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How I Met Your Mother cast surprised Michael Trucco with ‘beautiful’ gesture when Nick left the show

Michael Trucco was moved by the way the How I Met Your Mother cast treated him while on the show (Picture: CBS/ Micael Trucco/ Getty)

Actor Michael Trucco has recalled his ‘incredible’ time as part of How I Met Your Mother and revealed the thoughtful gift the cast presented him with when he left the show.

Michael, 51, appeared in the phenomenally popular series from 2011 to 2012 where he played Nick, Robin’s love interest and the epitome of the phrase ‘beautiful idiot’.

While his time on the programme may have been relatively short-lived, oblivious Nick is a firm favourite recurring character among fans of the show – and Michael holds nothing but good memories for it, too.

‘It was incredible. I had a smile on my face every day when I was there,’ he told Metro.co.uk, describing Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan and Josh Radnor as ‘legends’.

Speaking from his home in Los Angeles, Michael revealed that while he was on the show, he and his wife were building the house they now live in.

‘It was a really stressful time, we were in way over our heads,’ he admitted.

‘But Neil and the rest of them would ask me about how it was going, they took a vested interest in it which I thought was really sweet.’

The hat sits pride of place in his office, with Michael saying he thinks about the gesture ‘all the time’ (Picture: Michael Trucco)

Over Zoom, Michael revealed a bright yellow hard hat, usually found on building sites instead of a home office in LA, and said: ‘When I finished my time on the show, they got me this hard hat, and they all signed it.’

‘The whole cast, the director, everyone – and they gave it to me like “Hey man, thanks for being on the show!” and it’s just an indication of what a wonderful group of people they are.

‘I wasn’t a regular, you know, I came on for a bit and did my thing. They could have easily have ignored me but they didn’t. They were wonderful, beautiful human beings.’

Michael adored his time on the show, calling the cast ‘a wonderful group of people’ (Picture: CBS)

The surprise gift now sits in Michael’s office, with the actor saying he ‘thinks about them all the time’, but he will never actually wear it.

‘I would be terrified of smudging it!’, he admitted. ‘Even when I just picked it up I was afraid my thumb had smudged it and I thought “Oh no! No, no, no!”’

Michael’s career is now seeing him become a name associated with horror and thrillers, having recently appeared in Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass, but the actor has plenty of big-name comedies under his belt, including HIMYM and The Big Bang Theory.

Michael recently appeared in Mike Flanagan’s Netflix horror series Midnight Mass (Picture: NEtflix)

And while he is loving his time as part of the ‘Flaniverse’, he would return to How I Met Your Mother ‘in a heartbeat’.

The show’s spin-off series, How I Met Your Father, which stars Hilary Duff, has begun filming, and Michael would jump at the chance to reprise his role as Nick – even if he didn’t technically belong in the show.

‘Nick could come back!’, Michael said. ‘He’s not the brightest guy, he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, lets be honest.

‘He could just wander into the show and be like, “What, no I’m not supposed to be here!” It writes itself!

‘I am all in. Definitely yes, my gosh. Can I show them the hat?’

HIMYM spin-off How I Met Your Father has begun filming, with Michael saying he would love to make an appearance (Picture: Instagram/ hilaryduff )

As we wait with baited breath to see if Nick makes an oblivious cameo in How I Met Your Father, Michael has been working on multiple other projects, including psychological thriller Disappearance At Lake Elrod.

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The film, which represents Lauren Fash’s debut as a director, tells the story of two girls, who each go missing from the same small town one year apart, but with a disturbing difference in the public response to their disappearances.

Disappearance at Lake Elrod is out now in the UK, available on DVD and digital download.

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