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Hilary Duff‘s two worlds collided in the March 7 episode How I Met Your Father, which featured a callback to her days on Lizzie McGuire. During the episode, Hilary’s Sophie recollects her worst Valentine’s Day expertise, which seems to be from the beloved Disney Channel present, as footage performs of Hilary’s Lizzie flirting on the cellphone together with her boyfriend Ronnie, within the Lizzie McGuire episode “First Kiss.”
Sadly, the Lizzie McGuire flashback was short-lived, since Sophie’s pals cease her from persevering with the story. The transient glimpse at Hilary’s days on Lizzie McGuire was such a welcome shock for followers, because the deliberate reboot was scrapped by Disney+.
So, are you questioning how that Lizzie McGuire cameo scene cameo to be? HIMYF govt producers Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker informed Entertainment Weekly the episode’s author, Amy-Jo Perry, got here up with the concept, they usually instantly reached out to Hilary about it.
“We all loved it, but the first thing we had to do was immediately fire off a text to Hilary and be like, ‘How do you feel about this?’ ” Elizabeth mentioned. “And she’s the best — if she thinks it’s funny, she totally is on board. It took her all of 10 seconds to be like, ‘Yes, obviously, we have to do that,’ ” she added.
Isaac revealed to EW that they didn’t should get permission to make use of the Lizzie McGuire footage “because Lizzie was a Disney Channel show and we work for Walt Disney Television, so it’s all the same big corporate umbrella. That makes it all very, very seamless.”
As for the Lizzie McGuire reboot that by no means occurred, Elizabeth mentioned that the cameo scene within the How I Met Your Mother spinoff sequence gave followers “a tiny taste of what they didn’t get with that reboot.” She added, “We just try and give everybody every experience they can ever dream of. That was really fun to do.”
Lizzie McGuire aired on Disney Channel from 2001 to 2004 and likewise spawned the 2003 theatrical movie The Lizzie McGuire Movie. A reboot sequence was within the works on Disney+ again in 2020, starring Hilary and the unique forged. Two episodes had been filmed, earlier than the venture was scrapped when Hilary and Disney disagreed with the path they needed to take her character in.
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