{"id":2045,"date":"2026-05-13T22:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/billy-ray-cyrus-serenades-ex-wife-tish-in-birthday-tribute\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:43:56","slug":"billy-ray-cyrus-serenades-ex-wife-tish-in-birthday-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/billy-ray-cyrus-serenades-ex-wife-tish-in-birthday-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Ray Cyrus serenades ex-wife Tish in birthday tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127680457.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Billy Ray Cyrus had kind words for his ex-wife, Tish Cyrus, in a social media tribute to her on her 59th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the \u201cAchy Breaky Heart\u201d hitmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYSNjrAyUOw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared a video of himself <\/a>playing his 2007 hit \u201cReady, Set, Don\u2019t Go,\u201d dedicating the informal acoustic performance to \u201cHannah Montana Nation and all our friends at Disney,\u201d while marking Tish\u2019s and his mother Ruthie\u2019s birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot stars \u2b50\ufe0f in her eyes, the prize is hers to win,\u201d Billy Ray captioned the upload, quoting lyrics from the song. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of the greatest mothers EVER were born on this day and tomorrow, my mother Ruthie on May 14th \u2026 and the mother driving Miley down that driveway as I wrote the song \u2018Ready Set Don\u2019t Go,&#8217;\u201d he wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy Birthday Tish. Wishing you peace, love, and happiness \u2026 forever.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Billy Ray Cyrus played an acoustic version of his 2007 hit \u201cReady, Set, Don\u2019t Go,\u201d alongside a birthday tribute to ex-wife Tish Cyrus (as seen above).  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/billyraycyrus<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>He captioned the post in part, \u201cHappy Birthday Tish. Wishing you peace, love, and happiness \u2026 forever.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/billyraycyrus<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Fans took to the comments thread on Wednesday to gush over the heartfelt tribute, with one writing, \u201c\ud83e\udd7a\ud83d\udc95 brb crying.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Another remarked, \u201cObsessed with this version \ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d\ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffb\u201d while a third chimed in, \u201cThis songs always makes me cry.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The former couple\u2019s youngest child, Noah Cyrus, wrote, \u201cI was given the best parents in the whole world\u2026life\u2019s so special \ud83c\udf80\ud83d\udc97 happy birthday to my mommy and mamaw !!! i miss my grandma every day.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cyrus\u2019 mom, Ruth Ann Casto, died back in 2022 at the age of 85. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Billy Ray and Tish, pictured above in 2020, divorced in 2022 after nearly 30 years of marriage.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The former couple, pictured above with daughter Miley in 2019, share five grown children.  <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Billy Ray, 64, and Tish, 59 \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/parents\/miley-cyrus-siblings\/\">share kids <\/a>Brandi, 38, and Trace, 37, (both of whom Billy Ray adopted after marrying Tish in 1993), as well as Miley, 33, Braison, 32, and Noah, 26 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/04\/11\/tish-cyrus-files-for-divorce-from-billy-ray-again\/\">divorced in 2022<\/a> after nearly thirty years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have grown up together, raised a family we can be so proud of, and it is now time to create our own paths,\u201d they wrote in a joint statement to People at the time. <\/p>\n<p>The split touched off a <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/02\/28\/entertainment\/cyrus-family-values-inside-showbizs-dysfunctional-dynasty\/\">flurry of family drama<\/a> that seems to have died down amid Billy Ray\u2019s friendly birthday tribute to Trish. <\/p>\n<p>Billy Ray went on to briefly marry singer Firerose, 37, whom he <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/06\/11\/entertainment\/billy-ray-cyrus-files-for-divorce-from-firerose-after-less-than-one-year-of-marriage\/\">divorced in 2024<\/a> after less than a year of marriage, while Tish <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/08\/20\/tish-cyrus-marries-prison-break-star-dominic-purcell-with-daughter-miley-as-her-maid-of-honor\/\">married \u201cPrison Break\u201d star Dominic Purcell<\/a>, 56, in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The country star has since <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/04\/20\/celebrity-news\/elizabeth-hurley-and-billy-ray-cyrus-spark-romance-rumors-with-kissing-photo\/\">launched an epic romance with supermodel Elizabeth Hurley<\/a>, 60. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bill Ray, seen above with Miley, Noah, and Tish in 2017, went on to marry Firerose before launching a relationship with Elizabeth Hurley.  <span class=\"credit\">Christopher Polk<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tish married Dominic Purcell. They\u2019re seen here in a previous social media post.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@tishcyruspurcell<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked if she\u2019d ever imagined herself in a romance with Cyrus, while spending time at his Tennessee ranch, she said, \u201cI hadn\u2019t really had that foresight to have that, but funnily enough, the farm in Tennessee is very similar to my farm in Gloucestershire, so in a way it kind of feels normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hurley \u2014 who welcomed her own son, 24-year-old Damian Hurley, with late producer Steve Bing \u2014 has apparently eased into blended family life with Billy Ray. <\/p>\n<p>She was spotted<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/25\/celebrity-news\/billy-ray-cyrus-noah-and-braison-cyrus-perform-at-stagecoach\/\"> attending the Stagecoach Festival last month<\/a>, where Billy Ray took the stage alongside Noah and Braison for a performance of \u201cOn Our Way Along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeeehaaaaaw,\u201d the swimsuit designer captioned an Instagram post last month marking the occasion. \u201cLoved my first trip to Stagecoach watching\u00a0@billyraycyrus\u00a0@noahcyrus\u00a0and\u00a0@braisonccyrus perform their new single On Our Way Along \ud83d\udc97\ud83d\udc97\ud83d\udc97\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/13\/celebrity-news\/billy-ray-cyrus-serenades-ex-wife-tish-in-birthday-tribute\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Ray Cyrus had kind words for his ex-wife, Tish Cyrus, in a social media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/127680457.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}