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Jennifer Love Hewitt: Kids Incorporated
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Jennifer Love Hewitt moved to LA with her mother at the age of 10, at the advice of a talent scout. It proved a wise move as Jennifer was offered a few commercial works and a role on Disney’s “Kids Incorporated.”
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Teen pop star Jennifer Love Hewitt was already a veteran of several TV series (including Kids Incorporated) and had recorded a 1992 Japanese LP when she signed on to appear in Fox TV's popular series Party of Five in 1995. That same year, she made he
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Hewitt's parents divorced when she was eight months old, and Hewitt spent her formative years in Texas, where at the age of three, she gave her first performance, singing as a side attraction at a Texas livestock show. It must have been a busy childhood -- she was taking tap, jazz, and ballet lessons when she was five. She won a beauty pageant at the age of nine, and soon a talent scout suggested that Hewitt could be a child star, if she moved to California. The family moved to the coast, leaving Hewitt's older brother behind to finish high school with his friends. 10-year-old Hewitt became a spokeschild for L.A. Gear, and a regular on Kids Incorporated.
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Love Hewitt's first job was on "Kids Incorporated" (1984). Little did she know that one of the guest stars would turn out to be her future co-worker on "Party of Five" (1994), Scott Wolf.
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Hewitt, a child actress of the wide-eyed, over-enunciating, hyperventilating-with-enthusiasm variety, quickly landed work in commercials, signing a two-year spokesmodel contract with Mattel’s Barbie. In 1989, she was hired on the Disney sitcom "Kids Inc." (Syndicated, 1984-86; Disney Channel 1986-1992) which centered on a wholesome, song-and-dance trained kid band that performed current pop hits. Still under contract with L.A. Gear, Hewitt recorded a promotional CD single for the brand – a cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” – and with the press coverage that “Kids Inc.” was receiving, seemed poised to launch a teen pop career. After taping a Barbie-themed workout video under her Mattel contract in 1991, Hewitt released an album called Love Songs (1992) for Japan pop audiences – a group apparently more receptive to the sugary sweet pre-teen sound. The hungry young performer had almost more than she could handle that year, cast in three TV series – including two failed pilots and one that ran half a season – and appointed Youth Ambassador at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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