Hilary Duff detailed how she ended up in a recent episode of The Bachelor on Tuesday during a remote appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers on NBC.
The 34-year-old actress hosted a portion of The Bachelor where she helped this season's star Clayton Echard during one of the first group dates.
Hilary, who wore a long sleeve polka dotted sheer blouse, said the appearance got pitched as one of the options to promote her new show How I Met Your Father, which she serves as a producer and actor.
Remote appearance: Hilary Duff detailed how she ended up in a recent episode of The Bachelor on Tuesday during a remote appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers on NBC
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'My publicist was like I'm sure you are not going to be so into this,' she said. 'And I was like, ''What? Why would you think that? You don't know me at all''.'
'I actually love The Bachelor. I haven't watched in about a year but we can blame my youngest child for that. But yeah, I have been fascinated by The Bachelor for a really long time so getting to go and be on set and have then take my phone away from me. It felt really cool,' Hilary said.
'Everything is top secret,' said Hilary of the show. 'There's maybe 75 producers running around with like ear things in but everything is just unfolding naturally.'
Hilary said she expected there to be a script but that there wasn't anything like that.
Group date: The 34-year-old actress hosted a portion of The Bachelor earlier this month where she helped this season's star Clayton Echard during one of the first group dates
'It is a social experiment, maybe we are all in a simulation,' she said. ' I don't know. It was fascinating.'
Seth told her that he hasonly watched one season and that he 'got in way too deep.'
'It gets you, right,' said Hilary.
New series: Hilary, who wore a long sleeve polka dotted sheer blouse, said the appearance got pitched as one of the options to promote her new show How I Met Your Father, which she serves as a producer and actor
Seth told her that he got invested and then realized that he 'wasn't prepared to take this journey again.'
Hilary asked him if it was the Bachelor or the Bachelorette that he watched. Seth said he thought he watched a Bachelor season.
'Both equally as satisfying so you can't really go wrong,' said Hilary. 'It's just can you get in and can you stay there.'
Equally satisfying: 'Both equally as satisfying so you can't really go wrong,' said Hilary. 'It's just can you get in and can you stay
