Now that A.J. Cook is back on Criminal Minds, she has one goal: to get beat up.
"I have volunteered to get beat up! I want to get into a really bad fight this year," she tells TVGuide.com. "I'm like, 'Everyone else has gotten the crap beaten out of them! It's JJ's turn!'"
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She may get her wish now that JJ is a full-fledged profiler since she returned to the BAU after a year in the State Department. Though JJ said way back in Season 2 that she had no plans to take extra classes to graduate from media liaison to profiler, Cook believes the promotion is "organic" and in line with JJ's story — not to mention her own story off-screen.
"Someone thought that that character wasn't necessary, so in order for me to come ...
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JJ and Prentiss are back!
After a year of casting upheaval, A.J. Cook and Paget Brewster returned to Criminal Minds Wednesday, a homecoming that was punctuated by Cook live-tweeting the Season 7 premiere.
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The opener picked up three months after the finale at a Senate hearing, where the BAU was grilled about its rogue operation pursuing Prentiss' IRA nemesis Ian Doyle (Timothy V. Murphy). After Doyle's son, Declan (Conrad Bluth), was kidnapped — but not by Doyle — Prentiss (Brewster) came out of hiding to help the team, which now finds JJ (Cook) as a profiler, solve the case.
"Gang's all here!" Cook tweeted after Brewster's ...
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Consider her Lost and found! As cultural anthropologist Charlotte Lewis on the dearly departed mind-bending ABC drama, Rebecca Mader was done in by a gushing nosebleed following too much time travel. Now, Mader is back from the dead to play the equally mysterious Victoria Morrow on No Ordinary Family in an arc of episodes that kicks off tonight at 8/7c on ABC. We asked the fiery gal for the scoop about her new alter ego.
TV Guide Magazine: How would you describe Victoria?
Mader: She is a British woman who works with Stephanie [Julie Benz] at Global Tech as ...
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The Behavioral Analysis Unit on Criminal Minds has always prided itself on being a family, but on Wednesday, the family will lose one member: agent Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (A.J. Cook).
Cook's contract was not renewed by CBS in June, and the actress — who, with the exception of the pilot, has been a regular since the first season — will bid adieu to her BAU crew in...
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Criminal Minds Jennifer JJ Jareaus life will soon hit a bump a baby bump AJ Cook returned from the writers strike with more than just an eagerness to get back to work She and husband Nathan Anderson found out she was pregnant with their first child while she was shooting the movie Misconceptions in which she plays a surrogate mother Shes very Method cracks Minds exec producer Ed BerneroBernero and his staff immediately began rewriting scripts to plant a romantic backstory for JJ The way this show works we couldnt really hide it says Bernero All seven of them walk into rooms together all the time so it really was a no-brainer Well we better get her a boyfriend So in the April 30 episode the BAU team once again crosses paths with Det William LaMontagne Jr Dirts Josh Stewart who flirted with JJ during a jaunt to New Orleans in February 2007 There was a connection between the two of them right away Cook says Apparently weve been
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