Katy Perry Set to Guest Star on Raising Hope

Katy Perry’s trying her hand at acting again with a guest starring role on Fox’s hit comedy, Raising Hope. Perry will be guest-starring on the March 6, 2012 (8pm ET/PT) episode titled “Single White Female Role Model.” Perry, whose previous acting jobs include a guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother and voicing Smurfette on The Smurfs, will be playing a prison attendant named Rikki who “claims to be a friend from Sabrina’s (Shannon Woodward) past.”
 
“Shannon Woodward told me that her friend Katy was interested in doing an episode and I thought, ‘Why not? Let’s do your friend Katy a favor,’” stated executive producer Greg Garcia. “Then she came in and did a terrific job. She was hilarious. And now people are telling me that Katy is also a singer. I sincerely hope that her appearance on the show helps her get her singing career off the ground. It’s a tough business.”
 
Perry said, “Shannon Woodward is my best friend. A couple weeks ago, I was home, just toasting up a frozen chicken fillet when she called me up and asked if I wanted to do something ‘fun’ for a change and try out a guest role on her TV show. I thought, ‘Sure, I have nothing else to do, and I like chillin’ with my best friend.’ Greg was nice, but I hope he’s not secretly sabotaging my potential future career by type-casting me in the role of just a looker, so that I would never be able to play anything more challenging.”
 
The “Single White Female Role Model” Synopsis:
 
In the all-new episode, Sabrina is arrested after participating in an Occupy Natesville protest and is sentenced to two weeks in prison. Rikki (Perry), the prison attendant, will stop at nothing to make Sabrina’s stay in the slammer as dreadful as possible, until she remembers their childhood friendship. Meanwhile, the mayor of Natesville (guest star Mary Birdsong) grants Virginia (Martha Plimpton) three wishes after she helps the town’s top official avoid a public scandal.
 
Source: Fox – February 23, 2012
 
—Posted by Rebecca Murray