Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus Are Reportedly Engaged: The Ring Clues

• Elizabeth Hurley, 61, and Billy Ray Cyrus, 65, are engaged, sources told Page Six on Thursday, Oct. 16. Neither has confirmed it.
• The clues: a diamond on her left ring finger in set photos from The ‘Burbs, then a ring emoji from him.
• They met making a Christmas movie in 2022 and went public on Easter Sunday 2025. It would be his fourth marriage and her second.

Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus are reportedly engaged. Page Six reported on Thursday, Oct. 16, citing sources, that the country singer proposed after a year and a half of dating. Reps for both did not comment, and neither has posted an announcement.

What they have posted is a trail of hints, and fans spent the week reading them.

Are Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus engaged?

Not officially. On Monday, Oct. 12, Hurley shared photos from her first day filming season 2 of The ‘Burbs, in a white bathrobe. In the first shot the ring was turned inward. In the second, she turned it around to show the diamond on her left ring finger.

Her son, Damian Hurley, 24, commented: “SO EXCITED ❤️❤️❤️.” One Page Six source put it this way: “She’s filming The ‘Burbs; I hardly think this ring is a prop.”

On Thursday, Oct. 15, Cyrus posted a photo set to Mark Collie’s “Something With a Ring to It.” The caption was about his new single and a NASCAR show in Phoenix, and ended: “Kinda has a ring 💍 to it.” Damian answered with a party emoji.

How did Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus meet?

On a movie set. They met filming the 2022 holiday comedy Christmas in Paradise on the Caribbean island of Nevis, not long after Cyrus separated from his second wife, Tish. They reconnected in February 2025.

They went public on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, with a joint Instagram photo of him kissing her cheek. A month later, on May 24, they made their red carpet debut in Rome.

“There was something in the opposites of us,” Cyrus told People in June. “I’ve never seen anybody that, in some ways, has more in common with the insanity that I have lived through in this crazy show business.”

Hurley has joked about the match. “We have the same hair. Identical hair. Apart from his beard, we’re actually like twins,” she said on the SheerLuxe podcast this month.

What has Elizabeth Hurley said about Billy Ray Cyrus?

On ITV’s This Morning on Oct. 7, five days before the ring photos, she called their life “blended families and blended continents.” She said Cyrus, who had barely been to England before, now spends months at a time in the English countryside, where she has a farm in Gloucestershire.

He’s definitely a country boy. He can’t cook or really do anything like that. So he’s trying to learn, because he wants to be able to bring me a tray for breakfast.

Elizabeth Hurley, on This Morning

She said she picked 26 crates of apples from her orchard and made 256 bottles of juice. “And Billy helped. He picked some.”

A year earlier, on the same show, she described a summer at home with “my new boyfriend, Billy,” watching birds of prey. She said he had written a song “for me,” about “finding happiness.”

How many times has Billy Ray Cyrus been married?

Three. He was married to Cindy Smith from 1986 to 1991 and to Tish Cyrus from 1993 until their 2022 divorce. He married singer Firerose in October 2023, and they split in 2024.

He has six children: Christopher, 34, with Kristin Luckey; Brandi, 39, and Trace, 37, whom he adopted; and Miley, 33, Braison, 32, and Noah, 26, with Tish. Miley’s godmother is Dolly Parton.

Hurley has been married once, to Indian businessman Arun Nayar, from 2007 to 2011. She dated Hugh Grant from 1987 to 2000, had Damian in 2002 with the late producer Steve Bing, and was engaged to cricketer Shane Warne from 2011 to 2013.

More celebrity engagements and weddings: Jim Carrey and Min Ah and Jenna Dewan’s fiancé, Steve Kazee. More in Celebrities.

— Bruno Monteiro

Sources: Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus on Instagram (Oct. 12 and 15, 2026); This Morning/ITV interviews with Elizabeth Hurley (Oct. 7, 2026, and October 2025); SheerLuxe podcast (October 2026). Page Six (Sara Nathan, Sarah Jones), Oct. 16, 2026; People (Ashlyn Robinette), Oct. 16, 2026, and the June 2026 interview with Billy Ray Cyrus; Taste of Country (Donny Meacham). Photos and video: This Morning/ITV, TODAY/NBC, Lionsgate, SheerLuxe, ABC News, AXS TV.