The actress brought her new beau, Hamzi Hijazi, along to celebrate Mohegan Sun’s 15th anniversary on Saturday in Connecticut. The pair watched Jennifer Lopez’s emotional concert along with newlyweds Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo, then attended the afterparty at Ballo inside Mohegan Sun.

Pressly, 34, who filed for divorce from entertainment lawyer Simran Singh in January, said she and Hijazi met at Lorin, his shoe store in downtown Santa Monica, Calif. The former My Name Is Earl star, who next stars in the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter, described their first encounter as fateful.

“I literally walked into the shoe store with my girlfriends one day shopping and there he was, so it was a kismet kind of thing,” she tells PEOPLE. “It was great.”

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Fox’s upcoming comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter has tapped Mark Consuelos to recur as a teacher-turned crush interest for Pressly’s character Annie, TVLine has learned.

Kelly Ripa’s other half will play Carlos Castillo, a Spanish professor at the local community college where Pressly and Katie Finneran’s characters have enrolled. Before you can say Te quiero, Pressly’s Annie soon finds herself being asked out on a date by Mr. Castillo.

Others joining All My Children vet Consuelos in guest spots on the freshman series include Bridesmaids scene-stealer Wendi McLendon-Covey and Pretty Little Liars‘ Keegan Allen.

I Hate My Teenage Daughter premieres Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 9:30/8:30c.

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The free week-long event, continuing through Sept. 12, begins each night with a party at 6 PM. A panel with network stars begins at 7 PM, followed by the screening.

Following Los Angeles, PaleyFest will play New York’s Paley Center for Media Sept 13-20. Receptions will be held from 6-6:30 PM, followed by the screening.

Among the series to be screened at PaleyFest are NBC’s “The Playboy Club,” starring Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy); NBC’s “Up All Night,” starring Christina Applegate (Sweet Charity); NBC’s “Free Agent,” starring Hank Azaria (Spamalot); CBS’ “Person of Interest,” starring Michael Emerson (Hedda Gabler); CBS’ “A Gifted Man,” featuring Patrick Wilson (The Full Monty), Jennifer Ehle (The Real Thing), Margo Martindale (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Pablo Schreiber (Awake and Sing!) and Raul Esparza (Taboo); ABC’s “Suburgatory,” starring Ana Gasteyer (Wicked); and Fox’s “I Hate My Teenage Daughter,” starring Tony winner Katie Finneran (Noises Off).

The Paley Center for Media is located at 465 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, CA. For more information and to make reservations, visit www.paleycenter.org.

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I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, the new family comedy starring Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran as single moms, best friends – and former nerds – who fear their privileged and overly indulged daughters are turning out just like the mean girls who picked on them in high school, will now debut on Wednesday, Nov. 30 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) after THE X FACTOR on FOX.

Wednesday, November 23 will see the premiere of the new comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter at 9.30pm. Starring Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran, the comedy series follows two single mothers who fear that their respective daughters have become high school “mean girls”.

I have updated the Jaime Pressly Web photo gallery with 132 photos from the event – with both high quality (HQ) and regular sized (MQ) images.

“I Hate My Teenage Daughter” will start airing this fall 2011 on Wednesdays at 9:30pm on the Fox network!

Also on May 15th, Jaime Pressly was spotted shopping in New York City and I have added 32 photos of her into the photo gallery.

Fox has also ordered I Hate My Teenage Daughter to series, starring Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran as two women who were tormented by mean girls when they were younger, from the makers of The New Adventures of Old Christine.

A big congratulations goes out to Jaime on this great news!

First and foremost, Jaime Pressly and Ethan Suplee (two more My Name is Earl alumns!) will guest star as a couple down the street from the Chances whom Burt (Garret Dillahunt) and Virginia (Martha Plimpton) decide to offer counseling.

“They have a little bit of problems, and we decide to help them out. Not that they ask or maybe even need us!” Dillahunt laughed.

Dillahunt spent a lot of time with us on the PaleyFest pressline talking about how Pressly would not stop kissing him– which maybe wasn’t even in the script– but when after he got all the giddiness of working with her out of his system, he added that working with her was really great because she’s “really classy and really funny.”

“I don’t want to say she’s underrated as an actress, but underappreciated maybe,” he continued. “She’s really, really good.”

The episode will air one week before the show’s season finale – I’ll post the exact air date when its released!

“Burt and Virginia sort of become involved in their life more than they want to,” Earl and Hope creator and executive producer Greg Garcia told EW. “They become entangled in some drama that’s going on at the Suplee-Pressley household.”

The news comes on the heels of Earl star Jason Lee’s November appearance as washed-up rocker Smokey Floyd and the announcement of Eddie Steeples’ (Crabman!) upcoming guest spot.

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