Hillary Duff just answered a question that fans have been dying to hear since the Lizzie McGuire reboot.
The entire conversation took place while the 38-year-old sat on Jake Shane’s podcast Therapuss and featured one of the most asked-about takes, namely whether McGuire would end up with Adam Lamberg’s character Gordo.
According to Duff himself: “I think there was just disagreement about how far we could go [Lizzie] and where she is, as you know, she would have been when we filmed on the 30th or 31st.”
“And for me, I was that age and that’s why I also felt so deeply connected to her as a character because we were similar. And I was like, oh, man, we can’t Mary Tyler Moore her, it’s not, I don’t know, it was 2023. You know what I mean?”
“There’s social media, and we weren’t. I wasn’t trying to get her to wake up and do bong rips or anything, but she was a normal 30-year-old, you know? So there were some things that I think they just didn’t like, totally willing to go there.”
The last McGuire release prior to this was in 2003, when the series concluded her story via The Lizzie McGuire Movie and featured her kissing Gordo.
However, the actor doesn’t think they would have ended up together because “I don’t think they had a thing. I think maybe they had an almost thing. I know, again, another swing at it that didn’t. But I think there was a thing with someone else that was just very quick.”
“In my mind, I like to think she finally had a thing for Ethan Craft,” the star concluded by saying.
For the uninitiated, Craft was Lizzie’s middle school crush played by Clayton Snyder.
