Actress Elizabeth Hurley is getting ready to make the next big move with musician Billy Ray Cyrus ahead of her milestone birthday just a month after announcing their shock romance

Liz Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus surprised fans with their unlikely romance(Image: INSTAGRAM)

Elizabeth Hurley is gearing up to take her romance with Billy Ray Cyrus to the next level as she marks her milestone birthday. The actress stunned fans with her unexpected relationship as she cosied up the the Achy Breaky Heart hitmaker, 63, at Easter.

Even Liz admitted the pairing was “unexpected,” having first crossed paths on the film set of Christmas in Paradise in 2022. After production wrapped up, they didn’t exchange words for two years.

Yet it was Liz who rekindled their friendship at a time when Billy Ray needed companionship the most during his separation from his wife, Firerose. The pair seem to not be taking this slow as they have already begun to merge their lives.

Liz has since shared an insight into her plans for her 60th birthday, with Billy Ray by her side. “He should be in England for my birthday. He’ll be meeting my family – and my dogs – and hopefully, it’ll be lovely,” she said.

The couple went public at Easter

Opening up on her plans, she told Hello! magazine: “I love every birthday. I always get overexcited if it’s a big birthday – I think people are even nicer to you, maybe give you more presents, more flowers, and generally spoil you more. I welcome it.”

Her plans with Billy Ray go beyond just her birthday, as Liz recently shared her wishes of creating a “great life” with the musician. Speaking with E! News, she shared: “It was unexpected. But we’re very happy together. And hopefully we’ll have a great life.”

Billy Ray has also been candid about his feelings towards the Austin Powers actress. He spoke warmly about their connection while on The Ty Bentli Show, reflecting how they bonded during the shooting of their 2022 film.

He said: “We did very few scenes together but the couple times we were in the same scene there was a chemistry there. We just laughed, and it was at a time I wasn’t laughing a lot.

“The oddest part was first, how much we laughed. Second, I figured we were so different but in some very strange way we had way more in common than we had different.”

Billy Ray gushed: “If all we ever were [is] the friends that we are, I would take that. She’s so impressively brilliant. She reminds me a lot of Dolly Parton. She’s a very smart businesswoman.”

“If you can laugh together, you can make it through everything.”

Billy Ray acknowledged the tough times following his divorce, sharing: “I felt like, ‘Wow, can life get any harder? Can it get any tougher?’ For me, at a certain point it was like, you can’t get knocked down any flatter than laying on your back when life is kicking you. And in this moment … a friend reached out.”

He responded to an unknown number, only to find out it was Liz reaching out. “I text back, I go, ‘Who is this?’ And it’s like, ‘Elizabeth Hurley.’ Of all the people to reach out to me in that second that maybe I needed most … this friend who made me laugh.”