Hannah Montana's Emily Osment and Miley Cyrus Texts, Holiday Plans
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Dec 26, 2008
Emily Osment is appreciating her Christmas breather today, especially since she's been juggling work on "Hannah Montana" with myriad other activities of late. "We've been working on the show right up 'til Christmas, doing four weeks in a row, which we usually don't do," reports the 16-year-old sister of Haley Joel Osment. "And every day there are other things to do, like going to my voice coach, getting my album finished and preparing for the SAT's -- there's certainly that."
Hannah Montana's Miley Cyrus (Image: Wenn)
Today, however, it's family time at the Osment household. Emily tells us, "My mom's from a family of six brothers and sisters, and they're all out with their kids. So it's sleeping on the floor for two weeks, trying to fit everybody into the house. It's going to be the best crowded Christmas ever. I'm really looking forward to it."
As far as her BFF and cast mate, Miley Cyrus, "She's in Tennessee. She's been texting me, like, every 10 minutes -- 'I'm bored. I want to come back.'"
Sounds like teenagers, all right.
They'll be back in production right after New Year's, and then Emily will also get busy promoting her February-debuting Disney Channel Original Movie, "Dadnapped," in which she stars with a clutch of other Disney Channel stars. Then in April, the feature film version of "Hannah Montana" comes out. Then Emily's album … and on it goes in the hectic world of the Osment chosen by Parade magazine and Forbes as the No. 1 Hot Kid Star to Watch.
YULE LOG: It's a quiet family day for Jason Priestley, wife Naomi and their 1 1/2-year-old daughter, Ava. "We're staying here for Christmas. It's a fun time with my daughter, even just looking at the lights." He laughs. "'Looking at the lights, man!' I sound like Cheech Marin." Priestley has the Hallmark Channel movie "Expecting a Miracle" with Cheech and Teri Polo, coming up Jan. 10 -- by which time he'll be directing an episode of the CW's "90210."
It's a multi-generational celebration for comic Paul Rodriguez, who says he'll spend Christmas with "my mom and eat my weight in tamales" -- while awaiting word on the arrival of his first grandchild. Rodriguez' son Paul, a.k.a. pro skateboarding star P-Rod, is anticipating the birth of a daughter, and Paul Sr. is "really looking forward to it. I'm glad he had a kid. He does all these 'rails,' and I told him to watch himself," recalls the performer. He's also excited about Paul, Jr.'s acting career. His "Vicious Circle" flick premiered at last summer's HBO New York Latino International Film Festival, and "it took first place," reports the proud dad. "He's a really good actor, and he's going to have success in that."
"Lost's" Jorge Garcia says, "I'm going to my parents' house for Christmas. I'll be there about 10 days."
FAR, FAR AWAY: Aussie star Grant Bowler has been missing his 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter while half a world away in New York shooting "Ugly Betty" -- in which he plays the scheming CFO/Vanessa Williams's lust interest Connor Owens. Now he is making up for lost family time, having a warm weather Christmas Down Under. "I've rented a beach house in Queensland in Australia. It's myself, my wife and the kids up there," he says. "I'll wake up with the kids every morning and play with them until it's time to tuck them in."
And Hamish Linklater, a.k.a. Julia Louis-Dreyfus's brother on "The New Adventures of Old Christine," is spending the day in Woodstock, N.Y., with his wife's family -- then, "We're going to Scotland for New Year's for the first time with my daughter. We'll be at my mom's house in the Orkney Islands off the northern coast of Scotland -- where it's daylight for about four hours a day and the very cold hail comes in horizontally just about every day. It's going to be interesting with a 1 1/2-year-old locked into a tiny farmhouse in the middle of permanent midnight," he says.
HE'S INTO IT: Douglas Smith of "Big Love" is holidaying with his family in Vancouver, B.C. He told us that he and brother Gregory Smith ("Everwood") planned to fly up to spend Christmas with their mom and dad, and little brother and sister. "Then I'll come back down and be with my girlfriend," he says of singer Ashton Lunceford, who's spending Christmas with her family in South Carolina. They'll take a short romantic getaway in California wine country, then "We'll do the massive party night somewhere for New Year's Eve."
Smith and his gal have been caught up in the holiday spirit for weeks, he says. "We're pretty festive people. We had a party, and she did all these great things. She had an ornament-making station. She made homemade peppermint bark. I had the hammer and broke up the candy. It was great. And if you think all that is too much holiday spirit, we also had 12 people in to watch 'Holiday Inn' and 'Home Alone.' I love those songs in 'Holiday Inn' -- Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas.' It's really, really amazing," says Smith, who has a career as a rocker with his band, named "his orchestra." "It's 75 years later, and we're still singing those songs. You can make them sound like modern music, you can do folkie versions. I like the material. It puts you in a happy mood. I'm not an elitist, just listening to Brian Eno. I like all kinds of stuff."
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