Coming clear! Hilary Duff isn’t simply on good phrases with ex Joel Madden — she and husband Matthew Koma are besties with the rocker and his spouse, Nicole Richie.
“I’ve a great relationship with their entire household,” Duff, 35, stated throughout a Thursday, January 26, look on Watch What Occurs Reside. “We truly hang around on a regular basis.”
The How I Met Your Father star revealed that she and Koma, additionally 35, are literally neighbors with Madden, 43, and the Easy Life alum, 31. “I used to be simply in [Nicole Richie’s] driveway, honking for her to come back drink wine with us the opposite day,” Duff stated, noting that Richie couldn’t make it as a result of she was “asleep by 8.”
“However now we get them to hike collectively on a regular basis,” she added. “And you realize what? It’s beautiful.”
Duff and Koma beforehand loved a pair’s date night time with Madden and Richie, together with Pete Wentz and companion Meagan Camper, in February of final yr — one thing that the Lizzie McGuire alum stated “blew the whole world’s mind for a hot second.”
Regardless of her previous romance with the “Boys Like Women” crooner, the previous Disney Channel star stated her hubby has no qualms concerning the twosome remaining shut and even played a few pranks on the pleasant exes after they first grew to become neighbors.
“My husband is a big troll, it’s considered one of my favourite issues about him,” Duff defined to host Andy Cohen on Thursday. “Proper after they moved in, for some cause Matt photoshopped an image of Joel and [brother Benji Madden] in a photograph with me on Valentine’s Day with like, ‘Joyful Valentine’s Day, honey.’”
Duff dated the “Existence of the Wealthy and Well-known” artist when she was an adolescent from 2004 till 2006. Shortly after their break up, Madden shared that the pair remained on good phrases and continued to keep up a correspondence.
“Each lady I’ve ever dated I’ve respect for, and I at all times attempt to go away them on good phrases,” he stated throughout a March 2007 interview with People. “I don’t see the need to be buddies with anybody you’ve dated however undoubtedly out of respect of the time, it’s important to be form of respectful and that’s what I attempt to do.”
He additionally seemingly addressed the controversy over the duo’s ten-year age gap, telling the outlet that he “ignored” what individuals needed to say about his romance with Duff. “Individuals can say or assume no matter they need … so in my actuality, it’s form of irrelevant. I’m at all times the form of individual that does the correct factor and retains my aspect of the road clear,” Madden stated.
The “Fly” songstress, for her half, addressed the controversial relationship throughout a March 2016 episode of “The Love Bomb” podcast, calling it an “intense” experience.
“It was so all-encompassing. It was so intense. It was my life,” Duff informed host Nico Tortorella in November 2016. “It was like each minute of my day. It was fairly main.”
Madden and Richie, who started courting in 2006, have been married for 12 years and share daughter Harlow, 15, and son Sparrow, 13.
The Youthful alum, in the meantime, moved on with Mike Comrie, whom she married in 2010. The couple welcomed son Luca in 2012 but called it quits three years later. In 2017, Duff started courting the Winnetka Bowling League frontman and so they tied the knot in December 2019. The couple share two daughters, Banks, 4, and Mae, 22 months.
