Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy at the Los Angeles premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon
US Weekly has an amusing story this week about how Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ex, Jamie Kennedy, is trying to remain relevant after his split with the famous star. In terms of how their relationship ended, it’s hard to tell whether Hewitt or Kennedy broke it off, but Hewitt kept saying the split was “mutual” and not contentious. There were rumors before the breakup that Kennedy was cheating on Hewitt with one of his ex girlfriends, which he denied, but which Hewitt might have vaguely referred to while doing the press tour for her book. Then we heard that Hewitt was almost immediately coupled up with Jenny McCarthy’s ex, John Asher, who did a guest stint on her TV show, Ghost Whisperer. Maybe Hewitt is the one who dumped Kennedy when a better option came along.

Whatever happened, Kennedy is anxious to get back some of the fame he enjoyed as J-Love’s boyfriend. He had a date with a hot brunette set up and he called the paparazzi to make sure it was well documented. He even showed photographers pictures of the woman so that they could better spot her. That’s all rather pathetic. US says he’s doing it both to make Hewitt jealous and earn some press:

Jamie Kennedy, 40 – who split from his Ghost Whisperer costar Jennifer Love Hewitt, 31, in March after a year of dating – recently tipped off paparazzi to catch him with a buxom actress. Why? “He wants to make Jennifer jealous,” a source tells Hot Stuff. The insider adds that Kennedy even showed some snappers a picture of Deanna Russo, 30, who appeared on three episodes of Gossip Girl in 2009, before a planned meal with her May 6 – though the photo shoot didn’t pan out. Responds Kennedy’s rep, “There is no truth to this whatsoever.”

[From Us Weekly, print edition, May 31, 2010]

So the why did the “photo shoot” not “pan out”? Did Kennedy’s would-be date ditch him at the last minute or did the paparazzi realize that it wasn’t worth waiting around for pictures of Jamie Kennedy with some random actress who once had a stint on Gossip Girl? Kennedy will soon have other things to worry about. The show he starred on with Love Hewitt, Ghost Whisperer, has been canceled by CBS after five seasons. There’s hope that ABC or another network might pick it up, but there’s no news yet. He can always fall back on his lame standup comedy.

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arriving at the Ghost Whisperer 100th Episode Celebration

Here’s the girl Jamie allegedly had a date scheduled with:
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The World Premiere Of The Twilight Saga: New Moon

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