Miley Cyrus Feud With The Jonas Brothers: Tour Fight With Hannah Montana?
Do we have a little bit of bickering between Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers Nick, Joe and Kevin? According to a report from Star Magazine, things are not as cozy as they seem between Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers. The magazine is reporting that there just might be a little bit of friction between the fifteen-year-old mega star and the boys.
According to the report, which is published in this week’s issue of Star, little arguments between the Disney megastar and the three cuties during Miley’s blockbuster Best of both Worlds tour “have escalated into full-scale fights,” says a source.
Are the two star acts brawling on tour? It is almost as if they are rock stars. The magazine cites an insider source that claims that it turns out that the trio siblings - Joe, 18, Kevin, 20, and Miley’s ex-beau Nick, 15 - never wanted to be an opening act for the Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus show!
“They feel they are stars in their own right and don’t need her to be successful, says the source. The fighting has gotten so bad that no one knows who’s headlining at the Wango Tango concert in Irvine, Calif., on May 10!
Miley’s Tween spirit
ON the whole, 1992 was a productive year for singer/songwriter Billy Ray Cyrus. That was the year the grandson of a preacher man from Flatwoods, Kentucky, had a worldwide smash with his debut single `Achy Breaky Heart¿.
The boot-scootin’ hit brought country into the mainstream and unexpected cachet to the mullet, which, being short and conservative at the front and long and unruly at the back, was the perfect have-it-both-ways hairstyle for a God-fearing country music sex symbol.
That year, Billy Ray also produced a daughter, with partner Leticia (Tish) Finley. The child was named Destiny Hope Cyrus, in the expectation that she’d achieve great things.
Did Billy Ray have an inkling that she’d one day help give his career a second wind? Or that her popularity would eventually far exceed his own and her personal earnings would top $3.7 million a year? And all before her 15th birthday?
Miley Ray Cyrus, as Destiny is now known after filing for a legal name change last month – Miley, because she was always a “smiley” kid, and Ray, in tribute to her adored dad – is the star of Disney’s children’s sitcom, Hannah Montana.
She plays Miley Stewart, a teenager from Tennessee who attends a regular high school in Malibu, California, but has a secret life as world-famous rockstar Hannah Montana.
The show is enormously popular with ‘tweens’ – nine to 14-year-olds – as any parent who’s had to fork out for a Hannah Montana wig, hairbrush or tank top can readily attest.
The first Hannah Montana soundtrack album sold in excess of four million copies worldwide.
When tickets to a Hannah Montana concert tour of the US went on sale in October last year, dates for all 54 cities sold out immediately and internet touts made a killing scalping tickets to the parents of desperate pre-teens.
A concert film, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, was shot in digital 3D and hurried into US cinemas on February 1 this year.
To the industry’s astonishment, the 74-minute film made $31 million at its box office opening.
Suddenly a moviestar, Cyrus was invited to the Academy Awards later that month, where she dutifully trod the red carpet in Valentino and introduced one of the Oscar-nominated songs.
With her life a merry-go-round of concerts, films, albums and television shows, Cyrus is probably the busiest 15-year-old in show business.
Indeed, a coveted phone interview spot with the world’s most-Googled girl brings with it the guilty thought that I’m keeping her from normal teenager stuff.
“They’re being terrible to me.” Cyrus’s deep, throaty twang says down the line when I express this concern to her. “It’s five pm here – and I started at eight!”
What about child labour restrictions? “Yeah, aren’t there rules about how many hours I’m supposed to work, guys?” she says to someone. When she gets back on the line though, she’s laughing. “They’re gonna kill me.”
Cyrus talks not like a sulky teen, but like a particularly enthused one – someone who’s doing exactly what she wants. She’s no bunny in the headlights of celebrity.
One of her earliest memories is of being passed around on stage as a toddler by performers including her father and Aretha Franklin at an Elvis tribute.
“I think that was the minute that, somewhere in my mind, I realised I wanted to be (a performer), right then and there.”
She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, on the family ranch, and Billy Ray started teaching her to play the guitar when she was eight.
When he began acting in films such as Mulholland Drive and shows such as The Nanny and Diagnosis Murder, Cyrus helped out as an extra.
Billy Ray scored his own show, Doc, in 2001, a Christian-themed drama about a small-town doctor in New York City. (The Cyruses are church-going folk.)
Doc was filmed in Toronto, Canada, and while the family was based there, Cyrus pursued acting and singing lessons and attended auditions. She soon won a small part in Tim Burton’s Big Fish.
“She was quite determined, diligent and persistent,” her father later told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Meanwhile, the Disney Channel was in the process of hatching plans for a new sitcom. In case you haven’t heard, Mickey and Donald are no longer such a big part of Uncle Walt’s TV empire.
Now it’s all about live action comedies, preferably with a marketable music element.
Hannah Montana took its lead from Disney’s earlier Lizzie McGuire, the sitcom that gave birth to popstar Hilary Duff and launched a merchandising bonanza for the channel.
Like Lizzie, Hannah would also have a high school setting, with all the requisite rites of passage, but what if its heroine were already a fictional rockstar, with a set list of tween-friendly pop anthems primed to hit the market at the same time as the series?
An overnight sensation can take a long time to set in train, though, as Cyrus discovered. “When I was 11, I started auditioning for Hannah and I auditioned for a good two years,” she says.
Cyrus travelled to California and back again. “The process was basically repetitive, having to get up in front of people you’ve never met before and sing your heart out.” Initially worried that she was too short and too young, Disney execs were finally won over by her natural exuberance.
Casting the role of Hannah Montana’s dad was a much simpler process. Billy Ray was invited to try out.
“They only made him audition once, the lucky duck,” Cyrus says. “They were looking for father-daughter chemistry, so it was pretty perfect.”
On the show, Miley Stewart has a normal family life and goes unrecognised at school because her famous alter ego, Hannah Montana, wears a blonde wig.
This fictional Miley has a wisecracking older brother (Jason Earles), while their widowed father, Robby Stewart (Billy Ray), is a former country music star who manages Hannah’s career and dispenses important life lessons.
Like any record company protégé, Hannah Montana has been furnished with relentlessly catchy songs written by some of the world’s top popmeisters. Feisty but inoffensive, many songs simply underline the theme of having a double life.
Others offer folksy wisdom in the time-honoured tradition of Disney tunes, and the rest are about partying – in the general, non-sexual sense. Hannah Montana is no Britney; love songs aren’t really her thing.
But Miley Ray Cyrus is a different story. In June last year, Disney released Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus, a double album designed to introduce people to the idea of Miley as a popstar in her own right.
And in the concert film, Hannah Montana leaves the stage halfway through to be replaced by Miley Ray Cyrus.
It’s a good idea. Like Peter Pan, Hannah Montana is the girl who can never grow up. Miley Ray Cyrus, however, stands a chance of maturing in tandem with her fan base.
“Hannah is more peppy pop,” Cyrus explains. “Miley is more edgy, but still girlie, which is something I think a lot of people couldn’t pull off.” So when Hannah is on stage, is she acting?
“It’s what I do. Hannah is a character, so I make that character as exaggerated as possible.”
In fact, if Hannah Montana were real, she’d be very worried about her career, as Cyrus is about to release a solo album.
“I’m super excited about that,” she says. “I can’t wait to put it in my CD player and listen to every song I’ve written. My favourite group is The Killers, so it’s going to be The Killers meets Melissa Etheridge. It’s earthy, techno rock.”
Additionally, a Hannah Montana narrative movie, set for theatrical release next year, is in the works. Considering that The Lizzie McGuire Movie marked the closure of that series, this could be further evidence Disney is preparing an imminent exit for their imaginary blonde sensation.
Whatever happens, you can bet they’re far from done with Miley Ray Cyrus. Disney learnt its lesson with Britney Spears et al – performers groomed on The Mickey Mouse Club in the ’90s, whose subsequent recording careers earned nothing for the House of Mouse.
Cyrus, however, is signed to a four-album deal with the Disney Music Group’s Hollywood Records. Which makes one worry. After all, today’s teen popstar is tomorrow’s tabloid train wreck. Is this something to which Cyrus has given any thought?
“Not really,” she says, “because I know my family is really strong and I’m strong as a person. I can get through pretty much anything.”
And, she adds, her family needn’t worry about her getting big-headed. “They don’t have to, because I don’t ever want to be that person in the first place. I want to be a positive role model. It’s important to my family and it’s even more important to me.”
Whether the gossip industry will allow her to be a positive role model is another thing entirely.
While fictional Miley Stewart enjoys an anonymous home life, in real life, Miley Ray Cyrus has already been the subject of pregnancy and lesbian rumours.
At the other extreme, a scene from the concert movie where she and her father are seen in the back of a car without seatbelts attracted strong criticism and prompted a speedy apology from Billy Ray.
Fame, moreover, has a way of making you culpable for the lunacy of others. A teenage boy’s half-baked attempt to hijack a plane and crash it into a Hannah Montana concert was foiled in January, and controversy erupted when a six-year-old girl’s heart-rending essay about having lost her daddy in Iraq, which won her Hannah Montana tickets, turned out to be a work of fiction.
A reported romance with Nick Jonas, of pop heart-throbs the Jonas Brothers, is also hogwash. “I’m not looking for a boyfriend,” Cyrus says. What’s it going to be like when she starts dating?
“When the time comes, we’ll see how difficult it is. The only way I want a boyfriend is when the time’s right.”
For the time being, Cyrus has her family, her faith and her routines. She runs on a treadmill for 20 minutes a day and follows a careful diet to keep her hypoglycaemia under control. Her schooling consists of three hours with a private tutor, Mondays to Fridays. maths is her favourite subject.
“I like it when there’s just one answer. In math, it’s right or wrong.”
What does she see in her future? “We’ll see. Hopefully I can continue working on music, acting, whatever comes along. After the movie, I’ll start working on some other cool thing.”
A world tour, taking in Australia, is also planned. Seems it’s too much to hope that she has some time off. “I think I have my next break in, like, 2018. Somewhere around then.”
Billy Ray’s daughter laughs, still a bundle of energy after eight hours of interviews. “OK, now I’m cracking myself up.”
The Star Report: Turns out young people really like Miley Cyrus
The Miley Cyrus juggernaut continues. At Saturday’s Kids Choice Awards in Los Angeles, she took home trophies for favorite female singer and favorite TV actress and delivered a spirited performance of her hit song, “GNO - Girls Night Out.” The Nickelodeon children’s television network broadcast the 21st annual show live from UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in front of 10,000 screaming fans, almost all of them teens and preteens.
Jack Klugman suing for back wages
Did Jack Klugman not have direct deposit back when he was a TV star? Because he’s suing NBC Universal for money he says they owe him for profits from “Quincy, M.E.” Klugman is 85 and played the crime-busting Dr. R. Quincy from 1976 to 1983. His 1976 contract with NBC entitles him and his company, Sweater Productions, to 25 percent of the show’s “net profits,” according to the suit filed in Superior Court. “I recently heard that they made $250 million and it’s still on TV in Germany. I don’t want their money. I want my money,” Klugman told the Associated Press.
Axl Rose just doesn’t seem like the ‘Be a Pepper’ type
Someone at Dr Pepper is either a ginormous Guns N’ Roses fan, or they have a deeply twisted sense of humor. The soda company last week came up with a bizarre marketing scheme, offering to give everyone in the United States a can of Dr Pepper if GNR frontman Axl Rose
finishes and releases in 2008 the “Chinese Democracy” album he’s allegedly been working on for 17 years.Is Dr Pepper really that eager for new GNR material? Is anyone really that eager for new GNR material? We didn’t think so. More like they’re making fun of Rose’s obsessive/compulsive disorder. Meanies!
The marketing pitch is quite a stretch: “It took a little patience to perfect Dr Pepper’s special mix of 23 ingredients, which our fans have come to know and love,” said Jaxie Alt, director of marketing for Dr Pepper. “So we completely understand and empathize with Axl’s quest for perfection - for something more than the average album. We know once it’s released, people will refer to it as ‘Dr Pepper for the ears’ because it will be such a refreshing blend of rich, bold sounds - an instant classic.”
Um, right. Rose responded a couple of days later with a statement on the band’s Web site saying the band is not involved in the promotion. He didn’t say whether he’d try to finish the album this year, if only to see Dr Pepper distribute 303,736,481 cans of free soda.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly got married Saturday
Star magazine reported Saturday that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who are expecting twins this summer, tied the knot during an intimate wedding ceremony in the couple’s adopted city of New Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday afternoon.
Star has reported that Brad had long wanted the ceremony to take place in the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina, while Angelina preferred a small, intimate ceremony in France. The now husband and wife, along with their four children, are expected to return to Texas, where Brad is currently filming “Tree of Life.”
This is the second trip down the aisle for Brad, who ended his five-year marriage to Jennifer Aniston shortly after meeting Angelina on the set of their 2005 film “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” Twice-married Angelina divorced actors Jonny Lee Miller in 1999 and Billy Bob Thornton in 2003 after three-year marriages to each.
Miley Cyrus is impossible - official
It’s official - Miley Cyrus is completely impossible. That’s not the view of some disgruntled teacher, or unimpressed director. Nor is it a parental outburst from father Billy Ray. This is the result of three years’ research from none other than top space boffin Stephen Hawking.
“I have used Mach’s principle, quantum cosmology, all three Newtonian laws, gauge theories in elementary particle physics, the Hamiltonian theory of Einstein’s gravitational field, quantum theory of covariant systems, and quantum geometrodynamics, de Broglie-Bohm versions of quantum mechanics, quantum scattering (foundations and the role of the quantum flux), Bohmian mechanics, covariant geometrodynamics and an abacus. But I have to say I can find no law in the universe that can explain why on earth Miley Cyrus, Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana are so blooming successful.” said the cleverest man ever to speak through the use of an eyebrow and a computer.
Miley Cyrus: ‘Nick Jonas Stopped Me From Going Mad’
Miley Cyrus has publicly thanked her good friend Nick Jonas from the Jonas Brothers for helping her deal with the death of a close pal.
While on tour last year, the Hannah Montana star received news that her best friend had died at the age of 12 after losing a battle against cystic fibrosis.
Feeling guilty because she was unable to pay her respects, Miley’s rumoured boyfriend Nick became her knight in shining armour and helped her on the road to emotional recovery.
She says: “Last year I lost one of my closest friends to cystic fibrosis. She was almost 13 and she passed away while I was on tour so I couldn’t go back home when it happened.
“I kind of went crazy. I couldn’t understand why it had happened and I was really upset.
“I was touring with the Jonas Brothers and Nick said I had to pull myself together and he was right because I was going mad.”
Miley has reportedly been wearing a diabetes dog tag recently to help higlight the condition which Nick suffers from. Click here to read more about it.
Cyrus Making Miley Official
Miley Cyrus apparently has enough to do keeping two names straight, let alone three.
The Hannah Montana star, who was born Destiny Hope Cyrus, is looking to make Miley Ray Cyrus—basically, what everyone knows her by—her legal name.
Parents Billy Ray and Leticia Cyrus filed the papers Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court on their daughter’s behalf. The petition states that Cyrus wants to “make her commonly used name the same as her legal name.”
They will also have to publish a public notice of her name change in order to make it official, per documents first obtained by TMZ. Cyrus first talked about legally changing her name in January.
The 15-year-old TV and pop star has said that her adopted first name originates from a nickname her dad gave her as a baby, “Smiley Miley.”
And the rest is Disney Channel history.
Father and daughter are set to begin filming this spring on The Hannah Montana Movie, but first they’ll host the 2008 CMT Awards in Nashville on April 14.
The Cyruses also both appeared in the box office-topping 3D concert film Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour, the companion movie to Cyrus’ frequently sold-out Best of Both Worlds tour, which had to tack on 14 more dates than originally planned to accommodate frenzied demand.
Miley Cyrus Welcomes Pet Rabbit Jack
On what was a beautiful Sunday in Los Angeles, California, Miley Cyrus spent the morning and afternoon enjoying time with her family.
First off, the Cyrus gang headed to Montrose Church - where a playful Miley was spotted swatting away at a family friend with her palm tree leaf.
After the service, the group visited a nearby pet store and bought a rabbit, which they cleverly named Jack. Tish and Miley then dropped Billy Ray off at home before going to the mall for lunch and some shopping at Tuso.
And after piling up the bags (no wonder Billy Ray wanted to go home first!), the mother and daughter duo grabbed up coffees and posed with a few fans before making their way back home.
Miley Cyrus Debuts YouTube Show, Dances to Janet
Miley Cyrus is the star of her own hit Disney show Hannah Montana – but the teen queen also debuted an online video dubbed The Miley & Mandy Show on YouTube Sunday.
In the nearly 5-minute clip, Cyrus and her friend, Mandy Jiroux, a dancer on the Best of Both Worlds Tour, are seen laughing, dancing to Janet Jackson’s “Feedback,” doing hand-stands, reading magazines and mugging for the camera.
“Welcome to the premiere of The Miley & Mandy Show,” the girls, dressed casually in t-shirts and sweats, say together multiple times at the beginning, before they begin to laugh, dance and later make faces into the camera.
The clip ends with a list of credits, citing “Miley & Mandy” for hair and makeup, wardrobe, lighting and craft services. The set, which appears to be in a home, is provided by Miley. They also thank the Jonas Brothers for use of two of their songs.
And the award goes to … Miley Cyrus
Leading by example is certainly a valuable concept in life. Consider a work environment. Most employees of any business are made to believe that there is no “I” in team and that everyone is expected to pull his or her own weight. If this is the case, you best believe I won’t be washing a sink full of dishes while my lazy manager sits on the back office computer doing “administrative” work. Honey, we all know you’re playing tetris.
Now, someone who has put themselves in a supposed “leadership position” should anticipate such rebellion and refusal when others are forced to pick up their slack. But I’m rather perplexed as to when exactly we began looking up to those in the media industry as role models.
“Hannah Montana” star Miley Cyrus has been publicly criticized for failing to wear a seatbelt in a scene from her new film “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour.” Naturally, she’s been accused of setting a bad example for her young fans.
Its funny, I was under the assumption that the parents should be role models for their children. Instead, in this backwards society of blame and shame, we single out a 15-year-old singer/actress as being the needle of the moral compass for right and wrong. I’m sure somewhere right now, a young child has gotten into her mother’s mini-van and has intentionally neglected to fasten up because Hannah Montana demonstrated that “it’s cool” not to. You know, because an eight-year-old really thinks about that kind of thing. Granted, it would be a totally different story if she were an avid advocate for automobile safety or something to that effect.
But the truth is, she didn’t sign up for that. She is simply a child star who was caught on film doing something millions of others do every day. Does that make it wise? Not really. Is it safe? No. Are her decisions anybody’s business? Absolutely not. Perhaps the most ludicrous thing about this situation is the hypocrisy of those who have put her on some sort of pedestal and now scorn her for being human. Basically, people are sending the message that a role model must be perfect and the second that person shows a lapse of judgment, they’re a bad example.
Miley Cyrus Plays Host
Fresh off her latest gig as an Oscar presenter, Miley Cyrus is ready to try her hand at hosting an awards show.
The Hannah Montana star and her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will serve as cohosts of the 2008 CMT Music Awards, organizers announced Tuesday. In addition, the father-daughter duo will also perform at the Apr. 14 event.
“Miley and I are so excited to be hosting the CMT Music Awards,” Billy Ray Cyrus said in a statement. “We know it will be a fun-filled night with a lot of great music performances.”
The seventh annual awards ceremony, taking place at Belmont University’s Curb Event Center in Nashville, will also feature performances from Carrie Underwood, Sugarland, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, Alan Jackson and Toby Keith, among others.
Miley, 15, recently wrapped up her sold-out Best of Both Worlds tour, on which she performed both as herself, and as her alter ego, Hannah Montana.
On the heels of her wildly popular tour, she scored the number-one movie in the country with the release of her 3D concert film, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour.
Up ahead, both Cyruses are due to begin production on The Hannah Montana Movie, which is slated to start filming this spring.