A perfect piece of news for a year when Easter falls on 4/20: Elizabeth Hurley is apparently dating…Billy Ray Cyrus? Okay! Either that, or she’s going to be in his next music video, and this is a purposeful tease for the collab.
The pair seemingly hard-launched with a mostly contextless Instagram post, and the responses were swift and confused. Here’s a full timeline of what we know:
April 20, 2025: Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus co-post a picture to Instagram in which Cyrus, wearing green animal ears, kisses Hurley on the cheek, and it’s captioned “Happy Easter ♥️.”
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Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert quickly became the voice of the people, commenting, “Wait….what?” while Hurley’s son, Damian, simply added, “🥳♥️.” A quick check on April 21 revealed that all three of them—Billy Ray, Elizabeth, and Damian—follow one another on the ’gram. So, that’s a piece of data.
What do these two have to talk about? Well, Cyrus raised eyebrows with his performance at President Trump’s inaugural “Liberty Ball,” the capper of a decline that saw the musician estranged from his kids and bad-mouthing both of his ex-wives. Hurley has thrown her support behind conservative British causes like Brexit, so there is…something…in common there?
2022: Thank you to the intrepid investigators at Us Weekly! The mystery of how these crazy kids met is quickly solved when the outlet unearths a flick called Christmas in Paradise starring Hurley, Cyrus, and Kelsey Grammer; it’s the sequel to Father Christmas Is Back, which you can watch on Netflix, if that’s something you want to do.
“The opportunity to work with Billy Ray, whom I’ve long been a fan of—my son was the age where he used to watch Hannah Montana all the time, so of course, I used to watch it with him,” Hurley said in an interview with MovieWeb when promoting the film. “I knew Billy Ray really well from that, and of course, some of his music. That was a big plus.”