How I Met Your Mother - Rebecca Budig to Guest

Fresh off her second stint as All My Children’s “real Greenlee,” Rebecca Budig has grabbed a guest-starring gig on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother.

In one of this season’s final episodes, Budig will play Holly, a new girlfriend of Ted’s, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

The casting of Budig is perhaps 17 percent extra-interesting to longtime AMC viewers who know that Abigail Spencer (who played Pine Valley’s virginal Becca Tyree) also has “dated” Ted. Spencer played “Blah Blah,” a Season 3 girlfriend whose name Ted could never remember.

The same two actresses sharing a Josh (Radnor vs. Duhamel)… . I could go on for days with the coinky-dinks. But of greater/actual concern to the HIMYM fan is the fact that Budig’s appearance, sources tell me, will set the table for a small tease as to the titular Mother’s identity. For a bit more on that, you’ll have to keep an eye out for this week’s Mitovich Mega Minute.

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