Hilary Duff to star in How I Met Your Mother sequel

The new show will be called ‘How I Met Your Father’ and will feature a former teen idol in the lead role.

Hilary Duff is about to become legen … wait for it … dary.

The former teen idol and Younger star has gotten the unlikely role in a gender-swapped sequel to How I Met Your Mother (which will air on Hulu).

Called How I Met Your Father, the show will follow Sophie (Duff, 33) reminiscing to her son about how she met his father and recounting her friend group’s dating antics back in 2021, (as told from a vantage point in the future).

Hilary Duff will star in the sequel. Picture: Presley Ann/Getty Images

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The former show, which ran from 2005 to 2014, had a similar format, with Bob Saget’s voice narrating a look back at Ted Mosby’s (Josh Radnor) past dating romps and friend group, including womanising Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), ambitious Robin (Cobie Smulders) and couple-goals duo Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan).

The hit series was often innovative with its structure — jumping around in time and weaving in long-running jokes.

The new series will be written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, both of whom wrote and produced for This Is Us, as well as Love, Simon and its spin-off, Love, Victor.

“As a huge fan of How I Met Your Mother, I’m honoured and even a little nervous that Carter and Craig would trust me with the sequel of their baby,” Duff said, referencing the shows co-creators, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, in Hulu’s press release announcing the show.

Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother. Picture: Monty Brinton/CBS

“Isaac and Elizabeth are brilliant, and I can’t wait to work alongside them and all of their genius. Just fangirling over here getting to join the Hulu Originals and 20th families. I realise these are big shoes to fill and I’m excited to slip my 6.5’s in there!”

Much like Game of Thrones the series finale of How I Met Your Mother landed like a lead balloon among most audience members because — spoiler alert — the writers thought it would be a great idea to throw in the final twist of the mother (Cristin Milioti) dying, while Ted ends up with Robin. Apparently, it was more important to be “surprising” than to live up to the show’s central premise that’s in its title.

How I Met Your Father will be produced by Duff and How I Met Your Mother’s Bays and Thomas. A premiere date wasn’t announced yet.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

Originally published as Hilary Duff to star in How I Met Your Mother sequel