Love blossomed for Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley nearly three years after they costarred in 2022's Christmas in Paradise. "We 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, there was a chemistry there that [I] felt," Cyrus said on Apple Music's Ty Bentli Show in April 2025. "We just laughed, and it was at a time [when] I wasn't laughing a lot and I found that the oddest thing.