Hannah Montana fans devastated over Emily Osment and Mitchel Musso skipping 20th anniversary special

The Lilly Truscott actor is currently filming the ‘Young Sheldon’ spin-off, ‘Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’
The Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special arrived on Disney+ Tuesday, but not everyone in the original cast was accounted for.

Fans of the iconic Disney sitcom were devastated to realize that Emily Osment and Mitchel Musso — who played Miley Cyrus’s character Miley Stewart’s best friends Lilly Truscott and Oliver Oken, respectively — were missing from the reunion.

One person wrote on X: “feels so incomplete without lily & oliver.” Another agreed, “No Emily.

No Oliver.

No thank you.”
“It's pretty sad that Emily and Mitchell didn't go to this canonical event, being the protagonist trio, literally there's nothing more important than this??????

please,” another wrote on X.

Another complained on X: “It really makes me sad that we didn’t got a reunion between the three most important characters at Hannah Montana.

Emily and Mitchel are really missing in these pictures and it doesn’t feels complete.”
“We are at the Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage set, and that’s why I was not able to be a part of the 20-year reunion, because we are here shooting our show,” Osment said in the video, alongside her Georgie and Mandy co-star Montana Jordan.

“But I wanted to say hello and thank you to everybody that has stuck by us for all these years.

I’m so grateful that you guys all still love the show.

I’m so proud to be a part of it… We appreciate you.

Lots of love.”
Osment plays the titular Mandy McAllister in the CBS series, which is a direct sequel to Young Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory franchise.

In the caption of her post, Osment added: “ Hannah Montana changed my life, it gave me a lifelong respect for this medium of comedy, it taught me discipline, patience, timing and respect working in an adult space so young.

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

“Thank you for letting me into your living rooms and I hope to still be there many years from now.”
“That confidence still sticks with me every single day.

To all of you who grew up right alongside us… your friends were our friends too.

Like my Lillypop said on her post, so many of you building families of your own and sharing this wonderful story with your kids is a gift beyond words.

It’s been the coolest part of HM.

He did not clarify the reason for his absence from the special, though Musso’s Disney career was cut short after a 2013 DUI arrest.

Osment commented on Musso’s post: “Love you so so much [heart emoji].”
The Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special is out now on Disney+.

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