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 very good relationship with their entire household,” Duff, 35, stated throughout a Thursday, January 26, look on Watch What Occurs Dwell. “We really 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 return 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 what? It’s pretty.”
Duff and Koma beforehand loved a pair’s date evening with Madden and Richie, together with Pete Wentz and accomplice Meagan Camper, in February of final yr — one thing that the Lizzie McGuire alum stated “blew the entire world’s thoughts for a sizzling 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 performed a couple of pranks on the pleasant exes once they first turned neighbors.
“My husband is a big troll, it’s one in every of my favourite issues about him,” Duff defined to host Andy Cohen on Thursday. “Proper once they moved in, for some motive Matt photoshopped an image of Joel and [brother Benji Madden] in a photograph with me on Valentine’s Day with like, ‘Completely satisfied Valentine’s Day, honey.’”
Duff dated the “Life 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 be in contact.
“Each woman I’ve ever dated I’ve respect for, and I all the time attempt to depart them on good phrases,” he stated throughout a March 2007 interview with Individuals. “I don’t see the need to be mates 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 hole, telling the outlet that he “ignored” what individuals needed to say about his romance with Duff. “Individuals can say or suppose no matter they need … so in my actuality, it’s form of irrelevant. I’m all the time the form of individual that does the suitable 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” expertise.
“It was so all-encompassing. It was so intense. It was my life,” Duff instructed host Nico Tortorella in November 2016. “It was like each minute of my day. It was fairly main.”
Madden and Richie, who started relationship 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 however referred to as it quits three years later. In 2017, Duff started relationship the Winnetka Bowling League frontman they usually tied the knot in December 2019. The couple share two daughters, Banks, 4, and Mae, 22 months.
