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Hilary Duff, the worldwide icon who helped shape a whole generation through her girl-next-door appeal, was in London’s O2 for her overseas tour on 19 January 2026. Thanks to technology and social media channels affording and enabling different types of user generated content, fans across the globe can participate in the euphoria, through their devices.

As a result of this, fans, particularly Gen X, have been in a frenzy and have been singing along and digesting the whole experience – even though they may be just watching remotely, from a screen.

Though offsite fans may not have access to her full setlist of 17 songs at the actual in-person concert, the snippets were more than enough to evoke emotion – they are a touching walk down memory lane.

After all, with recordings, you can always re-play, pause, and repeat to your heart’s content. So that’s the beauty of the Internet and social media channels.

While parts of her popular songs like ‘Fly’, ‘Come Clean’ and ‘So Yesterday’ were shared and had fans screaming in response, the one that was the most prevailing and had garnered the most noise was the unforgettable ‘What Dreams Are Made Of’, which was also her first live performance ever.

Hilary Duff is currently on tour, her boldest yet, as her latest “Small Rooms, Big Nerves”, takes her from London, to Toronto, and other international cities in the US. This London leg also marks the first time in over 10 years that Duff had hit the stage.

Duff had performed at the O2’s Sheperd’s Bush Empire in London, UK, much to the delight of fans, looking to mainly relive their childhood.

Duff started off in the television series “Lizzie McGuire” (2001). Eventually, there was the “Lizzie McGuire movie” (2003) to cement it all. In between these onscreen ventures, she stepped into the music industry, where she had her own definition of success. Her final album was out in 2015, after which she stepped aside in favour of motherhood. She then later launched a comeback in late-2025, with her new album, luck… or something, slated to be out 20 February 2026.

Her 2026 tour, which will see her playing 10 shows, will come to an end in May 2026.

Duff had been to Asia in 2005-06 as part of a previous concert tour.