Yes, Miley Cyrus' Homeless Friend Had Some Legal Troubles, But Does That Really Detract From Her Good Cause?

As the media dug into Jesse Helt's background this week following his debut on the Video Music Awards stage over the weekend, details on his criminal record emerged. Helt had been charged with attempted burglary in 2010, and violated his parole. A warrant remained out for his arrest in Oregon, his home state — until this week, that is. With money from Miley paying for his ticket, Helt returned home and promptly "turned himself in to Polk County authorities," the Associated Press reports (via The New York Daily News). He then posted bail, and his next court date will be in two weeks. Helt's mother Linda told Us Weekly that Miley has offered to help with any/all legal fees that ensue, though it's not yet clear if she also ponied up the cash for his bail so he could enjoy his time back in Oregon at home with family, and, you know, not in jail.

Miley had previously chastised coverage of Jesse's story earlier this week. In a series of angry tweets she wrote that the media "never fails to disappoint," and argued journalists had "gone after" a negative, clickbait story instead of focusing on the greater, positive cause. The rub is, though, that Helt's background — particularly given his sensationalized introduction to the world — is pretty intrinsically linked with youth homelessness now; his moving speech at the VMAs will have made him a face (if not the face) of the issue.

Is it unfortunate his dirty laundry is being aired in the tabloids? Yes. Is that something you sign up for when you agree to take on a starring role in a major, nationally broadcast awards show? Arguably, yes again. But then surely his story, warts and all, helps add context — at least one person's context — to an otherwise amorphous, faceless group. Whether that makes him more or less relatable (as expected, the response has fallen on both sides of the coin) is sort of immaterial, actually; it's made him more real — because Jesse and the other 1.6 million homeless youth across the United States are all real people. And, hey, that's actually what Miley wants to publicize!

So then, as she also tweeted, if that's a reality you'd like to help with, consider entering her Prizeo contest and/or making a donation to My Friend's Place (or one of the many other stellar organizations out there dedicated to helping homeless youth).

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Here's Miley Cyrus Naked on a Pile of Stuffed Animals

Miley Cyrus covers the fall issue of V magazine (fittingly titled the Rebel Issue) in a baby blue fur bathing suit by Fendi, which kind of makes her look like a really hot Muppet. You know, the kind that would make Miss Piggy worry that Kermit was about to leave her, if Kermit weren't such a nice, one-woman frog. Photographed by Chanel mastermind Karl Lagerfeld, it's not totally clear that this photo was styled for a magazine shoot or if this is just how Miley relaxes at home after a long day. Because if anybody likes to hang out on top of a bunch of plush toys while wearing a furry swimsuit, it's Miley.

Miley also Instagrammed a censored nude shot of herself on top of the same pile of stuffed animals (see below), ostensibly for the purpose of convincing people to subscribe to the magazine in time to get the new issue, but probably just to give people a better look at that cute crocodile. Either way, this seems like a very effective way to advertise.

In other Miley news, she sent Ariana Grande flowers after the VMAs, perhaps as some sort of "welcome to the pop star fold" gesture. Hopefully this is the beginning of a beautiful (and duet-heavy) friendship.

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Miley Cyrus Took Her VMAs Date Out for Burgers After the Show

Miley Cyrus used her VMAs appearance Sunday to shed a spotlight on problems facing runaways and homeless youth when she won Video of the Year for "Wrecking Ball." But when Miley takes you to the VMAs, she doesn't make you pick up her Moonman without providing a little sustenance. She takes you out for burgers when the show's over!

After the VMAs, Miley and her date Jesse went to In-N-Out Burger, where they got those fun paper hats with palm trees on them and hopefully some animal-style fries. In the caption accompanying their burger selfie, Miley called Jesse her "hero" and said they went to the fast food restaurant to celebrate. Aww.

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Miley Cyrus Is Bringing Something Major to the Fashion World

According to MTV, Miley Cyrus and Jeremy Scott will be teaming up for the designer's spring/summer 2015 presentation next month at New York Fashion Week. Scott was tight-lipped about exactly what the collaboration will entail, but claimed the collection is built around "cool kids," each with his/her own distinct look, as opposed to the runway model clones that fill most fashion shows.

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Miley Cyrus: "Guys Watch Too Much Porn"

In her W Magazine cover feature, the now-single Miley Cyrus mentioned that she was having a tough time trusting guys, and generally having a rough time in the dating world, thanks to its unrealistic expectations (via Us Weekly):

"Guys watch too much porn. Those girls don't exist. They're not real girls. And that's like us watching romance movies. That's girl porn, because, like, those guys do not exist."

A little heteronormative, perhaps, as I am an avid porn and rom-com viewer, but nevertheless! I can confirm that everyone who is single and dating right now is in some kind of fantasy world.

Related: 10 Things You Should Never Say To A Single Twentysomething

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So, About That Time Miley Cyrus Made Out With Cara Delevingne

Remember when Miley Cyrus had a gay old time at MTV's European Music Awards in Amsterdam back in October? (You know, the time when she toked up on stage and everyone was like O_O even though it's AMSTERDAM PEOPLE, get with the program.) Anyway, emphasis on the phrase "gay old time" in particular, because Miley got together with British model/gadabout of the moment Cara Delevingne while in town for the ceremony and they licked each others' tongues in the back of some bar. 

Miley just shared a photo of the special faux-lesbian moment on Twitter, with a faux-rainbow too. Fun fact: the photo has been retweeted over 19,000 times already at the time of this posting, but not (yet) by Cara herself. Speculate away. I had always thought this sort of open-mouth makeout session was limited to Eastern European gay porn films from the late '90s, but there you go — the cool kids are appropriating queer culture again. #Typical.

p.s. Let's now re-examine Miley's "Adore You" music video for signs of semi-latent bisexuality. 

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J.Law Just Slightly More Entertaining Than Miley, Poll Reveals

As if there were any question that it's The Year of Jennifer Lawrence, J.Law has been crowned AP Entertainer of the Year, beating out Miley Cyrus by just one vote. (Netflix came in No. 3.) 

The Catching Fire actress has managed to stay in the spotlight throughout 2013 while still seeming like your long-lost best friend. Recently, in her interview with Barbara Walters as one of the year's most intriguing people, she called out fat-shaming, going as far as to say the word "fat" should be illegal on TV. She also was recognized on Cosmo's Year in Boobs list, and what greater honor can a girl want, really?

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Sinead O’Connor, Miley Cyrus Still Going At It

After surges in web traffic following her first open letter crashed her website, Sinead O’Connor posted a second Cyrus-centric missive on Facebook late last night. This time, she was pissy.

Open letter #2 opens with “Miley… really? Who the fuck is advising you?” and quickly warns Cyrus that “taking me on is even more fuckin’ stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism.”

Angry Sinead then threatens legal action following Miley’s snark-filled response to her first bunch of suggestions, and says it’s “most unbecoming for you to [have responded] in such a fashion to someone who expressed care for you.” Meanwhile, realizing that an opinion on the whole Miley saga is a guarantee of some press coverage, anybody and everybody with designs on a mention as In Touch sidebar started piling on with judgemental tweets of their own.

Wisely, Miley took a more measured approach in her second round of responses:

Sinead. I don't have time to write you an open letter cause Im hosting & performing on SNL this week.

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 3, 2013

So if youd like to meet up and talk lemme know in your next letter. :)

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 3, 2013

So we look forward to the pair getting together for a coffee sometime soon and twerking hugging it out.

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Miley Cyrus Twerking Action Figure Goes on Sale

A Miley Cyrus 'twerking action figure' has gone on sale.

American toy company HeroBuilder is offering the product - a mock-up of Cyrus during her controversial VMAs performance - at $29.95 with only 5,000 available.

Miley Cyrus 'twerking action figure'

"ORDER 'THE TWERKING FIGURINES - BOBBLE BUTT' BEFORE THEY ARE SOLD OUT," reads the action figure's page.

"ONLY 5000 UNITS WILL BE MADE - LIMIT IS ONE PER ORDER 29.95. The first 2500 WILL BE DELIVERED BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS."

Meanwhile, Cyrus is currently in a feud with Sinead O'Connor. The Irish singer has questioned Cyrus's sensitivity about mental health, after the 'Wrecking Ball' star compared O'Connor to Amanda Bynes.

Celebrity photographer Terry Richardson has also released pictures of his session with Cyrus, which shows her wearing a revealing red leotard, smoking and covering her crotch with beer.

Watch Miley Cyrus's video for 'Wrecking Ball' below:

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Miley and Sinead's Internet Feud Came in Like a Wrecking Ball

After Miley Cyrus told Rolling Stone that her "Wrecking Ball" video was inspired by Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” video from the early ‘90s — both singers appear in extreme close up, pretty-crying into the camera — O'Connor responded by saying she is extremely flattered and hopes to someday write haikus with Miley over Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks. Just kidding, she actually wrote an open letter on her website slut-shaming Miley. Because it’s 2013 and ranting on the internet is what we do now.

O’Connor writes, via Us Weekly, "I am extremely concerned for you that those around you have led you to believe, or encouraged you in your own belief, that it is in any way 'cool' to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos.”

To be fair — say what you will about Miley, but girl has never indicated that she has a desire to be cool. She’s just being Miley. (Interestingly, this news comes just one day after Marina Abramovic told the New York Times that “Wrecking Ball” "captures something about being young and rebellious. There is energy there, and I can see a talent.”)

O’Connor continues:

"You have enough talent that you don't need to let the music business make a prostitute of you…. Whether we like it or not, us females in the industry are role models and as such we have to be extremely careful what messages we send to other women.”

Despite her strong word choice, O’Connor is right that women in the music industry are labeled role models regardless of whether they want the title, and Miley herself has acknowledged the complicated challenge of maturing as an artist — and a twentysomething girl — when you have a worldwide fanbase that is primarily young girls.

Since the letter went viral this morning, O’Connor’s website has crashed, and Miley has responded by tweeting a screengrab of older tweets by O’Connor. 

Before Amanda Bynes.... There was.... pic.twitter.com/6JZPVnunPc

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 3, 2013

O’Connor has talked publicly about her mental health problems and suicide attempts in the past. And so the heated internet feud ends like most heated internet feuds — with no real winner.

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We're Obsessed With This Miley Mani by Miss Pop

When Hearst Digital Photo Editor, Elizabeth Griffin flashed us her brand-spankin' new, VMA-inspired Miley mani, created by the talented Miss Pop, we just had to share it.

Miss Pop told Cosmo, "I went to the VMAs, and the night after Elizabeth and I were joking around about Miley's performance, and I kind of just thought it would be fun to capture the humor behind it, by way of nail art, while everyone else was taking it so seriously."

Um, we love that positive attitude, Miss Pop!

So, are you dying over it as much as we are?!

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Miley Cyrus Teases "Wrecking Ball" Music Video

Miley Cyrus has teased fans with a new picture from her "Wrecking Ball" music video.

The singer is seen atop a giant demolition ball in the image, which was released ahead of the video's premiere on Monday (September 9).

The new single - the follow-up to Cyrus's UK chart-topper "We Can't Stop" - is the second cut from her upcoming album Bangerz.

"Wrecking Ball" has so far peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It is available to download for North American fans who wish to pre-order the star's new album.

Bangerz is set to feature a collaboration with Britney Spears, who Cyrus previously described as her "dream artist" to work with.

Producer Sean Garrett has described the track as "iconic" and "nuts" but the collaboration has not yet been confirmed by Cyrus or Spears.

Listen to "Wrecking Ball" below:

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Miley Cyrus Twerks All Over You

At the 2013 VMAs, Miley Cyrus introduced twerking to those who don't seem to use the internet the world. She shook it so hard on top of Robin Thicke's crotch that people couldn't stop talking about it for a week post-award show.

What most people seem to forget is that Miley is a twerk veteran—it has been her go-to move since the "We Can't Stop" video. 

And while Miley has been shaking her jelly at back-up dancers, screaming Smilers and music collaborators for months, it's only now that you're able to get a piece of dat too. You've got the devious minds at christopherleesauve.com to thank for that, they clearly know a cash cow when they see one.

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Here's Your Daily Dose of Miley Cyrus' Spectacular Ass

On the off chance you haven't seen enough of Miley Cyrus' underbutt this week: Consider this photo released by her label to promote her teddy bear and ecstasy-filled new album, "Bangerz."

It's something of an outtake from the album cover art, but with an extra dose of ASS. And while her bum was brutally likened to that of King of the Hill's Hank Hill during her VMA performance, we think it looks pretty great here. If we went to Pilates as much as this girl, we'd probably wear a blazer with no pants, too.

Image via MTV

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We're Obsessed With This Miley Mani by Miss Pop

When Hearst Digital Photo Editor, Elizabeth Griffin flashed us her brand-spankin' new, VMA-inspired Miley mani, created by the talented Miss Pop, we just had to share it.

Miss Pop told Cosmo, "I went to the VMAs, and the night after Elizabeth and I were joking around about Miley's performance, and I kind of just thought it would be fun to capture the humor behind it, by way of nail art, while everyone else was taking it so seriously."

Um, we love that positive attitude, Miss Pop!

So, are you dying over it as much as we are?!

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Is the Double Bun Back? Miley Cyrus and Kylie Jenner Seem to Think So

How's this for a Flashback Friday hair moment?!

We HAD to call attention to the fact that both Miley Cyrus and Kylie Jenner are taking a stab at the double-bun style that was originally made famous by Princess Leia, wayyy back in the day, and more recently, Gwen Stefani.

We're all for this half-sweet, half-punk rocker style, but it's not exactly an everyday look. Now for the real question:

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She's Just Being Miley! The "We Can't Stop" Star's Best Style Moments

July 23, 2013 at 4:06PM By Dara Adeeyo |
This week, SVS hosts Mike Cannon and Lyndsey Rodrigues join forces with Cosmo Radio's Taylor Strecker to discuss Miley Cyrus' style.

Check out the show above and click here to subscribe to Hello Style (it's free!), so you can get your Sexy vs. Skanky fix every week.

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Miley Cyrus + Snoop Lion = Amazing

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Waka Flocka Flame Loves Miley Cyrus As Much As We Do (Or Maybe Even More!)

We're not the only ones that have a thing for Miley Cyrus.

Waka Flocka Flame has admitted his "real slick crush" on our girl Miley to XXL Magazine, and waxed poetic about all things having to do with the singer—from her haircut to her recent twerking video.

The rapper even outed himself for having "bummed a guest seat from Russell Simmons to go to her party"— that is, Cosmo's party for March cover girl Miley at New York's Acme last month. (So that's why we spotted him!)

"I went to the party, she didn't even know it. I walked right by her, she didn't even know it. As soon as she walked in the door I walked f*cking by her, she didn't even know. I didn't say s**t," Waka told XXL. "I haven't met her in real life."

We don't blame ya Waka! There's just something about Miley. After she covered our mag, we couldn't get enough of her— or her hot hair, sexy 'tude, and killer dance moves —either!

"Man, that s**t is so sexy," Waka said referring to the video of Cyrus that went viral, in which she "twerks" in an unicorn onesie. "Her body is fully covered, that's what made is so sexy."

However, the 26-year-old rapper seemed super bummed when he heard that our celeb BFF had another man in her life: her fiance, Aussie super hottie Liam Hemsworth. “Oh. Man. I didn’t even know that.”

Despite Waka not being able to connect with sexy Cyrus at our party for the cover girl stunna', it sounds as if he hopes they make sweet music together someday.

"I want to get a record with her. I got a sick, sick, sick record. Let me see if I got it. I got something I’d like to write for her, give her a feel for it just to write," Waka explains. "I already got my verse for it, I created the song, it’s called “Shots.” I got to pitch it, damn she might want to do it for her album! That’d be awesome. I’m going to do a record with her guaranteed. We’re gonna take steps.”

Are you listening, Miley?

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Cosmo Cover Girls Past (Miley) and Present (Kim K)

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Dara is the associate web editor for Cosmopolitan.com. She's intrigued by all things digital. Dara loves playing with html and discovering new studies. When she's not reading up on the latest cocktail recipes (for work, of course), she can be found breaking it down on the dance floor or watching the Investigative Discovery channel. She also has a sick obsession with nail polish, elephants, and most importantly, Nutella. Dara basically lives on Twitter, so tweet at her and say hey: @dadeeyo.
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Elisa Benson is the senior editor of social media for @Cosmopolitan?so, yes, she tweets about sex for a living. Elisa grew up in Ohio, attended Colgate University, and wrote love and relationship advice for Seventeen before graduating to Cosmo. She lives for girly things (weddings and eyelash extensions and Pretty Little Liars?) and frequently tweets about all of the above: @elisabenson.
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