Elizabeth Hurley hoping for 'great life' with Billy Ray Cyrus
Elizabeth Hurley hopes to have a "great life" with Billy Ray Cyrus.
The 59-year-old star recently shocked fans when she revealed she was dating the 'Achy Breaky Heart' hitmaker and though she admitted their romance was "unexpected", she's looking forward to their future together.
She told E! News: 'It was unexpected. But we're very happy together. And hopefully we'll have a great life.'
Elizabeth turns 60 next month and she's looking forward to celebrating the milestone with her new beau.
She said: 'I always leave things to chance, I like birthdays though.
'I like getting presents, I like getting flowers, I like everyone being nice to me for a day. So, whatever we do will be fun.'
The 'Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery' star's comments come after 63-year-old musician Billy praised Elizabeth as a "great human being".
He recently told their romance has evolved, recalling how they met while filming 2022's 'Christmas in Paradise' movie.
In a clip from 'The Ty Bentli Show', Billy Ray said: "We did very few scenes together but the couple times we were in the same scene there was a chemistry there. We just laughed, and it was at a time I wasn't laughing a lot.
"The oddest part was first, how much we laughed. Second, I figured we were so different but in some very strange way we had way more in common than we had different.
"If all we ever were [is] the friends that we are, I would take that. She's so impressively brilliant. She reminds me a lot of Dolly Parton. She's a very smart businesswoman.
"If you can laugh together, you can make it through everything."
While the pair met on the movie set, they didn't speak to each other for two years after shooting the film.
But Elizabeth re-entered Billy Ray's life when he needed a friend, following his split from wife Firerose.
He shared: "I felt like, 'Wow, can life get any harder? Can it get any tougher?' For me, at a certain point it was like, you can't get knocked down any flatter than laying on your back when life is kicking you. And in this moment ... a friend reached out."
Billy didn't recognise the number at first, so he text Elizabeth back.
He recalled: "I text back, I go, 'Who is this?' And it's like, 'Elizabeth Hurley.' Of all the people to reach out to me in that second that maybe I needed most ... this friend who made me laugh."
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Man of Many
13 hours ago
- Man of Many
5 Things We Learned About the Next ‘James Bond' Game: 007 First Light
By Dean Blake - News Published: 7 June 2025 |Last Updated: 5 June 2025 Share Copy Link Readtime: 5 min The Lowdown: 007 First Light | Image: IO Interactive Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. At a time that we've been waiting patiently for any news of when everybody's favourite secret agent will be making his next appearance on the big screen, Sony just went ahead and dropped a trailer for a brand new James Bond game. 007 First Light is a new take on the often reinterpreted character, clearly eschewing the book-and-film series' various canons to present a new origin story: one unique to this much younger version of Bond. Created by IO Interactive, the people behind the incredible Hitman series, 007 First Light looks particularly promising in a industry finally taking licensed games seriously. If you haven't seen the first trailer for the new James Bond game, check it out below. Looks pretty good, right? Well, there's a bit more packed in that 3 minutes that we can tease out with a bit of digging: so here's 5 things we learned about 007 First Light. 1. Bond has a Backstory As a rule, Bond's backstory is usually pretty muddy. He's a secret agent, after all, and tends to keep his history pretty close to his chest. First Light seems to be taking things pretty closely from Ian Fleming's original novels, with Bond joining the secret service following the deaths of his parents after a mountaineering accident. After a few years in the Navy, and a few too many run-ins with authority, Bond is headhunted by MI6 and begins his journey to become the infamous, charismatic agent we all know today. In First Light, we'll see that process play out and, in some ways, will get to determine what kind of agent this version of Bond is. 007 First Light | Image: IO Interactive 2. Free-Form Gameplay takes Centre Stage… Now, this may not be a surprise to those of us in the know given IO Interactive's pedigree, but 007 First Light is going to feature open-ended, mission-based gameplay. It's a third-person action-adventure, likely in a similar style to IO's Hitman series, where you'll be dropped into 'breathtaking locations' with a goal to accomplish, and decide yourself how you'll proceed. Is your James Bond a silent assassin, keeping to shadows and eliminating guards as they pass his hiding place? Or is he more of a 'shoot first, sneak later' kind of agent? Or, does he aim to keep the body-count low, using gadgets to infiltrate or his natural British charm to bluff his way past potential encounters? I'd honestly think it was just the kind of overpromising many developers are prone to do at a game's announcement, only to reel it back in as you get closer to release, but this is IO Interactive. If any developer can nail the kind of free-form infiltrating a game like this requires, it's the team behind Hitman. I'm very hopeful. 007 First Light | Image: IO Interactive 3. …but Narrative is a Star Player A focus on gameplay doesn't mean the game's story gets thrown to the wayside, though. In First Light, Bond will be tracking down a rogue agent—009, specifically—who, according to MI6, is a master manipulator with an end-game they likely won't see coming. Why send an unproven, unreliable wannabe agent to track down a skilled defector? If 009 is as intelligent as MI6 thinks, they probably know everything the other 00 agents will do to track them down and can avoid them, but Bond is an unknown, a wild card, and likely MI6's best chance at tracking its former agent down. While we don't have much idea of what to expect from the story of 007 First Light, it's clearly going to be a particularly cinematic one, with IO Interactive likely relishing the chance to write a more charismatic and talkative character (no shade to Agent 47, of course). 007 First Light | Image: IO Interactive 4. There are a Ton of Classic Bond Goodies in the Trailer Bond has always been tied to real-world products, from his signature appreciation of cars and watches (especially when they're deadly weapons in their own right) to his love of Vesper Martinis, shaken, not stirred. In the 3 minutes and 14 seconds of trailer footage seen so far, we spotted a whole bunch of Omega watches, including an unreleased model, as well as the fact the man himself is driving an Aston Martin again—probably the Aston Martin V8. These are all undoubtedly geared up to the extreme by Q, with Bond seen accidentally kicking off a hidden thruster on a nearby dirt bike with the press of a button, and are likely to play a key role in the new agent's success in tracking down his mark. I honestly can't wait to cruise around in a Bond car, especially if there are hidden machine guns or something. 5. It's Coming in 2026 While we'll be learning more about the game in the coming months, we know it's set for launch in 2026. And, while it was shown at PlayStation's State of Play, and all the focus was on its launch on Sony's platform, 007 First Light is also coming to Xbox Series S/X, Steam, Epic Games, and the newly-released Nintendo Switch 2. 2026 is already looking pretty stacked for great games, with The Duskbloods, Saros, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Nioh 3, Fable, and, obviously, Grand Theft Auto 6 set to launch (not to mention a potential Elder Scrolls 6). Now, we've got one more reason to look forward to next year.
The Advertiser
18 hours ago
- The Advertiser
Miley Cyrus' parents thought she'd end up at Hooters
Miley Cyrus' parents thought she would end up working at Hooters. The 32-year-old pop megastar - who is the daughter of Achy Breaky Heart singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his ex-wife Tish Cyrus - recalled having such a "sexual instinct" in her youth that her mother and father always assumed that she would become a waitress at the restaurant chain famed for dressing its workforce in provocative outfits. Speaking on the Every Single Album podcast, she said: "My mum ... wasn't like 'Get out there...', she was like 'This is what she wants to do, this is a lot better than what a lot of teenager want to be...' "I think my parents always thought I was going to work at Hooters. I actually know for a fact they thought I was going to work at Hooters because of the way I acted as a child. "I can say this, but I always had a very sexual instinct, even as a kid. I was always just trying to get naked in Cracker Barrel." The Easy Lover hitmaker shot to fame in her early teens when she took on the title role of the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana, and explained that being a celebrity has given her more "boundaries" to consider because she is constantly being watched by the rest of the world. She added: "That's when Mum stopped making me go to church, she was like 'We're not going to church anymore because we always follow church with Cracker Barrel and something in the sermon sets you off!' "This is not me deflecting or anything, this is me being dead-ass serious, I think my mum was like 'I have two options and neither of them are very good, but one of them, she'll make a lot more money. "I actually have a lot more boundaries by being famous because everything that you do is speculated on, so there is structure there." Miley Cyrus' parents thought she would end up working at Hooters. The 32-year-old pop megastar - who is the daughter of Achy Breaky Heart singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his ex-wife Tish Cyrus - recalled having such a "sexual instinct" in her youth that her mother and father always assumed that she would become a waitress at the restaurant chain famed for dressing its workforce in provocative outfits. Speaking on the Every Single Album podcast, she said: "My mum ... wasn't like 'Get out there...', she was like 'This is what she wants to do, this is a lot better than what a lot of teenager want to be...' "I think my parents always thought I was going to work at Hooters. I actually know for a fact they thought I was going to work at Hooters because of the way I acted as a child. "I can say this, but I always had a very sexual instinct, even as a kid. I was always just trying to get naked in Cracker Barrel." The Easy Lover hitmaker shot to fame in her early teens when she took on the title role of the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana, and explained that being a celebrity has given her more "boundaries" to consider because she is constantly being watched by the rest of the world. She added: "That's when Mum stopped making me go to church, she was like 'We're not going to church anymore because we always follow church with Cracker Barrel and something in the sermon sets you off!' "This is not me deflecting or anything, this is me being dead-ass serious, I think my mum was like 'I have two options and neither of them are very good, but one of them, she'll make a lot more money. "I actually have a lot more boundaries by being famous because everything that you do is speculated on, so there is structure there." Miley Cyrus' parents thought she would end up working at Hooters. The 32-year-old pop megastar - who is the daughter of Achy Breaky Heart singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his ex-wife Tish Cyrus - recalled having such a "sexual instinct" in her youth that her mother and father always assumed that she would become a waitress at the restaurant chain famed for dressing its workforce in provocative outfits. Speaking on the Every Single Album podcast, she said: "My mum ... wasn't like 'Get out there...', she was like 'This is what she wants to do, this is a lot better than what a lot of teenager want to be...' "I think my parents always thought I was going to work at Hooters. I actually know for a fact they thought I was going to work at Hooters because of the way I acted as a child. "I can say this, but I always had a very sexual instinct, even as a kid. I was always just trying to get naked in Cracker Barrel." The Easy Lover hitmaker shot to fame in her early teens when she took on the title role of the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana, and explained that being a celebrity has given her more "boundaries" to consider because she is constantly being watched by the rest of the world. She added: "That's when Mum stopped making me go to church, she was like 'We're not going to church anymore because we always follow church with Cracker Barrel and something in the sermon sets you off!' "This is not me deflecting or anything, this is me being dead-ass serious, I think my mum was like 'I have two options and neither of them are very good, but one of them, she'll make a lot more money. "I actually have a lot more boundaries by being famous because everything that you do is speculated on, so there is structure there." Miley Cyrus' parents thought she would end up working at Hooters. The 32-year-old pop megastar - who is the daughter of Achy Breaky Heart singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his ex-wife Tish Cyrus - recalled having such a "sexual instinct" in her youth that her mother and father always assumed that she would become a waitress at the restaurant chain famed for dressing its workforce in provocative outfits. Speaking on the Every Single Album podcast, she said: "My mum ... wasn't like 'Get out there...', she was like 'This is what she wants to do, this is a lot better than what a lot of teenager want to be...' "I think my parents always thought I was going to work at Hooters. I actually know for a fact they thought I was going to work at Hooters because of the way I acted as a child. "I can say this, but I always had a very sexual instinct, even as a kid. I was always just trying to get naked in Cracker Barrel." The Easy Lover hitmaker shot to fame in her early teens when she took on the title role of the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana, and explained that being a celebrity has given her more "boundaries" to consider because she is constantly being watched by the rest of the world. She added: "That's when Mum stopped making me go to church, she was like 'We're not going to church anymore because we always follow church with Cracker Barrel and something in the sermon sets you off!' "This is not me deflecting or anything, this is me being dead-ass serious, I think my mum was like 'I have two options and neither of them are very good, but one of them, she'll make a lot more money. "I actually have a lot more boundaries by being famous because everything that you do is speculated on, so there is structure there."
Perth Now
a day ago
- Perth Now
Jana Kramer speaks out after her husband claimed he would 'never' allow her to do sex scenes
Jana Kramer has insisted her husband "was joking" when he said he had forbidden her from filming sex scenes. The 41-year-old actress has been married to soccer coach Allan Russell since 2024, and even though he previously claimed he wouldn't allow her to appear on camera in any intimate scenes, she has now insisted that there is simply a "conversation" they have before she accepts any sort of acting job. She told E! News: "He was joking. "There's a conversation with every [job] we take. It's the same thing with his line of work. "That's what marriage is—it's a conversation. It's not like, 'No, you cannot do this.' I don't think that's healthy." However, the former One Tree Hill star - who has two-year-old son Roman with Allan as well as Jolie, nine, and six-year-old Jace with ex-husband Mike Caussin - explained that she will not be undressing on camera for "no reason" and that it would all have to be for something "creatively" challenging. She said: "I'm not going to do something that is wildly taking my clothes off for no reason. "If it is creatively gonna move the needle and it's important to me for the role, he is so supportive." What's more, Jana - who was initially married to Michael Gambino and then to Johnathon Schaech - insisted that her current husband is the reason behind the newfound "confidence" she has in her career. She said: "I do owe a lot of it to my husband. "In the past I wouldn't have focused so much on the work because I was so worried about, 'OK, what woman is he cheating on me with?' I wasn't able to truly settle and be confident." Despite Jana's new comments on her husband, he previously insisted that he would "never" let another man get close to her. Speaking to his wife on her Whine Down podcast, he said: 'There's not part of me that will ever, ever, ever allow that, ever, for a man to be that close to you like that. 'Never.'
