In an odd bit of casting news, Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will guest star on an upcoming episode of the popular WB series ?Gilmore Girls.?

Albright, secretary of state under President Clinton, will appear in the episode entitled ?Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number,? which revolves around the ongoing estrangement between Rory (Alexis Bledel) and her mother, Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham).

Albright filmed her scene on Sept. 30 with Bledel, reports AP.

“I am a big fan of ‘Gilmore Girls’ and I had a great time,” Albright said in a statement Tuesday. “It was an opportunity to do something different for a quick minute, and I learned how hard it is to memorize those lines.”

Albright is not the first unusual guest star on the quirky TV show. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer and singer-songwriter Carole King popped up in episodes last season.

Those on the WB set were quite impressed by the former secretary of state.

?You know, late at night, when you’re sitting in a dark room writing for the five-billionth hour in a row, and you’re depressed, you look bad, and your butt is now chair-shaped, you think ?what the hell am I doing all this work for?? And then you get to meet Madeleine Albright,? said executive producer Amy Sherman-Palladino in a statement.

“We are very honored, very lucky, and soooo not worthy.”

The cameo appearance marks Albright?s first time on a television series. She co-founded the Center for National Policy in 1981 and became a United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 1992, before being appointed Secretary of State in 1996.

The episode with Albright airs at 8 p.m. EDT on Oct. 25.






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