‘Miley Face
GL gets some phone time with the one, the only…..

Drum roll, please. This Nashville native has sold out concert venues in four minutes flat! Elvis has come back to life? No. It’s just-turned 15 Miley Cyrus, and she’s busting up Billboard charts like nobody’s business.

That thick, homespun accent of hers you hear on TV? It’s real. One might wonder, given the fact that she’s regularly juggles three different personas: 1) Disney Channel character Miley Stewart, who poses as 2) popstar Hannah Montana, and then there’s 3) real-girl Miley Cyrus. The latter is the one who dialed us up, on a school day no less….
“Hold on one second…Hey, sorry. My phone was breaking up.” No prob. “Yeah, my teacher’s giving me 10 minutes. I’m like, ‘Please let me do this interview right now!’ He let me. He’s at my house. I’m home schooled.”

As it turns out, we keep Miley on the phone for a half hour. We feel a little bad about it because she’s has studying to do before she goes to rehearsals for her tour.

Love is in Bloom

Miley is touring, as we’re sure you already know, with the Jonas Brothers, so we’re bold with our opening question, “Word is you have a thing for one of the Jonases. True?”
MC: “Ew, no! No, not at all”
GL: “Have you heard that rumor?”
MC: “No.”
GL: “But they’re cute.”
MC: “No! No, thank you. They’re, like, awesome guys. They’re really good friends of mine, but I definitely do not have a crush.”
GL: “No crush at all?
MC: “Actually, I haven’t seen anyone I really have a crush on right now, but I’m always all for Orlando Bloom!”
GL: “Yeah, he’s hot.”
MC: “Dude! He’s amazing! The accent and when he tried to do like his ‘American accent’ -- oh! It’s so cute!”

‘I Break for Animals’

Animals are cute too, and Miley also has a love for all things furry. In fact, she’s a vegetarian. “And it’s not even because I don’t believe in eating meat,” she explains. “It’s just so….they do it very inhumane, which I don’t like. I don’t like the way they treat the animals.”

We assume Miley has pets, but nothing prepares us for this: “I have five dogs, seven horses, a zillion chickens, some cows, four cats, three fish -- I have lots of animals.” Yeah, a menagerie. She tells us most of her pets were rescued.

“My dog Fluke is a golden retriever mix. We found her in a box on the side of the street. She is a lucky dog. Her mom was a lab/beagle, and so she has these huge ears. She’s just the cutest thing in the world. She’s a good dog.”
“And my big German Shepard, he had been like kicked around and really treated badly, so we took him in.” Miley tells us all five dogs and a couple of cats are in her room with her whiles she’s chatting on the phone with us.
“Yeah, my mom’s gonna kill me.”

Hotel California

We make like MTV’s Cribs and ask Miley to give us a visual description of her room. “The walls are this cool blue, and they’ve got big circles in metallic on it, and they have the words ‘vogue’ and ‘chic’ everywhere. And I’ve got candles everywhere because I’m really into yoga and stuff like that. So I have that, and all my lights. I have little plants and flowers everywhere. It’s really relaxing.”

“And then I’ve got these big zebra chairs. They’re so cool! My bedroom is modeled after this swanky hotel. It’s been so long, I can’t even remember what it was called. It starts with an A. It’s on Wilshire Boulevard here in California.”
Miley lives in Los Angeles, in that neighborhood of homes we’ve recently discovered is inhabited by a slew of who’s-who: Ashley Tisdale, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Corbin Bleu, Jonas Brothers. But Miley calls Tennessee home, where she grew up until moving to the City of Angels a year and a half ago.

“I miss Nashville,” Miley admits. “I miss everything about Nashville. It’s so beautiful there. It’s great. Lots and lots and lots and lots of my friends are there -- most of my friends are there. I go back to Nashville all the time. My dad -- anytime he’s like, ‘You know, when you want to, tell me and we’ll get the jet ready.’ He’s like, ‘It doesn’t matter why. We’ll get you a flight. I’ll do whatever. If you need to go home, then you can go home.’”

Ray of Sunshine

Her dad, of course, is Billy Ray Cyrus, the same guy who is her father on Hannah Montana. the fella who got voted off mid-competition after giving his all on the fourth season of Dancing With The Stars. But what Miley’s dad is probably most famous for is his country line-dancing anthem “Achy Breaky Heart.” The single was on music charts 34 straight weeks. While impressive, six singles from the Hannah Montana soundtrack debuted in the same week on the charts last year. No other artist has ever done that.

Miley’s success is phenomenal, but we want to know what it was like for her to grown up with a famous musician for a father. It’s refreshing to hear that her upbringing was way more grits and values than glitz and glamour. “I don’t think it was any different than being with any other dad because he always made time for us. The job kind of came second to his family.”

We ask Miley if she’s ever done anything to defy her dad -- on Hannah, we once saw her character hop on a plane to a concert her dad had forbidden her to go to. But Miley sort of skates around the issue, feeding us spoonfuls of more feel-good fodder: “Oh , my God! I’ve never done anything crazy, but my dad, he’s about the little things. The only thing that really gets on my dad is when we don’t give back.

“If people do things for us, and we don’t, you know, just really thank them and show them how much we love and appreciate them….because that’s something I do to my dad sometimes -- I forget to show him how much I love him, and that’s the thing that gets him upset.”

But we press on. C’mon, the girl has never done anything major to get herself grounded? She finally ‘fesses up: “Me and my brother only did one thing that got me really in trouble. But we were really, really young. We went and -- this is so stupid -- we kind of did a little vandalism. We got rocks, and we threw them at windows.

“We got in big trouble for that. I was only like, seriously, I was 9 I thing, and it was winter, and me and my brother were like, ‘Well, we’ll just say birds did it.’ And we were with -- it was me, my brother, and my little sister was probably only 4. We were supposed to be watching her while my mom did something. And so we took her outside which we weren’t supposed to do anyways, and we went and threw rocks at windows.”

We ask her how many windows she busted up. Hello? Dead silence. Miley?

“Hey, I’m sorry! I think my phone cut out for a minute there.”

The Secrets Out

While Miley is so super-reluctant to tell on herself, she’s a little more loose-lipped when spilling about her friends. She readily admits to us that she’s the worst-ever secret-keeper.

“Oh, you know, if I’ve pinky-promised then I’m good. Yeah, I was explaining it the other day to my guitar player. I was like, ‘O.K., if I pinky-promised, I won’t tell. If you just tell me to promise, I’m gonna tell.”

So how can we resist asking for some scoop on her famous friends?

GL: “Do you have a secret about Emily Osment?”
MC: “Emily. Let me think of something good. I’m sure I know something. Think about Emily. I don’t -- oh man! I should have a good one. I’m actually, like, I would tell you something -- let’s see. Let me think of a really good one. I don’t know if anyone knows this, but her mom is an English teacher.”
GL: “That’s all you’ve got?”
MC: “That’s not really a secret, but she doesn’t tell anyone her mom is an English teacher.”
GL: “How about the Jonas Brothers? Do you have any secrets about any of those guys?”
MC: “I have one about Kevin. OK, seriously, he is more in style than-- look, he acts like he doesn’t care, like he can just throw on something, but he is so obsessed with fashion. You don’t even know. He dresses -- when we go hang out or even just go get ice cream, he’s decked. He’s got on the nicest jeans with the nicest shoes -- he always looks awesome.”
GL: “You know, he actually told us he takes an hour-and-a-half to straighten his hair every morning.”
MC: “Yeah, it’s weird. I told him why not just get that Japanese treatment, where it would just stay straight all the time, But he likes it to be curly when he gets out of the pool.”
GL: “Tell us a secret about Ashley Tisdale”
MC: “I love her! She’s my best friend. She -- oh! Her dog -- she doesn’t want to train her dog because she says it takes too long. Well, me, her, and Vanessa were having a sleepover at her house. Me and Vanessa slept in one bed and she slept in the other --which is decked out in Tinkerbell. She has like a 7-year old’s room. But she doesn’t want to train her dog so her dog pees in the bed every morning.”
GL: “Ew!”
MC: “Yeah, I know. It’s gross!”

We know a secret about Miley…
Her real name, the one given to her at birth, is Destiny.