{"id":510583,"date":"2026-06-25T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510583\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:12:08","slug":"miley-cyrus-hannah-montana-special-why-mitchel-musso-skipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510583\/","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus Hannah Montana Special: Why Mitchel Musso Skipped\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, Musso had no interest in simply walking down memory lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d want to feel the part again,\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019d want to put on that little polo again and wear the plaid shorts with the goofy shoes\u2014I\u2019d want to play the character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Musso wasn\u2019t the only Hannah Montana star to miss out on the 20th anniversary special. While Cyrus was joined by Alex Cooper for a brief interview as well as her mom Tish Cyrus and dad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/billy_ray_cyrus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a>\u2014who played her dad on the series\u2014Osment as well as other main cast members Jason Earles and Mois\u00e9s Arias did not make an appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Osment\u2019s part, it was a matter of scheduling. The 34-year-old shared she was on set of her series Georgie &amp; Mandy\u2019s First Marriage, so was not able to be present for the taping itself or the March 23 premiere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, Osment emphasized she was holding on tight to the Hannah Montana life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m so proud to be a part of it,\u201d Osment said in an Instagram video in March. \u201cSo grateful that you guys all still love this show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As she put it, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you what your sweet messages mean to me and how lucky I feel to have been a part of this once in a generation goliath of a television show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a look at the Hannah Montana cast and where they are now, keep reading\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indeed, Musso had no interest in simply walking down memory lane.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d want to feel the part again,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-510583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}