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The actress admits she has selected three bands at the top jewellers in the hope it will make her future husband’s choice easier.
Appearing on Tuesday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show, Hewitt says, “I feel like I’m doing the guy a favour. I feel women are very confusing. We never know what we want and we’re not very good at nailing that down for them, and I feel like I don’t want to be upset if he picks a bad ring.”
And the actress reveals she lets her man know about the rings whenever a relationship is getting serious: “If it gets to that conversation, if marriage comes up, I’m like, ’You know what’s so weird, there is this store and there are three rings in it... And if you choose one of these three, I’m going to be really excited. And if you go off on your own, we can have an awful, awkward moment. So why would you want to do that?’”
Hewitt is currently dating actor/director Alex Beh.
"I feel like with my mouth I would get in trouble all the time," Hewitt, 31, tells PEOPLE. So, in an improvised verbal "live Tweet" from the Golden Globe red carpet, she and boyfriend, actor and director Alex Beh, 27, described their experience, which in a haiku-like result, had them "sweaty" and "smiley."
Hewitt, 31, nominated for best actress in her role in the made-for-TV movie, The Client List, however, will leave the future social networking to Beh.
"He loves it," said Hewitt, who told PEOPLE back in November that her beau cooks a great Thanksgiving Day turkey. "He [Tweets] for both of us."
"I'm super excited [and] very nervous, oddly enough," Hewitt told PEOPLE at a W magazine party celebrating the Golden Globes Friday night. "I don't get nervous, but I feel nervous. I'm really excited."
Hewitt, who attended the party with her actor boyfriend Alex Beh, earned her first Globe nomination – best performance by an actress in a mini-series or a motion picture made for television – for her portrayal of a Texas physical therapist-turned prostitute in The Client List.
One thing the actress can feel relaxed about is her Golden Globes gown.
"I tried on like 20 dresses, and it was the one that each of the three times I went back, I put it on and it was the dress I stood up the straightest in," she says. "I felt like, 'Yeah, this is me, and this is my dress!' "
And Beh is a fan as well, according to Hewitt: "He saw a picture and he loves it," she said.
The Ghost Whisperer star and her new man are "good" and "feeling good about where we are," she says, shooting down the idea that they're feeling pressure to take the next step in their relationship.
As for what makes them work as a couple, "friendship ... is the best part," Hewitt says. "We are good friends, and we have really good communication, oddly enough, because I'm not good at communicating in relationships [but] he's teaching me."
The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Ricky Gervais, will air live Jan. 16 on NBC at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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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 children's horror book, Wait Until 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."
Last year, the former "Ghost Whisperer" star became an author with the relationship memoir "The Day I Shot Cupid," and she made headlines again for having a new beau ... actor-director Alex Beh. Hewitt's next television project reaffirms her ties to love: She stars with Betty White in the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" drama "The Lost Valentine" Sunday, Jan. 30, on CBS.
"I definitely tend to gravitate toward things that have romance in them," Hewitt confirms to Zap2it. "I had a lot of fun writing the book, and I really would like to write another one at some point, though I'm not sure when I'll be able to do that. I learned some things from people who read the book, and I learned some things about myself on the book tour. I feel I have some things to say about that."
However, Hewitt has nothing to say -- not yet, at least -- about Valentine's Day 2011. "It's one of my favorite holidays," she allows, "but I don't know what our plans are going to be."
While she has come to terms with the end of "Ghost Whisperer," Hewitt admits that took some time. Now a nominee for a Golden Globe Award for the Lifetime movie "The Client List," she bought into rumors that ABC might pick up her weekly drama when CBS canceled it last spring after five seasons.
"For me, it was a total shock," she says of realizing the series wouldn't continue. "I thought our next season probably would be the last, just because the show had been on for a really long time. It's hard to come up with new things that will keep people intrigued, but I never thought in a million years that was going to have been our last season.
"I was bummed for Melinda," Hewitt adds about her spectre-seeing "Ghost Whisperer" character, "because I didn't feel the series ended the way that she deserved for it to. We left the audience sort of hanging, and I hate that.
"When you've taken people on a journey for so long, the least you can do is give them a goodbye. For a show that was about unfinished business, we didn't get to finish."
Best Actress in a Miniseries/Made-for-Television Movie:
Hayley Atwell, "Pillars of the Earth"
Claire Danes, "Temple Grandin"
Judi Dench, "Return to Cranford"
Romola Garai, "Emma"
Jennifer Love Hewitt, "The Client List"
Series creator John Gray, who had already reduced his role to consultant and occasional writer-director for the last two seasons, finished his excellent feature film White Irish Drinkers and took it on the festival circuit. His creative partners and friends, co-executive producers Ian Sander and Kim Moses, moved on to other intriguing projects, including development of the reality show Ghost Town and the drama Ghost World for ABS, where Sander-Moses Productions is based.
In home entertainment, Ghost Whisperer is also a wrap, at least on DVD. Ghost Whisperer: The Final Season is available as a six-disc set loaded with generous extras Sander and Moses are proud of creating, because they propel their show beyond the average for TV-on-DVD. There is also a new value-pack that shrink-wraps all five seasons together for first-timers. The only step left is Blu-ray. Sander is eager, he says in an interview, "but that is a Paramount Home Entertainment question." The answer? No plans yet.
The complete DVD cycle begs another question: What is the Ghost Whisperer legacy? "I think we have given people a lot of comfort," Gray says. "I think one of the reasons the show might have been successful is the post 9-11 world where more people are hoping there is something else -- and not just this." Gray is referring to the afterlife, if it exists. "I think the show may have given people a little hope that that's there. But, even if you don't believe in the supernatural, I think the show dealt with grieving and coming to terms with loss and coming to terms with things unsaid, which is why we could have gone on forever because you just never run out of stories. My only regret is that we didn't know we were making the last show when we were making the last show."
For Sander, the end still stings, even though he calls it a network business decision he cannot dispute on a purely financial basis. CBS cancelled the show. A proposed move to ABC failed. "I don't have any regrets about it but, looking back at it, I don't think I'm grateful it ended or that it ended at the right time."
Sander says Ghost Whisperer had more to give. "I don't think we were finished yet telling the stories, had the opportunity been there. This is a show that was really about Melinda's life. And lives don't fit necessarily into neat boxes the way television shows do. There are surprises and there are mysteries. You don't always have those neat endings in real life."
Mainstream audiences, especially women, related deeply to the adventures of Hewitt and David Conrad, who played her paramedic husband. There is also a legacy for the creators. "I would say there is great satisfaction," Sander says. He and his wife Moses also co-authored a book, Ghost Whisperer: Spirit Guide, which delves into the series world inspired originally by real-life paranormal investigator Mary Ann Winkowski.
That book is just part of a big plan. Sander says his team used the Internet, publishing, music videos, video games and DVDs to create a richer relationship with fans. "We saw Ghost Whisperer as a very 21st century show, something we called the total engagement experience." Even though the show is over, Sander wants that total engagement to continue. (Ghost Whisperer - Complete Series)
"I didn't know he made a great turkey until right now," the actress, 31, told PEOPLE at the Rock the Kasbah gala in L.A. "We're learning every day."
From John Mayer to her Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy, Hewitt has had enough dating experience to fill a book – and that's just what she did in her advice tome, The Day I Shot Cupid, published in March. And it's a book the actor, 28, has studied, saying he "enjoyed it" and that it was "a great time."
The couple cozied up hand-in-hand on the red carpet, Beh's arm around her waist. But it's not just the glammed-up Hewitt he's attracted to, he says.
"Any look that she has," he tells PEOPLE of his favorite Hewitt ensemble. "Any time she looks at me."
Hewitt is also heeding the advice she dished out in her book in her relationship with Beh, whom she described as an "old-fashioned" gentleman.
As she says, "I do feel like me kind of writing it helped me sort of get to where I needed to be in order to know that he was there."
ABC has ordered a script for Bad Taste in Men from Hewitt and writer Austin Weinberg. The comedy follows a Chicago woman unable to find Mr. Right. Hewitt wouldn't necessarily star in the series, though.
The 31-year-old Ghost Whisperer star also is developing an adaptation of her TV film The Client List at Lifetime as well as a comedy about the love life of a career-driven woman at Fox, according to Variety.
Hewitt recently guest-starred on Law & Order: SVU, and will star opposite Betty White in the made-for-TV flick The Lost Valentine on CBS.
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