Miley Cyrus fans are in an uproar over a video making the rounds online showing the ‘Hannah Montana‘ star using a body double on her wildly successful Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus ‘Best of Both Worlds’ tour.
During a performance of “We Got the Party” one of the dancers is seen cloaking her with a black sheet and ushering her offstage through a back door, as another girl dressed just like her in the same pink trench coat, pops in through another door and continues to dance around and lip sync the rest of the song.
A rep for Miley has issued a statement saying the onstage switch using the body double is for a costume change.
“To help speed the transition from Hannah to Miley, there is a production element during the performance of ‘We Got the Party’ incorporating a body double for Miley,” according to statement Friday from the public relations firm PMK.
“After Hannah has completed the featured verse on the duet with the Jonas Brothers, a body double appears approximately one to two minutes prior to the end of the song in order to allow Miley to remove the Hannah wig and costume and transform into Miley for her solo set. Other than during this very brief transitional moment in the show, Miley performs live during the entirety of both the Hannah and Miley segments of the concert.”
The Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana tour is one of the hottest in the country, with tickets selling out within minutes.
We have two video clips below of the Hannah Montana body double switch. The first one is a short clip of the incident itself. The second one is a longer version of better quality that shows the switch around the 2:30 mark.