Mary-Kate Olsen had a breakout year in 2008, elevating her status as both an actress and a fashion designer. Here’s a look back at her top five moments of the past year.
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Do you agree? Disagree? What Mary-Kate moments should-and shouldn’t?-be on the list? Let me know in the comments!
5) Gracing the cover of Elle
Mary-Kate looked confident and beautiful on the cover of Elle. She was on the cover of the US version in July and the UK version in September. While Elle consistently places hot celebrities on their covers, choosing Mary-Kate showed the world the …read more

Mary-Kate Olsen was on Monday night’s episode of Samantha Who?. Sam was pulled over by the police for an unrelated incident and something in her past popped up on her record, forcing her to do community service. It is here that she meets Natalie, a troubled young woman who is caught in a cycle of stealing and lying. Sam decides she’s going to make a difference in Natalie’s life and gets her a job interview at her old company.
Arieanna over at Gilmore Girls News has a full recap here, if you’re interested!

The rest of the videos are below the jump!

Mary-Kate Olsen will be on tonight’s episode of Samantha Who?, playing a troubled young woman who causes some trouble for Samantha and Deena.

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The episode airs on ABC at 9:30pm EST.

Thanks to Jen, I discovered these previews of Mary-Kate Olsen’s guest appearance on next week’s episode of Samantha Who?. MK plays a bad girl named Natalie who Sam comes across after being sentenced to community service.
In this clip, Sam and Deena get MK’s character a job interview, which makes her feel guilty about stealing from them the night before.

In this second preview, Sam, Deena and Natalie are getting ready for Natalie’s job interview and Natalie’s methods are pretty unconventional.

I’m really excited to see this episode! Mary-Kate’s character seems like a lot of fun and it looks like it shakes …read more

TV Guide sat down with Samantha Who? star Melissa McCarthy to talk about the upcoming season of their show. (The second season premiere is tonight!)
You may remember Melissa as Sookie on the Gilmore Girls. She was wonderful on that show. I’ve only caught a few episodes of Samantha Who?, but it looks like a lot of fun.
Melissa promises that this season will be tons of fun and there’s lots of exciting guests stars showing up–including Mary-Kate Olsen!

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Melissa says that MK is “really sweet” and promises that “she did a good job with the …read more

Mary-Kate Olsen is making a guest appearance on fifth episode the of Samantha Who?. In the episode, titled “Help,” Samantha gets arrested and is given community service. It is through this community service that Sam meets Mary-Kate’s character and she becomes quite a sore spot as Samantha looks back on her old life.

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Mary-Kate will play Natalie, a “troubled young woman.” Natalie reminds Samantha of her younger self and Sam is determined to turn Natalie’s life around, even though everyone tells her it can’t be done.
More photos and info below the jump!

Romina uncovered this trailer for the season premiere of Samantha Who? I’m 99% sure that it’s Mary-Kate Olsen getting slapped by Samantha at 0:02 and the one behind Samantha at 0:04 when she smashes the car. It’s a bit hard to tell, but I’m pretty confident!

If this is so, it’s interesting they aren’t highlighting the guest appearance by Mk, the way Weeds did. Why do you think that is?

I think it’s waaaaay too early to be speculating about such things, but Janet Charlton’s sources over at Samantha Who? say that they were so impressed by Mary-Kate Olsen’s guest turn she mght get a spin-off.

Producers were so impressed with MK’s talent and professionalism on-set that if the bad-girl character is a hit with fans, who knows what will happen?
This is the first I’ve ever heard this story and, while it would be awesome if it happened, I’m not believing it. Doesn’t MK’s character have to resonate with audiences before these things are considered?
MK’s episode of Samantha Who? will air …read more

EDIT: This has been confirmed by ABC.
E! Online is reporting that Mary-Kate Olsen started filming a guest spot on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? today.
Mary-Kate is slated to appear in only one episode, as a girl that Samantha tries to save. Mary-Kate’s character reminds the new Samantha of her pre-amnesia life and wants to prevent MK from taking the same destructive path she did.

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According to E!, the higher-ups at Samantha Who? are very impressed with MK’s talent and professionaliam so far. The episode is scheduled to …read more