Photo:Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic
Tish Cyrushas no regrets when she looks back on the days leading up to the launch of Disney Channel’sHannah Montana,which launched her daughter’s career while simultaneously skyrocketing her then-husband’s, too.
Tish appeared onCall Her Daddyalongside her oldest daughter,Brandi Cyrus, and the pair opened up about the early days ofMiley Cyrus’ fame — and how it affectedtheir family.
The Disney Channel show “became its own phenomenon,” Tish, 56, told hostAlex Cooper, while Brandi, 36, said, “Hannah Montanawas just different. And I don’t think anyone could’ve ever anticipated it or thought how big it would be.”
Billy Ray, Miley and Tish Cyrus in 2019.Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
The decision to have the country singer, who hadshot to fame for his 1992 hit “Achy Breaky Heart,” join his daughter on screen was Tish’s.
“He had done ‘Achy Breaky [Heart]’ and nothing else was working,” the mother-of-five told Cooper on Wednesday’s podcast episode. “And then I brought Miley out to audition for Hannah and she had gotten it. And then one of the casting directors said a joke, like, ‘Ugh, too bad we can’t afford her real dad.’ And I said, ‘Oh, maybe you can.’
“The family had been living in Toronto prior to Miley booking the Disney Channel series,” Tish said, and moving the kids — Brandi,Trace, now 34, Miley,Braison, now 29, andNoah, now 24 — back-and-forth was “really hard.”
“Miley had already gottenHannah, and I was already stressed about, ‘What are we gonna do?’ I couldn’t, as a mom, have half my kids in Tennessee and be out [in L.A.] with Miley, like I just could not do that. And so I was like, ‘I have to bring all the kids.’ And so that’s when I said to Billy Ray, ‘You should come audition for the dad. Because they love you and they’re really interested. Yes, it would be a pay cut but our family could be together.’ ”
Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus on ‘Hannah Montana’ in 2006.Everett
Everett
Both Tish and Brandi immediately disagreed. “Absolutely not,” Tish, whodivorced Billy Ray in 2022, said.
Brandi added, “Not at all … I mean the family’s not destroyed, first of all. We’re doing great.”
“I just think he was having a moment,” Tish said of the comment from more than a decade ago.
Miley Cyrus accepts record of the year at the 2024 Grammys.VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images
Tish and Brandi’s appearance onCall Her Daddycomes just days after Miley won her first twoGrammysat Sunday’s ceremony. She collected awards forbest pop solo performanceand record of the year for “Flowers.” In her acceptance speech for the latter,she pointedly omitted her father.
The singer thanked “everyone that’s standing on this stage right now: Tom, Tyler, Michael and Greg. Our teams, my team, Crush, Columbia, my mommy, my sister, my love, my main gays because look how good I look.”
Tish, Miley and Brandi Cyrus at the 2024 Grammys.Neilson Barnard/Getty
Neilson Barnard/Getty
She then asked the team behind her, “Anyone else? Your wife, your fiancée, all the people that we love. Thank you all so much.”
As she concluded her speech, she quipped, “I don’t think I forgot anyone. But I might have forgotten underwear. Bye!”
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Hannah Montanacan be streamed on Disney+.
source: people.com
