{"id":6532,"date":"2015-11-04T23:13:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T07:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2015-11-25T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:38:55","slug":"what-is-the-secret-origin-of-lily-aldrin-on-how-i-met-your-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/11\/04\/what-is-the-secret-origin-of-lily-aldrin-on-how-i-met-your-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Secret Origin of Lily Aldrin on How I Met Your Mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

TV URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: There would be no Lily Aldrin on “How I Met Your Mother” had Alyson Hannigan not played her.<\/p>\n

As I wrote in a TV Legends Revealed a while back<\/a>, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, the creators of “How I Met Your Mother,” were so unsure about whether they would get picked up for a full first season that they wrote in a “backup” mother in case the show was canceled early. However, the character of Lily Aldrin might not have even made it that<\/b> far, according to a legend involving Rebecca Alson-Milkman, the wife of show co-creator Craig Thomas. <\/p>\n

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