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After seeming to tease her ‘new name’ yesterday (30 August), Miley Cyrus has just made a bold move.<\/p>\n
The ‘Wrecking Ball’ singer updated her website on Sunday from mileycyrus.com to mileyofficial.com,\u00a0dropping her last name\u00a0as she enters a new era.<\/p>\n
And this afternoon, she has changed her\u00a0social media\u00a0handle to match as she’s now simply ‘miley’ on\u00a0Instagram.<\/p>\n
That tweak was matched up with a new bright red snap of the star and the caption ‘MILEY.’ as she seems to be gearing up for her next era of\u00a0music.<\/p>\n
So, you could say, 19 years on from her debut single ‘See You Again’, she’s finally matching that infamous lyric as: “Oh, she’s just being Miley.”<\/p>\n
Cyrus’ are loving it already as her comments are flooded with: “LET’S GO MOTHER,” AND “MILEY IS COMING.”<\/p>\n
In what some fans are branding a ‘rebirth’, it’s thought the dropping of the surname and the red-background images of the former Disney star are signs that new music and maybe even a tour are coming.<\/p>\n
The LADbible Group has contacted Cyrus’ team for comment on the change.<\/p>\n
And after this long in the business, a self-titled album does feel fitting for the icon.<\/p>\n
Her last name of course comes from her famous father,\u00a0Hannah Montana\u00a0co-star and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus.<\/p>\n
But the ‘Flowers’ singer had considered dropping the surname back in 2013, as she wanted to distance herself from her past somewhat.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was thinking about dropping the Cyrus and just being Miley but there\u2019s something powerful about the fact that my name now is like a household name,\u201d the now 33-year-old told Notion magazine.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have this misconception of me that I’m just one of these kids on\u00a0TV\u00a0and that now I go off and party and I’m just this ratchet white girl, and I’m not.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cI\u2019m young and living and in LA which is everyone\u2019s dream, you know. I\u2019m living it to the fullest. Rather than taking a blessing and making it a curse, it\u2019s just like this is what this name is now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Fans say this name change ‘feels like the most Miley move ever’ as one highlighted: “The way Miley rebrands every era and somehow makes every new version of herself work will never not impress me.\u201d<\/p>\n
As others say the surname has \u2018officially clocked off\u2019, fans \u2018can\u2019t wait to see what she has cooked up\u2019 with the \u2018MILEY\u2019 era.<\/p>\n
As her Instagram post quickly gains traction, some fans are ‘freaking out’ as they say ‘Cyrus you will live forever’.<\/p>\n
“JUST BEING MILEY,” many celebrated, echoing her iconic 2007 single.<\/p>\n
“Oh I am SO READY.”<\/p>\n
What is Miley Cyrus’ original name?<\/p>\n
As fans of the star’s mega career will be aware, Miley isn’t actually her\u00a0original name.<\/p>\n
When she was born back in November 1992, the daughter of Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus was named ‘Destiny Hope’.<\/p>\n
But her family were soon nicknaming her as ‘Miley’.<\/p>\n
During an appearance on the\u00a0Tea Time with Raven & Miranda\u00a0podcast, her mum explained: “Billy Ray came up with that.<\/p>\n
“She always smiled when she was little, so we would call her smiley Miley, and it just stuck.”<\/p>\n
And she actually ended up legally changing her name in 2008 to officially be Miley.<\/p>\n
Billy Ray told\u00a0US Weekly\u00a0that she’ll always be Destiny Hope in his eyes as he shared the explanation: “She\u2019s a giver. She believes that we\u2019re all put here for a reason, and that\u2019s to give back to our fellow man. I\u2019m real proud of her.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s why we named her Destiny Hope. Destiny Hope Cyrus is her name – at least it used to be.<\/p>\n
“But no matter what you call her, she still is Destiny Hope. She is a ray of sunshine. She is a special human being. She\u2019s got a great heart.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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