Back in the day, Miley Cyrus got booted from Hotel Transylvania, and it wasn’t over bad voice acting! On June 10, the pop star spilled all the tea on the “Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky” podcast, revealing she was fired at 18 after a private pic of her licking a penis-shaped cake went viral. The cheeky dessert was a birthday gag for her then-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, but the Hotel Transylvania team didn’t laugh.
Miley Cyrus reveals she was originally cast as the lead in ‘Hotel Transylvania,’ but was later replaced by Selena Gomez:
“I, as a joke, got my boyfriend a p*nis cake for his birthday. I was the lead in Hotel Transylvania and they fired me and replaced me.” pic.twitter.com/w3YTKCc16i
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 11, 2025
Miley was originally cast as Mavis Dracula in the animated film (which dropped in 2012), but after the pic leaked, Sony dropped her. The role eventually went to Selena Gomez. “I got fired and replaced because I made an inappropriate adult joke,” she said. “But I was 18.” She found it ridiculous that something so tame could cost her such a role. Interestingly, this wasn’t the first time the “Flowers” hitmaker has mentioned the penis cake situation. Back in 2019, she took to Twitter (now X) to communicate her losing the Mavis Dracula role:
I got kicked off hotel Transylvania for buying Liam a penis cake for his birthday and licking it.
— Miley Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 22, 2019
It wasn’t even something I posted,” she said. While she admits she wasn’t exactly family-friendly at the time, the singer insists that losing the role for a private moment felt totally unfair. Fortunately, penis cakes aren’t enough to end a career. Recently, the pop star dropped “Something Beautiful,” her most acclaimed album to date.