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'Hannah Montana' set turmoil: Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus want out
By Stone Martindale Sep 20, 2008, 20:14 GMT

01/17/2008 - Billy Ray Cyrus - wants he and Miley out of their Hannah Montana contracts...© Chris Hatcher / PR Photos
Disney and the Father-daughter Cyrus team of "Hannah Montana" are warring over their contracts.
TMZ.com reports that Miley is attempting to get "fired," and wants to focus on "singing and not the show."
Father and co-star Billy Ray has allegedly expressed his desire to sever ties with the Disney cable show. TMZ claims "the father-daughter team has been showing up to the set ridiculously late, stalling production and infuriating cast and crew."
Actress Emily Osment (Lilly Truscott) has become embittered, according to TMZ, and is turning away from Miley after each scene. Emily's father allegedly"got in a screaming match with Billy Ray, complaining he and Miley were unprofessional."
TMZ claims that the days are numbered according to Billy Ray, who allegedly claims he and Miley will do twelve more episodes and then they are done.
Disney allegedly was angered; TMZ claims they called his agent insisting that Billy Ray and Miley not only finish the twenty-four episode season, but an added six more episodes too.
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Honey, you don't want to shoot the golden goose. I know, seems like a nice stuffed bit of goose would make a tasty dinner, but that's just one meal sweetheart. Disney made you--they might not break you, but the public has turned on Billy Ray before ... don't think they won't do it again, and his overly bratty daughter.
Absolutely 100% true story.
um, alex? hate to break it to you, but tmz broke the story of mel gibson's d.u.i. and helped put the gossip website on the map. they further cemented their status as a gossip source -- albeit trashy tabloid -- by first airing the michael richards racist comedy club rant.
it bugs me when people dimiss them like that. but that's not the point.
the point _is_: this is what happens when you sell your soul to the devil (in this case, the walt disney company). those phony, secretly jewish jonas boys (aka 'the jonas brothers') are disgusting SELL OUTS!!!!!!! they were flying under the radar doing their own thing when disney noticed them and made them an offer they couldn't refuse. sell out your artistic integrity for a higher awareness level. they lost A_all_ respect and are doing crap like fluff 'camp rock' and _forced_ to tell a phony and see-through stunt like 'purity rings'. hanson, in the mid-'90s did it aaaaall on their own. and i respect them for it. those jonas boys are dirt.
These two degenerates don't care if they get fired. The Daddy/Pimp with just put the little trollop on a street corner in downtown L.A. until she is too loose for american customers and then sell her to a brothel over in Hong Kong.
macshill -
Don't bring the Jonas Brothers into it. Anyone who listened to them before they signed with Disney (there are thousands of us) know that they wore purity rings before they signed. It is something Disney would have preferred to see them do away with, because it's controversial...but they won't.
As for the secretly Jewish comment...it is beyond ignorant. If they were Jewish, what would be wrong with that? Since they aren't, it is obnoxious to say they are pretending to be something they are not. Again, those of us who knew them when, know that they are
Furthermore, Disney executives are actually allowing them more creative freedom than they had on the extremely lame Sony/Columbia label. Being a successful artist has a lot to do with getting people to see and hear what you do...so it's not selling out, it's success. But go ahead and admire people who are less successful, if that's your thing. Otherwise, think about not speaking up about things you know very little about.
Hannah Montana would not have a career without Disney. She won't have much of one if they fire her from her show and drop her from their label. Not very smart.
You would have to be dumber than dirt to believe this silliness. Like Miley or Billy Ray would try to ruin their professional relatioship with the company that produces her music, tv, and future movie projects (one of which was just announced), and that went a long way towards reviving his career.
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AlexSep 20th, 2008 - 21:01:49
You're listening to TMZ? They've got a worst record for the truth than Perez Hilton. Miley just signed a deal to star in the new Nicholas Sparks movie. She wants to do acting and singing. Emily and Miley were seen out shopping together not even a month ago. This story is just completely untrue. Why even report it? Anyone with a brain can see that it's false. Sources, spies? That's what you're going on? None of this is true.
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