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Tish Cyrus says she inspired her ex, Billy Ray Cyrus, to star in “Hannah Montana” ‘trigger she thought it could deliver them collectively — a hope we now know did not pan out in the long term.
The 56-year-old mirrored on how the Disney Channel collection impacted their household on a brand new “Call Her Daddy” episode, saying she noticed the present as a double whammy … an opportunity to transfer Billy’s profession ahead — it had hit a wall after his 1992 hit “Achy Breaky Heart” — and an opportunity to make them a powerful household unit.
Tish defined {that a} lightbulb went off in her head when ‘Hannah’ casting administrators joked they “couldn’t afford” Billy for the present throughout Miley’s audition … prompting her to bounce in and inform them the concept wasn’t too far-fetched.
She then turned to Billy, urging him to audition, and whereas she knew it could be a pay minimize for him, it meant their household could be collectively once more.
At that point, the entire Cyrus household, together with their 5 youngsters, had been residing in Toronto, the place Billy was filming one other present — and Tish was stressing over the thought of continually touring forwards and backwards between Canada and L.A. for Miley’s new starring function — so getting Billy on the collection was a golden alternative.
Tish’s reflection on “Hannah Montana” clearly seems to be extra on the “what could have been” scale, however Billy Ray remembers it a lot otherwise … telling GQ in 2011, the present “destroyed my family.”
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Tish legally parted methods from Billy in 2022, and married Dominic Purcell in August 2023 — and that new marriage is reportedly a supply of main competition between Miles and her dad.
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