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source: waleg.com
Teen phenomena, Miley Cyrus, arrived in Paris, France yesterday and got ready in hours for her first concert for her French fans.
She entertained thousands who turned in to see their teenage star, and thus did good promotion for her latest album 'Breakout'.
source: mtv.com
By: Jocelyn Vena
Though Miley Cyrus celebrated her birthday earlier this month, she's still weeks away from turning 16 and, like any teenager, the biggest thing on her mind is getting her driver's license.
"I am begging [to get my first car]," Cyrus told "Extra." "I got to go take my test first — I don't really want to go get my picture taken. It's, like, really hard to pick out your outfit."
On her actual birthday, November 23, the teen sensation will be heading back home to Nashville to perform at the American Music Awards. "That's my birthday present, to go back home," Cyrus told "Extra."
Cyrus again denied the rumor that she's itching to leave "Hannah Montana." "No! We've got too many episodes to finish. ... I am staying with the show," she said. "It's so much fun. We have a really good time. As much as it's really hard work, it's really great."
But the gossip you won't see Cyrus addressing any longer is anything to do with her alleged boyfriend, 20-year-old aspiring musician/model Justin Gaston. "It's hard, because anytime you say anything, it's like the next day, Google alert!" Cyrus said referring to an interview she did with Ryan Seacrest in which she said she and Gaston were "very happy" together. "Oh my goodness, I wish I would have just shut up. Everyone else is in a frenzy about something that meant nothing for [me] to say."
While in Germany to promote her album Breakout and its next single, "Fly on the Wall," Cyrus recently told the press that she doesn't mind being compared to Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, since she thinks they're both "really talented," despite their controversial public images.
"I just think that they are super-successful, and hopefully, when I am compared to them, it's them ... career-wise, because they have all been super-successful and had amazing careers," she said, adding of Spears, "I don't know about around here, but at the Video Music Awards and everything, Britney Spears has been taking all the awards home and has really had quite a comeback."
source: news.sawf.org
Stylishly attired Miley Cyrus charmed at an event in Berlin to present her new album Breakout on Monday, October 26.
Miley wore a grey crew neck tee under a red plaid double breasted shawl collar vest paired with dark grey jeans.
She accessorized with her trademark supersized hoop earrings and very stylish mid calf length pull-on boots with subtle glimmer of a metallic grain and thick black patent leather straps that have metal buckles, curvaceously wrap around the shaft.
Her long tri-colored hair cascaded down her shoulders, styled partly in vertical waves and partly straight.
Miley, who has been frequently seen with Justin Gaston, 20, on chaperoned dates, says the model and aspiring country singer is a "really great friend" and she and her family have an open mind on the relationship blossoming into something more.
Speaking on Ryan Seacrest's morning show on KIIS FM, Miley said, "I just think right now everything is really good. He's been a really great friend more than anything."
The platinum edition of Miley's second album Breakout is due out on November 18. It will feature a song titled Hovering by Miley and her half brother Trace Cyrus.
Breakout was released on July 22.
source: celebrity-gossip.net
Enjoying a day out with her two main men, Miley Cyrus, Justin Gaston and Billy Ray Cyrus were spotted spending time together in Los Angeles on Saturday (October 25).
The trio first paid a visit to a local studio before heading over to Paty’s for brunch, with Justin spending most of the time following behind Miley and Billy Ray so the paparazzi couldn’t take their picture together.
After heading home and changing her top and hairdo, the “Hannah Montana” babe and her “Nashville Star” hunk were then spotted making their way to LAX Airport for a flight out of town.
Meanwhile, Miley and Justin have gotten a stamp of approval from “Wizards of Waverly Place starlet Selena Gomez, who told Us magazine, “I honestly think that [Miley’s] adorable. I think she’s really sweet, and I think that he’s really cute, too. I wish them all the luck.”
source: transworldnews.com
Miley Cyrus shows off her trendy bedroom in the upcoming issue of InStyle magazine. The ‘Hannah Montana’ star shares a 9,000-square-foot Tuscan style North Hollywood home with her family.
“Our house is fun. Parts of it are really modern, but it’s most old Italian country,” she says. One of the “really modern” rooms the temperature-controlled wine room that was converted into a showcase for dad Billy Ray Cyrus’ guitar collection."It feels nice and homey here. It’s a good place to get a bit of peace of mind,” Billy Ray says.When Miley, 15, isn’t filming or on tour, she spends her time in her own private retreat – her trendy blue, chocolate brown and black bedroom. Silvery circle designs are custom painted on the sky blue walls, which stand out against the black furniture and accessories. The room is accented with unique touches like a shell chandelier and zebra printed chairs.
source: msnbc.msn.com
“Yes, but I just think that right now everything is really good so I haven’t been really answering the question much,” Cyrus said. “We’re just really happy with… the way that everything’s worked out and he’s really been a really great friend.”Cyrus said that in addition to being a “really great Christian guy,” Gaston has been there for her when she’s needed him. “He’s gone through stuff and I’ve gone through stuff… and I think it’s really awesome that we kind of have that in common, that we can talk about it and we understand,” she said. “I’m totally gushing right now.”The “Hannah Montana” star said that one of the reasons the two get along so well is because Gaston understands the price of fame. “It’s really hard for people who aren’t in the public eye to understand what it’s like to feel like so many people are judging you and people are gossiping about you at your school, they gossip about you all over the Internet,” she said. “It’s really hard for people to know what that’s like and I think it’s really cool that me and him have that relationship where we can talk about it because he gets it.”And Cyrus’ parents also like Justin, the Disney star said. “They do,” she told Seacrest. “He worked with my dad, so my dad thinks he’s really cool.”
Miley Cyrus is getting into the Christmas spirit a little earlier…but, we are too!
The Hannah Montana actress recorded the classic “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” for Disney’s All Wrapped Up christmas CD!
Click Here to Listen to Miley perform "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
Click Here to Order your copy of Disney's "All Wrapped Up" Christmas Cd Featuring Miley Cyrus!
source: news.sawf.org
Miley Cyrus, who along with her father Billy Ray recently featured in a music video for the single Seventeen Forever by Trace Cyrus' band Metro Station, is collaborating with her half brother again.
"We worked on a song together called 'Hovering,' " Trace tells PopEater.com.
The song will feature on the platinum edition of Miley's second album Breakout, which drops November 18.
The album was released on July 22.
Hovering will be a departure from the sweet music aimed at teens that the 16-year-old Hannah Montana star has been associated with so far..
"Miley just informed me that we might do a music video for that and push towards alternative radio," says Trace. "It's kind of a more rock, edgy song for her, but I love the song. It's great."
source: Mtv.com
by: Gil Kaufman
If you're a hacker, one of the surest ways to get the attention of the FBI is to brag about your exploits online and say they'll never find you.
According to Wired magazine's Threat Level blog, that's the scenario for 19-year-old hacker Josh Holly, whose Murfreesboro, Tennessee, apartment was raided by the FBI on Monday, months after he allegedly hacked into Miley Cyrus' e-mail account, stole provocative photos of the "Hannah Montana" star and posted them online. Holly reportedly bragged quite a bit about how he posed as a MySpace administrator in order to gain access to Cyrus' Gmail account, where he found some photos that Cyrus had allegedly sent to Nick Jonas.
The hacker had given interviews about his exploits to other bloggers and media outlets and often bragged that authorities would never find him because he moved around so much.
But on Monday, the FBI reportedly visited Holly, spoke to him for an hour, served him with a search warrant and presented a list of items they were going to seize, which included three computers and a phone. Undeterred, Holly called Threat Level from his sister's house hours after the raid to report what happened. At press time, he had not been arrested or charged with any crime.
Last December, using the screen names "TrainReq," "Rockz" and "h4x," Holly apparently got access to an old Gmail account used by Cyrus and found the pictures of the then 15-year-old Cyrus in the shower, in a T-shirt baring her belly, in her underwear and in a bikini. He told Threat Level that he tried to sell them to TMZ.com and other gossip sites, but nobody would buy them because of the illegal way they'd been obtained. On his blog, Holly appeared torn about releasing the pictures, writing on August 1, "I might not be leaking the pics, due to the fact of all the hate male (sic). I want to clear up that I DO NOT hate Miley. The reason I leak these is because that's what people want to see. I feel kinda bad, cause I do know I kinda messed up her career a little."
Just a day later, though, Holly seemingly got over his moral qualms, writing that "the demand for me to leak them was stronger than the demand ... not to leak them." Though he said he felt bad for posting the photos, he had to "give what the people want." He then posted some of the photos online at digitalgangster.com, after which numerous gossip and celebrity sites published them for free. All told, Holly said he stole nearly a dozen pictures, but only published the most provocative ones.
Though he'd bragged the feds would never find him, Holly told Threat Level he was finally discovered because of a false fire alarm called in at his apartment a few weeks ago. A local fire marshal, "under the pretense of investigating the prank," contacted him on Monday asking to meet him at his place to show him the photo of the prank suspect. Fifteen minutes later, the FBI knocked on his door, armed with a dossier of information they'd amassed on his past hacking activities.
"I guess somebody ended up ratting me out," he told Threat Level. "I was just kind of shaking. I was thrown way off guard. I've never had anything like this happen before to a point that I just didn't know what to do. I was afraid to kick them out of my house."
Shortly after the hacked shots surfaced — part of a string of provocative photos of the Disney star that have shown up online over the past year — Cyrus apologized for them, saying they were "silly, inappropriate shots."
Seemingly having learned his lesson, Holly blogged about the incident on Tuesday, writing, "Well, all my idiotic doings have finally caught up with me. Yesterday (October 20th of 08) , the FBI came into my house and took all things that can store data (my computers, my phone, CDs, etc) . ... When they came, they said I was not under arrest and no one is pressing charges. They just need evidence to put me down. Well, that is what I get for being an idiot and boast about hacking." But so much for his remorse: The blog also contains a code that allegedly allows users to illegally download songs from MySpace Music that are intended to be streams only.
source: mileycyrus.com
Miley's birthday present, Sophie, is already famous! The Maltese-Poodle mix has already been taken out in the public eye...very close to Miley's side! According to Disney, the pup is named after a dog owned by Miley's late grandfather. Of course Miley was so surprised by her parents gift to her early 16th Birthday present. How adorable is she!?!
source: sfgate.com
A representative for teen sensation Miley Cyrus has dismissed rumors suggesting the underage star has slept with her model boyfriend Justin Gaston, insisting she abides by her mother's "strict" rules.
Cyrus, 15, joined her mom, Leticia, and her manager in the front row at Los Angeles Fashion Week on Wednesday, where Gaston was modeling for designer Christian Audigier.
According to the New York Post's Page Six, Cyrus and Gaston "were all over each other backstage" at the fashion show, and the 20-year-old aspiring rocker blew kisses and winked at her every time he passed her on the catwalk.
A source tells the publication Cyrus was overheard telling a friend that "she was probably staying at Justin's tonight and that they were going to skip the after-party and have a party of their own."
But the singer/actress' spokesperson has denied any illicit behavior took place that night, saying: "Miley had a great time at the show, but the whole sleeping-over thing never happened. Miley went home with her mom and manager. Leticia is very strict with her.
source: celebritygossip.com
Sure, she may be known for her Disney sweetheart persona, but Miley Cyrus is looking more and more like a fashionista at heart. And yesterday she was spotted enjoying Mercedes-Benz LA Fashion Week.
The “Hannah Montana” actress looked to be having a marvelous time with her mother Tish at the Christian Audigier Presents American Lord Spring 2009 fashion show in Culver City.
And her look was nothing short of fabulous - she opted for a sleeveless black blouse, slim fit black trousers, animal print heels, and a bevy of vintage-style necklaces.
This holiday season, Miley will be featured on the new Disney album “All Wrapped Up,” with her very own rendition of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” She joins the Jonas Brothers, Jordan Pruitt, and Demi Lovato among others.
source: sfgate.com
Miley Cyrus has finished writing a book detailing her life story -- at the tender age of 15.
The actress shot to international stardom in Disney TV series "Hannah Montana" after landing the role at age 12. She has since pursued a solo singing career.
And now the teenager has completed penning her memoirs, which will take a look back at her life so far.
Publishers Disney have said the star's autobiography will "reveal how her solid relationship with her family, especially her mother, Leticia, helps her navigate the spotlight."
And now Cyrus has spoken out about the project, adding: "I'm not sure when it's going to come out. It's finished but you've got a long process of editing and all that kind of stuff, so it takes a while."
source: sawf.org
Miley Cyrus, 15, was accompanied by new boyfriend Justin Gaston, 20, during her visit to Millions of Milkshakes in West Hollywood on Tuesday, October 14. The young couple was chaperoned by Miley's dad Billy Ray.
Miley was at the Milkshake bar owned by Hollywood.tv founder to launch new flavors of shakes. She and her entourage spent nearly 10 minutes there after which Miley carried her ice cream shake to her SUV where Gaston lovingly fed her scoopfuls!
Gaston who has modeled for Kenneth Cole and Guess, met Miley while appearing as a contestant on Nashville star hosted by Miley's father Billy Ray earlier this year.
A native of Pinesville, La, Gaston was eliminated in week three of the contest.
He and Miley were first seen in LA on Sunday, September 14 attending church with the Cyrus family.
During Miley's recent Sweet 16 birthday bash at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. on Sunday, October 5, Gaston, took to the stage and sang "Achy Breaky Heart" with Miley's dad, Billy Ray and her older sister Brandi.
source: osoyou.com
Now don't get confused here. This isn't a photo of Miley Cyrus giving birth to Mini-Me live on stage. That's just one of her little dancers performing a routine behind her back.
The Hannah Montana star was in town (London town that is) for the BBC Switch Live! at the Hammersmith Apollo. You can see Miley's full 25 minute set here. The big gig for 14 to 17 year olds also starred Fall Out Boy, Ne-Yo, Mc Fly, Kelly Osbourne, Fearne Cotton and others. Others being particularly good.
Unlike most people who take off their hat and coat upon arrival, Miley bounded onto the stage in a slashed white and gold sleeveless top, white jeans and a white belt. Then, obviously starting to feel the London cold a bit, she put on a gold Columbo-like trenchcoat and white and gold-banded trilby for Fly on the Wall. And then she took them off again. Oh the young, they have so much energy.
source: actressarchives.com
According to Ok! Magazine, “Hannah Montana” star Miley Cyrus recently purchased two $1,417 red enamel Hidalgo horseshoe rings for her and her BFF, “Suite Life of Zack & Cody” star Ashley Tisdale.
source: ocregister.com
by: Peter Larsen
Fans flock to Irvine for Exclusive Concert Shoot For 'Hannah Montana'
The signs at the entrance to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater delivered all kinds of legal mumbo jumbo the lawyers required: You may be filmed, you won't be paid if your face pops up on Disney Channel in a month or two, and if you don't like the deal, well, don't come in.
But who were they kidding? Who among the thousands of kids who filled the Irvine amphitheater on Friday would have passed up this once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Miley Cyrus – the tween superstar of recent years – deliver a concert of all-new Hannah Montana songs?
And so the junior brigade march into the venue, fuel up on $7 slices of pizza, dance the never-ending Cha-Cha Slide at the Radio Disney booth, buy Hannah Ts and concert programs, and then settle in for a night they'll not soon forget.
5:36 p.m. Radio Disney DJ Ernie D revs up the crowd for opening act Mitchel Musso. Wonder how he got the lucky gig opening for Miss Miley? He plays Oliver on "Hannah," and is now getting the Disney crossover-makeover
"All the guys at my school want to dress like this!" confides Juliet, my 11-year-old tween adviser. "This" means half-unlaced red high tops, skinny jeans that bunch up over said shoes, a faux-military jacket, and most of all, the shaggy hair that curls up at the bottom and must be constantly head-flipped out of the eyes.
6:15 p.m."Ladies and gentlemen," Ernie D shouts to a crowd that probably has an average age near 10. "Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana!!!" And thousands of ear-piercing shrieks tear through the evening sky.
The new song she opens with – let's call it "All Right Here," for lack of a proper introduction – has that classic rock 'n' roll tribal drum beat (bump-bump-BUMP, bump-bump-bu-BUMP-bu-BUMP) with a bit a country twang to the vocals. Miley's got the blonde Hannah hair on, a sparkly purple T shirt and a multi-colored flouncy short party dress.
"It looks like candy," offers Anna Lily, my 7-year-old Disney Channel consultant, when asked how she'd describe the dress. "Like a candy outfit. Or rainbow sherbet." And, in fact, it does.
"How you guys doin'?" Miley asks the crowd at the end of the number. Dogs in Turtle Rock cover their ears with their paws as the shriek-o-meter goes off the scale.
"You'll see this everywhere," she tells them of the show that's being videotaped tonight. "You'll see it on Disney Channel, on videos, in the shows. You'll see it everywhere, so be sure to keep your energy up."
"Some of these songs we're going to do a couple of times, so by the end, you'll know the words."
6:26 p.m. Very quickly the audience realizes how a "concert music video taping" differs from a plain old concert. Miley's back out for her second song, which is the same as her first song. This, a producer or director-type tells us after the repeat, will be the pattern: two tapings of each song, followed by one with the cameras focused on the crowd, to get all the hand-waving, screaming, jumping-up-and-down fans.
6:44 p.m."Sorry I took so long, I made the wrong wardrobe choice," Miley tells us as she reappears for the next new song. 'So my bad."
This one she introduces as "Every Part Of Me," and it's a slow, countryish ballad, sung next to her guitar player, sitting on stools near the front of the stage.
The second take, a few minutes later, brings the cameraman on stage for close ups, which include – eventually edited out, we're sure – Miley flubbing the lyrics and apologizing midverse with an embarrassed grin and an "Oopsies!"
7:04 p.m. Third song, first take, second costume change. And, lucky us, Miley's choreographer to teach us the moves to "Let's Chill," a song that more or less literally is about ice cream and other frozen delights. "Do the ice cream freeze/strike a pose/Then you do the milkshake/shake it, shake it down low."
My two consultants momentarily set aside their critics' hats and do an admirable job of shaking it down low. This song has six backup dancers in cowboy duds, doing the choreography like a line dance, and it's a real crowd pleaser, probably one of the most popular of the eight new songs Miley performs tonight.
7:41 p.m. We guess that Song No. 4 is titled something like "Let's Get Crazy." It's a dance-rock number, with Miley coming out from behind a giant mirror ball, then roaming the stage singing the number.
When it ends, DJ Ernie D keeps the crowd fired up with screaming contests for the different sections of the amphitheater. We forgive him for that, though, when he tells the kids to shout, "I love you mom and dad" as thanks for bringing them out for the night.
8:08 p.m. Fifth song, and after "Let's Chill," the other hit of the night for my focus group of two. It's called "Super Girl," and it's all about the rock star teen – "You just wanna be like me" – who is "a super duper girl." It's a bouncy dance-pop number, and whenever it's unleashed on Disney Channel and Radio Disney, almost certain to saturate your ears for a month or two.
8:28 p.m. Miley slows it down again for another ballad that we guess might be called "Just A Girl." The glow sticks nearly everyone in the place has all wave slowly back and forth above the heads of the fans as lights ripple across the stage and backdrop.
Maybe it's the ballad, maybe it's the overall slow pace of the taping – this is the sixth song, played twice like all the others, in nearly two hours. Maybe it's that these are all new songs, not the Hannah hits. Or the fact that most of these tickets were free, given away in Radio Disney contests. (Though some were selling for $100 a pop on Craigslist.)
But our money is on "bedtime" as the reason why more and more fans are filtering out of Verizon now.
The pit, orchestra and loge sections had started out mostly full, the terrace and lawn sections left empty. But now, it feels like half the fans that started the night here are gone.
8:50 p.m. Only three songs left, we're told by way of urging us to hang in there. "Let's Do This" is the seventh new tune. This one includes a second take that ends with fireworks falling from the ceiling of the stage. Exciting!
9:05 p.m. Time for another ballad, this one perhaps called "Somebody Help Me," or maybe "Everything I Do." We're on maybe our fifth costume change of the night now, but we've noticed that she's worn the same fingerless rhinestone-encrusted red glove on her right hand all night long. It's the little details you want to know, right? So there you go!
9:24 p.m. Finally, a riff we all recognize! "The Best Of Both Worlds" is the theme song for the show, and all the audience members remaining – maybe a third of the original crowd at this point – jumps to their feet to sing along. But what's this? It's over after no more than a minute, just a snippet of the only tune anyone had ever heard before.
Would it have killed her to have blazed through "We Got The Party" or one of the other older Hannah hits as a bonus for everyone who'd stuck it out? Ah, well, it's pretty darn cold and past our bedtime, too.
Now it's just wait until these songs pop up on TV, and see if we can see our smiling faces in the crowd. After all, who cares if you didn't get paid for your appearance in the video: You got to co-star with Miley in concert, and surely that's worth plenty on the playground come Monday.
source: celebrity.rightpundits.com
Miley Cyrus made a music video for “Girls Just Wanna have Fun.” Check it out here!
Miley Cyrus’ music video for “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is out and people seem to love her updated version. The new single is fun, young and just as catchy, as is the music video, which is classic Miley style.
Of course it has nothing on Cyndi Lauper’s original version, but most remakes are not better than the original. Miley does it justice though. Check it out below.
In other Miley Cyrus news, there is an interesting article out today about why Miley is the world’s biggest teenage star. It is a three-page interview/story about a day in the life of Miley and is quite interesting. You can check it out here.
Watch Miley Cyrus' cover of Cyndi Lauper's“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” music video below.
source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk (Times Online)
By: Craig McLean
Sunday afternoon in Toluca Lake, and I’m squished in a black SUV with six other people, having my ears pinned back by the most famous teenager in America. In the front passenger seat, maintaining a dainty Deep South elegance and coiffure in the Los Angeles heat, her grandma. In the back, two of her PRs. To her right, a handsome young chap in a vest and boy-band hair. To her left, balancing tape recorder on knee, me, the first British journalist to be allowed proper access to her world.
And in the middle, telling us all where to sit, fast-talkin’, gum-crackin’, God-fearin’ Miley Cyrus: star of Disney TV series Hannah Montana, top-selling pop singer, record-breaking live performer, record-breaking movie star, daughter of mulletted Nineties country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, and the titular head of a multi-platform branded corporation worth some $1bn. She recently received a seven-figure sum to write her life story. Miley Cyrus is 15.
We had gathered in the drive of the house Miley shares with her dad, mum Leticia, brother Braison, 12, and sister Noah Lindsey, 6. The Cyruses relocated from their home town of Nashville to this nice part of LA in 2005, after Miley landed the lead role in Hannah Montana. It’s a drama about a teenager who’s an ordinary schoolgirl named Miley Stewart by day but, “disguised” in a blonde wig, a big pop star named Hannah Montana by night. Miley Stewart’s dad is played by Miley Cyrus’s dad, Billy Ray, best known for his Achy Breaky Heart – after his country-music career faded, he became an actor.
Hannah Montana is a huge hit with tween and teenage girls. They love the escapism and idea of a secret (and supercool) alter ego. And Cyrus, a natural comic, is an engaging actor. For ordinary girls across America and the UK, she seems real and accessible, not some glossy and remote Beverly Hills type. Plus, the pop songs she sings in her husky, mature voice are good, too.
In real life you can see the appeal of Miley Cyrus. She talks fast, is unselfconscious, a genuine teenager with genuine teenage appeal that is impossible to manufacture. Her charm is in her unguarded candour. A teenager who speaks her mind will speak to her audience.
Originally, the schoolgirl character was called Chloe Stewart. But the Disney bosses who put adolescent Miley Cyrus through a gruelling audition process that lasted nearly two years ultimately decided to name the character after their new hireling. Why?
“They just thought I was like the character,” shoots back Miley, then instantly reverses the comparison. “The character was so much like me – because she’s really wild and fun and doesn’t really give a care. And that’s very much how I am. What you see is what you get. I’m not really worried about stuff, I just like to get stuff done. Same thing: she’s really, really ambitious and wants to just go out and change the world. Hannah Montana doesn’t just wanna be a pop singer. She doesn’t just wanna be something that’s hot right now. She wants to go on for ever. Same thing for me.” Of course, all teenagers think they’re immortal. The difference with Miley Cyrus is that for her, going on for ever means being a star for ever.
This evening Miley is headlining a concert at the Universal Amphitheatre, part of the film studio’s theme-park complex. The sold-out event for 6,200 screaming girls (and some earplug-wearing parents) is in aid of City of Hope, a California hospital specialising in cancer treatments. The bill comprises three acts-cum-brands fundamental to the current pop-cultural supremacy of the Walt Disney Company: Demi Lovato (star of the recent Camp Rock movie, now making her first album), the Jonas Brothers (also Camp Rock-ers, but a stadium-filling boy band, too), and Miley Cyrus.
In the driveway of the Cyruses’ low, ranch-style house, the SUV doors slam, the engine guns, the gates hum open. We embark on the ten-minute drive to Universal Amphitheatre. Miley starts talking. Fast. Very fast. This, I will discover over the ensuing five hours in her orbit, is how she always speaks, whether to reporters or her mum or Disney top brass or the sick children who visit her dressing room post-show. I soon develop a form of Miley lag. It’s like jet lag, but it makes your head spin more. No wonder this child-star-entrepreneur gets so much done. As she speaks, sentences fall over half-sentences. No thought goes unuttered, it seems.
“I just think it’s really important,” Miley says of her support for City of Hope as we exit her family property, a fat envelope from a fan wedged in the gate’s iron bars. “Just because so many kids have all these dreams, and I know if I was little – I started when I was six or seven years old… The people that get diagnosed with these type of cancers and stuff at such a young age, they never feel like they have an opportunity to really dream – THAT WAS THE GUY I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT, THAT STALKED ME!”
Feisty Miley, a short kid with a woman’s flowing locks and a curiously throaty voice and still-chewy Southern accent, is now shouting and craning round in her seat, pointing at a shifty-looking bloke standing on the corner just down from her house. Her PRs look back too.
“THAT GUY, SERIOUSLY, NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL. UM, OK. HE STALKED ME, I’LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT.
“But if I would have been told that I couldn’t have been able to chase my dreams at such a young age…” Stalker alert over, she’s picked up where we left off, albeit in a scatter-gun way. Basically, Miley wants to raise money to help find a cancer cure “to give these kids an opportunity to live their dreams. ’Cause the future is all about the young ones now.” So says the 15-year-old.
The opening episode in the first season of Hannah Montana premiered on the Disney Channel on March 24, 2006. It was astutely scheduled before a rerun of High School Musical, and, in fact, featured a cameo from Corbin Taylor, who plays Chad in that hugely successful film franchise. It was watched by 5.4 million viewers. Miley knew it was a hit straight away.
“I was on Google every five seconds, getting Google Alerts! Same thing as I do for my records.” This tiny tycoon is “always constantly watching the numbers. One more CD will sell and I’ll know. People say, ‘Oh, the numbers aren’t important.’ Yes they are! I wanna know how many people are seeing that episode. For me it’s all about the love of acting and the love of music. But then again, when you see three million, four million, five million pop up on your screen, and say that you’re doing that single-handedly, it’s pretty insane. ’Cause it wasn’t like I just got an easy free ride.”
She’s currently filming a third season of Hannah Montana, and has already completed a big-screen version, to be released next spring. Why has the show been so successful?
“It’s not just showing a pop star who goes out at night and parties and gets to do cool concerts and get free clothes. It’s about making a CD ('Breakout') and having someone go to City of Hope and singing for kids with cancer who say the only time they smile is listening to my records. That’s the biggest reward. Nothing that money can buy or a CD can sell. That is something you never forget.”
Don’t worry if you’re a little confused as to where Miley Stewart ends and Miley Cyrus begins. I am, too, and I’ve spent a lot of time in both worlds recently. But one thing is clear: this is a preternaturally “on it” child star with the clear potential to financially outgun all her predecessors, whether original Mouseketeer Britney Spears, former child actor Lindsay Lohan, Disney poppet Hilary Duff, or pan-media entrepreneurs Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Little wonder that the realities of Miley Cyrus’s adolescent life – a seemingly semi-nude photoshoot in Vanity Fair and some saucy pics posted on MySpace – have this year been causing such tremors.
Miley Cyrus toured before she walked. When she was just a baby she accompanied Billy Ray Cyrus on the road. Her first memory is of being onstage at an Elvis Presley tribute concert, being passed among the star performers, including Aretha Franklin. Back then she still went by her birth name, Destiny Hope – even in naming her, her parents had big dreams for their baby daughter. Soon the infant’s perennially happy demeanour led to her being nicknamed Smiley, which in turn became Miley. Earlier this year she legally changed her name to Miley, and is now in the process of trademarking the name. (“Why? Why not?”)
She began acting aged seven, eventually landing a recurring part in Doc, a TV series about a country doctor in New York, in which her dad had the lead role. Did she always think she was going to be a famous entertainer?
“Yeah, that’s what I always wanted to do. I never knew if it would be possible but if I’d have ever been told there was no way, I don’t know what I would have done. It just gives you such hope and independence and you feel so… You know, you feel like a superhero! You feel like you can do anything.”
Billy Ray has talked about how his pre-teen daughter would go for audition after audition, and weathered rejection after rejection. But she never gave in, even when he gently reminded her that she was only a kid and there was plenty of time. That drive, she acknowledges, was the product of a pure ambition that coursed through her even at a young age.
“I’ve always been ambitious, and my dad’s been really inspiring to me. He grew up around music, but he didn’t even think he wanted to be an artist until he was older. And I figured that out when I was little, just watching him. And so he was being the protective dad, wanting me to wait till I’m a little bit older. ’Cause maybe it won’t hurt so badly when you get let down. But it makes you so much stronger. If I would have just been told yes every time, or if I would have gotten a handicap, for being Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter, it wouldn’t have been near as important. I had to work for it myself.”
Pre-showtime, we’re now sitting in her dressing room in the bowels of Universal Amphitheatre. The handsome young chap in the vest with boy-band hair and about eight other people are hovering, including one of her managers. (Her mum is another of her managers.) She’s just “done” the red carpet: that is, walked out on to a stretch of red carpet, alongside which a mob of photographers were corralled. They shouted and yelled at her – Look this way! Over the shoulder, Miley! Gimme the peace sign! – and snapped and flashed. Then radio and TV reporters fired questions at her: what’s she doing for her 16th birthday [November 23]? (On October 5 she took over Disneyland for the day, inviting press, fans and competition winners to join in Miley’s Sweet 16 – Share the Celebration, with all proceeds going to Youth Service America.) What gift would she like? A car. How’s the Hannah Montana movie coming along? Great! Then she came back inside.
Of the roles she didn’t get she says, “I just think God has such a great plan. And so many people kind of ignore that. You just gotta realise that sometimes it hurts and you have no idea why. But, you know, you just gotta move on with it.”
Faith is important to her – yesterday she attended “Saturday church” because she knew she’d miss it today (she also spent that rare day off getting a passport for her imminent trip to the UK).
“I always have fun little Bible verses to pull out. I’m like, ‘All right, well this sucks, so I’ll listen to this.’ I think it just gives you a sense of positivity, possibility. And it reminds me that this is so not what my life is about. My life is not about going on the press line, or being best or worst dressed. It’s about being something so much greater.”
Miley has sky’s-the-limit ambition. She wants to entertain, on myriad fronts, and she wants to do good. She welcomes the responsibility of being seen as a repository of wholesome values by the Christian Coalition. “Yeah, of course. Christianity doesn’t promise perfection, but it does presume that you’ll try to live like Christ. And hopefully I’m doing a good job.”
How, then, to explain the portraits in the June edition of Vanity Fair that caused a worldwide media storm? The DIY pictures of Miley goofing around and getting intimate with pals at a sleepover that ended up on MySpace – those can be explained away as typical teenage high jinks. But Annie Liebowitz photographed Miley looking rumpled and with a come-hither gaze, with a sheet falling from her naked shoulders. It wasn’t just the Christian Right or fans of wholesome Disney values who were alarmed by the coquettish, near Lolita-esque poses. Miley subsequently apologised for poses she had, seemingly, agreed to. Disney accused the magazine of manipulating a 15-year-old (albeit one accompanied to the shoot by family and business associates). With the benefit of a few months’ hindsight, what are her feelings now?
“It was one honestly dumb decision. You know, there’s a first time for everything. It was my first time working with a big photographer and blah blah blah blah. I think I just kinda got put under pressure and that’s OK, ’cause I learned a lot from it. And I just know to trust my better judgment and my thought and my gut feeling. And so I just think: be a little more careful next time.”
But for the relentlessly optimistic and family-protected Cyrus, every cloud… “I think that’s awesome. I’m glad I can tell kids that: just watch what you do, ’cause it will come back to getcha.”
An hour or so later Miley Cyrus follows the Jonas Brothers on stage. Channelling Pink and Avril Lavigne, she throws herself around the stage like a rock chick, all tight jeans, T-shirt (bearing an image of her tattooed, pierced elder brother Trace’s band, Metro Station) and trainers. Five musicians, two backing vocalists and eight dancers help amp up the excitement as she plays songs from the recent Miley Cyrus album, Breakout – so named, of course, because it signifies her musical breakout from the poppier Hannah Montana world.
In the dressing room afterwards (only two people overseeing this time) I ask her about performing 7 Things, a song about the end of her relationship with Nick Jonas, the cutey-pie youngest of the brothers (frankly, she looks like she’d eat him for breakfast). They split during the Best of Both Worlds tour that Miley/Hannah and the Jonas Brothers undertook in late 2007/early 2008 – a tour that did better box office than the Police and Bruce Springsteen, and which spawned a record-breaking 3D concert movie. The Jonas Brothers, her support act, were very much second fiddle to Miley on the shows. Was their relationship broken by fame?
“I like to keep my priorities straight,” she replies, and into this category we might put the promise ring she (and the equally devout Jonas Brothers) wear, by which they promise to have no sex before marriage. “My priorities are my friends and my family more than a boyfriend that might not be there for ever…”
I wonder what the handsome young chap in the vest, who’s sitting next door with Miley’s mom (a striking woman in her forties) and two sisters, would make of that. It transpires that he’s Justin Gaston, a former underwear model and Nashville Star contestant. Five years Miley’s senior, he’s her new boyfriend, as evidenced by pictures that appear in the press the next day of them exiting church together (he wore a vest then, too).
Time is nearly up. I ask Miley if she finds it easy to relax and switch off?
“I like working, working and working, then having a week’s break. More than working two days, having a day off, working two days…” She pauses, which at the speed-of-Miley lasts for about a nanosecond. “What am I talking about? This never happens! I’m making this up. I like working a lot then taking a really long break. But it’s so funny: every time I get a day off I’m like, [plaintive voice] ‘Mom, I need to go to the studio. Mom, I need to write a song…’ She’s like, ‘Just take your day off.’ But I just like working. I like what I do. So. It’s good.”
Is she a workaholic?
“I am,” she grins. “I am. It’s better than, you know, being addicted to anything else. I love my job. So. It’s fun.”
But what about that stalker guy we passed earlier. Surely that’s a worry to a young girl?
“Stalker guy!” she hoots. “You just gotta smile and be happy, you know what I mean? Give ’em their peace sign and walk away.”
source:pedrowatcher.com
It’s still not too late to win tickets to that exclusive ‘Hannah Montana’ concert at Verizon Amphitheater in Irvine on Friday, we have learned.
Fans can enter to win tickets in a drawing to be held at all Bristol Farms supermarket locations, including Newport Beach, Mission Viejo and Long Beach.
And right before the concert begins on Friday, Radio Disney will be hosting a live event at the Bristol Farms at 810 Avocado Ave. in Newport Beach, where fans can compete — in a “Hannah Montana” karaoke contest, we’re told — to win tickets to the show that day.
Enter to win tickets at each location through the end of business on Thursday, Oct. 9. The Newport Beach event runs from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
And the concert — which is being filmed for the upcoming “Hannah Montana” movie — starts at 5 p.m Friday.
Good luck!
source: AP
Billy Ray Cyrus said that the relationship his 15-year-old daughter Miley Cyrus has with 20-year-old Justin Gaston is "a good thing."
The "Achy Breaky Heart" singer told People magazine that Miley Cyrus' new boyfriend is a "good kid."
"Justin's a good friend. A good friend of the family," Billy Ray Cyrus told People magazine Tuesday. "I met Justin as I was hosting 'Nashville Star' and I introduced the two of them. He's a good kid. Great heart. Lives for the light and he's very talented."
Gaston helped celebrate Miley Cyrus' early 16th birthday bash at Disneyland over the weekend (she turns 16 on Nov. 23), and even joined Billy Ray Cyrus on a rendition of "Achy Breaky Heart."
People also quoted an interview that Billy Ray Cyrus recently gave to "Access Hollywood," where he said of Gaston, "He actually reminds me a lot of myself when I was 20 years old and I was living and searching for the dream."
Cyrus previously dated Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers band, who just turned 16. Miley Cyrus told Seventeen magazine in August that she and Jonas were in love and that she "bawled for a month straight" after their breakup at the end of 2007.
"We were in love with each other," she told Seventeen. "For two years he was basically my 24/7. But it was really hard to keep it from people. We were arguing a lot, and it really wasn't fun."
source: foxnews.com (poptarts)
There aren't too many people in the world with the power to close down Disneyland for their 16th birthday. In fact, teen sensation Miley Cyrus was the first to do so on Sunday as she performed for (and partied with) 5,000 fans to celebrate her coming of age.
"It’s our family going full circle. Being here with these fans is an appropriate way to celebrate," her proud father and "Hannah Montana" co-star Billy Ray Cyrus told Pop Tarts. "It’s the fans that our show is all about. It’s what our music is all about. Touching people’s lives worldwide and these are the people right here."
Notably absent from the party was 20-year-old underwear model Justin Gaston, to whom Miley has been romantically linked in recent weeks despite claims from her camp that they are "just friends."
"He is a great guy, a really talented guy," Billy Ray said of Gaston, adding that he is great company for his daughter.
It's obviously been a tumultuous year for the star-studded family, given Cyrus' string of scandalous snaps, but Billy assured us that they deal with the drama of fame "one day at a time, one step at a time."
"Most importantly [we] just love what we’re doing, we love making music and we love acting and being part of this Disney family, so it’s a dream come true for us," he said.
As for all those rumors that Miley is getting ready to leave her alter ego "Hannah Montana" behind...
"We’re rocking and rolling," Billy Ray said, with Miley confirming that she has no intentions to depart Disney "no matter what."
"I respect the people that are here grooving on — I'm so excited because the most amazing people in the world are here celebrating with me tonight," Miley gushed.
Also stepping out to wish Miley a Happy Sweet 16 were "Idol" runner-up David Archuleta, "High School Musical" stars KayCee Stroh and Ryne Sanborn, Cindy Crawford, Steve Carell, Jennie Garth and Vanessa Williams. Even Tyra Banks partied with the young pop princess, offering words of support.
"The interesting thing is this is a world that loves to bring you up and they love to tear you down, but Miley is a strong, strong girl and that’s part of being a celebrity," Banks said. "You take the bitter with the sweet but she always manages to keep it sweet and that’s what I love about her."
source: Disney
The Hollywood-style bash took place on Sunday, October 5, 2008 with ticket sales limited to 5,000 fans.
This once-in-a-lifetime event featured party zones highlighting the music of Miley and Hannah Montana with themed activities and entertainment, access to some of Miley's favorite attractions, performances by Miley and Billy Ray, and special fireworks created just for the event.
Plus some amazing kids from Youth Service America were recognized.
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source: usatoday.com
Miley Cyrus' parents shut down Disneyland for her Sweet 16 party on Sunday. Her actual birthday is November 23rd.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Miley Cyrus' 16th birthday party was more boisterous than sweet. Cyrus celebrated the hallmark birthday at an over-the-top Disneyland celebration Sunday — even though she doesn't actually turn 16 until Nov. 23. The theme park was closed for the supersized soiree, which included a four-song performance by the teen queen and a fireworks display above Sleeping Beauty Castle and 16 giant inflatable candles.
"Miley is really hard to surprise," her father Billy Ray Cyrus said at the event.
Organizers estimated over 5,000 people attended the special party, which cost $250 a ticket. On the event's purple carpet — that's Cyrus' favorite color — the Hannah Montana star bragged that her parents bought her a new puppy for her birthday. What else does Cyrus want for her birthday? A new car? Perhaps a later curfew?
"My parents shut down Disneyland for me, so I'm good for a while," Cyrus said.
Cyrus' father opened up for his daughter with a few of his own songs, including Achy Breaky Heart. His daughter donned a white ruffled skirt and jersey-like vest with "Sweet 16" printed on the back for her truncated concert. At one point, Cyrus boarded a boat in the park's Rivers of America and crooned such tunes as Breakout and G.N.O.
source: latimes.com
Miley Cyrus has invited a few of her young Disney Channel co-stars and some older celebrity friends to her exclusive Sweet 16 birthday party on Sunday at Disneyland.
Those expected to attend the sold-out red carpet event:
* Billy Ray Cyrus
* Emily Osment
* Mitchel Musso
* Moises Arias
* Shanica Knowles
* Anna Maria Perez de Tagle
* Demi Lovato
* Meaghan Jette Martin
* Cody Linley
* Roshon Fegan
* KayCee Stroh
* Matt Prokop
* Dylan and Cole Sprouse
* Brenda Song
* Phill Lewis
* Debby Ryan
* Jason Dolley
* Kyle Massey
* Madison Pettis
* Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers)
* Steve Carell (”The Office”)
* Vanessa Williams (”Ugly Betty”)
* Sela Ward (”House”)
* Jennifer Love Hewitt (”Ghost Whisperer”)
* Kate Beckinsale (”Pearl Harbor”)
* Cindy Crawford (supermodel)
* Babyface (singer)
* Pepe Aguilar (singer)
* Rogelio Martinez (singer)
source: variety.com
Miley Cyrus has it harder than you'd think. At 15, the "Hannah Montana" multitalent is torn between two worlds: that of Disney Channel TV personality and arena-filling pop star.
"I love doing it all," Cyrus tells Variety. "When I'm doing one thing, I always miss the other. When I'm on tour, I miss shooting the show and I miss the cast. When I'm shooting the show, I miss doing concerts and performing my music for all of my fans."
In the past year, that conundrum has only grown more complex. After Cyrus' "Best of Both Worlds" concert tour spawned a record-breaking 3-D feature, she effectively added the role of movie star to her resume -- and don't be surprised to see a lot more of her on the bigscreen in the very near future. Next month, Cyrus voices Penny in Disney Animation's "Bolt," following it up with "Hannah Montana: The Movie" next spring.
"This is not a two-hour version of what you might be able to see on Disney Channel," assures Adam Bonnett, senior VP of original programming for the network. For starters, the movie leaves the show's Malibu location for Cyrus' hometown of Nashville. Plus, she gets a new love interest (Adam Gregory of "90210").
It's been a real-life Cinderella story for the performer, who lobbied Disney casting directors for the "Hannah Montana" role. "She was this short little scrawny girl with a raspy voice -- she almost had the voice of a truck driver. It made her stand out," Bonnett remembers.
But audiences instantly connected with Cyrus, a bond the writers build by tailoring the show to the actress's real life. "If you got on the phone with Miley Cyrus today and said, 'What's on your mind?' the first thing out of her mouth would be, 'I'm excited to drive a car,' because she's about to turn 16," Bonnett says. "That inspired the writers to do a story this season where Miley Stewart goes to get her driver's license and fails. And she realizes that if she goes back as Hannah Montana, they'll give it to her because she's Hannah Montana -- that's all inspired by Miley's passion for getting behind the wheel."
Recent breakthrough: Her 3-D concert movie was so popular, Disney extended its one-week run, raking in $65 million in the process.
Role model: "My mom. She's kept me grounded."
Up next: Disney toon "Bolt" will benefit from the star's voice, and "Hannah Montana" fans will get a bigscreen dose of the character in early '09.
source: latimes.com
Never mind that her birthday isn’t for seven more weeks, Miley Cyrus and 5,000 of her biggest fans will celebrate her Sweet 16th at Disneyland on Sunday with an exclusive, celebrity-studded party.
The Anaheim theme park will close to regular visitors at 5 p.m. to make way for the privileged few who plunked down $250 a ticket (or more) to party with the “Hannah Montana” star.
The festivities start at 6 p.m. with a red carpet affair on Main Street U.S.A. in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, featuring Disney Channel stars and other young Hollywood types. Expect the celebrities to be whisked in through backstage rather than the main gate — meaning no looky-loos or photo ops for nonpaying fans.
At 8:15 p.m., Miley Cyrus and “friends” (think Disney singing stars) will perform a 45-minute show on the Fantasmic stage of Tom Sawyer’s Island while fans watch from the Frontierland side of the Rivers of America. Miley Cyrus is expected to sing four songs. She’ll “share the stage” with her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, but no word yet on whether they’ll sing the duet “Ready, Set, Don’t Go.”
After the concert, the party festivities will be centered in Frontierland and New Orleans Square with interactive activities and special food offerings. Indiana Jones Adventure and Pirates of the Caribbean will be open along with other select rides in Fantasyland and Tomorrowland (including Space Mountain, intermittently).
Miley fans have been promised a “special” fireworks finale at 10:45 p.m. before the evening wraps up at 11 p.m.
source: ocregister.com
Preliminary word arrives that Miley Cyrus will play an exclusive show at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on Oct. 10, a concert to be filmed for the upcoming ‘Hannah Montana’ soundtrack.
Before you faint or rush to sell all your now-worthless stocks to buy tickets, take a deep breath: we’re still waiting full details on how tickets will be made available.
So far we know that Radio Disney will soon start giving them away to lucky callers. And the radio crew will also be giving some allotment away in person from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Citadel Outlets just of Interstate 5 as you head into north from Orange County into Los Angeles.
We’ll post more information on tickets as we get it, so come back and check the blog often for updates on that.
Cyrus’ most recent album, ‘Breakout,’ took steps toward breaking away — a little — from the ‘Hannah Montana’ character that made her a tween superstar. But with this show being filmed for a ‘Hannah’ soundtrack CD — presumably to accompany the ‘Hannah Montana’ movie slated for next spring – it seems likely to focus mostly on her earlier hits as that Disney Channel character.
Opening the show is Mitchel Musso, who plays Oliver on ‘Hannah Montana,’ and whose cover of ‘Lean On Me’ has been a Radio Disney hit this year. He’s said to have a CD of his own out in the near future.
The show is scheduled to run from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., and marks Miley’s second big trip to Orange County in less than a week.
On Sunday, Oct. 5, she’ll celebrate her 16th birthday at Disneyland, closing down the park for the evening for a private party, though fans were able to buy $250 tickets to attend. All of the 5,000 tickets provided, however, have been sold.
source: celebrity-gossip.com
Between her singing and acting careers, she doesn’t have much time to lay out in the sun. So instead, Miley Cyrus works on her tan in the tanning bed!
And last night, the “7 Things” songstress was spotted on her way out of the Sunlounge Tanningi Salon in Los Angeles, looking a bit blushed as she hammed it up for the paparazzi.
Sporting a big smile, Miss Cyrus rocked a white silkscreened t-shirt teamed with a pair of yellow Capri sweatpants with silver flip flops.
Enjoy the pictures of Miley Cyrus out at the tanning salon last night (October 1).
source: aceshowbiz.com
US Weekly quoted the actress as saying that despite her hectic schedule Miley has promised to come and support him on the upcoming "Dancing with the Stars."
Willing to get support from fellow Disney star Miley Cyrus for his upcoming performance on "Dancing with the Stars," Cody Linley said he has got a "yes" from her. He said that despite her hectic schedule, she has promised to come and support him.
To US Weekly Cody said Tuesday, September 30, "I talked to Miley the other day and said, 'Hey, homey, I'm going to your birthday party, so you need to come see me on Dancing with the Stars!'" He continued, "she is super busy, but she is definitely planning on coming to see me!"
Miley, who turns 16 on November 23, will be celebrating her birthday this coming Sunday, October 5, with a big bash at California's Disneyland. Tickets to the celebration were sold out almost immediately after announcement was made about it in late August 2008.
Last month, Cody has boasted to the press Miley and some of his famous friends are going to come on the hit TV show to support him. He also stated to have been getting some advice from her singer father Billy Ray Cyrus, who was a former contestant on the series.
Still staying on the show despite its early elimination, Cody told US Weekly after Tuesday's show, "I feel really good", adding he and his dancing partner Julianne Hough "have a couple more tricks up" their sleeve. As for Hough, she admitted to be feeling "relieved" she and Cody didn't get the boot.
source: celebrity-gossip.com
Enjoying an evening out with a few gal pals, teen star Miley Cyrus was spotted venturing about Santa Monica, California on Tuesday (September 30).
The “Hannah Montana” singer/actress and her friends dropped by a local nail salon, proceeding to get pedicures and manicures in preparation for a big weekend that lies ahead
As previously reported, Miss Cyrus will be celebrating her Sweet 16 birthday at the Disneyland Resort this weekend with 5,000 of her biggest fans.
Interestingly enough, her birthday party happens to be scheduled on Gay Days, an annual gay and lesbian gathering at the Magic Kingdom.
Denying reports that the Gay Days revelers are getting the boot to accommodate Miley, a Disneyland rep told press, “Many groups hold events at the Disneyland Resort and for two to occur at the same time is not uncommon. Gays Days, which takes place October 3-5, overlaps with Miley Cyrus’ Sweet 16 celebration only on Sunday night, October 5.”
Meanwhile the organization putting on Gay Days wrote on their Web site, “Yes, Miley Cyrus is having her birthday at Disneyland on Sunday, October 5 and Disneyland will be closing at 5 PM that day. That’s our scheduled day at Disney’s California Adventure so we don’t foresee any changes to Gay Days Anaheim. Although we would love her to come sing for us!”