Miley Cyrus’s dad thought she’d be a stripper after she danced to Britney Spears

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Billy Ray Cyrus thought his daughter Miley would become a stripper after she performed a routine to Britney Spears’ I’m A Slave 4 U aged eight.

Miley Cyrus was eight years old when Britney dropped one of her signature songs in 2001, complete with an iconic video that introduced her more mature image.

So perhaps the choreography was a bit too grown up for Miley.

The star recently shared a video of herself dancing to I’m A Slave 4 U as a child, and admitted her dad, country star Billy Ray, wasn’t best pleased.

Speaking on KISS Breakfast with Jordan and Perri, the 28-year-old said: ‘I actually just posted a video on my Instagram the other day, I think I am probably eight years old and I am recreating all the Slave for You choreography while my dad just sits in the corner and cries. 

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‘I remember my dad was just like, for sure that I was going to be like a stripper from that and I pretty much have become a stripper which is like great, I just get to do it on a large scale platform just like Britney Spears.’

Billy Ray ‘cried’ watching the choreography (Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty Images) Iconic (Picture: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Britney landed herself a place in MTV Video Music Awards history in 2001 when she emerged from a cage in a green belly top and proceeded to perform I’m A Slave 4 U with a Burmese python draped around her shoulders.

Fast forward 12 years, and Miley also made history at the VMAs with her own coming of age track We Can’t Stop – infamously twerking in a teddy bear bodysuit before stripping down to latex underwear and dancing with Robin Thicke. 

So the pop princesses may have had more in common than Billy Ray thought.

Elsewhere in her interview, Miley previewed what Christmas is like in the Cyrus household, and it sounds pretty chaotic.

The Midnight Sky singer said Christmas with her family involved ‘fist fights, and usually with each one of us removing ourselves and slamming the door in some way and a lot of apology texts…

‘I mean, we’re all kind of conspiracy theorists and I remember one year we got onto the topic of like aliens and it ended with my brothers not talking for a week and my mom crying.’

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Achy Breaky Heart singer Billy Ray is married to Tish, and they are parents to Miley, Braison, 26, and singer Noah, 20. 

Billy Ray, 59, is also dad to Christopher Cody, 28, from a previous relationship, and he also adopted Tish’s children Brandi, 33, and Metro Station singer Trace, 31, when they got married.

The family are expected to spend the holidays together in Tennessee.

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