Miley Becomes Tabloid Target Thanks to Older Undies Model

Miley Becomes Tabloid Target Thanks to Older Undies Model

Posted Oct. 27, 2008

It looks like Miley Cyrus' goody-two-shoes image, already dinged by various photo flaps, is taking another hit due to her rumored beau, Justin Gaston.

Depending on which spurious tabloid report you believe, the purity ring-sporting teen queen is either looking to ditch her parents' digs and get her own apartment in Los Angeles when she turns 16 next month (per Star, which says she wants a place to "watch movies and eat popcorn and have her boyfriend ... over"), or she's sharing her family's home with the 20-year-old underwear model-cum-wannabe singer (per the National Enquirer, which claims dad Billy Ray "approves" of the "shocking living arrangement" but points out that she's required to keep her bedroom door open when Gaston is present).

Billy Ray wraps a protective arm around Miley as her maybe-beau Justin Gaston follows the required three paces behind. (©X17Online.com)

Meanwhile, the London Sun tries to connect the dots by contending that Papa Cyrus has given his rapidly maturing, tongue-waggling little girl a birds-and-bees-style talking-to.

A source quotes Billy Ray as saying, "We brought Miley up with good morals and strong religion, but she's at that age where she is bound to be experimenting and her hormones are going nuts."

He then purportedly horn-tooted, "Miley's career is just rolling along now and getting bigger and bigger. Everyone loves her, and she has a shot to have a career like Julia Roberts or Jennifer Aniston or someone like that. I told her in no uncertain terms that her career would be over if something stupid were to happen and she would no longer be a role model for young girls, something she takes very seriously."

In the end, "I think I made an impression on her -- at least I hope so," Billy Ray allegedly concluded. "I don't want to forbid her from dating because that would just make her sneak around. I'd rather have everything up front and out in the open. Miley is a really good kid, but she has to watch her step as far as boys are concerned."

On Saturday, the Disney powerhouse stepped out with her dad and Gaston for brunch and a trip to a recording studio before jetting off to Berlin to promote her "Breakout" album.

And for now at least, she's wisely playing it coy over the stardom-seeking piece of still-tender beefcake, whom she described to Ryan Seacrest last week as a "really great friend" and "a really great Christian guy."

So are they an item?

"Maybe. Maybe not," sidestepped Cyrus, who then pointed out, "Everyone started judging us as soon as we started hanging out ... Right now, everything is, like, really good. I haven't really been answering the question much just because we're just really happy with everything and the way everything has worked out."

But she says if nature takes its course, her parents would be fine with it.

"My family's like, whatever happens, happens," shrugged Miley. "He worked with my dad, so my dad thinks he's really cool."

But the Enquirer, as it is wont to do, goes a bit overboard with the possible trajectory of the age-inappropriate romance, claiming that the Cyrus clan is already plotting the pair's future.

"Justin is the guy Miley's parents see her settling down with a few years down the line," a spy asserts to the tab, which features pics of Gaston partying shirtless with some male pals. "He's handsome, talented, clean-living, goes to church and knows his Bible -- a real catch."