Ted Mosby no longer has any contact with his How I Met Your Mother friends

Nine seasons, 208 episodes and years spent together… but not really a great friendship. Josh Radnor reveals that today he is “not at all” close to his former friends at MacLaren.

Ted Mosby told the story for nine seasons of how he met the mother of his children. But in real life, Josh Radnor obviously hasn’t kept the same ties with his How I Met Your Mother family. Guest of the Half the Picture podcast, the actor explained that today he was “not close at all” to his former partners.

Asked if he was still closely associated with the MacLaren gang, Radnor replied bluntly: “No. Not at all.” Before specifying that there should be no resentment there.

“I don’t mean that in a dramatic way. It’s just… We had Neil (Patrick Harris) on the podcast, and he and I had a really interesting conversation about some tensions we had on set. It was fascinating and, in a way, restorative.”

Josh Radnor hosts a podcast today revisiting How I Met Your Mother with series co-creator Craig Thomas. Neil Patrick Harris notably participated earlier this year.

With Jason Segel, who played Marshall, contact still exists, but remains very occasional: “We text each other from time to time, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen him.”

As for Cobie Smulders, the interpreter of Robin, whom he has received several times in his podcast, he mainly explains having seen her “on Zoom”. He finally remembers meeting Alyson Hannigan for the last time at her wedding, in 2024.

No quarrel yet. Radnor claims to have “love for all these people” and compares their relationship to that one can have with old college friends.

“It’s like college, where you go through a really intense time together and you think you could never imagine not seeing each other every day anymore, because you’ve seen each other every day for so long. And then everything disperses, and everyone goes off to live their lives.”

The actor goes even further and believes that their relationship was more like a family relationship than a true friendship.

“It’s a little more like family than friends, because you don’t choose your family. We were chosen to play together. We didn’t choose each other. And family dynamics eventually show up when you’re in an environment like that for that long.”

But this does not mean that the links have completely disappeared:

“There is also a love that is very deep, very rich and probably eternal, but it is not an active love. Acting is like the love stories that you experience, then leave to move on.”