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It Sure Looks Like Hilary Duff Just Revealed What Stalled the ‘Lizzie McGuire’ Reboot


To say Hilary Duff fans were excited when she announced a Lizzie McGuire reboot on Disney+ would be an extreme understatement.

The singer-actor let fans in on the big news last August during a Disney+ event in California. “The good news is, just like me and everybody who loved Lizzie and has grown up with her, Lizzie’s also grown up,” she said. “She’s older, she’s wiser, she has a much bigger shoe budget, which is super exciting. She has her dream job. She has kind of the perfect life right now.”

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But in January the show surprisingly shut down production. The show’s original creator, Terri Minsky, stepped down as showrunner, and Disney said via a spokesperson, “Fans have a sentimental attachment to Lizzie McGuire and high expectations for a new series. After filming two episodes, we concluded that we need to move in a different creative direction and are putting a new lens on the series.”

Hilary Duff herself hasn’t said much about the shutdown—until now. On Tuesday, February 25, she posted a screenshot of a news article to her Instagram Stories about another Disney+ show, Love, Simon (based on the popular 2018 film). It read, “Love, Simon TV Show Pulled from Disney+ as It’s Not ‘Family Friendly.’” She circled the headline and wrote, “Sounds familiar….”

Hilary Duff Instagram Stories about Lizzie McGuire
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Of course, we can’t know exactly what Duff meant by her statement, but it’s not a huge leap to wonder if perhaps the powers-that-be felt the Lizzie McGuire reboot also wasn’t “family friendly.” We won’t know for sure unless Duff or others involved with the show choose to speak out more explicitly.

Lizzie McGuire originally aired from 2001 to 2004 and followed the life of 13-year-old Lizzie and her best friends Miranda and Gordo as they navigated teenage life. Hopefully everyone can settle their creative differences and the show will get back on track so we can see how all your favorites are navigating their thirties.



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Hilary Duff Had the Most Stunning Safari Honeymoon in South Africa


Hilary Duff married her longtime-boyfriend Matthew Koma last month, and the celebration was a low-key, intimate event in her backyard. Following the private nuptials, she posted a few images to Instagram that captured the picture-perfect event and the actor even shared the details of creating her romantic Jenny Packham gown. And now, Duff is giving fans a look at her enviable honeymoon, which includes some stunning views of South Africa.

Duff posted several shots that show she and Koma hanging out a the beach, hugging over mountain landscapes, and enjoying super colorful sunsets. In one of the photos, Duff and Koma can be seen peering out from their window while sipping drinks. “Honeymooning with my honey. Already seen the big 5 and had so many naps. Doesn’t get better than this….” she wrote. “Moonin’ n swoonin’,” she captioned another.

Koma also shared several images of their safari in Kruger National Park. “This place is unreal,” he wrote in a post that includes a selfie of the two of them, plus pictures of a lion, lioness, and an elephant. He capped the trip off with a longer collection of photos detailing their trip: “We climbed Table Mountain in Cape Town, played bananagrams in Mozambique, read a book with a disappointing ending together on our flights, experienced a dream safari in Sabi Sands, had the best meal of our lives at Test Kitchen, and I got to bask in the high of doing it all with my best friend turned wife. I truly am the luckiest.”

Both of them looked sad to see the whole thing end. “Long journey home after the most insane trip of my life! We can’t wait to squeeze the babbbbies and rub their skin offffffffff,” she wrote in the Instagram caption of a photo that shows her and Koma making sad faces at the airport.

The vacation seems to have come at a good time; Duff has been working on the highly-anticipated reboot of her old show Lizzie McGuire. However, some recent drama temporarily ended production on the show. Hopefully, she was too busy enjoying South Africa to stress.



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Why Hilary Duff Loves to Shave Her Nose


To say Hilary Duff has a lot on her plate would be an understatement. The 31-year-old just wrapped the sixth season of Younger on TV Land (and a seventh is already in the works); she’s starring in the upcoming Lizzie McGuire reboot; and, oh yeah, she’s a mom to two young kids. Duff has opened up in the past about how motherhood has changed her life. She told Today a few years back that she’s now “always worrying.”

One of her growing concerns? Like many, Duff is making it her personal mission to be more green. Because of the very real issues regarding climate change, yes, but also because of her children, Banks and Luca. “We owe it to our kids [to recycle] because this planet is going to be their future and their home,” Duff tells Glamour. “Our impact is going to make a difference for their future.”

Duff’s passion for recycling is why she recently partnered with Walmart and Unilever, the parent company to brands including Dove and Love Beauty And Planet, to launch “Bring It to the Bin.” The aim of the program, Duff says, is to make recycling easy and accessible, especially for busy moms who are being pulled in a million directions, which she knows from experience.

Everything she does these days is on a tight schedule, including her beauty regimen. “My routine has gotten so short, I can literally do my hair and makeup in 10 minutes,” she says. The same goes for answering our Big Beauty Questions. We caught up with the actress to have her run through our rapid-fire questionnaire and talk more about how she’s cleaning up her routine.

Glamour: What’s one beauty trend you love but would never try?

Hilary Duff: Colored lipsticks. A really different-colored lipstick, like a blue. You see it in the magazines, and I feel like it’s very runway or great for editorial, but maybe you couldn’t pull it off in real life. But I think it would be really fun.

Do you have any beauty regrets?

I went through a phase where I basically had jet-black eyebrows—and still as a blond. Jet-black eyebrows! I love a big brow. I live for a big brow, but now the tone of my brows is a little more toward my hair color.



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Hilary Duff Is Officially Coming Back as Lizzie McGuire in a New TV Series


Maybe we should have seen it coming, when, back in late June, Hilary Duff said her new haircut was inspired by her iconic Lizzie McGuire character on the eponymous Disney TV show. But we’re here for the news that broke on Friday, August 23: Duff is officially reprising her role in a new show for Disney+, the company’s streaming service set to launch later this year.

The rebooted Lizzie McGuire will center on her life as she turns 30 in New York City. She’s living in Brooklyn, working as an apprentice to an interior designer and has a boyfriend who’s a SoHo restauranteur—basically living her millennial dream life.

“The good news is, just like me and everybody who loved Lizzie and has grown up with her, Lizzie’s also grown up,” Duff said on stage during the announcement in Anaheim. “She’s older, she’s wiser, she has a much bigger shoe budget, which is super exciting. She has her dream job. She has kind of the perfect life right now.”

Although Duff teased a reboot back in December, this is the first development we’ve heard since. And although filming hasn’t started yet, rest assured that the series is under development.

“The conversations have gone on for a couple of years and the timing just didn’t seem right and now Lizzie is turning 30,” Duff told People on Friday. “For me, she was everybody’s best friend and she was there for us … entering your 30s is a really big deal.”

“I think it’s the right time to set back in and have her go along with you in your 30s and all the fun times, and all of the big monumental moments, and all of the challenges that you’re faced with,” she continued. “I just thought that there was an opportunity there for her to be grown up and for her to be there for women again.”

Duff posted the news to Instagram Friday night. “SURPRISE!!! I’ve been trying to contain this excitement for a loooong time while this has been in the works! I am beyond excited to be home again, back with my girl ♥️…and into her 30’s,” she wrote in the caption.

Needless to say, fans are stoked:

Duff also opened up to People how she really feels about returning to the character after all these years. “I’m not gonna lie: I’m a little intimidated,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Where is she in there?’ She is in there; she is me. When I was 13, it was such a big part of me… I just have to tap into that and be very authentic to that.”



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Hilary Duff Says Her New Haircut Was Inspired by Lizzie McGuire


Earlier this year Miley Cyrus broke the internet when she debuted a Hannah Montana–inspired haircut, and now another Disney icon is following suit: Hilary Duff. The actress-slash-singer unveiled a new haircut on Instagram last night, and she straight up admitted it was inspired by Lizzie McGuire, the Disney Channel character who catapulted her to superstardom. (She played the preteen heroine for two seasons in the early aughts, as well as in 2003’s The Lizzie McGuire Movie.)

“I kind of have been itching for my Lizzie McGuire bangs for a while,” she told Refinery29 about the new look, which you can check out in the screenshot, below:

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And in this Instagram post.

According to R29, Duff chopped about three inches off her hair and trimmed her bangs slightly. “Got a short do,” she posted to her Instagram Story, tagging her stylist, Nikki Lee.

The hair is absolutely Lizzie McGuire–esque. You can perhaps see the similarities best in this shot from The Lizzie McGuire movie, below.

Hilary Duff in the Lizzie McGuire Movie.
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Hilary Duff Will Feed Her Daughter Any Damn Way She Wants, Thanks


Hilary Duff recently had a debate with her son, Luca. “He was like, ‘Boys are stronger than girls,'” Duff tells Glamour. “And I was like, ‘You’re wrong.’ And he was like, ‘Well their muscles are bigger.’ And I was like, ‘Men can’t do what women can do. We’re stronger. Eternally stronger. And it’s true.'”

Duff knows a thing or two about strength. On October 25, she gave birth to her second child (a baby girl named Banks Violet Bair). By March she was back on set, filming the sixth season of her hit show, Younger. While she considers the cast to be like family, spending 16 hours a day playing powerhouse publishing exec Kelsey Peters—and running around in Peters’ signature power looks and sky-high heels—would be grueling for anyone, let alone someone five months postpartum. But with the season premiering on TV Land on Wednesday evening, Duff got it done.

“Coming back from work so soon after having a baby is so hard, and I think women are the strongest working people out there,” Duff says. There are also a lot of logistics that go into balancing a full work schedule with caring for a newborn—and it was no different on the set of Younger. “I’m still nursing Banks. I’m getting to the tail end of like, ‘I can’t do this anymore, something’s gotta give!’ Pumping at work, bringing her to a nursing session, and juggling our 16-hour days. It’s fucking crazy.”

This unabashed honesty about motherhood—from opening up about having a “hard as hell” pregnancy, or getting real about breastfeeding—has become a signature of Duff’s, particularly on social media. In recent months Duff’s Instagram has gone viral for a recreation of Rachel McAdams’ breast-pumping photo shoot (in Duff’s version she accessorized with a shower cap that was nothing short of iconic), and has been flooded with photos of baby Banks. But for every woman who feels seen by Duff’s essay-length captions on pumping, or less alone when scrolling past a photo of Duff cradling her sick infant, there are those who object to her candor. You know the type: Internet mom-shamers who prefer perfect, filtered baby pictures to those that actually depict the realities of life with a newborn—and feel entitled to sharing their opinions with the world.

“I just saw a comment on my Instagram that was like, ‘Were you feeding your child solids while she was laying down?'” Duff says. “I’m like you know what, I’m going to feed my daughter how I want to feed my daughter. And if that’s laying down, or hanging upside down because it works for her, we’re gonna do it.” And this isn’t the first time Duff has received this type of feedback. In the past she was criticized for posting a photo of herself kissing her son on the lips, who was only 3 years old at the time. And while the rampant mommy-shaming stars like Duff are subjected to on social media can be irritating, Duff takes the high road, and leaves the clapping back to her friends. One of whom will, “go in so hard, he’s so sarcastic, I love it,” she says.

Because as Duff taught her son, women are eternally strong, and she’s far from an exception. Whether it’s balancing her shoot schedule with nursing, silencing the haters, or showcasing the darker underbelly of parenting on the ‘gram, Duff’s got this whole motherhood thing down. No matter what they might say in her comments.





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