Billy Ray Cyrus details how his romance with Elizabeth Hurley started

It has been less than a week since Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus surprised the world by launching their relationship hard on Easter Sunday, and Cyrus opens with the way their romance became after being co-stars in 2022 Christmas in paradise.

“We did very few scenes together, but the twice we were in the same scene, there was chemistry there,” said Cyrus in a next episode of The Ty Bentli Show by Apple Music Country, shared with People. “We just laughed, and it was at a time that I didn’t laugh much.”

“The strangest part was the first, how much we laughed,” he continued. “Second, I thought we were so different but in a very strange way, we had much more in common than we had different.”

The two lost contact after the wrapped filming and “did not speak for two years,” said Cyrus, whose divorce of ex-wife Tish was finalized in 2023, the same year he married the singer Firerose (before their controversial divorce next year). After entering a difficult chapter of his life, Cyrus said he had received a text from a number he “did not even know”.

“Hey, it seems that life is a little difficult and I just wanted you to know that I am in your corner – you have a friend in your corner,” said this first text by Hurley, said Cyrus. “So I text. I’m going, “Who is it? And it’s like, “Elizabeth Hurley”.

“Of all the people to contact me in this second,” he said.

Cyrus said Hurley was there for him when he needed it most: “She is so impressive,” said Cyrus about her now little girlfriend. “She reminds me a lot of Dolly Parton. She is a very intelligent businesswoman. ”

Cyrus described their link as “magnificent” and Hurley as a “great human being”, but said that he had “no expectations of where we are going from here”.

“If you can laugh together, you can do everything,” added Cyrus. “It’s been a long time since I am so happy.”

In the photo shared on April 20 announcing their relationship, Cyrus kisses a smiling Hurley, and he said on the podcast that “there will be one where she kisses me, because people said:” Why kiss her always? “”

“Unfortunately, when I see her, when she puts her cheek there, I don’t know what’s going on-I kiss her,” he continued.

A source told US Weekly Among the new couple that Hurley and Cyrus “really understand each other” and that since the reconnection after the meeting in 2022, they spend time on Cyrus farm since they “love both the discreet and trying lifestyle by nature”.