NPH puts Eric Braeden on Twitter blast for backing out of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ role

Neil Patrick Harris shared his unvarnished opinions on actor Eric Braeden with his million plus Twitter followers after Braeden unkindly declined to fulfill a promise to appear on NPH-starring sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

NPH took to Twitter to bash the actor for backing out and dissing the role, so says Harris:

Eric Braeden is a D-Bag. the actor, (Robin’s dad) agreed to a cameo, then last night bailed, saying the part wasn’t ‘substantial’ enough.

Harris reports, though, that the role has thankfully been filled by an undouchey actor:

We’ve recast with Ray Wise, a fantastic actor who makes any part ‘substantial’. Super excited to welcome him to the family!

TV Guide points out that Braeden was unlikely to want to reprise the role, as he didn’t really want it last time around:

The actor’s exit from Mother is not too surprising: He told TVGuide.com in 2008 that he didn’t want to do the show in the first place.

“I was talked into it by family and agents saying it was one of the highest-ranked shows and this and that,” he said then. “And I enjoyed it enormously.”

Braeden has not commented on NPH’s “d-bag” allegations.

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