Miley Cyrus flashes flesh in steamy new shoot as she reveals 'terrible habit' Dolly Parton taught her

Miley Cyrus was a sizzling sensation in a revealing bedazzled top that showed off her cleavage and taut midriff on her latest magazine cover.

The 33-year-old has been busily promoting her upcoming Disney+ concert special for the 20th anniversary of her star-making sitcom Hannah Montana.

Airing on the Disney Channel from 2006 to 2011, the series was about a high schooler called Miley Stewart leading a double life as the titular pop star.

Now Cyrus has revealed that she made the anniversary special a reality by plugging it to the public before the project had ever been greenlit.

She employed the tactic because of 'this terrible habit - but I actually think it was good advice,' that she learned from her godmother Dolly Parton.

'She told me that if you want something to happen, promote it before it exists. Then no one can say no,' Cyrus said in a cover interview with Variety.

'So I just started promoting a Hannah 20th-anniversary special that literally did not exist,' she remarked in the interview promoting her smoldering new photos.

One of the pictures saw her modeling a flesh-flashing netted top that allowed her to put her impressively chiseled midriff on display.

In another, she shot the camera a sultry come-hither stare while sprawled across a chaise lounge, modeling gleaming skintight silver trousers redolent of the 1980s.

During her interview, she also retracted the apology she had issued over her controversial Vanity Fair cover from 2008.

She was 15 years old at the time - still in the midst of Hannah Montana - when she fronted the magazine topless with a bedsheet draped across her front.

'I remember sitting at the family computer looking at what people were saying about me,' she said in her new interview whilst looking back on the brouhaha.

'I wasn’t sorry so much as I was embarrassed by the reaction, and it felt like it would put out a lot of fires for me to be apologetic,' she explained while adding that nowadays 'I don’t think it was apology-worthy, because I didn’t do anything wrong.'

Cyrus and Parton share professional ties as well as a personal bond, for example by co-hosting a New Year's Eve special as 2022 rolled over into 2023.

In the run-up to the special, the Can't Be Tamed hitmaker was asked about the possibility of playing Parton in a biopic at some point down the road. 

If she did, getting into Parton's look would evidently not be too far a stretch, as Cyrus quipped: 'I'm sucked, I'm tucked and plucked, just like she taught me,' to E! News.

'Me and Dolly have never really spoken, honestly, about me playing Dolly because I feel like I'm already doing it,' she added, while joking that 'I don't know what they're gonna do to me' in order to give her Parton's famously sizable bust.

Cyrus has often demonstrated her affection for Parton, even to the point of releasing a cover of the country icon's smash hit 1973 single Jolene. 

Parton shared a few warm words for Cyrus in 2019 when the younger singer was going through a turbulent period in her love life. 

That year, Cyrus split from her husband Liam Hemsworth and then embarked on a whirlwind summer romance with Brody Jenner's ex Kaitlynn Carter before falling into the arms of her longtime friend Cody Simpson. 

'Lord, I’ve done everything, and what I ain’t done, I intend to,' Parton told People. 'She’s going to do that, too. But Miley’s smart; Miley knows what she’s doing.' 

She added: 'I know we think she doesn’t, and she might not every minute, but I still know that she’s got good stuff in her.'

Parton shared that 'I’ve told her some things that I think are valuable and that she uses, but I’d rather live an example' and 'be an example rather than just try to tell somebody to do this, do that because I don’t think that’s right.'

The 9 To 5 star added: 'Everybody's different. You’ve got your own journey. And some people are going to help you along the way and they can kick a few rocks out of the road for you, but you got to walk it.'