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To the disappointment of fans everywhere the 'Lizzie McGuire' reboot never made it to air. But now we're getting more insight into plot details of the cancelled reboot! The show, which was set to follow a grown-up version of Hilary Duff's character from the Disney Channel series, was canceled in 2020 due to creative differences between Duff and Disney+ executives. Now in a series of TikTok videos, writer Jonathan Hurwitz revealed what storylines fans could have expected in the first few episodes.

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00:00They greenlit a show about a 30-year-old woman and so we wrote a show about a 30-year-old woman

00:05doing things that 30-year-old women do. Fans were disappointed to say the least when the

00:10Lizzie McGuire reboot never made it to air. But now we're getting more insight into plot details

00:15of the canceled reboot. The show, which was set to follow a grown-up version of Hilary Duff's

00:19character from the Disney Channel series, was canceled in 2020 due to creative differences

00:24between Duff and Disney Plus executives. Now in a series of TikTok videos, writer Jonathan Hurwitz

00:30revealed what storylines fans could have expected in the first few episodes. Episode one reportedly

00:35started in New York with a 30-year-old Lizzie working as an interior designer. She's dating this very

00:40handsome chef and she ends up finding that he's been cheating on her with her best friend. The

00:47betrayal prompts her to head back to her childhood home in California where animated Lizzie is there

00:52waiting for her. In episode two, we get answers on if Lizzie and longtime bestie Gordo are Endgame.

00:57Gordo reveals that he is engaged, engaged to a woman and she's pregnant and they're really happy.

01:04So no, in this version, Lizzie and Gordo would not have ended up together. Hurwitz added that the

01:10second episode ended with Lizzie getting a message from her childhood crush, Ethan Kraft, which led to

01:15the controversial third episode, which he believes executives took issue with. Lizzie wakes up in Ethan's bed

01:21in his water polo t-shirt and animated Lizzie pops up and she has this little like checklist,

01:27like a to-do list and Ethan is on the list and she checks it off. Duff previously opened up in a

01:33woman's health interview about the decision to scrap the reboot, saying she told the streamer she

01:37wanted the new series to feature a more mature Lizzie. She had to be 30 years old doing 30-year-old

01:43things. She didn't need to be doing bong rips and having one-night stands all the time,

01:47but it had to be authentic. I think they got spooked. For more on this story, head to THR.com

01:52and for the latest entertainment news and updates, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter News.

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