Miley Cyrus Mocks ‘Creepy’ Alex Cooper for Moving in Next Door to Her After ‘Getting Money’ From ‘Call Her Daddy’

Miley Cyrus has revealed the somewhat bizarre way she ended up enlisting "Call Her Daddy" podcaster Alex Cooper to host the new "Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special," joking that she had little choice but to sign her up—because the two are neighbors in Los Angeles.

Cyrus, 33, who shot to fame while starring as the precocious pop star in the hit series, is due to return to her roots in a new Disney+ special that will see her opening up about her experiences filming the show, while also revealing never-before-seen footage.

While the anniversary special features appearances from several guests—including Cyrus' parents, Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus—it was Cooper, 31, who was called upon to interview the singer and actress about her favorite "Hannah Montana" memories.

Now, Cyrus has shed some light on how that collaboration came to be, taking to the stage at the premiere for the special, which began streaming on Disney+ on March 24, and jokingly branding Cooper "creepy" for her over-the-top dedication to "Hannah Montana" and her decision to move so close to the singer's Los Angeles abode.

"I called [Alex] with this wild idea," Cyrus recalled. "[I said], 'Do you think it could be a good idea to do a 'Hannah Montana' anniversary special?' But because I was in the middle of it, because I was Hannah, I didn't know what you all would want.

"And Alex being a superfan—[which is] kinda creepy!—she is also my neighbor, which is also creepy. She got money and then she moved next door to me."

Cyrus noted that, after learning how close Cooper lived to her, she had little choice but to ask her to host the special, adding: "There was no other host, I was like, just walk next door."

However, the "Hannah Montana" star did not end her mockery there—going on to accuse Cooper of feigning innocence about the proximity of their properties.

"It was weird, she was like, 'Oh my god, you live here?'" Cyrus said. "She interviewed me at my house, like five years ago, so [she] knew damn well where I was!"

Cyrus was referring to her August 2020 appearance on Cooper's hit podcast, "Call Her Daddy," which was recorded at her Studio City abode—with the two women sitting outside in the backyard while discussing everything from the singer's split from Hemsworth to her memories about "Hannah Montana."

Despite Cyrus' ribbing of Cooper, the two do not in fact live next door to one another, but rather a three-minute drive apart in Studio City—the neighborhood where the songstress purchased her first home in 2011, when she was still a teenager.

The chart-topper paid $3.9 million for her sprawling 5,000-square-foot dwelling, which offered five bedrooms and seven bathrooms. She still owns the place to this day, despite adding several other properties to her portfolio in the years since.

In a previous listing for the home, it was described as being located in an "astonishingly beautiful setting" atop a hill, a spot that afforded it "lush canyon vistas."

When Cyrus purchased it, the midcentury modern dwelling had recently undergone an extensive renovation that saw it taken down to the studs and then "reimagined" to create "the perfect celebrity hideaway."

Although she later moved into a dwelling in Malibu with her then-partner, Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus is understood to have relocated back to her Studio City abode when their home was reduced to ash in the 2018 Woolsey Fire, mere weeks before the duo tied the knot.

Cyrus would later describe the fire as a key turning point in her life, one that she said made her much clearer about what was important—and what wasn't.

"When my house burned down, that was the biggest blessing I’ve ever had in my life, actually,” she said at a Q&A session in New York in May 2025.

“Losing everything and being able to rebuild, and to be able to be purposeful and choose every piece that I’m gonna collect—or also just about the people in my life.”

Cyrus and Hemsworth, who wed in December 2018, had split by the summer of 2019, and their divorce was finalized in 2020.

Not long after news of their separation began to hit the headlines, Cyrus hinted at struggles in their marriage in her hit August 2019 song "Slide Away," in which she confessed her desire to quit Malibu and return to "the city lights."

"So won't you slide away / Back to the ocean, I'll go back to the city lights," she sang—a lyric that many interpreted as a sign she had only moved out to Malibu because of Hemsworth's desire to live there.

Meanwhile, Cooper and her husband, movie producer Matt Kaplan, snapped up their own Studio City abode 11 years later, in 2022, when they plunked down a staggering $10.7 million for a 5,000-square-foot residence that sits at the heart of a 1.5-acre parcel.

According to Google Maps, Cooper and Kaplan's dwelling is located just a three-minute drive, or an 11-minute walk, away from Cyrus' abode, with both properties offering an incredible level of privacy, despite their proximity to downtown L.A.

But while Cyrus' dwelling was newly renovated when she purchased it, Cooper and Kaplan faced a very different homebuying experience, one that saw them snapping up a dwelling that they knew would require a major transformation.

Indeed, Cooper previously admitted to Architectural Digest that the prospect of turning the home into their dream sanctuary was more than a little daunting to her.

"I was a little overwhelmed by how much of an undertaking it would be, because [the home] was not our style whatsoever," she shared.

However, she soon realized that buying a home that was so far from what they were looking for in terms of its aesthetic was actually a bonus—because they could essentially treat it like a blank canvas.

"That ended up being the beauty [of it],”she explained. “It was so far from our taste that it allowed us to tailor every single room to our liking."

Having created the perfect dwelling to build their life together, Kaplan cemented the property's significance in their relationship in 2023 by getting down on one knee and popping the question to Cooper in their backyard.

Indeed, the "Call Her Daddy" host ended up feeling so at home in her new Studio City neighborhood that she revealed in December 2024 that she had purchased her parents a dwelling not far from her own property.

"My parents are officially moving to Los Angeles and I bought them a house," the former Barstool Sports star announced. "It makes me emotional thinking about it, because when I started 'Call Her Daddy,' I had somewhat of a vision of what I hoped this would turn into."