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What's Up With Jennifer Love Hewitt and Her Boyfriend?

Golden Globe nominee to make feature film directorial debut after spending springtime with her boyfriend in his hometown of Chicago

By Marc Malkin Jan 14, 2011 3:23 PMTags
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alex BehMichael Kovac/FilmMagic

I know what Jennifer Love Hewitt may be doing with her boyfriend Alex Beh this spring.

The Golden Globe nominee tells me…

She and Beh will be in Chicago filming the coming-of-age indie flick Warren. Beh not only wrote the movie, but he's also producing, directing and costarring in it. Hewitt is playing his ex-girlfriend.

And then she'll be going behind the camera to make her feature film directorial debut with a big screen adaptation of family ghost story book, Wait Till Helen Comes. "I directed [Ghost Whisperer] a few times so this is new and exciting," Hewitt told me earlier this week at TV Land's party for Hot In Cleveland and new series Retired at 35.

She wants to shoot in the flick in Rhode Island. Casting hasn't begun, but Hewitt said, "I would love Maria Bello to be in it. I would love her to play the mom in it."

For now, Hewitt has Sunday's Globes to worry about. She's up for Best Actress in a Miniseries/TV Movie for her starring role as a suburban housewife-turned-call girl in Lifetime's The Client List.

She's already jotted down some notes for an acceptance speech—not because she thinks she's a shoo-in to win. "I'm terrified to speak in public," she confessed. "It's bad, so I did write a few things down on a little piece of paper."