Loretta Devine and Jennifer Love Hewitt Jason Kempin/Getty Pictures
Loretta Devine has mentioned working with Jennifer Love Hewitt on the quick lived sequence, The Shopper Checklist.
Devine, 75, mentioned in an interview with Individuals, printed on Tuesday, February 18, that her expertise with Hewitt, 45, was “blended.” Devine detailed how she was troubled by the inventive choices of Hewitt, who served as an government producer whereas additionally starring within the present.
“ what? She determined to rewrite the complete angle of the present proper within the center,” Devine instructed the outlet.
The Shopper Checklist, which premiered in 2021, centered on Riley Parks, performed by Hewitt, a mom deserted by her husband who accepts work at a day spa with X-rated extras known as The Rub, run by Georgia Cummings, performed by Devine.
The Lifetime drama was canceled in 2013 after simply two seasons, with studies on the time suggesting that the community “couldn’t agree on a storyline for a 3rd season,” per Leisure Weekly.
The Shopper Checklist additionally starred Cybill Shepherd, Rebecca Subject and Colin Egglesfield.
This isn’t the primary time Hewitt has been the topic of rumored on-set pressure. On the ‘90s set of I Know What You Did Final Summer season, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Hewitt have been believed to have clashed.
Rumors on the time speculated that Gellar’s IKWYDLS character, Helen Shivers, was killed off by the hands of Hewitt, which Hewitt denied throughout a December 2024 episode of the “I’ve By no means Mentioned This Earlier than With Tommy DiDario” podcast.
“I used to be 18. They weren’t taking script notes from me. All of us have been in that have collectively, you realize, figuring all of it out and all the pieces. And I root for her and Freddie [Prinze Jr., who also starred in IKWYDLS],” Hewitt mentioned, denying she ever obtained the ability to fireplace Gellar, 47. (Gellar is married to Prinze Jr., 48, after assembly each other on the 1997 movie’s set.)
Whereas Gellar is not going to seem within the July 2025 reboot of IKWYDLS, Hewitt and Prince Jr. will return, whereas newbies Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Austin Nichols spherical out the brand new forged.
As for Devine, the actress was slightly completed earlier than stepping on set at The Shopper Checklist. She starred alongside Whitney Houston in Ready to Exhale along with portraying Lorrell Robinson within the unique Broadway manufacturing of Dreamgirls.
Devine additionally discovered success in her recurring function as Adele Webber on Gray’s Anatomy, successful an Emmy Award within the class of Excellent Visitor Actress in a Drama Collection in 2011, simply previous to The Shopper Checklist arriving on screens.
