We were recently gifted with the best news of 2019 – Lizzie McGuire is getting a reboot, but it somehow got even better because it looks like Lizzo is going to have a cameo in the show.
Lizzo is apparently a huge fan of Lizzie McGuire and took to Twitter to respond to The Hollywood Reporter sharing the news that Hilary Duff will be starring in a reboot of the classic Disney Channel sitcom.
She wrote, “Lemme get a cameo.”
Hilary soon responded, writing, “Ummmmm duh! Hired! Animated Lizzie might explode!”
Lizzo added, “It’s official #LizzoMcGuire,” and if we weren’t excited enough about the reboot, we are seriously over the moon right now.
THR reported the reboot “will revolve around Lizzie as a 30-year-old millennial navigating life in New York City”. It sounds like a PG version of Younger (which Duff will continue to work on while she makes Lizzie McGuire), and I am so keen.
It’s not clear whether Lalaine, Adam Lamberg, Jake Thomas, Hallie Todd and Robert Carradine will return for the Disney+ series at this stage.
In an interview with Buzzfeed in 2014, Hilary revealed what she thought Lizzie would be up to at the time and it sounds like it could be the perfect jumping-off point for the reboot!
“I don’t think she’d be married to Gordo. I don’t know, I think she’d go off to college and potentially become a little cooler than she was, but still not bitchy at all. I think she’s just the biggest-hearted girl ever.
“Maybe she’d move to New York for a while, and her parents would probably follow her and rent an apartment secretly. I think she’s pretty smart. I can imagine her being on a path to something really special and great, but I feel like she’d still be working her way through the office grind and she’d probably constantly embarrass herself — mishaps in the office all the time.
“And she’d probably still be wearing butterfly clips, bringing it back!”
Sounds perfect!