Can I get a WHAT-WHAT!” she said at the time. “The issue isn’t that I’m too fat, it’s that I’m too phat. Rumors swirled that she was fired for being overweight. Prior to booking Happy Endings, Wilson spent two seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, but was let go from the show in 2009. For the 32-year-old actress and writer, the critical accolades are a touch redemptive. An example of her hilarious histrionics: While crying over a cosmo, she complains, “My disgustingly fat manicurist is literally trying to kill me.”Ī little bit Carrie Bradshaw with a sprinkle of Lucy Ricardo, Wilson’s endearingly daffy performance as Penny quickly earned her fan-favorite status. She does such a good job that when the guy’s ex-girlfriend bumps into him, she’s so impressed that they reunite and get engaged. (Penny’s theatrical pronunciation of “A mahzing” and optimistic trumpeting of the “Year of Penny,” in particular, subconsciously make their way into viewers’ daily conversation.) Penny is so unlucky in love that, in one episode, she painstakingly transforms a cute, but unstylish, duckling into a well-manicured dateable swan. Wilson plays Penny Hartz, the perennially single girlie girl with a clumsy streak and penchant for delivering dramatic monologues and coining catchphrases. Sound familiar? The comparisons to Friends are apt-perhaps no sitcom since the NBC hit closed up Central Perk boasts a cast with as much zany chemistry as the six Happy Endings leads. The premise of Happy Endings, which airs Tuesday nights on ABC, is simple: six close-knit friends hang out a lot.

Still, it’s not hard to see how a rumor like this could take off. Mullally is even coming back for another episode. “I’m sure it’s like when you have a twin or something who always knows what you’re talking about.” But scaring people off set? Not true, Wilson maintains. “We spend so much time together, and we really do get a kick out of each other,” she says. “We were all laughing so hard,” Wilson tells The Daily Beast, dismissing the gossip item. Megan Mullally, who has appeared twice as the mother of Casey Wilson’s character Penny Hartz, allegedly told producers “never to call her again.” “If you aren’t in their group, you’re completely ignored,” a “spy” told the tabloid. They like each other so much, in fact, that Star magazine reported that their clique has become so impenetrable that guest stars complained to producers and have blacklisted the show.

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