Billy Ray Cyrus, speaking from the English countryside while promoting his first new studio album in 14 years, said he and Elizabeth Hurley are enjoying a quietly joyful start to their relationship. "She’s a great lady. We’re pretty happy. It’s all been a lot of fun," Cyrus said, adding that they have been together since early 2025.
The comment comes as Cyrus prepares to release The Hill on June 16, a record billed as a family affair that reunites him with his children and marks his return to writing and recording after a long gap. The Hill is his first album of new studio songs in 14 years and features work with his son Braison; its lead single, "On Our Way Along," is a duet with his daughter Noah. Cyrus also reunited with Miley to mark the 20th anniversary of Hannah Montana earlier this year.
Those career milestones follow a difficult stretch for Cyrus. He survived a bout of sepsis in 2024 and has spoken about personal upheaval after a divorce in the early 2020s. He framed the new record and his relationship with Hurley as part of a larger recovery: "finally found this wonderful place where I’m happy," he said, and that sense of stability threads through the album’s family collaborations.
Hurley, who has described the relationship in similarly domestic terms, told People that the couple "split our time between Billy’s farm in Tennessee and my country house in England, with brief forays into Nashville and London." The recipe is simple and literal: long days in the countryside, short trips into cities for work and promotion.
She painted a picture of hands-on country life: "We both love the countryside, where I’m usually wielding power tools in the garden whilst Billy strums his guitar under a tree," Hurley said. "We obsessively watch birds of prey and light lots of bonfires. It’s bliss." Those details undercut any tabloid image and frame the relationship as built around ordinary, repeatable rhythms.
Still, Cyrus did not present the new chapter as untested. He has said he has "been to hell and back a couple of times," and in conversation he returned to the contrast between hardship and what comes after: "When you’re completely on the bottom, that is the only way to go – up," he said. He added, "I do feel at this moment a calm and a peace of mind of knowing that I’m on the right path – and certainly love feels good." The admission works as the story’s friction: contentment now sits next to a candid account of how hard he has fought to get there.
Musically, the stakes are concrete. The Hill’s June 16 release will be the public test of Cyrus’s comeback as a recording artist, and the album itself is anchored by family voices — a commercially and emotionally resonant choice after a long hiatus. Working with Braison and Noah, and reconnecting with Miley for the Hannah Montana anniversary, gives the record a through line from personal recovery to professional return.
For now, Cyrus is selling both a record and an image: a man who survived sepsis and hard years, who found a companion in Hurley, and who has fashioned a life that oscillates between a Tennessee farm and an English country house. The immediate next date is fixed — The Hill arrives June 16 — and Cyrus will be measured on whether the music cements the stability he describes. How long the couple will keep that transatlantic rhythm is a question they have left open; for the moment Cyrus’s answer is practical and plain: he is releasing an album, he is happy, and he’s on the path he says feels right.
