--- title: The West Wing Cast Reunited to Celebrate Allison Janney description: The West Wing cast reunited on Monday night to celebrate C.J. Cregg (a.k.a. Allison Janney)'s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. canonical: https://time.com/4535825/west-wing-reunion-allison-janney-hollywood-walk-of-fame/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-18T21:39:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:44.588Z og:title: The West Wing Cast Reunites to Celebrate C.J. 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(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)ROBYN BECK—AFP/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 18, 2016 9:39 PM UTC Leave it to C.J. Cregg to bring together the cast of the [_West Wing_](http://time.com/4270221/west-wing-podcast-joshua-malina/). Team Bartlet reunited on Monday night to celebrate Allison Janney receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a move of support that no doubt warmed the hearts of each and every _West Wing_ fan. The cast attended the ceremony, where they congratulated Janney on her honor. Janney, who played the ambitious and outspoken press secretary turned White House chief of staff C.J. on Aaron Sorkin’s beloved political drama, revived her character this year to [hilariously crash a White House Correspondents’ Dinner press briefing](http://time.com/4312740/allison-janney-cj-cregg-white-house-press-briefing-correspondents-dinner-west-wing/). This isn’t the first time, however, that the West Wing actors have reconvened; during the ATX Television Festival, they revealed[ who Josiah Bartlet would endorse in this year’s presidential election](http://time.com/4378212/west-wing-presidential-endorsement-2016/) (Hillary Clinton) and in September, [they hit the campaign trail to stump for Clinton in Ohio](http://fortune.com/2016/09/22/hillary-clinton-west-wing/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4535825/west-wing-reunion-allison-janney-hollywood-walk-of-fame/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4535825/west-wing-reunion-allison-janney-hollywood-walk-of-fame/"},"headline":"The West Wing Cast Reunited to Celebrate Allison Janney's Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame","datePublished":"2016-10-18T21:39:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:44.588Z","description":"Team Bartlet forever","url":"https://time.com/4535825/west-wing-reunion-allison-janney-hollywood-walk-of-fame/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5e6b67bc4a69a73/6988aa870b72e311dd6eb66b/west-wing-reunion-allison-janney-hollywood-walk-of-fame.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5e6b67bc4a69a73/6988aa870b72e311dd6eb66b/west-wing-reunion-allison-janney-hollywood-walk-of-fame.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-ENTERTAINMENT-TELEVISION-EMMYS-ARRIVALS","caption":"US-ENTERTAINMENT-TELEVISION-EMMYS-ARRIVALS","creditText":"ROBYN BECK—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4535825/west-wing-reunion-allison-janney-hollywood-walk-of-fame/","name":"The West Wing Cast Reunited to Celebrate Allison Janney's Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame"}}]}] ```