Spears Confirmed, Silverstone Out, Chalke In, and why it’ll all be OK
UPDATE: Expanded edition now available.
I’m going to expand on the latter bit of this post later but did want to confirm the following:
Britney Spears’ havoc-wreaking cameo on How I Met Your Mother has already claimed its first victim. A Mother insider confirms that Alicia Silverstone — who was slated to appear in a multi-episode arc as Ted’s dermatologist/lover — has dropped out and will be replaced by Scrubs’ Sarah Chalke.
Pink Is the New Blog reports that Silverstone bowed out because her reps (understandably) feared she would be overshadowed by Spears, who, per my sources, will play an assistant to the dermatologist now being portrayed by Chalke. As a result, I’m hearing Mother bosses Carter Bays and Craig Thomas have reconceived the female doc character. Originally slated to appear in multiple episodes, she’ll now be in just one — mostly because that’s all Chalke’s schedule will allow. The diminished screen time would also seem to eliminate any hope there was of her being Ted’s future yellow-umbrella-carrying wife (aka the “Mother”).
But Mother still has big plans for Silverstone. “[Bays and Thomas] love Alicia,” whispers my mole, “and they intend to create another character for her.”
All of this begs a critical question: Is Spears worth the headache? Provided she brings in enough viewers to get Mother off CBS’ endangered list, I reckon she is!
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Thanks to readers John d’Arc and Ranier for sharing this news with me.
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Ranier | March 11, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
Always my pleasure helping here.
I can notiche that the character was specially made for Alicia, but i’m glad that the new doctor is gonna be one of my favorites characters on tv, Elliot from Scrubs (it’s seems that being a doctor is her real profession xD)
Thankfully, Alicia is probably appear soon.
The good thing of all this? In just 1 week How I Met Your Mother is like everywhere. Everyone is talking, tvguide, zap2it, tv.com, even PerezHilton (guilty pleasure haha). That’s buzz, that’s publicity, that’s good for the show.
And that’s something that Old Christine, Two And a Half Men and the other CBS’ sitcoms don’t have.
Ranier | March 11, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
ps. I think this is the first time that you wrote well my name hahahaha
john d'arc | March 11, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
gaaah, they are readjusting the season again?!
just pick a plan and stick to it.
john d'arc | March 12, 2008 @ 7:00 am
and i guess this means we aren’t any closer to knowing who the mother is. the best bet was the doctor lady, right?
Marcy | March 12, 2008 @ 9:39 am
I´m not really happy about Britney appearing on HIMYM. I´m even less happy about Alicia Silverstone giving up her role because of Britney, but the entire situation brings one good thing: We will see Sarah Chalke on HIMYM and that truly fantastic. I love her in Scrubs, and to see her as Ted´s love interest will be great! Too sad that she´ll be only in one episode