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Britney Spears May Return To 'HIMYM', Finally Jumpstarting That Comeback We've Been Expecting For Half A Decade
Posted by Molly Friedman at 7:40 AM on April 4, 2008
Should Britney have skipped that whole "comeback" disaster at the MTV Video Music Awards and just headed straight to television? TV Guide is reporting today that Spears is "in talks" to reprise her role as a dermatologist's secretary in love with Josh Radnor's character on How I Met Your Mother, due to critical approval and a dramatic increase in the show's ratings that night. Yahoo reports that the allegedly sinking show drew in 10.6 million viewers tuning in to Britney's episode, compared to the average 7.8 million average for the season. Paired with reports that Brit has reunited with her former manager Larry Rudolph, it looks as though her Comeback Tour has finally been given some fuel, albeit slightly later than scheduled...
Rudolph, of course, is the man responsible for turning Britney from a cute and quasi-talented blonde girl in a Catholic girl's skirt into an international celebrity and, somehow, magically sustained the act for half a decade. But after allegedly attempting to force her into rehab, the union disintegrated, and we all know what's happened since. And if Spears works her charm on the small screen once more, and gives whatever undoubtedly genius plan Randolph has for saving her career a chance, there might actually be hope for her faded star to light fire again. Strange how Britney's ability to step back into the spotlight is almost directly linked to the time it's taken to grow that damn hair back, no?
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People Paula
Posted 9:52 AM 4/4/08
That Britney episode was BY FAR the worst episode of HIMYM ever. The series has grown into one of the best sitcoms on TV so, judging from the inexplicably horrible writing, I have to assume The Suits had their hands all over this "very special" episode. You could almost hear the actors cringing as they delivered predictable, boring lines their characters would NEVER say.
People Paula
KateNonymous
Posted 9:29 AM 4/4/08
Was her performance on HIMYM something that any other random actress couldn't have done? Because she was fine, but I didn't see anything that seemed particularly noteworthy.
And it's not like that's all her own hair. If hair grows at an average of 1/2 inch per month, then at most her own hair would be about chin-length--maybe shoulder-length, if she has some kind of Miracle-Gro for hair.
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orangepixistix
Posted 12:38 PM 4/4/08
@KateNonymous: It is just that all the Britney fans [who still love her for who knows why] watched and I am guessing there are more Brit fans than any other potential actress HIMYM could get? Who knows.
I just hate to hear about her being on the show again. Her performance was so cheesy. Now if they brought back Sarah Chalke on HIMYM... that would be nice.
orangepixistix
KateNonymous
Posted 5:45 AM 5/4/08
People Paula, I hear they wrote the episode in something like 45 minutes so that they could have something for Britney to film. I'm not surprised it was sub-par.
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hitchenaride
Posted 10:28 AM 4/4/08
Oh, Britney was great...pretty, sweet and funny...give the girl a break ya trannies!
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