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Billy Ray Cyrus Previews the CMT Music Awards | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/14/2008
If November's CMAs are the Oscars of country music, then the free and easy CMT Music Awards (tonight at 8 pm/ET) ? honoring country music videos ? are the Golden Globes. Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Sugarland and LeAnn Rimes perform at the Nashville event, along with hosts Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray, who phoned us from his home in Tennessee to discuss what's shaping up to be an awfully busy year for the Hannah Montana patriarch. TVGuide.com: Are you all ready to ... read more
CMT Awards Put Bighearted Fans on Red Carpet | Today's News: Our Take | 3/20/2008
It's not just about the music at this year's CMT Music Awards. Fans who sign up with the organization's CMT One Country program, which matches people with volunteer opportunities in their communities, will be entered to win a pair of tickets to the CMT Awards' sizzling red carpet. This year's event is likely to be one of the hottest ever, if the hosts are any indication: Father-daughter team Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus will be hosting, adding an extra superstar veneer to the already glossy... read more
Cyrus Takes Over Nashville and More News Briefs | Today's News: Our Take | 2/28/2008
Billy Ray Cyrus has been tapped to host the new season of Nashville Star, airing this summer.... TNT is airing "the best of Saving Grace" this Monday through Wednesday, from 10 to midnight/ET.... Reba McEntire will host the Academy of Country Music Awards for a 10th time, on May 18 on CBS.... Rossi Morreale (Foody Call...?) will host Can You Duet?, CMT's new music competition premiering April 14. read more
Team Cyrus to Host CMT Music Awards | Today's News: Our Take | 2/26/2008
Miley Cyrus and her father, Billy Ray, will host the 2008 CMT Music Awards, to be broadcast live on April 14 from Belmont University's Curb Event Center in Nashville. "Miley and I are so excited," Dad says in a statement. "We know it will be a fun-filled night with a lot of great music performances."Indeed, the seventh-annual kudosfest will feature performers such as Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Carrie (of course) Underwood, Sugarland, Taylor Swift and Toby Keith. Other acts will be announced in... read more
Miley’s Audition Tape for Hannah Montana | Today's Top Videos | 2/1/2008
Wow… what a difference three or so years can make for teen celebs. Here we have sweet, little twelve year-old Miley (actually looking her age in the first part of the video, sans make-up and hair stylist) auditioning for the lead role in Disney’s Hannah Montana. Even daddy Billy Ray gets in on the action with a little sing along and what you’d call a very unique secret handshake. Watch it now! | More online videos read more
Miley and Billy Ray’s Daddy-Daughter Duet | Today's Top Videos | 2/1/2008
Awww… Miley was such a cute little nugget. Let’s rewind back in time (don’t worry, not to Billy’s mullet-sportin’ days) to when Miley looked so precious and innocent. While holding a microphone she could barely wrap her mini hands around, she sang “Holding on to a Dream” with her dad. It must have been “bring your daughter to work day.”Your take: What do you think of little Miley's performance? read more
Del Toro to Helm Hobbit? And More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 1/28/2008
Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) is negotiating to direct New Line's Peter Jackson-produced two-movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, says the Reporter.... Best-actress Oscar nominee Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) is in talks to join Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in Public Enemies, Michael Mann's 1930s-set organized-crime drama.... Comedian Bill Engvall has signed on to Bait Shop, a fishing comedy starring Billy Ray Cyrus as Engvall's nemesis.... Julia Roberts... read more
Zac Efron Takes a Wife, and More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 10/24/2007
Leslie Mann (Knocked Up, 40-Year-Old Virgin) will play the wife of High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron in 17, a comedy about a grown man who finds himself back in high school.... More Disney-HSM goodness from the Reporter: Billy Ray Cyrus is pop to Olesya Rulin in Flying By, an indie about a businessman who pursues his dream of being in a rock band.... Jessica Biel will produce and star as a mysterious woman in the crime thriller Die a Little.... Kevin Costner is a dad disturbed by the... read more
Preview: Who Will Go? | Dancing with the Stars | 10/9/2007
This show is like The Godfather: Just when you thinkyou're out, they pull you back in. That's been the case with Season 2winner Drew Lachey filling in as cohost, and we've seen fellow Season 2alum Kenny Mayne back as well. And now we have the return of Season 4'sBilly Ray Cyrus, who will perform his latest hit single, "Ready, Set,Don't Go," on the results show. Oh, and he'll be singing the tunewith his daughter Miley, a.k.a. Hannah Montana, so just be glad you don'thave to pay $1,000 (or more!)... read more
Billy Ray Cyrus Goes Dancing with Daughter Miley | Today's News: Our Take | 10/3/2007
This just in from ABC:"Only Dancing with the Stars has the premiere duet performance of 'Ready, Set, Don't Go' by Season 4 alumnus and multiplatinum recording artist Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter, Miley Cyrus, both stars of the hit Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Father and daughter recently recorded the duet version of the single, which will be released to country radio stations immediately following their performance on the show. They will perform the song exclusively on Dancing with... read more
May 8, 2007: Happy Trails | Dancing With the Stars | 5/9/2007
Billy Ray said he was getting ready to appear on Jimmy Kimmel later tonight, and time preparing for that was not time wasted. Yes, it seemed like he had wanted to go for a few weeks now, yet I don’t think he ever gave up in this competition. He gave each performance his all; it’s just that ultimately that wasn’t good enough. But his effort was impressive, as was his charm. I’ll admit I was no Billy Ray Cyrus fan when this season of Dancing with the Stars started — I... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/9/2007
It was the first time that the grin was wiped off Joey Fatone's face. There was a gasp in the ballroom during Tuesday's read more
May 7, 2007: Daddy's Girl and Jessie's Girl | Dancing With the Stars | 5/8/2007
Emotions ran high on and off the dance floor last night, running the gamut from sentimental dedications to insults taken too personally. Let’s start with the good before we proceed to the bad and ugly. The guest we’ve been waiting for all season was finally in the audience: Muhammad Ali, on hand to support his daughter. Laila dedicated her performances to her mom and dad, and she had an extra sparkle in her eye all night. She began and ended her lovely waltz like Sleeping Beauty, and... read more
Having Fun | Ian's Dancing with the Stars Blog | 5/7/2007
So this week John Ratzenberger got sent home. People may not remember, but he did step in at the very last moment to replace Vincent Pastore, and even though he was playing catch up, he had a really positive attitude about this experience, and was sort of the father figure of the crew. So it was sad to see him go. I know Billy was on the chopping block with John and I would have felt awful if Billy got sent home since this past week he took time out of his rehearsal to hang with me a little and... read more
April 30, 2007: Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun | Dancing With the Stars | 5/1/2007
Remember that episode of 90210 where Steve entered a dance competition and Brandon, Kelly and Donna cheered him on? No? OK, it never happened, but it sort of felt like such an episode last night when founding members of what Tom dubbed the “90210 Alumni Association” were in the audience supporting Ian. I don’t know if it was their cheers or Billy Ray’s tutoring, but whatever it was, it worked. Ian finally came alive on the dance floor! His first dance was good and showed... read more
April 23, 2007: All the World's a Stage | Dancing With the Stars | 4/24/2007
Let’s jump right to the highlight of the night: the group swing was 100 percent fun, perhaps the best group dance that involved the celebrities in the past four seasons of Dancing with the Stars. Everyone was so into the performance that the energy was contagious. Even more impressive was how well they gelled as a group (even Heather and Jonathan, who missed the group practice). The couples all played to their strengths (e.g., Ian and Cheryl did back-to-back lifts, while Laila tossed Max... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/24/2007
Now we've got ourselves a real horse race. In the beginning of the season, the Dancing with the Stars studio audience wa read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/4/2007
It's a shame the cameras weren't rolling: During one commercial break for Tuesday night's Dancing with the Stars, Billy read more
April 2, 2007: Movie Magic | Dancing With the Stars | 4/3/2007
I can’t go so far as to say it was an all-out theme night, but about half of last night’s celebrities got inspiration for their dances from movies. First Edyta took John Ratzenberger to a Valentino movie to get inspired for the tango. This seemed to work in terms of him getting into character for the dance. I was impressed with his facial expressions and intensity, but I think that was the strongest part of his dance. The judges pointed out that he needs to make some technical... read more
March 26, 2007: Second Chances | Dancing With the Stars | 3/27/2007
Last night our stars had a sort of second chance to make a first impression. Initially, I was against not having an elimination last week, but the judges commented that they were grateful for the chance to see everyone do both Latin and ballroom dances, and that is a good point — some people are simply better at one style than the other. OK, so they won me over with this new wait-a-week system.So who benefited from this extra week? First and foremost, Billy Ray Cyrus. Wow, did he step it... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/27/2007
At Monday night's Dancing with the Stars, the fun began even before the big band blasted its first notes. But to get the read more
Critic's Notebook | Roush Dispatch | 3/20/2007
Topic One: Dancing with the Stars. One long grin, that show is. I’d forgotten what a fun lark it can be, after the last few months of watching American Idol take itself way too seriously. Nothing’s really at stake on the Dancing show, except minor issues like dignity and rescuing B-list reputations from the celebrity coal bin. Early front-runners: Joey Fatone (especially if he keeps shedding the pounds as he dances) and Apolo Anton Ohno, the closest thing the show has to a hottie.... read more
March 19, 2007: Are You Ready for Some Dancing? | Dancing With the Stars | 3/20/2007
And they’re off! The 11 latest celebrities to put on their dancing shoes hit the ballroom live last night. It was step one of their quest for that fabulous, sparkling Dancing with the Stars trophy. Throughout the show, the hosts pointed out that this is “the most remarkable cast ever” and that we were watching “history-making” television. It’s good to know that they’re keeping this fun, lighthearted dance show in perspective.OK, while they may have overstated... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/16/2007
Who's the youngest? The most surprisingly fit? The tallest toe-tapper in the show's history? As the Monday, 8 pm/ET prem read more
Steve Sanders, Supermodel Go Dancing with the Stars | Today's News: Our Take | 2/21/2007
Who'll be hoofing it this time in the name of winning that garish trophy? Onetime Dancing with the Stars competitor Jerry Springer unveiled the new season's contenders on Wednesday's Good Morning America, and they are:• Laila Ali, the daughter of the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali• Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus • Paul McCartney's soon-to-be ex, Heather Mills • Former NBA star Clyde Drexler • 'N Sync alum Joey Fatone • Miss USA-turned-GSN hostess Shandi Finnessey... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/15/2006
With dad's day almost upon us, your favorite stars from read more
The Watercooler | 10/21/2004
Aiight, we all know what TV was really about tonight. The Sox and Yankees, Game 7, that curse, a postseason collapse, al read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/21/2004
Starship's "We Built This City" was named the worst song ever by Blender magazine, which describes the 1985 hit as "the read more
The Watercooler | 3/12/2004
Friends So fans picked the Brad Pitt Thanksgiving episode as one of their favorite episodes of all time. And for the mo read more
The Watercooler | 9/10/2003
Whoopi Whoopi Goldberg scolding her TV brother for dating a white girl who acts ghettolicious: "If it's all about ass, read more
Today's News: My Take | 9/18/2002
Country singer-turned-actor Billy Ray Cyrus wants to move production of his PAX drama Doc from Toronto to his native Nas read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/19/2001
Country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus initially felt like belting out another chorus of his hit "Achy Breaky Heart" when he to read more