{"id":5747,"date":"2026-06-26T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:29:20","slug":"mitchel-musso-shares-brutal-reason-he-turned-down-hannah-montana-anniversary-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/06\/26\/mitchel-musso-shares-brutal-reason-he-turned-down-hannah-montana-anniversary-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchel Musso shares brutal reason he turned down Hannah Montana anniversary special"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Hannah Montana fans were wondering why Mitchel Musso, who played Oliver, was missing from the reunion, and he’s finally explained why.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, we got a 20-year special reunion for Hannah Montana<\/a>, featuring Miley Cyrus, her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, and other special guests. Noticeably, both Emily Osment and Mitchel Musso<\/a>, who played Miley’s best friends Oliver and Lily, were missing. Although we got an explanation for Emily’s absence – scheduling conflicts with CBS sitcom Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage – we never got an explanation for Mitchel’s.<\/p>\n

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He’s now revealed the reason why in an interview with Joe Vulpis<\/a>, and it’s not because of his messy criminal record.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, they asked me, but it wasn\u2019t presented correctly. The kid in me was banking on it, like, I can’t wait for us to all be on set again, and it just didn’t work out that way,” the 24-year-old said.<\/p>\n

Tthe talk show format of the special wasn’t what he wanted – Mitchel would have preferred an actual extra episode of Hannah Montana, to appease fans who had to wait 20 long years.<\/p>\n

“Do an episode. Do the show. The set is still there. It’s too long a wait to do it in a way that isn’t even close to, in my opinion, correct. It wasn’t the right thing, and I was busy doing something that was more important.”<\/p>\n