Paula Abdul to play herself in new NBC comedy pilot
According to Variety, Paula Abdul has signed on to Fresh Off The Boat and How I Met Your Mother writer Kourtney Kang’s untitled NBC sitcom project, with Abdul playing a version of herself. The pilot is based on Kang’s childhood, with her growing up as “the only girl in the only mixed race family in the suburbs of Philadelphia,” and though she has to face “real-world issues,” she never loses sight of her goal “to become a Laker Girl like her idol, Paula Abdul.”