Miley Cyrus has revealed the considerably weird method she ended up enlisting “Name Her Daddy” podcaster Alex Cooper to host the brand new “Hannah Montana twentieth Anniversary Particular,” joking that she had little alternative however to signal her up—as a result of the 2 are neighbors in Los Angeles.
Cyrus, 33, who shot to fame whereas starring because the precocious pop star within the hit collection, is because of return to her roots in a brand new Disney+ particular that may see her opening up about her experiences filming the present, whereas additionally revealing never-before-seen footage.
Whereas the anniversary particular options appearances from a number of company—together with Cyrus’ dad and mom, Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus—it was Cooper, 31, who was referred to as upon to interview the singer and actress about her favourite “Hannah Montana” reminiscences.
Now, Cyrus has shed some mild on how that collaboration got here to be, taking to the stage on the premiere for the particular, which started streaming on Disney+ on March 24, and jokingly branding Cooper “creepy” for her over-the-top dedication to “Hannah Montana” and her determination to maneuver so near the singer’s Los Angeles abode.
“I referred to as [Alex] with this wild concept,” Cyrus recalled. “[I said], ‘Do you suppose it might be a good suggestion to do a ‘Hannah Montana’ anniversary particular?’ However as a result of I used to be in the midst of it, as a result of I used to be Hannah, I did not know what you all would need.
“And Alex being a superfan—[which is] kinda creepy!—she can also be my neighbor, which can also be creepy. She obtained cash after which she moved subsequent door to me.”
Cyrus famous that, after studying how shut Cooper lived to her, she had little alternative however to ask her to host the particular, including: “There was no different host, I used to be like, simply stroll subsequent door.”
Nevertheless, the “Hannah Montana” star didn’t finish her mockery there—happening to accuse Cooper of feigning innocence in regards to the proximity of their properties.
“It was bizarre, she was like, ‘Oh my god, you reside right here?'” Cyrus stated. “She interviewed me at my home, like 5 years in the past, so [she] knew rattling nicely the place I used to be!”
Cyrus was referring to her August 2020 look on Cooper’s hit podcast, “Name Her Daddy,” which was recorded at her Studio Metropolis abode—with the 2 girls sitting exterior within the yard whereas discussing all the things from the singer’s cut up from Hemsworth to her reminiscences about “Hannah Montana.”
Regardless of Cyrus’ ribbing of Cooper, the 2 don’t actually stay subsequent door to 1 one other, however reasonably a three-minute drive aside in Studio Metropolis—the neighborhood the place the songstress bought her first house in 2011, when she was nonetheless a young person.
The chart-topper paid $3.9 million for her sprawling 5,000-square-foot dwelling, which provided 5 bedrooms and 7 bogs. She nonetheless owns the place to this present day, regardless of including a number of different properties to her portfolio within the years since.
In a earlier itemizing for the house, it was described as being situated in an “astonishingly stunning setting” atop a hill, a spot that afforded it “lush canyon vistas.”
When Cyrus bought it, the midcentury trendy dwelling had lately undergone an intensive renovation that noticed it taken all the way down to the studs after which “reimagined” to create “the proper celeb hideaway.”
Though she later moved right into a dwelling in Malibu along with her then-partner, Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus is known to have relocated again to her Studio Metropolis abode when their house was diminished to ash within the 2018 Woolsey Hearth, mere weeks earlier than the duo tied the knot.
Cyrus would later describe the hearth as a key turning level in her life, one which she stated made her a lot clearer about what was essential—and what wasn’t.
“When my home burned down, that was the most important blessing I’ve ever had in my life, really,” she stated at a Q&A session in New York in Might 2025.
“Shedding all the things and having the ability to rebuild, and to have the ability to be purposeful and select every bit that I’m gonna acquire—or additionally simply in regards to the individuals in my life.”
Cyrus and Hemsworth, who wed in December 2018, had cut up by the summer season of 2019, and their divorce was finalized in 2020.
Not lengthy after information of their separation started to hit the headlines, Cyrus hinted at struggles of their marriage in her hit August 2019 music “Slide Away,” by which she confessed her want to stop Malibu and return to “the town lights.”
“So will not you slide away / Again to the ocean, I will return to the town lights,” she sang—a lyric that many interpreted as an indication she had solely moved out to Malibu due to Hemsworth’s want to stay there.
In the meantime, Cooper and her husband, film producer Matt Kaplan, snapped up their very own Studio Metropolis abode 11 years later, in 2022, once they plunked down a staggering $10.7 million for a 5,000-square-foot residence that sits on the coronary heart of a 1.5-acre parcel.
In accordance with Google Maps, Cooper and Kaplan’s dwelling is situated only a three-minute drive, or an 11-minute stroll, away from Cyrus’ abode, with each properties providing an unimaginable degree of privateness, regardless of their proximity to downtown L.A.
However whereas Cyrus’ dwelling was newly renovated when she bought it, Cooper and Kaplan confronted a really completely different homebuying expertise, one which noticed them snapping up a dwelling that they knew would require a significant transformation.
Certainly, Cooper beforehand admitted to Architectural Digest that the prospect of turning the house into their dream sanctuary was greater than just a little formidable to her.
“I used to be just a little overwhelmed by how a lot of an endeavor it will be, as a result of [the home] was not our fashion in any way,” she shared.
Nevertheless, she quickly realized that purchasing a house that was so removed from what they had been on the lookout for when it comes to its aesthetic was really a bonus—as a result of they might primarily deal with it like a clean canvas.
“That ended up being the sweetness [of it],”she defined. “It was so removed from our style that it allowed us to tailor each single room to our liking.”
Having created the proper dwelling to construct their life collectively, Kaplan cemented the property’s significance of their relationship in 2023 by getting down on one knee and popping the query to Cooper of their yard.
Certainly, the “Name Her Daddy” host ended up feeling so at house in her new Studio Metropolis neighborhood that she revealed in December 2024 that she had bought her dad and mom a dwelling not removed from her personal property.
“My dad and mom are formally transferring to Los Angeles and I purchased them a home,” the previous Barstool Sports activities star introduced. “It makes me emotional fascinated by it, as a result of after I began ‘Name Her Daddy,’ I had considerably of a imaginative and prescient of what I hoped this may flip into.”
