Hilary Duff will all the time and eternally be often known as Lizzie McGuire, the title character of Disney’s early 2000s present.
Round Los Angeles, she’s additionally identified for one thing else: “I am unable to inform you how many individuals will cease me in L.A. and be like, ‘You got here to my homecoming!'” she tells Yahoo Leisure. “I simply wished to see everybody, like, bump and grind. Like, lecturers arising being like, ‘Physique size aside!'”
Duff was, in fact, a toddler star, who was home-schooled from the time she was in third grade. So she did not have faculty occasions of her personal to attend.
She discovered a manner, although. On one event, the actress accompanied Lizzie co-star, Clayton Snyder, who performed Ethan Craft, to considered one of his faculty’s formals.
“I truly went to 2 homecomings,” Duff mentioned. “One with him and one with similar to one other pal.”
Snyder talked about the night final month on an episode of the Weak podcast, which is hosted by one other Disney alum, Christy Carlson Romano. As he recalled, his mother had steered he ask Duff to attend with him — not as a date — however as a result of she thought the actress wanted a “regular child expertise.”
Solely factor was that everybody seen the star was there. There was instantly “a giant circle round her” and guys would attempt to “begin dancing along with her.”
“And I am like, I do not suppose she’s having any enjoyable,” Snyder mentioned.
No matter occurred, Duff nonetheless has an affection for college dances. She says she plans to chaperone the dances of her three youngsters: 11-year-old son Luca, whose dad is ex-husband Mike Comrie, and daughters Banks, 4, and Mae, 2, whom she shares with husband Matthew Koma.
– Kerry Justich contributed to this report
