‘Lizzie McGuire’ star Hilary Duff went to homecoming with Clayton Snyder

Hilary Duff will at all times and endlessly be referred to as Lizzie McGuire, the title character of Disney’s early 2000s present.

Round Los Angeles, she’s additionally recognized for one thing else: “I can not 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, academics arising being like, ‘Physique size aside!'”

Duff was, after all, a baby star, who was home-schooled from the time she was in third grade. So she did not have college occasions of her personal to attend.

She discovered a method, although. On one event, the actress accompanied Lizzie co-star, Clayton Snyder, who performed Ethan Craft, to one among his college’s formals.

“I truly went to 2 homecomings,” Duff stated. “One with him and one with identical to one other good friend.”

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 urged 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 “an enormous circle round her” and guys would attempt to “begin dancing along with her.”

“And I am like, I do not assume she’s having any enjoyable,” Snyder stated.

No matter occurred, Duff nonetheless has an affection for college dances. She says she plans to chaperone the dances of her three children: 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