The Ghost Whisperer Gets Real

Jennifer Love Hewitt in “The Ghost Whisperer”

Sooner or later, reality always bites you in the ass. And in Jennifer Love Hewitt’s case, it can’t miss.

Any male over 12 who’s seen The Ghost Whisperer knows that there’s only one reason to watch it — Jennifer’s famously ample boobs, which always seem about to spill out of her negligee or negligee-like dress (the only options for a ghost whisperer to wear, apparently, no matter what the occasion). But then, after a poll declared earlier this year that fans of the show were watching it for the compelling stories and not her cleavage, the negligees became turtlenecks and the show’s initial manbait hidden away.

Needless to say, I stopped watching the show around then.

So, too, it would seem, did everyone else. In recent weeks, “Thelma” and “Louise” have been back with a vengeance, doing what only boobs can to lure lost viewers back to the show. I don’t know if this will be enough to break my current habit of not watching it — it’s an awfully lame show, after all — but if there’s anything in this world or the next that can bring me back into the fold, Jennifer’s half-naked rack is it.