--- description: The actress will play a seasoned forensic anthropologist title: Betty White to Join 'Bones' as New Intern image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fe09f656d7bf191/6988615cf887dca789e921b2/betty-white.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Betty White to Join _Bones_ as New Intern ## Video: Late-Night Highlight: Betty White Reveals Scary Animal Attack [Watch (HLS stream): Late-Night Highlight: Betty White Reveals Scary Animal Attack](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/U4PFIbzY.m3u8) (0:56)  _Published 2014-05-30. On the ‘Late Late Show,’ longtime animal lover Betty White revealed the one time she was hurt by a creature. And the one animal that did attack her is quite a surprise!_ by [Kelly Connolly / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Kelly Connolly / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 28, 2015 4:17 PM CUT  Betty White at The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association's (GLAZA) 45th Annual Beastly Ball in Los Angeles on June 20, 2015. Betty White at The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association's (GLAZA) 45th Annual Beastly Ball in Los Angeles on June 20, 2015.Amanda Edwards—WireImage/Getty Images by [Kelly Connolly / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Kelly Connolly / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 28, 2015 4:17 PM CUT Forget _Hot in Cleveland_ — how about _Hot at the Jeffersonian_? Betty White is set to guest star on _Bones_ as the team’s newest squintern_,_ EW has confirmed. White will play Dr. Beth Mayer, whose half century of experience might make her the only forensic anthropologist more qualified than Brennan (Emily Deschanel). [TVLine reports](http://tvline.com/2015/08/27/betty-white-bones-season-11-squintern/ "undefined") that Mayer is called in to assist on a murder with ties to fantasy football — which she also happens to know a lot about. Could Mayer challenge Booth (David Boreanaz) as much as Brennan? The legendary actress is the latest surprise Fox’s long-running procedural has unveiled for its 11th season, which will also feature a [crossover with ](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/06/fox-explains-bones-sleepy-hollow-crossover "undefined")[_Sleepy Hollow_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/06/fox-explains-bones-sleepy-hollow-crossover "undefined")_._ White shared the news on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/BettyMWhite/status/636961909372141568) _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/27/bones-betty-white-new-squintern "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4014877/bones-season-11-betty-white/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4014877/bones-season-11-betty-white/"},"headline":"Betty White to Join Bones as New Intern","datePublished":"2015-08-28T16:17:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:31:59.000Z","description":"The actress will play a seasoned forensic anthropologist","url":"https://time.com/4014877/bones-season-11-betty-white/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fe09f656d7bf191/6988615cf887dca789e921b2/betty-white.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kelly Connolly / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fe09f656d7bf191/6988615cf887dca789e921b2/betty-white.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Betty White at The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association's (GLAZA) 45th Annual Beastly Ball in Los Angeles on June 20, 2015.","caption":"Betty White at The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association's (GLAZA) 45th Annual Beastly Ball in Los Angeles on June 20, 2015.","creditText":"Amanda Edwards—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4014877/bones-season-11-betty-white/","name":"Betty White to Join Bones as New Intern"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Late-Night Highlight: Betty White Reveals Scary Animal Attack","description":"On the ‘Late Late Show,’ longtime animal lover Betty White revealed the one time she was hurt by a creature. 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