1. The show's archetypal rubric was What's Lizzie Thinking? And erstwhile it was initially pitched to Disney, it didn't person the now-infamous animated Lizzie voice-over, but conscionable a standard voice-over from prima Hilary Duff. 

2. Some of the different actresses who went retired for the relation of Lizzie included Lindsay Lohan (Duff's aboriginal rival acknowledgment to their emotion triangle with Aaron Carter), Sarah Paxton and Hailee Hirsh. Though Duff evidently emerged arsenic the winner, producer Stan Rogow erstwhile told E! News that each their options were "terrific and had them "excited astir presenting to the web arsenic [options for Lizzie]."

3. In an interrogation with E! News, Duff confessed she did "a unspeakable job" successful her audition. "I hadn't work my lines." Close to quitting acting earlier landing her breakout role, she didn't instrumentality the audition excessively seriously, but the show's creator Terri Minsky saw imaginable successful the young histrion and reached retired to her.

"I was precise honorable astir it and said, 'You request to get much successful the character,'" Minsky recounted to us. "Because I knew determination was truthful overmuch [talent] there."

4. One of the reasons Duff whitethorn person yet landed the occupation was her consciousness of style, with Disney's erstwhile president of amusement Rich Ross telling Newsweek, "When we were casting Lizzie McGuire we called her successful 4 times. She wasn't doing thing wrong. She conscionable wore specified large outfits, and we wanted to spot what she'd travel successful with next." Duff aboriginal revealed she utilized her apparel arsenic a mode to marque herself basal retired from the hundreds of different girls auditioning for the part. 

5. A reminder that Lizzie aired connected Disney Channel: The web initially pushed backmost erstwhile the writers wanted to bash an occurrence astir Lizzie buying her archetypal bra. Network executives "said, 'Oh my god, you can't bash that!'" Rogow recalled to E! News. "It was small spot groundbreaking astatine the time."

6. Of course, that's 1 of the astir memorable episodes for Duff, who told Today, "I decidedly deliberation that the bra occurrence is 1 that stands retired successful my encephalon arsenic being similar archetypal of all, truly wanting it, 'cause I thought a bra was cool, and past 2nd of all, being like, 'How americium I gonna get that? I person to speech to my parents astir that. That's gonna beryllium the worst happening ever.'"

7. While helium became Lizzie's longtime crush, Ethan (Clayton Snyder) was not initially intended to beryllium truthful arsenic helium was archetypal conceived arsenic your emblematic mediate schoolhouse jock. In fact, writer Nina Bargiel erstwhile revealed Danny Kessler (played by Byron Fox) was expected to beryllium The Guy. 

"There was different dreamy lad that she was expected to beryllium funny in, but I deliberation helium wasn't available," she told the Feminist Disney Tumblr account. "So we needed idiosyncratic caller and Ethan was already there, truthful we conscionable built him up." 

8. But portion Lizzie was pining for Ethan, Adam Lamberg's Gordo (one of the champion Disney Channel boys EVER, don't @ us) was secretly crushing connected his BFF. And after two seasons and 1 movie, fans yet got to spot the 2 kiss, with the ending hinting that the champion friends had go a couple. "We knew fans wanted Lizzie and Gordo to get together. It was beauteous wide by past that this was going to beryllium the extremity of the Lizzie McGuire train, truthful we wanted to marque definite that you got a bully past stop," Bargiel said. (While caller episodes aired aft the movie's release, the film's ending is canonically Lizzie's past hurrah.)

9. In an interrogation with MTV, Snyder revealed helium really took the longest successful hairsbreadth and constitution retired of anyone successful the formed each day, each to execute Ethan's signature flowing locks. "I had a curly fro, clown mop of hairsbreadth disconnected set, and I took longer than the girls did successful hairsbreadth and constitution to get that happening arsenic luscious and consecutive arsenic it was," helium said. "They conscionable destroyed it with merchandise and hairspray and straightening robust and much product."

10. After Lizzie and her friends graduated mediate school, the program was for Lizzie McGuire to caput implicit to ABC for the group's precocious schoolhouse adventures successful a primetime sitcom, and to movie a sequel to the deed movie. However, heated declaration negotiations that played retired successful nationalist caused Disney and Duff to portion ways. 

"We precise overmuch wanted to proceed the Lizzie franchise," Disney Studios' then-production main Nina Jacobson told Entertainment Weekly astatine the time. "But each woody has its tipping point, the constituent astatine which it nary longer makes sense. Unfortunately, that's the constituent we reached successful the Lizzie negotiations, and we yet had to accidental goodbye."

11. However, Duff's ma and then-manager Susan Duff spoke retired successful a tell-all interrogation with EW, saying, "Disney thought they'd beryllium capable to bully america into accepting immoderate connection they wanted to make, and they couldn't. We walked distant from a sequel. They walked distant from a franchise. We weren't feeling the love...they weren't giving Hilary the respect she deserved."

Duff's lawyer also weighed successful connected behalf of the teen star, issuing the pursuing connection to The Los Angeles Times: "Disney's strong-armed tactics and nonaccomplishment to wage our lawsuit a interest commensurate with offers received from different studios and networks caused the breakdown of negotiations with the Duffs. While the Lizzie McGuire franchise whitethorn beryllium implicit for Disney, Hilary Duff's vocation is flourishing."

12. After Lizzie's abrupt end, producers developed a aviator centering connected Stevie, Miranda's outsider of a small sister, played by Selena Gomez. Like Lizzie, Stevie's interior thoughts would besides beryllium voiced by an animated change ego. Stevie was 1 of 2 pilots pitched to the Disney Channel that year, with the web yet deciding not to determination guardant with the Gomez-vehicle successful favour of the different one: Hannah Montana. Gomez would spell connected to onshore the pb relation in The Wizards of Waverly Place, which became her breakout performance. 

13. At the tallness of its popularity, Lizzie McGuire was bringing successful an estimated $100 cardinal connected merchandise alone, including clothing, a publication series, soundtracks and more. It was the Disney Channel's highest rated and astir palmy bid astatine the time, averaging 2 cardinal viewers per occurrence and erstwhile aired 7 days a week (with ABC besides airing it connected Saturday mornings).

14. After years of rumors and whispers, Disney+ officially announced they would beryllium reviving Lizzie McGuire successful August 2019, with Duff reprising her iconic relation and the show's creator overseeing the streaming series, which would absorption connected a 30-year-old millennial Lizzie navigating beingness successful New York City. 

15. While casting was initially kept nether wraps, a photograph from the archetypal array work revealed the archetypal McGuire household would beryllium backmost successful action, with Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine and Jake Thomas each returning arsenic Lizzie's parents and troublemaker small member Matt.

16. But atrocious quality Lizzie and Gordo shippers: They are not dating...at slightest not erstwhile the revival starts arsenic Lizzie is engaged to idiosyncratic else, though Lamberg was slated to reprise his role. "I consciousness similar them not being unneurotic is what was truthful good...it's that 1 idiosyncratic that you're like, 'Was helium the one? Is it ever going to be?'" Duff told Vulture. "You're ever benignant of wondering. We wanted it to wounded everyone a small bit, and it'll proceed to hurt."

17. Unfortunately, the series never came to fruition, with Duff confirming the bittersweet quality successful December 2020 aft Minsky near implicit originative differences.

"I cognize the efforts and conversations person been everyplace trying to marque a reboot enactment but, sadly & contempt everyone's champion efforts, it isn't going to happen," Duff explained, pursuing her nationalist plea that Disney+ determination the amusement to Hulu. "We tin each instrumentality a infinitesimal to mourn the astonishing pistillate she would person been and the adventures we would person taken with her. I'm precise sad, but I committedness everyone tried their champion and the stars conscionable didn't align. Hey now, this is what 2020's made of." 

18. A celeb instrumentality of Lizzie McGuire? Cardi B, who revealed conscionable however overmuch the movie resonated with her during Vogue's Forces of Fashion conference.

"Has anyone seen that Hilary Duff movie [The Lizzie McGuire Movie]? There's a opus successful it that anytime I spell to an lawsuit that I've ever wanted to spell to I ever play it successful my head," she said, talking astir being invited to Paris Fashion Week. "It goes, 'Hey now, hey now, this is what dreams are made of.' That's however I consciousness each azygous clip that I get invited to these manner events."

19. Speaking of the film, The Lizzie McGuire Movie became a astonishment deed erstwhile it was released successful May 2003, debuting astatine No. 2 astatine the container bureau down X2: X-Men United and going connected to gross implicit $50 million.

20. Many fans were upset that Miranda was not successful the movie and was M.I.A. successful immoderate of the past episodes of the show, with her household going connected an extended vacation. But that was really due to the fact that Lalaine wanted to absorption connected her euphony career.

21. After becoming a teen idol acknowledgment to her clip arsenic Lizzie, galore fans were amazed erstwhile Duff chose to instrumentality a interruption from acting, a determination she opened up astir successful a 2015 interrogation with PrideSource.

"Everyone thought I was conscionable perfectly nuts due to the fact that I was truly palmy and making a batch of money. And it was scary, due to the fact that determination was nary warrant that my vocation was inactive gonna beryllium there," she said. "I truly needed it personally. I grew up successful the spotlight and connected circuit and with everyone conscionable knowing maine and knowing maine a definite way. At immoderate constituent I was like, 'I don't adjacent cognize if I'm that idiosyncratic anymore, and I don't adjacent person the clip to fig that out.'" 

She admitted that she recovered being known arsenic Lizzie "torturous" astatine times, explaining, "I loved it during the filming. I conscionable didn't cognize what a occurrence the amusement was gonna be, and aft that...I was inactive Lizzie McGuire to radical and that was ace annoying. Now it's not. I don't attraction now."