Why Mitchel Musso Skipped Hannah Montana Anniversary With Miley Cyrus

Why Emily Osment Isn't Part of ‘Hannah Montana’ 20th Anniversary Reunion

Mitchel Musso is waiting for Disney to be asking for him one day—but on his terms.

Nearly four months after Miley Cyrus revisited the world of Hannah Montana in honor of the series’ 20th anniversary, her former costar—who rounded out the series’ main friend trio alongside Cyrus and Emily Osment—explained why he decided to skip the event.

“Of course they asked me,” Musso said during the June 24 episode of The Joe Vulpis podcast. “It wasn’t presented correctly.”

For Musso, a reunion would’ve only been worth it if he had been asked to return as his Hannah Montana character Oliver Oken for a scripted production.

“The kid in me was banking on it,” Musso admitted. “Do an episode. Do a show. The set is still there. They just did it differently and it is what it is, but it wasn’t the right thing.”

And when it came time for the reunion this past March, Musso admitted, “I was busy doing something that was more important.”

However, if the reunion had been what Musso envisioned, he reasoned that it would’ve been “way more important” than whatever he had going on.

“It would've been everything,” he said. “I would’ve dropped everything—eat, breathe, sleep. I’m flying in early. I’m gonna be there. It didn’t turn out that way.”

Since Musso—who went on to star in Disney’s Pair of Kings on top of voice acting in Phineas and Ferb when Hannah Montana ended in 2011—noted he’d been waiting 10 years to return to Disney, he didn’t find the concept for the reunion alluring.

“It’s too long of a wait,” he reasoned, “To do it in a way that isn’t even close to, in my opinion, correct.”

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Indeed, Musso had no interest in simply walking down memory lane.

“I’d want to feel the part again,” he explained. “I’d want to put on that little polo again and wear the plaid shorts with the goofy shoes—I’d want to play the character.”

Meanwhile, Musso wasn’t the only Hannah Montana star to miss out on the 20th anniversary special. While Cyrus was joined by Alex Cooper for a brief interview as well as her mom Tish Cyrus and dad Billy Ray Cyrus—who played her dad on the series—Osment as well as other main cast members Jason Earles and Moisés Arias did not make an appearance.

For Osment’s part, it was a matter of scheduling. The 34-year-old shared she was on set of her series Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, so was not able to be present for the taping itself or the March 23 premiere.

Still, Osment emphasized she was holding on tight to the Hannah Montana life.

“I'm so proud to be a part of it,” Osment said in an Instagram video in March. “So grateful that you guys all still love this show.”

As she put it, “I can’t tell you what your sweet messages mean to me and how lucky I feel to have been a part of this once in a generation goliath of a television show.”

For a look at the Hannah Montana cast and where they are now, keep reading…

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