{"id":2304590,"date":"2026-02-28T05:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304590"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:52:17","slug":"aly-aj-recall-turning-down-hannah-montana-amid-disney-channel-shows-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/aly-aj-recall-turning-down-hannah-montana-amid-disney-channel-shows-20th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Aly & Aj Recall Turning Down ‘Hannah Montana’ Amid Disney Channel Show’s 20th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aly and Aj are opening up turning down roles in Hannah Montana<\/a>!<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t know, Aly Michalka<\/a> was originally offered Hannah in the hit Disney Channel<\/a> series, and her younger sister Aj Michalka<\/a> was offered the character\u2019s best friend Lilly Truscott.<\/p>\n

In a new interview, the actresses and musicians looked back on that time and why they ultimately turned it down.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it was soon after Phil [of the Future] wrapped and they were looking for the next shows, and I think at that point I was almost 16 and a half, maybe 17. So, definitely older than Miley<\/a> [Cyrus] was probably at that time,\u201d Aly…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aly and Aj are opening up turning down roles in Hannah Montana! If you didn\u2019t know, Aly Michalka was originally offered Hannah in the hit Disney Channel series, and her younger sister Aj Michalka was offered the character\u2019s best friend Lilly Truscott. In a new interview, the actresses and musicians looked back on that time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2304590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Aly-Aj-Recall-Turning-Down-Hannah-Montana-Amid-Disney.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304592,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304590\/revisions\/2304592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}