Throughout Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s relationship, Billy Ray Cyrus never seemed to have an inkling that their romance would eventually end up with a couple of achy-breaky hearts. In a 2017 interview with ET, the “Some Gave All” crooner expressed nothing but admiration for his daughter’s then-boyfriend. “Liam is a great guy. I like his heart. He’s got a great spirit about him,” Billy Ray gushed before going on to share a lesser-known side of Hemsworth that took him by surprise. “He’s a great artist […] I go into this room and there’s, like, 1,500 paintings up […] He’s very humble about it.”
Eventually, Billy Ray and Hemsworth got super close. At one point, the country icon pulled up to Harry Connick Jr.’s talk show wearing one of the Aussie native’s shirts, which he “borrowed” without asking for Hemsworth’s permission. “I think if you bring something back, you didn’t really steal it,” Billy Ray joked (via Today). “I kind of borrowed it from Liam Hemsworth. He didn’t know though and he doesn’t know. I happened to be getting ready to come up and do this show and there was a clean shirt there […] I’ve got to finish this show, fly back home and go put it in his closet so he doesn’t know it’s gone.”
