HIMYF: Leighton Meester’s Secret Cameo Explained (& Will She Return?)

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The pilot episode of How I Met Your Father featured a secret cameo from actress Leighton Meester, who is apt to reappear in the series. Best known for her iconic role as Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, it’s odd that How I Met Your Father would first include the actress in a manner where she can hardly be recognized. Considering How I Met Your Father's first few 30-minute episodes were more focused on introducing the main cast members and HIMYM connections like the old apartment, it won’t be until later that Leighton Meester’s recurring character is featured prominently.

How I Met Your Father’s series follows the same setup as its predecessor, How I Met Your Mother, where the new characters come together amidst the trials and tribulations of 20 and 30-somethings dating in NYC. Hillary Duff’s Sophie is a wide-eyed hopeless romantic like Ted Mosby, who is tired of her endless, unfruitful Tinder dates before meeting Jesse and Sid. Jesse is now averse to dating and marriage after a video of his ex-girlfriend rejecting his proposal went viral on the internet, while Sid just got engaged to his long-distance fiancée Hannah. As new love interests, disastrous hook-ups, and old flames appear in relation to How I Met Your Father’s main characters, Leighton Meester won’t be the last big cameo for the series.

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Leighton Meester cameoed in How I Met Your Father episode 1 as Meredith, Jesse’s ex-girlfriend who rejected his proposal on video, thus labeling him as the viral “Mr. Proposal Fail.” Since the viral video played on How I Met Your Father hardly showed Meredith’s face, it’s not surprising that Meester was hard to recognize. Even with a cameo that lasted less than five