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'Fashionable Household' star Ariel Winter confused bicycle owner Lance Armstrong with astronaut Neil Armstrong in Fox's new 'Stars On Mars' present

  • “Fashionable Household” star Ariel Winter confused Lance Armstrong with Neil Armstrong on “Stars On Mars.”
  • Winter and Lance are each competing on the present. Winter known as Lance a “actual astronaut.”
  • She later admitted to complicated him with the primary particular person on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

“Fashionable Household” star Ariel Winter admitted she confused Lance Armstrong with Neil Armstrong throughout the Monday premiere of the brand new Fox actuality collection, “Stars On Mars.”

Each Winter and disgraced biking champion Lance are competing on the present together with 10 different celebrities to see who can final the longest within the Mars-like habitat in Australia.

When Lance enters the competitors within the present’s first episode, 25-year-old Winter says she’s shocked to see a “actual astronaut” competing.

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Ariel Winter assembly Lance Armstrong for the primary time.

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Winter later stated she thought Lance was Neil Armstrong.

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“Lance Armstrong is an actual frickin’ astronaut. He’s an actual astronaut,” Winter stated in a confessional. “He’s Lance Armstrong. It’s essential to Google him. It’s essential to know all the pieces about him as a result of he’s so cool.”

“The truth that we’ve got an astronaut is so loopy,” Winter says to TV character Porsha Williams Guobadia, 41.

“You stated what?” Guobadia replies. 

“I am so confused,” Winter continues, “is he going to be our decide?”

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Winter speaks to TV character Porsha Williams Guobadia a couple of “actual astronaut” becoming a member of the competitors.

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“There’s most likely 20-year-olds on the market who get me confused with Neil Armstrong. If I had been Neil Armstrong, I would be useless,” Lance joked in a confessional.

Winter later admitted she had confused Lance — the 51-year-old former biking champion who famously was caught utilizing steroids — with Neil Armstrong, the primary particular person to stroll on the moon in 1969. Neil died in 2012 at 82.

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Astronaut Neil Armstrong smiles contained in the Lunar Module July 20, 1969.

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Lance Armstrong on “Stars On Mars.”

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“That was a part of my, like, worry approaching this present was I used to be going to say one thing silly,” Winter stated later in a confessional. “And I actually, like, I outdid myself.”

The elimination present is full of celebrities, together with retired soccer star Marshawn Lynch, wrestler Ronda Rousey, “Vanderpump Guidelines” forged member Tom Schwartz, determine skater Adam Rippon, actor Tallulah Willis, amongst others.

The celebrities all “stay, eat, sleep, strategize, and bond” in what the community calls “genuine situations that simulate life on Mars” whereas competing in challenges collectively, in line with a press launch.

Every episode, a star will get “extracted” from “The Hab” (the present’s residing quarters) and despatched again to “Earth.” Actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse — of “Superbad” (2007) and “Kick-Ass” (2010) fame — was the primary to be “extracted” throughout the season premiere.

“Stars On Mars” is at present airing on Fox.