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“Modern Family” star Ariel Winter admitted she confused Lance Armstrong with Neil Armstrong during the Monday premiere of the new Fox reality series, “Stars on Mars.”
Both Winter and disgraced cycling champion Lance are competing on the show along with 10 other celebrities to see who can last the longest in the Mars-like habitat in Australia.
When Lance enters the competition in the show’s first episode, 25-year-old Winter says she’s surprised to see a “real astronaut” competing.
“Lance Armstrong is a real fracking’ astronaut. He is a real astronaut,” Winter said in a confessional. “He is Lance Armstrong. You need to Google him. You need to know everything about him because he is so cool.”
“The fact that we have an astronaut is so crazy,” Winter says to TV personality Porsha Williams Guobadia, 41.
“You said what?” Guobadia replies.
“I’m so confused,” Winter continues, “is he going to be our judge?”
“There’s probably 20-year-olds out there who get me confused with Neil Armstrong. If I were Neil Armstrong, I’d be dead,” Lance joked in a confessional.
Winter later admitted she had confused Lance — the 51-year-old former cycling champion who famously was caught using steroids — with Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon in 1969. Neil died in 2012 at 82.
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