{"id":953376,"date":"2026-11-05T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953376\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:58:17","slug":"hilary-duff-shares-gross-revenge-act-on-man-who-mistreated-her-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953376\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff shares \u2018gross\u2019 revenge act on man who mistreated her friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hilary Duff has recalled the gross revenge act she enacted on a boy who mistreated her friend as a late-teen, describing the payback prank as \u201cspicy\u201d and \u201ckind of evil\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The pop star, 39, recounted the story in a recent interview with <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/hilary-duff-takes-us-out-spicy-bff-nights-road-nerves-video-1236372903\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billboard<\/a>, saying the prank was aimed at a \u201cguy who was doing my friend real dirty\u201d and was schemed up while her and her pal \u201cwere hitting the bottle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Obsessed with celebrity news? Download <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wpmth9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">our new app<\/a> and never miss a headline<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy spiciest night is kind of evil and a long time ago, pre-children,\u201d Duff said, before recalling the smelly concoction she dumped at the man\u2019s house. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were spicy and we went and bought the cheapest, grossest can of wieners and tuna and we just had a little field day on his front lawn,\u201d the singer said. <\/p>\n<p>Duff did not reveal the identity of the friend or the unsuspecting tinned fish recipient, and was quick to clarify that the boozy drive-by occurred during her \u201clate teen-hood\u201d as she\u2019s \u201creally not a big goer-outer\u201d these days. <\/p>\n<p>Still, the singer admitted that she does still enjoy getting \u201creal toasty with my friend\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>While the friend remains anonymous, Duff keeps a longtime circle of celebrity pals including actress Mandy Moore and fellow musician Meghan Trainor, who were thought to be the subject of Disney star <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity-life\/ashley-tisdales-husband-speaks-out-on-toxic-mum-controversy\/news-story\/ac7a88db50fedc07efda78b76341b126\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"ac7a88db50fedc07efda78b76341b126\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ashley Tisdale\u2019s scathing essay<\/a> about a \u201ctoxic\u201d mum group earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not the only star to exact revenge after being mistreated. Tiffany Haddish infamously recalled defecating in her ex-partner\u2019s shoe after learning he had cheated, while Iggy Azalea admitted to setting <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity-life\/hook-ups-break-ups\/iggy-azalea-left-nick-young-cause-he-got-ex-keonna-green-pregnant\/news-story\/1d4a7872813c4b0027ab9d8bca833f27\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"1d4a7872813c4b0027ab9d8bca833f27\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">her unfaithful ex-fianc\u00e9<\/a>\u2019s designer clothes alight in a bonfire.<\/p>\n<p>Duff\u2019s admission comes a few weeks after <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/music\/tours\/pop-star-hilary-duff-arrives-in-australia-for-first-tour-in-decades\/news-story\/76eab0430d020c7cf39f5f98590ac58f\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"76eab0430d020c7cf39f5f98590ac58f\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">her trip Down Under<\/a> for the Australian Leg of her The Lucky Me Tour, which took her to sold-out shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. <\/p>\n<p>During <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/music\/tours\/hilary-duff-delights-aussie-crowd-with-trip-down-memory-lane-at-soldout-sydney-show\/news-story\/d46880feb46f3c084f8f8ae0f8156e61\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"d46880feb46f3c084f8f8ae0f8156e61\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Sydney show<\/a>, Duff thanked Australian fans for being \u201cso loving and so kind and welcoming everywhere you go\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys made my album go number one here. That was pretty sick. I\u2019ll never forget that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity-life\/hilary-duff-shares-gross-revenge-act-on-man-who-mistreated-her-friend\/news-story\/26f59355a0fed7821e7778ef1d1f16ec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilary Duff shares \u2018gross\u2019 revenge act on man who mistreated her friend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff has recalled the gross revenge act she enacted on a boy who mistreated her friend as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[521102,521072,403211,521105,392602,388348,521084,381910,521099,85593,521103,521077,521104,425601,381157,381871,455379,521094,521091,376766,521093,389433,521076,64,63,136006,11924,1581,521074,521092,480275,377887,134,498639,521095,216013,521096,1868,521071,521098,521090,445548,386146,507506,521085,91819,521078,45113,113489,11554,647,506621,386143,521083,117330,455202,469171,169683,521075,521081,521086,521079,670,521101,490506,521080,383499,521070,521073,29006,521089,449409,521106,378658,496952,521097,384220,510884,377935,521087,376533,382113,521082,521088,392395,61254,521100,381386],"class_list":["post-953376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-gross-revenge-act","tag-revenge-act","tag-s-admission","tag-s-designer-clothes","tag-s-ex","tag-s-house","tag-s-scathing-essay","tag-s-shoe","tag-spicy","tag-85593","tag-a-toxic-mum-group","tag-a-big-goer-outer","tag-a-bonfire-duff","tag-a-boy","tag-a-few-weeks","tag-a-guy","tag-a-headline","tag-a-late-teen","tag-a-little-field-day","tag-a-long-time","tag-a-longtime-circle","tag-a-recent-interview","tag-actress-mandy-moore","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-fans","tag-billboard","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-pals","tag-disney-star-ashley-tisdale","tag-duff","tag-earlier-this-year-she","tag-entertainment","tag-evil","tag-evil-way","tag-exact-revenge","tag-fellow-musician-meghan-trainor","tag-friend","tag-grossest-can","tag-her-late-teen-hood","tag-her-and-her-pal","tag-her-ex-partner","tag-her-friend","tag-her-trip","tag-her-unfaithful-ex-fiance","tag-hilary-duff","tag-his-front-lawn","tag-iggy-azalea","tag-kind","tag-man","tag-melbourne","tag-my-album","tag-my-friend","tag-my-spiciest-night","tag-number-one","tag-our-new-app","tag-perth-and-brisbane","tag-pop-star","tag-pre-children","tag-real-dirty","tag-real-toasty","tag-sold-out-shows","tag-sydney","tag-the-spicy-and-kind","tag-the-australian-leg","tag-the-boozy-drive-by","tag-the-bottle","tag-the-cheapest","tag-the-disney-star","tag-the-friend","tag-the-gross-revenge-act","tag-the-identity","tag-the-lucky-me-tour","tag-the-man","tag-the-only-star","tag-the-payback-prank","tag-the-pop-star","tag-the-prank","tag-the-singer","tag-the-smelly-concoction","tag-the-story","tag-the-subject","tag-the-sydney-show","tag-the-unsuspecting-tinned-fish-recipient","tag-these-days","tag-tiffany-haddish","tag-wieners-and-tuna","tag-you-guys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}