{"id":116850,"date":"2025-08-28T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/116850\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:46:07","slug":"hilary-duff-to-star-in-hulu-show-pretty-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/116850\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff to Star in Hulu Show ‘Pretty Ugly’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHilary Duff<\/a> will star in a drama series in development at Hulu titled \u201cPretty Ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show is based on Kirker Butler\u2019s 2015 novel of the same name, and it hails from director Silver Tree, 20th Television and Aaron Kaplan\u2019s Kapital Entertainment. Butler will also write the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuff will play Miranda Miller, a mother whose mission in life is to make her 10-year-old daughter Bailey the most successful child pageant contestant in America. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA former teenage pageant queen herself, Miranda dreams of endorsement deals, beauty brands, maybe even a TV show,\u201d reads the logline. \u201cBailey, however, wants none of it. She\u2019s been doing pageants since she was three months old and is burned out. But Miranda can\u2019t imagine slowing down. In fact, she\u2019s seven months pregnant and already mapping out her unborn daughter\u2019s future pageant career.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, while Miranda busies herself with building a pageant empire, her husband Ray, a pill-popping nurse, has knocked up the 18-year-old granddaughter of one of his hospice patients. And her mother Joan, a widowed shut-in, is plotting a murder with Jesus. Per the tagline: \u201cIt\u2019s all pretty ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuff is best known for her lead role in the Disney Channel comedy series \u201cLizzie McGuire,\u201d which also spawned a 2003 movie. As a teen actor, she also appeared in the Steve Martin \u201cCheaper by the Dozen\u201d movies, \u201cA Cinderella Story\u201d and \u201cAgent Cody Banks.\u201d Recently, Duff starred as Kelsey Peters in TV Land\u2019s dramedy \u201cYounger,\u201d and she produced and starred as Sophie Tompkins in Hulu\u2019s \u201cHow I Met Your Father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tButler is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer whose credits include \u201cOnly Murders in the Building,\u201d \u201cFamily Guy,\u201d \u201cThe Cleveland Show\u201d and \u201cThe Neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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