Jennifer Love Hewitt called out by ‘Client List’ co-star Loretta Devine for rewrites

nypost.com:

People at the American Black Film Festival Honors in LA on Monday.“You know what? She decided to rewrite the entire angle of the show right in the middle,” Devine said on the red carpet.Devine added that, at the time, she was “was very excited” about the drama series, which was canceled after two seasons.“It was good,” said the actress, who played former massage parlor owner Georgia Cummings. “Everything gets you prepared for whatever you’re going to do next.”The Post has reached out to Hewitt’s rep for comment.“The Client List,” based on the 2010 Lifetime TV film and created by Suzanne Martin, followed Hewitt’s Riley Parks, a single mom working as a massage therapist in Texas.

The cast also included Cybill Shepherd, Rebecca Field, Alicia Lagano, Brian Hallisay and Colin Egglesfield.The series was canceled in 2013 due to reported creative disagreements between the producers and Hewitt, who wanted her real-life relationship with her co-star and now-husband, Hallisay, written into the show.Hewitt was pregnant with her and Hallisay’s first child while filming.Deadline reported during the drama that Hewitt’s demands put her at odds with the showrunners, who preferred Egglesfield, the show’s male lead, to be Hewitt’s character’s baby daddy.A rep for Hewitt told the outlet before the show’s cancelation, “There are many story lines we are exploring.

So any suggestion that we are not doing our best to develop a great season is simply not accurate.”Hewitt and Hallisay, 46, met on the set of the NBC series “Love Bites,” but they didn’t start dating until they both ended up on “The Client List.” They got married in November 2013 and have three children together: Autumn, 11, Atticus, 10, and Aidan, 3.The actors currently play a.