Hilary Duff left horrified as baffled audience doesn’t know her childhood crush Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Hilary Duff was near speechless aft astir an full workplace assemblage admitted they didn’t cognize her puerility crush, Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

“Do you retrieve JTT?” nan Disney alum asked a instrumentality who inquired astir her puerility crush connected Wednesday’s section of “The Jennifer Hudson Show.”

“Look, you’re excessively young. You’re excessively young,” she added, earlier past asking nan full crowd, “Please raise your manus if you cognize who I’m talking about.”

“It’s not moreover half,” Duff said successful shock.

“Okay, guys. He was on ‘Home Improvement,'” nan “Lizzie McGuire” alum explained, referring to nan 1990s sitcom starring Tim Allen.

“He was besides in ‘The Lion King.’ He was a kid. He was nan sound of Simba, right?” she continued.

Thomas’ best-known domiciled was Randy Taylor successful “Home Improvement.”

The 44-year-old character besides portrayed Tom Sawyer successful nan 1995 movie “Tom and Huck” and voiced Pinocchio successful nan 1996 movie “The Adventures of Pinocchio.”

He later took connected smaller roles connected TV, pinch his past in installments being arsenic a recurring impermanent prima connected different Allen-led sitcom “Last Man Standing” from 2013 to 2015.

Thomas, however, slow made his exit from Hollywood and studied history and accuracy astatine Harvard University.

He later graduated from Columbia University successful 2010 and attended St. Andrews University successful Scotland.

In 2013, nan erstwhile ’90s heartthrob sewage candid astir his determination to measurement distant from nan limelight, telling People, “I’d been going nonstop since I was 8 years old.”

“I wanted to spell to school, to recreation and person a spot of a break,” Thomas continued. “I ne'er took nan fame excessively seriously. It was a awesome play successful my life, but it doesn’t specify me.”

Thomas’ past nationalist quality was erstwhile he stepped retired of a convenience store successful Southern California successful 2023.

Two years earlier that, he was photographed walking his dog.