Duff Enough

When talking about Hilary Duff, people should be sure to use her last name

By Chelsea Handler Aug 17, 2010 3:00 PMTags
Hilary DuffKevin Mazur/Getty Images

Hilary Duff recently got married, and I can't stop reading news about it. People are talking about her wedding, where she might be honeymooning and what she's tweeting. The most annoying part is that every headline just refers to her as "Hilary." So when I see "Hilary jetting off with her new husband," I automatically think Hillary Clinton and her cankles have up and left Bill for some other man who is most likely blind. I don't really have a problem with Hilary Duff, but I don't think she's famous enough to be referred to in the news as just "Hilary." She needs to put in a little more time before she reaches the point where when someone says "Hilary" we automatically associate it with "Duff." I'm allowed to say that, because when Chelsea Clinton was getting married and all of the tabloids were just saying "Chelsea," I thought people might mistakenly think they were talking about me. They did not. Turns out I'm not as famous as I think, so neither is Hilary Duff. There are plenty of other Hilarys that have put in their time that should be thought of when America reads about "Hilary." Obviously there's Hillary Clinton and Hilary Swank. I was running out of examples, googled "famous people named Hilary," and found a guy named Edmund Hilary who at one point climbed Mt. Everest. He was married twice, and I never heard a word about it. You'd think that guy could get a little respect.