Billy Ray Cyrus has been single since he filed for divorce from Firerose in June 2024. His marriage to Firerose was a huge mess which only lasted eight months, and after he filed for divorce, they’ve both been lobbing some truly bonkers accusations against each other. Billy Ray’s kids are not on his side, and Billy Ray has also gone full MAGA, performing at one of Donald Trump’s inaugural balls in January. Between the divorce and his MAGA politics, I thought Billy Ray would probably be persona non grata for most women. But then over the Easter holiday, Billy Ray and Elizabeth Hurley did a hard-launch on their new relationship??
Talk about an eggcellent surprise. On Easter Sunday, and three years after they filmed the movie Christmas in Paradise, Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus are proving that they are more than just former costars. The Austin Powers actress and country star shared a joint Instagram post April 20 showing him kissing her as the two lean against a wooden fence on a farm.
Miley Cyrus’ dad, who has a farm in Tennessee, wore a blue denim shirt, striped pants and a pair of green bunny ears in the pic. Elizabeth, who sported a blue plaid button-down shirt, jeans and straw hat, captioned the post, “Happy Easter,” adding a red heart emoji.
Billy Ray, 63, and the Royals alum, 59, offered no further remarks on the nature of their relationship or their photo. E! News has reached out to their reps for comment and has not heard back.
The post took many fans, including fellow celebs, by surprise. As Little House on the Prairie alum Melissa Gilbert put it in the comments section, “Wait….what?”
Keep in mind, Billy Ray isn’t even divorced from Firerose yet. I don’t think they’re anywhere near settling their divorce. And I guess we have a growing body of evidence that Liz Hurley has terrible taste in men, my god. Just decades of having a bad picker. Anyway, I have no idea what any of this is about, but it’s definitely the weirdest hard launch of the month.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Instagram.
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- Billy Ray Cyrus Keep Memory Alive Honors NEIL DIAMOND At 24th Annual “Power Of Love” Gala 2020 MGM Grand Garden Arena MGM Grand Hotel & Casino Las Vegas,Nv March 7, 2020,Image: 563893522, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Arlene Richie/JPI Studios/Avalon
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- BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 02: Elizabeth Hurley attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 02, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.,Image: 976293895, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Elizabeth Hurley, Credit line: Jeffrey Mayer/Avalon
Never in a million years would have picked these two as a couple.
I did a double take thinking this was an April Fool’s joke!
Same! He’s so gross. Looks like he hasn’t showered in a decade. Must be a joke.
Me neither!
The only couple I can think of that was less likely was this one: https://www.celebitchy.com/821197/bill_murray_72_is_reportedly_dating_kelis_43_theyre_meeting_up_in_london/
Terrible picker is a euphemism for anyone getting involved with BRC.
Like, what?!!!!!!
Is Liz poor? Does Billy Ray even have any money?
I was thinking the same thing that Kaiser said about Liz Hurley’s being a bad picker. Maybe she thinks she can help him.
Maybe she just wants publicity and wants to be on the 24-Hour Gossip Cycle for a while.
Think about it, Elizabeth has not been prominent in the news for awhile and has no projects to promote.
BAYTAMPABAY That is genius. That probably is why.
The ONLY thing she seems to have going is perpetual bikini shots in The Fail (done by HER SON!! 🤮). Guess this her latest stab at being in the limelight. What’s the saying: “ANY publicity is better than NO publicity”? Yeah, hard no.
If it’s not an April Fools joke than she’s gotta have early onset Alzheimer’s, right?
A recent TBI?
Alien abduction & returned to earth with her brain removed?
Oh, NO.
😆
Ew. He is a maga trump supporter. That’s a no.
I second Melissa Gilbert’s reaction: wait…what? Hugh Grant really did a number on her self esteem, didn’t he? Even decades later (I know they’re close and he’s her son’s godfather, but still…). Run, don’t walk, Liz! Run!
I don’t think this can be blamed on Hugh Grant. She’s responsible for her (horrible) choices.
Oh, absolutely, her decisions are her own. I just meant with everything she went through from that relationship, not to mention how young she was and that they were together for yeeeeaaars, how could it not have an impact?
OK, I can be amused by this.
Nailed it! With everything else going on right now, I will take my giggles where and when they show up.
Same! Ben Affleck truly let humanity down, I am here for these two being amusing. Bring it on! This is going to be ridiculous.
This is a gossip genie coming through for us. Such a wonderfully delicious pairing. It’s going to be glorious when it goes down.
It’s exactly what we need.
I saw the pic and thought she had come out as a lesbian and was happy for her until I read the comments. ewwww
I thought the same thing!
I’m so superficial but my first thought was OMG she’s so pretty…. why is she with him? ahh he’s so gross.
What in the achey-breaky hell is this??
LOL!
His last ex wife accused him of being terrible to her, including abuse. What is Hurley doing
As Queen Helena from The Royals would say “walk away”! Yuck.
Her….? And him?? I did NOT see that coming.
She does strike me as a dyed-in-the-wool Tory though.
Oh she’s definitely a dyed-in-the-wool Tory and monarchist. Seen her pic at several royal and royal adjacent events. And I definitely know she has met Chuck & Egg on more than 1 occasion and been quite enamoured
She’s a bit of an odd one to me. She’s known for her, admittedly freaking amazing, body and her bikini pics.
But look at pics of her at British society events. She’s always covered up and dressed like a granny. Usually a pink sequinned 80’s style number (and I’m not just thinking of just breast cancer charity events)
High Grant, Tom Sizemore, Steve Bing, Matthew Perry, Shane Warne. Whom has Elizabeth dated who did not have a drug or alcohol addiction issue?
Ok, now it makes sense. But still, what?
Is Hugh Grant an alcoholic or addict? I never heard that.
Hugh Grant was very drunk when he was arrested for lewd behavior in 1995.
He’d been drinking heavily when he was busted for lewd public behaviour with Divine Brown, giving him a beej in his car.
Not for nothing, that really was the glory days of gossip. Just the Leno interview alone was delicious.
I think her ex-husband Arun Nayar is the only one we’ve never heard of having a substance abuse problem?
She either has the worst taste in the world (was her father awful or something?) or this is a very calculated way to stay relevant. Kardashian-style any PR is good PR.
Calculated. Says it all.
That is literally the only thing that makes sense to me.
And he’s exactly the same. They very much deserve each other, and I’m happy to laugh at their (relatively harmless) ridiculousness.
Skimming past everything to just post “Ewwww.” That said, I hope they are happy together, even if I will undoubtedly know more about this relationship than I ever care to.
I think she wants attention and this is a way of getting it. Billy Ray Cyrus though????? It speaks to me of desperation.
Ewwww
Why, Liz, WHY? Ick. Ick. Ick.
That’s a shame.
If it wasn’t for the cleavage, I wouldn’t be able to tell who was which.
He’s not even really kissing her, but I am still grossed out. Like, really wretching. Gurl, what ARE you doing!?!? You — a Londoner — are gonna hang out in Tennessee with some unbathed guy who wears troubadour pants? :: shudder ::
I’m gonna say something nice! At least this is not an “age gap” romance! FWIW, she and Billy Ray were costars in an awful looking Xmas movie a few years back so it’s not like she just met the guy, she must have some inkling of his character and it just doesn’t bother her.
So, she saw him perform for Trump & said yes that’s what I want??
This is such a random pairing. At first I was like how do they even know each other??? But it looks like they did a Christmas movie a few years ago? I remember when she was with Arun Nayar back in the day and she seemed very settled with him. I don’t know why they divorced but they are still friends.
I’m surprised she’s okay with dating a MAGA dude. Good luck to her I guess? At least her son is no longer a minor and doesn’t need to spend time around Billy Ray if he doesn’t want to.
So she’s cosplaying a country girl complete with:
– straw hat, CHECK
– braids, CHECK
– blue jeans, CHECK
– country fence, CHECK
Now I know what this reminds me of! Gwen Stefani going full-on country girl for Blake Shelton who doesn’t have a sterling reputation either — party guy, heavy drinker, messy divorces!
This is SHOCKING
Someone said success,celebrity and fame is hard to get and even harder to hang on to. Both of them hanging on for the free publicity we are generously providing here.