Hilary Duff Signs Up For Some TV Show We Don't Watch

Remember that rumour that Hilary Duff was going to star in 90210? What a ridiculous rumour that was.

Because, please. This is Hilary Duff we're talking about. Multi-millionaire singer and actress Hilary Duff. She'd never lower herself enough to appear on an embarrassingly self-conscious youth-orientated CW TV show like 90210. That's absurd.

But luckily, Hilary Duff would lower herself enough to appear on an embarrassingly self-conscious youth-orientated CW TV show like Gossip Girl. So she has. It's great news for anyone who watches Gossip Girl and actively identifies themselves as a Hilary Duff fan. So that one creepy man must be thrilled.

Have you heard the news? Gossip Girl is where it's at lately. No, really, it is. It is. Chace Crawford was named as Summer's Hottest Bachelor by People magazine recently, and he's in Gossip Girl. And Kelly Rutherford got pregnant last year, and she's in Gossip Girl. And, um, Michael Jackson died last week and, er, people gossiped about him and he had quite a girlish figure, and OH ALRIGHT, Gossip Girl isn't where it's at in the slightest. Gossip Girl's a slightly rubbishy TV show that we'll never properly invest in because life is obviously too short.

But all that's about to change, because very soon Gossip Girl is going to become a slightly rubbishy TV show that we'll never properly invest in because life is obviously too short that Hilary Duff will briefly appear in. It's incredible news!

Oh, come on. Hilary Duff. You know who she is. She's Disney's discarded Miley Cyrus prototype. You remember. Fights with elderly screen legends a lot. Hilary Duff. Oh, you remember.

No? Well, look, she's going to be on Gossip Girl soon and that's that. EW reports:

The actress-designer-pop chanteuse will play Olivia Burke, a movie star who enrolls at NYU in search of a traditional college experience. She ends up rooming with Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) so it's safe to say she'll be majoring in Drama! Duff will debut in this season's fourth episode, slated to air Oct. 5.

We're genuinely thrilled about Hilary Duff joining the cast of Gossip Girl - it's literally the holy grail of people we don't really care about deciding to star in TV shows that we've never even watched a single episode of. Well, not literally the holy grail - technically that'd involve Radio One DJ Jo Whiley agreeing to do a multi-episode arc on the FX TV show Sons Of Anarchy - but it's close enough.

And Hilary Duff shouldn't worry that recently turned down a spot on 90210 because she'd rather have her own show, only to discover that her own show wasn't good enough to be picked up by NBC, thereby forcing her to return to 90210's network with her tail between her legs to accept a spot on a TV show that couldn't be any more similar to 90210 if it employed Tori Spelling out of a sense of pity. There's nothing embarrassing about that at all. Ahem.

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