Uh, by our headline, are we saying that Jennifer Love Hewitt is dating Ruben Studdard? Uh, nope. The plus-sized dude we are talking about is furry, orange, has stripes and eats lasagna. Yes, it's Garfield the cartoon cat who has won the heart of the hot actress. In the family film Garfield: The Movie, Jennifer plays Liz the cute veterinarian that Garfield's sweet but shy owner Jon (Breckin Meyer) has a big crush on.

We just spoke with Jennifer in L.A.'s Century City last weekend and the petite actress was a vision in a retro-'50's style outfit, with cute, 50's style print dress, red nail polish and her hair in a pony tail. She'd been talking to members of the press all day and was drinking a coke. This only added to that usual, happy, upbeat Love Hewitt "buzz" which includes her future projects, the admission that she's a "hopeless romantic" and her theory of the modern dating scene and why she has a hard time dating in Hollywood.

TeenHollywood: How was it working with the animals in this movie?

Jennifer: It was good. These dogs are amazing. I mean, Garfield wasn't there so I can't say that much but he looks amazing in the movie and the (CGI) animators did such a good job with him I can't even believe it. But, the dog show sequence with all the dogs? Unbelievable. You know, it's very hard to be outshined by Shar-Peis, let me just tell you. I'm like, 'okay, the Dobermans have like a brilliant close-up'. All these dogs would just like go and hit their mark, and they'd have these little facial expressions and they'd do their thing, it was amazing. I would do it again in a heartbeat. They were hilarious.