Britney Spears: singer, actress...PETA receptionist?

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has no qualms targeting celebrities who wear fur and sending strongly-worded letters, usually made public, urging them to stop.

But they appear to have a soft spot for Britney Spears, who has been photographed occasionally wearing fur and whom they left off of their worst dressed list last year during her lengthy, well-chronicled public meltdown.

Now PETA has decided to extend her another olive branch. Last month, Spears played a dorky receptionist on the TV series ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ garnering relatively high ratings and some praise for the minor role. PETA has made the pop star an offer to reprise her role as a receptionist--at one of the PETA facilities nationwide.

The organization, no stranger to garnering publicity, has announced that, for as little as one hour as their receptionist, it would donate $1,000 to a children’s charity of Spears’ choice, in her name.

‘We might have criticized you in the past for contributing to the dog overpopulation crisis and wearing real fur, but perhaps now that your own crisis has abated, a new day calls for a new relationship, a new outlook, and a new understanding,’ PETA’s President Ingrid E. Newkirk wrote to Spears.

Now it’s up to Spears’ camp to respond. For someone on the comeback trail, this might be one of the more safe offers on her desk.

-Francisco Vara-Orta