On the hit Fox TV show “24” star Mary Lynn Rajskub plays Chloe O’Brian, CTU’s technical backup support that field agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) needs to get his mission done. In real life the show is presently off the air thanks to the three-month-old writers strike. But if the strike were over tomorrow and new scripts for “24” could be pumped out right away the show’s creators would have to make sure to keep Chloe at her desk for the remainder of the season: it turns out that the actress is now pregnant with her first child. Rajskub, 36, broke the good news first to People magazine. The father is her live-in boyfriend, personal trainer Matthew Rolph, and at 27, nine years her junior. The little one is expected to arrive near the end of summer and if mommy knows if it will be a boy or girl she didn’t spill it with People. "With the strike going on, I had to keep busy!" Rajskub quipped to the magazine. "We are thrilled and couldn't be more excited." At least there was one good thing made from Hollywood’s work stoppage. Now let’s run with this scenario: say the writers’ strike is over sooner rather than later. There are eight episodes of “24”’s seventh season already done but Fox doesn’t want to air them unless it knows that the rest of the season (the remaining 16 hours left in the day) can also be completed without any major delays to their broadcast order. If the writers got back to work next week and “24” resumed production there would still be several months of work left to be done – and Mary Lynn would start showing her pregnancy bump somewhere around hour 14 or so. It would only get more noticeable as the “day” went on until Chloe was wearing maternity dresses and glowing with her imminent motherhood by the time the season was over. Now that would be something worthy of further investigation by Jack, maybe in season eight.
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