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October 26, 2002 - Shaggy took part in an online chat with The Sun's readers and was asked about working with Jennifer Love Hewitt on the World Music Awards and whether the pair got intimate. "She is a beautiful woman and a very good friend of mine," he said. "It was great fun working with her. There is no truth to those rumours though!" Read more.

October 25, 2002 - Big Pictures has photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt seen out enjoying a day, shopping in London's trendy Bond Street on Wednesday (October 23). Check out the pictures here.

October 25, 2002 - Globe magazine reports Jennifer Love Hewitt is telling friends that she's seriously considering insuring her breasts for $1 million each.

October 24, 2002 - More excerpts from Christina Aguilera's cover story in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine are shared in the New York Post. The singer may have alienate one of her largest fan bases when she commented on fellow singer Jennifer Love Hewitt, "She wants a bunch of white boys I don't want... I would scare the sh** out of her if she came to one of my sleepovers." She did try to backtrack a bit from the remark adding, "I don't discriminate because of color. I actually dated my first [white] one recently." Both singers have been linked to Carson Daly and Enrique Iglesias. Read more.

October 21, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt remembered her first singing experience on stage telling Launch.com: "I was 6 years old and I performed at a dance recital at one of the local high schools for my dance group. And I was always kind of put in the back of the dancing line because I had been one of the people at this dance studio for the longest period of time, so they always put the new people up front. So this one particular year I kind of kept moving my way to the front, singing and everything, so they decided that they would let me sing. And I performed 'The Greatest Love of All.' And the mic was off the entire time. And I was just kind of screaming it at the top of my lungs." Her new album 'Barenaked' debuted at #37 on Billboard this week.

October 19, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt spoke with Gary Graff of CDNow.com and told him that she hopes the world views her music as "a cross between Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt. That would be my hope," she says. "I love both of those artists and think they're incredibly talented; I would love to get to sing and write with Bonnie Raitt. I would like to be a long-lasting artist and be able to make many albums, and be around for a long time like they are." Check out the entire interview here.

October 17, 2002 - Billie of KISS 92 Toronto and winners of a contest hung out with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jackie Chan in Los Angeles. Jennifer says she drank Red Bull after being told not to, which made her crazy during interviews, how all the kids hated her in school thinking she was this "actress freak girl," her "no glove, no love" advice, and more. The contest winner asked some pretty bold questions of Jennifer. Listen to the interview here.

October 17, 2002 - TRL's Deirdre Connolly posted a diary update on MTV.com with some insight on Jennifer Love Hewitt's appearance on the show last Monday (October 7). Connolly said, "I was in charge of prepping the Jennifer Love Hewitt interview. We initially wanted her to go outside and mingle with her fans, but it wound up not being the best of weather, so that put an end to that idea. Oh well, she's always really fun, so it didn't really bother us. She showed up right on time (which is always a plus) and was so nice and up for just about anything we threw her way. I asked her about her karaoke obsession (apparently it's her favorite thing to do). So I asked if she would sing 'I Will Survive' live on air. She was psyched to do it, and it was fun for everyone to see her less serious side." Read more.

October 16, 2002 - TeenHollywood.com (WENN) reports Jennifer Love Hewitt got into an altercation at the World Music Awards earlier this year, when she saw that a photographer began pestering her, Shaggy, and Mark McGrath who were getting into a limo. Love Hewitt explained, "He was yelling at us for not looking at him! And Mark and Shaggy didn't do anything - they just kind of looked at me like, 'Oh my God! The nerve of this guy!' So out of nowhere, I took my hand, and with all my might, I shoved the photographer in the stomach and out of the limo!" Read more.

October 15, 2002 - LFI has photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt promoting her new album 'Barenaked' at Specs in Sunrise, Florida on Saturday (October 12). Check out the pictures here.

October 15, 2002 - Early numbers in from HitsDailyDouble.com suggest Jennifer Love Hewitt's 'Barenaked' will sell somewhere in the range of only 30-35,000 copies. With half the numbers in, she's set to debut at only #36. Bon Jovi looks set to top the charts with around 170-180,000 sales of 'Bounce'.

October 15, 2002 - HipOnline.com chatted with Jennifer Love Hewitt about her new album 'Barenaked', where she talked about being on Jive Records and whether labelmates Britney Spears and *NSYNC have offered her advice. Read more.

October 15, 2002 - The Mirror reports Jennifer Love Hewitt has been dating BBMak star Christian Burns for the past few weeks. "Christian is smitten with Jennifer," revealed a source. "They were introduced at a party and they have been seeing each other ever since. Christian has never been happier but, knowing his conquest history, this might be a short fling." The source adds, "Jennifer has been telling her mates that she hopes it will last."

October 13, 2002 - Caralyn Green of the Penn State Collegian reviewed Jennifer Love Hewitt's new album 'Barenaked', calling the actress' fourth album "an unfortunate comeback." Green added, "Sure, Hewitt's pop candy is less offensive than Christina Aguilera's current dirty act, but it's also so ... bland." Check out the entire review here.

October 13, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt stopped by the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn on Friday, where she talked about her new album 'Barenaked', her movie 'The Tuxedo' with Jackie Chan, and she performed a tongue trick -- turning her tongue into a flower. Later in the show, she performed 'Can I Go Now' from her new album 'Barenaked', which dropped on Tuesday. For a rough transcript and a few photos, including the lame flower trick, read here.

October 12, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt and Michelle Branch were amongst the artists performing at The 3rd Annual 'Women Rock! Girls & Guitars', which supported the Stop Breast Cancer for Life Initiative. The event was held on Thursday (October 10) at The Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. LFI has photos of the rehearsals, while LFI, WireImage.com, and Globe Photos have pictures of the arrivals. For the show, check out pictures from LFI and WireImage.com. And for press room photos, check out WireImage.com.

October 11, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt tells Dan Aquilante that "being a rock singer is more comfortable than being a movie star." Asked why that is, Love Hewitt said, "As a singer I don't have to put on a lot of make-up, wear corsets and all that other stuff. For the past four months, I've been working on this record and I've only worn jeans and T-shirts. If I do a radio show I can go with my hair in a ponytail. The DJs don't care what I look like - they want to hear if I could sing." Read more.

October 11, 2002 - LFI has photos of Michelle Branch, Gloria Estefan, and Jennifer Love Hewitt rehearsing for the Lifetime TV taping of 'Women in Rock' at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California on Thursday (October 10). Check out the pictures here.

October 10, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt has commented on her Jive Records bandmates *NSYNC and Britney Spears to Launch.com. "I've only met Britney a couple of times and that was completely separate from, you now, me really being on Jive that much," she said. "Justin from *NSYNC and all the *NSYNC guys I've known for a while since I was really young. And, you know, they would sit behind me and pull on my ponytail and sit behind me at award shows. And so, you know, they're friends, and I think a lot of them. And the *NSYNC guys have been super supportive of my musical stuff."

October 9, 2002 - Christina Aguilera has returned to the Lycos 50 for the first time in 16 months thanks to her new video for 'Dirrty'. Meanwhile, Jennifer Love Hewitt just missed cracking the countdown as 'Barenaked' gets released, and probably more due to her racy Rolling Stone magazine pictorial. Read more.

October 8, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt chatted with Katrillion.com about her new album 'Barenaked', which is released today. Love Hewitt chose Meredith Brooks to co-write the album with her explaining, "We basically sat at her house for almost a year and had all these different ideas of things I wanted to say and talk about. We would sit down and kind of hash out the lyrics and write the songs, and we would record them some days. Other days we would wait until months later and then finally record the song and it's a project of my heart most definitely." Read more.

October 8, 2002 - Sal Cinquemani of slant magazine reviewed Jennifer Love Hewitt's new album 'Barenaked', giving it 2/5 stars. Cinquemani said, "The album spans sub-genres like a demo tape hell-bent on finding a niche," adding her, "overriding twangy tonicity, however, suggests it might behoove Hewitt to bust out that country album she seems so eager to make." Read more.

October 8, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt stopped by MTV's Total Request Live on Monday to promote her new album 'Barenaked', which hits stores on Tuesday. Again TRL conveniently had someone other than Carson Daly hosting, even though Love Hewitt had told CDNow.com that she and Daly are on good terms. Love Hewitt admits she's nervous about how the new album will do, and she calmed her nerves by doing a karaoke performance of Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive'. Read here for a transcript.

October 8, 2002 - Howard Stern got an advanced copy of Jennifer Love Hewitt's new album 'Barenaked' before its release tomorrow. Howard said she looked really good on the cover of her album. Howard said sometimes women don't look as good in person as they do in pictures like that though. Howard said it won't be a hit CD after hearing a few of the tracks. He said she's got a good voice but she's imitating everyone else. Steppin' Out magazine's Chaunce Hayden called in to tell Howard that Jennifer is a number one hit in Japan. Howard said Japan and Germany are like the bizarro world because they like performers like Jennifer Love Hewitt and David Hasselhoff.

October 8, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt will be appearing on Live with Regis & Kelly on Tuesday (October 8), The View on Friday (October 11), the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn on Friday as well, and All That on Saturday (October 12). Check your local listings.

October 7, 2002 - The Scottish Daily Record reports Jennifer Love Hewitt is hooked on Coca-Cola. She said, "I'm obsessed with Coca-Cola. I drink too much of it. And I'll eat any ice cream, but my favourite is Cookies 'n' Cream." Asked if sex or Coke was more important to her, she responded, "Coke. I cannot live without Coke, but I can live without sex." Read more.

October 7, 2002 - The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports Jennifer Love Hewitt has finished two days filming on Maui for the VH1 special '100 Greatest Love Songs,' part of their 100 Greatest series Hewitt and Willie K were filmed Monday singing at the Sheraton's Black Rock site. No word when the special will air.

October 6, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt tells CDNow.com that she and former boyfriend Carson Daly are on good terms. "I actually ran into Carson at the [MTV Video Music Awards], and it was OK," she says. "He's been amazingly supportive of the record and really likes it. He was always supportive of my musical stuff, even when we were together. He's somebody I will think very fondly of and care about and would do anything in the world for if he needed me. The idea of seeing him and being on his show ... doesn't feel weird to me at all. I actually welcome it." Read more.

October 5, 2002 - WB11 has a video clip of Jennifer Love Hewitt, who has a song called 'Barenaked', doing pretty much that for a hot photo spread in 'Rolling Stone' magazine. Watch the clip, which features some of the photos, here.

October 5, 2002 - TeenHollywood.com reports Jennifer Love Hewitt is a big fan of England. "I don't really know all about bad teeth, but I've been to Britain and I had the best time," she said. "In fact, I'm going to film a movie there later this year, a romantic drama I'm doing with my production company that is set in London." She's also a fan of the country's airlines -- Virgin and British Airways because "they give you pajamas. I love that." Read more.

October 4, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt defended her sexy Rolling Stone magazine photo shoot which shows the 'Barenaked' singer close to being bare naked. "When I go to a photo shoot I am completely a person who is getting to play model for the day and doing a photo shoot has nothing to do with, you know, really who I am as a person unless I'm kind of laughing in the photograph or whatever," she told Launch.com. "And doing those pictures for Rolling Stone for me it was more kind of, it was a fun day to sort of dress up and be something that I'm not 24 hours a day." Read more.

October 1, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt is featured on the E! network's 'Revealed with Jules Asner', which premieres Wednesday, Oct. 2, 10 p.m. Tune in to find out what the former child actress confessed to Jules Asner about everything from being a mama's girl to being "the queen of canceled shows." Read more.

October 1, 2002 - Jennifer Love Hewitt chatted with Entertainment Today about her role in 'The Tuxedo', and the moment she's held underwater, which for her was a delicate situation. "I’m a little bit claustrophobic, and there’s something about being held under water," she explains. "The biggest thing with claustrophobics are that they’re total control freaks, and I am a total control freak. It’s [just] knowing that I’m under something, feeling very constricted. Even when I was a kid, you know how kids will play and dunk each other’s head under water? I would lose it, just start hyperventilating." Read more.

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