ‘Criminal Minds’ Call

    Jennifer Love Hewitt didn’t have much of a break between the cancellation of her show The Client List and the call she received to appear on Criminal Minds and says she wasn’t quite ready to make the transition.

    The 36-year-old actress planned to take a break from work to spend more time with her daughter, Autumn, but her plans were nixed when she was asked to take on the role of Kate Callahan on long-running CBS series.

    According to E! Online, Hewitt jumped on the chance to star on the show despite her plans.

    “When I got the call, I was in my sweatpants, with no makeup, making stuffed bell peppers in my kitchen, where I’ve been for a while post-baby,” the actress told the website, adding that she thought she was getting “punk’d.”

    But when she realized the call was legit, Hewitt says she was thrilled to return to television in the acclaimed series.

    “I had been on a break for a bit being a mommy,” Hewitt told Entertainment Weekly. “They were looking to add a new cast member and obviously I spent some time at CBS before, doing Ghost Whisperer. Honestly, I had always wondered and been waiting to find the perfect way to get back. My first CBS experience was so awesome. They’re great, and Les [Moonves] has been great to me. I was really excited when they called and asked to take a meeting. I met with [showrunner] Erica [Messer], who I’ve known since I was 14 from Party of Five. I hadn’t seen her in a really long time, so it was great to catch up with her. It all fit and the timing was perfect.”

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    Despite what she might be feeling about her readiness for the role, Hewitt‘s costars seem thrilled she joined the show.