Even the stars can’t resist admiring the latest issues of Us Weekly — just ask Billy Ray Cyrus.
“Saw this at Target ????,” Cyrus, 63, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, May 18, sharing a photo of the Us cover detailing his new romance with Elizabeth Hurley at a store in Franklin, Tennessee.
Cyrus also tagged Hurley, 59, on the image of the magazine. The cover story, released earlier this month, charted the origins of the couple’s unexpected, and now public, romance.
The “Achy Breaky Heart” singer and Hurley confirmed on Easter Sunday that they were an item, jointly uploading a PDA-filled photo to Instagram.
“We did a film two years ago down in the Caribbean and we did very few scenes together, but the couple times we were in the same scene,” Cyrus recalled on the April 24 episode of Apple Music’s Ty Bentli Show, referring to 2022’s Christmas in Paradise. “There was a chemistry there that [I] felt. We just laughed, and it was at a time [when] I wasn’t laughing a lot and I found out the oddest thing.”
Cyrus and Hurley, however, didn’t keep in touch when cameras wrapped.
“Then two more years of life went by, and it was this evolution that some might’ve looked at and certainly I felt like, ‘Wow, can life get any harder? Can it get any tougher for me?’” he added. “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 in the gut.’”
Hurley eventually reached out via text.
“I didn’t even know the number, and it’s like, ‘Hey, it looks like life might be a little bit tough and just wanted you to know I’m in your corner. You got a friend in your corner,’” Cyrus recalled, gushing that the British actress is “a great human being.”
He added, “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.”
A source further told Us that Cyrus and Hurley “bonded over life experiences” once they reconnected.
“They really understand each other and Liz is a very compassionate person, which Billy Ray adores,” the insider added at the time. “She has been spending time with him on his farm in Nashville and they both enjoy the low-key, nature-loving lifestyle. They have just been enjoying life together and wanted to make it public. They have nothing to hide and are very happy.”
Hurley clearly feels the same, telling Page Six earlier this month that she and Cyrus are “actually quite similar and get on extremely well.”
“We both like to laugh a lot, and we both love the country,” she gushed. “And we both love country music, both love movies. We’ve got a lot in common — and cowboy boots, definitely.”
This is Cyrus’ first relationship since his seven-month marriage to Firerose in 2023. He was previously married to Cindy Smith from 1986 to 1991 and to Tish Cyrus from 1993 to 2022. Billy Ray and Tish, 57, share five children. The Grammy winner also shares son Christopher with ex Kristin Luckey.
Hurley, meanwhile, was previously married to businessman Arun Nayar from 2008 to 2009, in addition to high-profile relationships with Hugh Grant and Shane Warne. She is also mom to son Damian, 23, from her brief romance with late producer Stephen Bing.
