{"id":143531,"date":"2025-06-11T10:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=143531"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:57:38","slug":"throwback-a-look-back-into-miley-cyrus-controversy-with-hotel-transylvania-over-a-penis-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/throwback-a-look-back-into-miley-cyrus-controversy-with-hotel-transylvania-over-a-penis-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback: A look back into Miley Cyrus controversy with Hotel Transylvania over a penis cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, <strong>Miley Cyrus<\/strong> got booted from <strong>Hotel Transylvania<\/strong>, and it wasn\u2019t over bad voice acting! On June 10, the pop star spilled all the tea on the \u201c<strong>Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky<\/strong>\u201d 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\u2019t laugh.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1932660454436057274\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Miley Cyrus reveals she was originally cast as the lead in \u2018Hotel Transylvania,\u2019 but was later replaced by Selena Gomez:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, 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.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w3YTKCc16i\">pic.twitter.com\/w3YTKCc16i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1932660454436057274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong>. \u201cI got fired and replaced because I made an inappropriate adult joke,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I was 18.\u201d She found it ridiculous that something so tame could cost her such a role. Interestingly, this wasn&#8217;t the first time the &#8220;Flowers&#8221; hitmaker has mentioned the penis cake situation. Back in 2019, she took to Twitter (now X) to communicate her losing the Mavis Dracula role:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MileyCyrus\/status\/1164595247680282624\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I got kicked off hotel Transylvania for buying Liam a penis cake for his birthday and licking it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Miley Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MileyCyrus\/status\/1164595247680282624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t even something I posted,\u201d she said. While she admits she wasn\u2019t exactly family-friendly at the time, the singer insists that losing the role for a private moment felt totally unfair. Fortunately, penis cakes aren\u2019t enough to end a career. Recently, the pop star dropped \u201c<strong>Something Beautiful<\/strong>,\u201d her most acclaimed album to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, Miley Cyrus got booted from Hotel Transylvania, and it wasn\u2019t over bad voice acting! On June 10, the pop star spilled all the tea on the \u201cReclaiming with Monica Lewinsky\u201d podcast, revealing she was fired at 18 after a private pic of her licking a penis-shaped cake went viral. 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