{"id":315269,"date":"2026-08-06T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315269\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:50:08","slug":"hilary-duff-joel-madden-sing-surprise-good-charlotte-duet-at-nyc-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315269\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff, Joel Madden Sing Surprise Good Charlotte Duet at NYC Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHilary Duff<\/a> will always remember the day of her first show at Madison Square Garden. Not only did the star welcome Good Charlotte<\/a> to sing \u201cThe Anthem\u201d with ex-boyfriend Joel Madden and his brother, Benji Madden, she also revealed during the set that her daughter had been in the emergency room that morning. (Don\u2019t worry, she\u2019s OK!)<\/p>\n

\n\tIn videos from the Wednesday night (Aug. 5) concert in New York City, the Lizzie McGuire alum asked fans to give the \u201cwarmest welcome to [her] friends\u201d before the rockers joined her on stage, at which point she gave them hugs. A clip captured by Billboard that Good Charlotte shared on Instagram shows how the group proceeded to rock out to the band\u2019s 2003 hit, which peaked at No. 43 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> back in the day.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t ever wanna be you\/ Don\u2019t wanna be just like you,\u201d Duff, who sported a Good Charlotte T-shirt for the occasion, sang alongside Joel, both of them holding out their microphones to encourage the crowd to sing along. \u201cOh, what I\u2019m saying is\/ This is the anthem\/ Throw all your hands up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe moment was many years in the making, as the singer-actress and Joel dated from 2004 to 2006. They\u2019ve remained on friendly terms since the breakup, and Duff posed with husband Matthew Koma, the Madden brothers and Joel\u2019s wife, reality star Nicole Richie, in a backstage photo at MSG that Good Charlotte shared Thursday morning (Aug. 6) on its Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt another point in her first of two back-to-back Lucky Me Tour dates at the NYC arena, Duff shared that she and Koma \u2014 a musician who helped his famous wife create her 2026 Billboard 200<\/a> No. 3 album, Luck\u2026 Or Something \u2014 had an unusual start to their day leading up to the concert. \u201cWe were in the ER this morning getting some stitches for my 5-year-old,\u201d she told the crowd. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuff noted that her daughter Mae \u2014 one of three girls she shares with Koma \u2014 is \u201cfine\u201d now. (The star is also mom to son Luca from her marriage to Mike Comrie.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s all good,\u201d she added. \u201cBut it\u2019s very \u2018our family-coded\u2019 that I would be playing my first show at MSG and also be in the emergency room getting my kid stitched up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Duff and Good Charlotte perform \u201cThe Anthem\u201d at MSG below.<\/p>\n