Knocked Up Celebs

Billy Ray Cyrus is being featured in the new issue of GQ. Inside he is putting in his opinion on parenting, his split from wife, and the entertainment industry. Here are the highlights:

On wishing he had been more of a parent and less of a friend: “How many interviews did I give and say, ‘You know what’s important between me and Miley is I try to be a friend to my kids’? I said it a lot. And sometimes I would even read other parents might say, ‘You don’t need to be a friend, you need to be a parent.’ Well, I’m the first guy to say to them right now: You were right. I should have been a better parent. I should have said, ‘Enough is enough—it’s getting dangerous and somebody’s going to get hurt.’ I should have, but I didn’t. Honestly, I didn’t know the ball was out of bounds until it was way up in the stands somewhere.”

On opting not to attend Miley’s 18th birthday party: “You know why I didn’t go? Because they were having it in a bar. It was wrong. It was for 21 years old and up.”

On hiding his true feelings while he shot Hannah Montana: “Season four, it was a disaster. I was going to work every single day knowing that my family had fallen apart, but yet I had to sit in front of that camera. I look back and I go, How did I ever make it through that? I must be a better actor than I thought.”

The whole part of Billy Ray saying he should have been more of  a parent than friend…it’s something that I know is hard for many, myself included. It’s when you get stuck between a rock and a hard place and do what you think is right. I hope that Billy Ray now that he’s ‘alone’ can work on fixing what he thought went wrong.

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Miley Cyrus is looking older and older these days. She’s on the March 2011 cover of Marie Claire. Inside the issue she talks about how things have got construed wrong and the “bong” smoking incident. But I thought of everything the way that she described how she felt about her parents getting divorced at it be out in the open is what struck me the most. She said:

“Of course, anyone is going to be upset when there are troubles in their family, but I have a lot of hope in our family, and no matter what happens, we’re gonna stay strong.”

See the rest of the interview at Marie Claire.

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Miley Cyrus went out for lunch at Paty’s with her mom, Tish, and sister, Noah, yesterday in Los Angeles, California. Miley has been under fire lately since her new video, Who Owns My Heart has been out. It shows her blindfolded and on a bed. Parents have been getting upset. I guess sometimes it’s hard to remember that she is only 17. I wonder if it’s too much too soon? What do you think?

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Miley Cyrus was spotted going to Panera Bread with her brother, Braison, today in Los Angeles, California. It must be nice to go out with your sister to places!

Miley is just back from her trip to Paris. She was filming there the movie, Lol.

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“I listen to zero pop music, which is really weird for someone who makes pop music. My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, ‘You’re a sellout!’ But that’s not what it is. It’s not dance music that’s just about, ‘Ooh, I’m in the club and everyone’s looking at me.’ It means something. I’m not just sitting here trying to sell glitz and glamor . . . because no one lives that life. A lot of [pop] songs are super shallow, but this music isn’t.” -Miley Cyrus talking to Billboard magazine about how she doesn’t listen to pop music.

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In the last two years that I have been writing for KnockedUpCelebs I have seen Miley grow up. And lately, it seems like she has done that more than ever. She’s on the cover of this weeks Parade magazine showing that she can be taken seriously. In the issue she talks about how she doesn’t go to church as often as she should, why she quit Twitter and having Dolly Parton as her godmother. Here are the highlights:

On her faith: “I don’t necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday. Because now when I go to church, I feel like it’s a show. There are always cameras outside. I am very spiritual in my own way. Let me make it clear, though—I am a Christian. Jesus is who saved me. He’s what keeps me full and whole. But everyone is entitled to what they believe and what keeps them full. Hopefully, I can influence people and help them follow the same path I am on, but it is not my job to tell people what they are doing wrong.”

On her love with Liam Helmsworth: “[Liam has] become my best friend in the whole wide world. I love him. He really respects me for who I am because coming from Australia, he really didn’t know me as the celebrity I am here. I got to tell him about myself on my own terms and my own way. He had no preconceived notion of who I was supposed to be.”

On having Dolly Parton as her godmother: “She is the nicest person in the world. She’s so easy to talk to. She’s awesome. I love her. She always tells me just to do what I love and if I’m not having fun it’s not working. I don’t know how old she is at this point but every time she is on the stage she is smiling from ear to ear.”

On why she quit Twitter: “There has been so much controversy sometimes about what I’ve said or done because I believe there are no mistakes because God is the only one who can judge us. That’s the reason I deleted my Twitter account because I said on there that I believed in gay marriage because everyone should have the right to love each other, and I got such hate mail about my being a bad person.”

On steering clear from the country scene: “It scares me, that’s why. It feels contrived on so many levels. Unless you’re wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots and singing and whining about your girlfriend or boyfriend leaving you it’s not going to sell. I think that’s why my dad finally got out of it. You have to wear those cowboy boots and be sweet as pie. It makes me nervous, the politics of it all.

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“I’m telling kids, don’t go on the internet. It’s dangerous, it’s not fun, it wastes your life, and you should be outside playing sports or something. I hang out with my friends and they’re so busy taking pictures of what they’re doing and putting them on Facebook that they’re not really enjoying what they’re doing. You’re going to look back and have a million pictures, but you’re not going to be in any of them… So I think just enjoy the moment you’re in, and stop telling people about it.” -Miley Cyrus talking about why she doesn’t go on Twitter or the internet anymore to MovieLine.

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Miley Cyrus was spotted with her sister, Noah, and her huge dog going to a recording studio in Burbank, California today. Miley really has be strong to carry her puppy.

Miley is set to be a presenter at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night.

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Miley Cyrus and her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, took their dogs out for a walk in Toluca Lake in Los Angeles yesterday. Miley took to her blog to write about how she is enjoying her new German Shepherd, Mate.

Slept in until my puppy Mate woke me up with kisses @ 10:30! I sat outside for an hour drinking coffee with my dad, mate, and his doggy tex!

What a cute happy family full of dogs!

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Miley Cyrus is looking quite grown up in the February 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. And you can bet this cover won’t be kicking up such a fuss like the other one did. In this issue she talks about being a role-model, the infamous Vanity Fair cover and the insecurities she has. Here are the highlights:

On the headline-making Vanity Fair photo of herself being wrapped in a bed sheet: “Here, my parents are thinking they’re seeing a beautiful photograph by a major photographer, and the people of America want to see something dirty in that? It doesn’t make sense to us because [my family] doesn’t look for negativity. But people don’t want to say ‘What a great performance’ or ‘What a great shot.” No one wants to look at something like that and see the positive because it doesn’t sell a magazine.”

On the pressures of being in the spotlight 24/7: “My job is to be a role model, and that’s what I want to do, but my job isn’t to be a parent. My job isn’t to tell your kids how to act or how not to act, because I’m still figuring that out for myself. So to take that away from me is a bit selfish. Your kids are going to make mistakes whether I do or not. That’s just life.”

On leaving LA this summer to film her new movie, The Last Song: “I got on the plane [to Georgia], and I was lying in my mom’s lap and crying and saying, “I’m so happy to be getting out of L.A. [In Tybee, GA] I went out every night with my friends. I did karaoke. I danced. All this stuff would’ve been such a big deal in Los Angeles: Who’s she with? Why is she dancing? I felt so alive and real. It’s so much easier to know who you are when there aren’t a thousand people telling you who they think you are. I felt like I was really figuring myself out. Usually I have someone whispering in my ear, but I was on my own.”

On having insecurities despite all the adoration: “I used to ask everyone all day, ‘Do I look pretty?’ I probably asked that question about as many times as I blink.” But in Georgia she finally got over it. “It’s not about how because I started feeling beautiful; it’s just because I was comfortable. I was so used to the paparazzi and the cameras and the ‘What are you wearing?’ and having people stare at me.”

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