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Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus Pack on the PDA in New Photos

The pair first met filming 2022’s Christmas in Paradise.

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Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus continue to cozy up after debuting their apparent romance just last week.

Cyrus, 63, and Hurley, 59, posed for PDA-filled photos during a “Tennessee weekend” that the Strictly Confidential actress shared to Instagram Sunday.

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In one photo, the “Achy Breaky Heart” singer can be seen wrapping his arms around Hurley as they pose for the camera by a tree. Another shot captures the two going for a drive with a dog. โ€œTennessee weekend,โ€ Hurley simply captioned the post with a red heart emoji.

Last week, Cyrus and Hurley made headlines when they seemingly debuted their new romance with a sweet Easter photoshoot, which featured Cyrus planting a kiss on Hurley’s cheek as she smiled for the camera. โ€œHappy Easter,โ€ the pair captioned the Instagram post, adding a red heart.

Cyrus and Hurley first met while filming 2022โ€™s Christmas in Paradise, and Cyrus revealed on Thursday’s episode of Apple Music Countryโ€™s The Ty Bentli Show that it was Hurley who reached out to him via text years later.

โ€œWe did a film two years ago down in the Caribbean and we did very few scenes together, but the couple times we were in the same scene,โ€ Cyrus recalled, โ€œthere was a chemistry there that [I] felt. We just laughed, and it was at a time [when] I wasnโ€™t laughing a lot and I found out the oddest thing.โ€

The country star remembered thinking they “had way more in common than we had different” at the time, which made it extra special for him when Hurley reached out during a tough time. “Then two more years of life went by, and it was this evolution that some mightโ€™ve looked at and certainly I felt like, โ€˜Wow, can life get any harder? Can it get any tougher for me?โ€™โ€ he said. โ€œAt a certain point it was like, โ€˜You canโ€™t get knocked down any flatter than laying on your back when life is kicking you in the gut.โ€™โ€

It was in that dark time he received a text from Hurley. “I didnโ€™t even know the number, and itโ€™s like, โ€˜Hey, it looks like life might be a little bit tough and just wanted you to know Iโ€™m in your corner. You got a friend in your corner,โ€™โ€ the Grammy winner recalled.

Asked if his connection with Hurley had turned into something that was now an “actual relationship,” Cyrus responded coyly, “I would say it feels very โ€ฆ sheโ€™s a great human being,โ€ adding, “If all we ever were [are] the friends that we are [now], I would take that.โ€