Alicia
Silverstone Denies Quitting TV Show Because of Britney Spears
3/13/08
Miss Match
star Alicia Silverstone is laughing off reports she pulled out of a role
in U.S. sitcom How I Met Your Mother after learning she'd be appearing
opposite Britney
Spears.
Spears plays a receptionist/secretary in an upcoming episode of the
show, and insiders claim her boss was supposed to be the big screen's
one-time Batgirl.
But Silverstone's publicist Elizabeth Much insists the actress' links
to the TV show ended long before Spears' name was even mentioned.
She explains, "Alicia was in discussions to do the show but the
deal never went through. This happens all of the time in Hollywood. It had
nothing to do with Britney."
Spears will play a secretary to actor Josh Radner's character Ted when
the episode airs in America later this year (08).