{"id":352965,"date":"2026-06-27T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352965\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:02:11","slug":"hilary-duff-returns-to-houston-for-first-time-since-2006-for-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352965\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff returns to Houston for first time since 2006 for concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hilary Duff is coming home.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 20 years since the former Disney Channel star\u2019s last concert in Houston, but Saturday night marks Duff\u2019s return to her hometown as she plays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodlandscenter.org\/events\/2026\/hilary-duff\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion<\/a> on \u2018The Lucky Me\u2019 World Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Duff was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/actor\/hilary-duff\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">born in Houston in 1987 before moving<\/a> to California to pursue a career in acting. She rose to popularity playing the titular role in the series \u201cLizzie McGuire\u201d and a fashionable daughter in the movie \u201cCheaper by the Dozen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The actress released her first album in 2002 through Disney, and performed at her first Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in 2005. In her Rodeo debut, Duff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rodeohouston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2005-Winter.pdf\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke the attendance record<\/a> at the time, with 72,843 fans coming out to see her.<\/p>\n<p>Duff\u2019s most recent performance in Houston was in 2006, when she played the Rodeo for a second year. After producing her fifth studio album in 2015 though, Duff took a 10-year hiatus from music.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent album \u201cLuck\u2026 Or Something\u201d came out in February and she announced her <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/hilary-duff-announces-the-lucky-me-world-tour-dates-1236660521\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first tour in nearly 20 years<\/a> soon after the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff is coming home. It\u2019s been 20 years since the former Disney Channel star\u2019s last concert in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-352965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}