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"New details have been revealed about Jeanne Tripplehorn&amp;#039;s role on Criminal Minds. Tripplehorn will join the CBS drama as a new regular for season eight, replacing the outgoing Paget Brewster (Emily Prentiss).   The Big Love actress will play FBI linguistics expert Alex Blake, who has a past connection with Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), TV Guide reports. &amp;quot;People like Reid learned from [her],&amp;quot; executive producer Erica Messer revealed. &amp;quot;She is also a professor at Georgetown and Reid has guest-lectured at her forensic linguistics class before.&amp;quot;  Messer also ruled out Blake becoming romantically involved with any of the existing BAU team members, explaining that the character is &amp;quot;in a relationship&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;When you get your heroes involved romantically, it just changes the show so much,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;I feel pretty strongly about that as a rule.&amp;quot; Criminal Minds star Kirsten Vangsness (Penelope Garcia) recently told Digital Spy that she is looking forward to working with Tripplehorn, adding that she enjoys the star&amp;#039;s work &amp;quot;a great deal&amp;quot;. &amp;gt; Matthew Gray Gubler signs two-year deal with Criminal Minds Watch Digital Spy&amp;#039;s full interview with Kirsten Vangsness below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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