Happy Birthday to the forever queen of our hearts, **Jennifer Love Hewitt**! 🎉✨

From stealing our hearts in *I Know What You Did Last Summer* to making us believe in true love and second chances on *Ghost Whisperer*, and keeping us on the edge of our seats in *9-1-1*, Jennifer has given us characters that feel like home.

For decades, she’s embodied strength, vulnerability, warmth, and resilience — whether she’s playing the girl next door, a grieving friend, a loving mother, or a hero in heels. Beyond the screen, she continues to inspire with her authenticity, kindness, and unwavering love for her family and fans.

Today we celebrate not just the incredible talent, but the beautiful soul behind it all. Thank you, Jennifer, for the memories, the tears, the laughter, and the comfort your work has brought into our lives.

Here’s to another year of magic, milestones, and moments that remind us why we’ve loved you all along. 💖

Happy Birthday, Jennifer — always and forever our leading lady.

Jennifer Love Hewitt wants one of her famous costars from the past to pay a visit to Station 118.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Hewitt, 46, shared that she would love to see Jamie Lee Curtis guest star on 9-1-1 — and she even has a story in mind for the Hollywood icon.

“My dream would be Jamie Lee Curtis,” she says, adding, “I love her so much, and I have always had this secret storyline in the back of my mind that I think she would be incredible for, which I can’t say what it is, but I would love to make that happen.”

Hewitt and Curtis previously worked together on the 1996 comedy House Arrest. In the movie, a group of kids who want to prevent their parents from divorcing hatch a plan to lock the adults in the basement until they figure out their relationship problems. The actresses have remained pals ever since, with Curtis, 67, praising the I Know What You Did Last Summer star’s interview with New York Magazine on Instagram in July 2025. “My friend @jenniferlovehewitt takes my breath away!” she wrote alongside several quotes and photos from Hewitt’s interview.

While Curtis may be best known for her big-screen roles in films like Halloween and Freaky Friday, she has been carving out a space for herself on TV in recent years. She previously appeared on New Girl, The Sticky and Reno 9-1-1. In 2024, she won the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for her work on The Bear. Next up, she’ll star alongside Nicole Kidman in the Prime Video series Scarpetta.

In addition to being old friends with Hewitt, Curtis also previously worked with 9-1-1 executive producer Ryan Murphy on the Fox series Scream Queens.

Still, Curtis isn’t the only one of Hewitt’s former costars on her 9-1-1 guest-star wishlist.

“Oh my gosh, I’ve worked with so many awesome people,” the actress gushes. “Well, my husband [Brian Hallisay] was on there, so that’s awesome. That’s done … I’m trying to think who else. Camryn Manheim I think would be amazing on the show.”

She adds of her Ghost Whisperer costar, “I think she would be incredible and I would love to have her on there.”

Captures of this weeks 9-1-1 has been added to the gallery. Sadly, we won’t see a new episode for the next month as it’s not set to the return until the end of February.

Jennifer has been a busy bee lately the last two years where she branched out and went on numerous podcasts. I have added numerous screen-captures of her appearances and placed them into the gallery.

Back last summer, Jennifer was making the circuit route of promoting her return to the Horror franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer and she stopped by her good friend Tommy DiDario podcast and I finally had the chance to add screen grabs from the episode. You can watch/listen to the full podcast below:

Jennifer Love Hewitt pulled double duty on the Thursday, Jan. 15 episode of 9-1-1.

In “War,” Maddie (Hewitt) found herself facing off with an AI 9-1-1 operator named Sara, who was also voiced by the I Know What You Did Last Summer star. While Sara initially seems capable of doing the work of human operators faster and more efficiently, she soon goes rogue, putting the lives of Los Angeles residents in danger.

In the end, Maddie uses her very human skills as a 9-1-1 operator to convince Sara to take a vacation on a thumb drive, which she promptly destroys in a scene that Hewitt, 46, says was a blast to film. “It was really funny to just be mad at a thumb drive,” she tells PEOPLE.

In fact, filming the entire episode was quite the experience as the actress spent a lot of time arguing with herself as Maddie and Sara engaged in a battle of wills for control over the call center.

“It was pretty funny because obviously Sara handles things so differently than Maddie,” Hewitt explains. “So, in a lot of the stuff, Sara’s doing something, Maddie’s cutting her off, or Maddie’s doing something and Sara’s cutting her off. And then, I’m yelling at myself as Sara, but I’m Maddie. And then, I had to talk Sara down and Maddie down at the same time. So, it was very confusing, but it was a lot of fun. [Showrunner] Tim [Minear] likes to give me challenges.”

In addition to echoing real world conversations about the possibility of AI replacing real people in the workplace, the episode also reminded Hewitt of the 2022 hit horror film M3GAN, about an AI doll that gains self-awareness and refuses to let anyone get between her and her human companion.

“She’s caught off guard,” Hewitt says of Maddie. “She did not know that this Sara AI person was coming. And then, it has her voice, which is even scarier because it almost feels like a M3GAN kind of situation where it’s like, ‘Girl, you better not have my voice.’ ”

While the episode takes the concept of AI replacing human jobs to an extreme place, the Ghost Whisperer alum was excited to see the show tackling such a timely topic.

“AI is such an important conversation that we’re having in the world, but it’s also a really scary conversation,” the star says. “On the one hand, there are really talented AI artists out there doing these incredible things and you have to have respect for that. Then on the other, you’re able to do some really scary things with AI that I don’t know, as a mom, I worry about for my kids.”

The episode is also a pivotal one for Maddie, because the call center is her “safe space,” according to Hewitt. “Anything for her really that happens at the call center to sort of threaten that safe space for her is big in her world … she ran there in complete life peril and found safety at that call center and it needs to stay that way for her,” she says.

Still, the over-the-top direction the episode goes in did lead to plenty of funny moments off-camera. “In this episode, I am literally talking to myself, which is hilarious,” Hewitt laughs, adding that she initially thought she would be playing off an AI-generated voice.

However, Minear “made the decision that it would be much more sort of threatening and scary to Maddie if it did in fact sound like her,” leading to an ADR session where the actress “essentially” just talked to herself.

As for whether or not Sara could spawn a sequel à la M3GAN, Hewitt says “there’s always a possibility,” but she thinks “Maddie gets her for good.”

New episodes of 9-1-1 air Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. on ABC, and stream the next day on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.

I managed to add a few production stills from this week episode War which premieres tomorrow.

With a new year comes the return of 9-1-1! I’ve managed to add screen-captures of Jennifer’s brief appearance in the 7th episode titled Secrets into the gallery for your viewing pleasure! Also looks like next week will be a big one for Maddie!