No More Achy Breaky Heart: Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley Are Getting Married
On paper, it never made sense.
A mulleted country star from Kentucky and a British actress-model who once defined 1990s glamour in a Versace safety-pin dress. Yet here we are: sources confirm to Page Six that Billy Ray Cyrus, 65, has proposed to Elizabeth Hurley, 61, and she said yes.
The pair have been quietly building a life together for more than a year. They first crossed paths in 2022 while filming the holiday movie *Christmas in Paradise* on the Caribbean island of Nevis. Chemistry flickered, then faded as they went their separate ways. In early 2025, during a difficult stretch in Cyrus’s personal life, Hurley reached out as a friend. That message turned into something more. By Easter Sunday 2025 they were Instagram-official, posting a sweet photo of Cyrus kissing her on the cheek.
What followed surprised even them. Hurley has spoken openly about how little the outside world understood their connection. “There are a lot more similarities than you’d think,” she told the *SheerLuxe* podcast recently, laughing about their matching hair and shared love of country living — his Tennessee farm, her place in Gloucestershire. They watch birds of prey. They prefer quiet nights. The supposed odd couple turned out to be two people who simply fit.
This week the clues became impossible to ignore. On Monday, Hurley posted behind-the-scenes selfies from the first day of filming Season 2 of *The ’Burbs*. She wore a white bathrobe and a very large diamond on the ring finger of her left hand. In the second photo she deliberately turned her hand so the stone caught the light. A source dryly noted, “She’s filming *The ’Burbs*; I hardly think this ring is a prop.”
Three days later Cyrus posted a photo of himself with Mark Collie’s song “Something with a Ring to It” playing in the background. The caption ended with the line: “Kinda has a ring 💍 to it.” Hurley’s 24-year-old son Damian responded with a party-face emoji. The internet did the rest.
If they walk down the aisle, it will be Cyrus’s fourth marriage and Hurley’s second. He has six children, including Miley, Noah, and Braison from his long marriage to Tish Cyrus. Hurley has her son Damian, whom she shares with the late Steve Bing. Both have lived very public lives, collected a few scars, and somehow found each other later than most people expect to start over.
There is something quietly hopeful about it. Two people who have already done the big, dramatic chapters of life — the fame, the divorces, the tabloid storms — choosing each other without apology. No grand red-carpet announcement yet. Just a diamond that refuses to stay hidden, a ring emoji, and a son’s celebratory emoji in the comments.
For a relationship that began as a surprising friendship on a Christmas-movie set, it feels like the most natural next step in the world.
