Five months after making their relationship public, actress Liz Hurley has quietly confirmed what the photographs already suggested: she has fallen in love with Billy Ray Cyrus. Speaking during a promotional interview in September 2025, she offered the kind of understated declaration that carries more weight for its simplicity — a good year, she called it, and love was part of why. Their story is less a spectacle than a study in how two established lives can find a shared rhythm without losing their separate shapes.
Liz Hurley Opens Up on Five-Month Romance With Billy Ray Cyrus
I also fell in love with my boyfriend. So yes, a good year.
Mark
When did you first realize this was something real between them, or did it feel real from the start?
Mimi
She said she fell in love with him, which is pretty direct language. But the timeline matters—they went public in April, and she's talking about this five months later, so we're looking at a relationship that's moved from announcement to integration pretty quickly.
Luke
Right, but "fell in love" is her characterization. We don't have his voice on it, and we don't know how long they'd been together before April. The Instagram official moment is April, but that's not necessarily when it started.
Mark
Fair point. So what does the summer tell us about whether this is stable?
Mimi
They had time off together, attended events as a couple, met each other's families—his daughters, specifically. They adopted tortoises, which is a shared commitment. Those are the markers of something that's moved past the early stage.
Luke
Those are markers of what she's willing to say publicly about it. We don't know what the private conversations look like, or whether there are any tensions. We're getting her version of a good summer.
Mark
She mentioned he's teaching her guitar. That's pretty intimate, isn't it?
Mimi
It is. It suggests he's invested in sharing his world with her, and she's willing to be a beginner at something in front of him. She said she's "appalling" at it—that's not a performance, that's honesty.
Luke
It's also a detail she volunteered in an interview. We don't have any independent confirmation of how much time they actually spend on it, or whether it's a real part of their routine or just a nice anecdote.
Mark
What strikes you most about how she talks about this?
Mimi
She's careful to keep her own life intact. The swimwear brand, the new series, her independence—those things are still central to how she describes herself. The relationship is woven in, but it's not the whole picture.
Luke
And that's what she's choosing to emphasize in a promotional interview. We don't know what she might say in a different context, or what the actual balance of time and energy looks like.
The Pulse
- Hurley broke the quiet around her private life with a disarmingly plain admission — 'I fell in love with my boyfriend' — during a press interview that was supposed to be about her new television series.
- The relationship, first announced via Instagram in April, has since moved from public declaration into something more grounded: shared evenings, guitar lessons, and the adoption of two tortoises.
- Their summer together tested the partnership across different worlds — attending his daughters' London performances, walking red carpets, and navigating the ordinary intimacy of two busy people choosing to spend their downtime together.
- Hurley's swimwear brand and Cyrus's music career continue in parallel, and neither appears to have bent to accommodate the other — the relationship seems to be growing in the space between two intact lives, not in the ruins of them.
Five months after making their relationship public, actress Liz Hurley has quietly confirmed what the photographs already suggested: she has fallen in love with Billy Ray Cyrus. Speaking during a promotional interview in September 2025, she offered the kind of understated declaration that carries more weight for its simplicity — a good year, she called it, and love was part of why. Their story is less a spectacle than a study in how two established lives can find a shared rhythm without losing their separate shapes.
Liz Hurley has spent the better part of a year falling in love, and she said so plainly. Appearing in a recent interview to promote her new Channel 4 series, The Inheritance, she turned briefly to her personal life and offered a simple verdict on the months since she and Billy Ray Cyrus went public in April: it had been a good year, and love was part of the reason.
The texture of their time together is domestic and unhurried. Evenings tend to wind down around seven, she said, settling into music or films — the kind of quiet routine that sustains a life more than it makes headlines. Cyrus has been teaching her guitar, though Hurley described her own progress as appalling, if hopeful.
Their summer moved through each other's worlds with unusual ease. They attended his daughters' performances in London, appeared together at red carpet events including the premiere of The Inheritance, and adopted two tortoises — a small commitment that implies some assumption of a shared future. Hurley also developed a new interest in birdwatching, mentioning goshawks with genuine wonder, noting that fewer than a thousand nesting pairs exist across the United Kingdom.
Meanwhile, her swimwear brand, Elizabeth Hurley Beach, continues to occupy her on its own terms. She designs every piece herself, knows her staff by name, and finds in it an autonomy that feels distinct from romance — something entirely hers. The heat this summer kept her in bikinis more than usual, a practical matter of weather rather than any change in identity; she has always preferred jeans and a T-shirt.
Five months into their public life together, Hurley and Cyrus appear to have built something that fits around who they already were. He makes music. She designs swimwear. They go to premieres and watch goshawks and learn guitar badly. By her account, the year has been good.
Liz Hurley has spent the better part of a year falling in love. She said so plainly in a recent interview, reflecting on the months since she and Billy Ray Cyrus made their relationship public in April with a series of photographs on Instagram that announced, without ambiguity, that they were together. The actress and model was promoting her new Channel 4 series, The Inheritance, when the conversation turned to her personal life, and she offered a simple accounting of what the year had brought: "I also fell in love with my boyfriend. So yes, a good year."
The shape of their days together has become domestic and unhurried. After work winds down around seven in the evening, Hurley described a routine of collapse and comfort—the two of them settling in to listen to music or watch a film, the kind of ordinary intimacy that doesn't photograph well but sustains a life. Cyrus, the country music artist, has taken on the role of teacher. He is showing her guitar, though Hurley was candid about her progress: she described herself as "appalling" but hopeful about improvement.
Their summer unfolded with unusual freedom. Both had time away from their primary commitments, and they used it to move through each other's worlds. They attended his daughters' performances in London—events that mattered enough to Hurley to mention specifically, and that seemed to matter to Cyrus that she be there. They adopted two tortoises together, a commitment that speaks to some assumption of continuity. Hurley, in the meantime, has developed an unexpected interest in bird watching. She mentioned spotting goshawks, birds she described as "unbelievable" and "very, very rare," noting that only about 1,000 nesting pairs exist across the United Kingdom.
The couple have moved through public life together as well. They appeared at red carpet events, including the premiere of The Inheritance, the kind of visible endorsement that signals a relationship has moved beyond the private sphere into something the people involved are willing to defend in front of cameras and strangers.
Hurley's other life—the one built around her swimwear brand, Elizabeth Hurley Beach—continues to occupy her attention and energy. She designs every piece herself, knows her employees by name, and spends much of her time modeling the bikinis from her own collection. This summer, she noted, the heat pushed her into swimwear more than usual; she has spent most days in a bikini, a practical consequence of weather rather than any shift in her life. She has always been happiest in jeans and a T-shirt, she said, but the season demanded something different. The brand, she made clear, makes her happy in a way that feels separate from romance—it is hers, she answers to no one in it, and that autonomy matters.
Five months into their public relationship, Hurley and Cyrus appear to have built something that accommodates both of their lives without requiring either to abandon the shape of who they were before they met. He teaches her guitar. She watches his daughters perform. They adopt tortoises. They go to premieres. She designs swimwear. He makes music. The year, by her account, has been good.
Notable Quotes
After dinner, I'm ready to collapse and either snuggle up with Billy and listen to music or watch a movie.— Liz Hurley, describing her evenings with Cyrus
He's very supportive and that feels nice.— Liz Hurley, on Cyrus attending his daughters' performances in London
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