SPEARS FEELS LOVE FROM TV CAST; SHUNNED BY SILVERSTONE

Sources connected to the TV show "How I Met Your Mother" tell TMZ the cast members were told Britney wouldn't be on the show unless they said it was OK. They met with her and they liked her — they really, really liked her!

We're told the entire group of actors approved Brit. She was, as one of them put it, "laid back and collected."