Josh Radnor has a How I Met Your Mother cast confession
Josh Radnor has lifted the lid on where things stand with his How I Met Your Mother castmates — and it’s not the nostalgic picture you might expect.
When it comes to TV reunions, people love to imagine their favourite on-screen mates clinking glasses off-camera years after the final episode. Well, if you were quietly picturing the How I Met Your Mother gang still downing whiskies together in some real-life MacLaren’s, Josh Radnor (aka Ted Mosby) is here to give you a reality check.
208 episodes of How I Met Your Mother were filmed from 2005 to 2014, with the five leads at the centre of all nine seasons.
Losing Touch After Nine Years
Radnor recently appeared on the Half the Picture podcast and got asked the thing every HIMYM fan probably wonders: Do you lot still hang out? His answer was about as blunt as they come: 'No. Not even a little bit.' That’s not to say there was a secret falling out or dramatic behind-the-scenes bust-up—just, time moved on, and so did they.
The actor did note he’ll occasionally swap a text with Jason Segel (Marshall), but even that’s been a while. Cobie Smulders (Robin) popped up on Radnor’s own rewatch podcast (which he co-hosts with HIMYM co-creator Craig Thomas), though their chats have mostly stuck to Zoom rather than a proper face-to-face catch-up. The last time Radnor bumped into Alyson Hannigan (Lily) was at his wedding in 2024—not exactly recent if you’re hoping for pub regulars.
Past Connections, Present Distance
Neil Patrick Harris (Barney) is a slightly different story. Harris joined Radnor and Thomas on the HIMYM rewatch podcast, where they apparently talked through some old on-set tensions, with Radnor describing it as both 'fascinating' and actually quite healing. That’s nice and all, but it’s clear those “healing” chats haven’t led to group barbecues.
Discussing where those old cast relationships stand, Radnor compared the experience to a sort of university: you spent years together, nearly every day, then everyone graduates and drifts off on their own path. He says the HIMYM cast now feels more like family—'not because you chose them,' but because you shared something massive. The bond is still there, somewhere, but it’s less about WhatsApp memes, more about a 'deep and rich' connection that lingers even if nobody talks. Acting, in his eyes, is a bit of a short-term love affair: you go all in when the work’s happening, but after that, real life takes over—and everyone cracks on.
This is all a bit of a shift from the picture these longevity sitcoms sell, but it’s probably a familiar story behind any 'work family' that spends years stuck together under studio lights. Nine seasons, nearly a decade, and over two hundred episodes is nothing to brush off—just don’t expect them to be nipping round each other’s houses for quiz night in 2026.