It's never nice being the new kid at school, especially when you were asked to leave the old school for crying a lot and not being able to feed yourself properly.
So, that said, Britney Spears must be feeling a lot of pressure right now as she continues filming her sitcom cameo for How I Met Your Mother.
But it's OK, because Britney Spears seems to be coping well at her new job. That's partly because her How I Met Your Mother co-stars are being somewhat effusive with their praise for her, and partly because Britney Spears clearly doesn't have the self-awareness to realise that every last frame of her cameo is going to be scrutinised for signs of mental illness until it makes the Zapruder film look like a YouTube video of a kitten in a mug.
Britney Spears and her people have had a pretty good handle on her post meltdown rehabilitation so far. It's basically involved listening to her father, spooking out a few children to keep her toe in and staying out of everyone's way. It's worked well so far, especially the latter – to protect her from public inspection, Britney Spears doesn't even appear in her new music video – but it might all be about to come crashing down around everyone's ears.
As we reportedly yesterday, Britney Spears is filming a cameo for How I Met Your Mother. As far as we could see, there wasn't a single positive we could take from the news – Britney was opening herself up to the public too soon, we said, plus she was rubbish in Will and Grace. But worst of all, by stating that she wanted 'a small part in a funny show' and then ending up on How I Met Your Mother, Britney Spears is clearly far more deranged than we could have ever known.
However, all our concerns were unfounded. Britney Spears has actually started to film her How I Met Your Mother spot and, as E! Online reports, her co-stars have all been quick to find polite ways to say that she isn't completely awful while denying that it's all a con to get people to watch the show:
[Neil Patrick] Harris—who more or less agreed with "quite impressed" costar Alyson Hannigan that Spears was doing a "good job" in her bit role as a sweet-natured receptionist at a dermatologist's office… said the only thing that concerned him about the pop star's very prominent presence was what the casting coup implied about the show's status. "It wasn't like CBS or How I Met Your Mother is trying to get ratings and said, Who can we star-cast to get attention," Harris said. "We were literally just filming last week and told, 'You're not going to believe who just called and said they wanted to be on the show.'"
It's true – although Britney appearing on How I Met Your Mother just seems like kneejerk opportunistic casting to boost rating of a show that fell into a lull about a millisecond after the start of the first episode, it absolutely isn't the case.
And it's a pure coincidence that, after Britney Spears, the next guest stars on How I Met Your Mother will include Michael Jackson, Phil Spector, the ghost of all 11 orbital Soviet space dogs and Chemical Ali. They all just happened to phone up and ask to be on the show, and who are the How I Met Your Mother producers to turn anyone down?
Well, except for Madonna. They'd turn her down if she asked. Honestly, did you see her on Will & Grace?
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tam says
. . .errr, she better watch out that Madonna doesn’t turn up anyway and try to get hold of her again. It would kinda be like Britney getting off wiv someone old enough to be her muvva. Nice