{"id":543728,"date":"2026-03-25T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543728\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:14:10","slug":"emily-osment-addresses-absence-from-hannah-montana-anniversary-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543728\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Osment Addresses Absence From &#8216;Hannah Montana&#8217; Anniversary Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMiley Cyrus celebrated the 20th anniversary of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hannah-montana\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hannah-montana\" data-tag=\"hannah-montana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Montana<\/a>\u00a0with a Disney+ special, but not all of her castmates returned, and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/emily-osment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_emily-osment\" data-tag=\"emily-osment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Osment<\/a> addressed her absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOsment, who played Miley Stewart\u2019s best friend on the Disney Channel series, also didn\u2019t attend the special\u2019s premiere and took to social media to explain why she was missing from the festivities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cHannah Montana changed my life, it gave me a lifelong respect for this medium of comedy, it taught me discipline, patience, timing and respect working in an adult space so young,\u201d Osment said on Instagram, including a video in which she was on the set of her CBS sitcom Georgia &amp; Mandy\u2019s First Marriage alongside her co-star Montana Jordan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe continued, \u201cI\u2019ve met thousands of HM fans over the years, fans that now have children watching this show and fans that literally work beside me every day, like Montana. He\u2019s seen every episode, don\u2019t be fooled.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOsment noted that she has seen all the \u201csweet messages\u201d the fans have sent her, adding that she feels \u201clucky to have been a part of this once-in-a-generation goliath of a television show,\u201d adding, \u201cThank you for letting me into your living rooms, and I hope to still be there many years from now. Would never be where I am without you guys, working on another beautiful show I love so dearly. With all my heart, THANK YOU!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFilmed in front of a live studio audience, the special features an exclusive, in-depth interview with Cyrus, hosted by\u00a0Alex Cooper (Call Her Daddy podcast), as well as never-before-seen archival footage. Additionally, some of the most memorable sets from\u00a0Hannah Montana\u00a0are brought back to life \u2014 including the Stewart family living room and the legendary Hannah Montana closet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus celebrated the 20th anniversary of\u00a0Hannah Montana\u00a0with a Disney+ special, but not all of her castmates returned,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[80356,88,36574],"class_list":["post-543728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-emily-osment","tag-entertainment","tag-hannah-montana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}