Getting smiley with Miley

ed potton spends a tiring but instructive day with Destiny Hope Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, aka 'a genuinely good role model' for the world's youth

Destiny Hope "Miley" Cyrus is 14 years old. She sings, dances and acts with corn-fed vim. And she believes that "pink isn't just a colour, it's an attitude". If you are a tween girl in America or Europe (or the relative of one) you will probably know all these things. You will also be an avid watcher oi Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel show in which Cyrus plays a girl with a double life. By day she is Miley Stewart, a mild-mannered girl-next-door (brunette — hair colour is important). By night she is Hannah Montana, a "teen pop sensation" (and blonde). Nobody knows her secret except her close friends and family, including her Dad, who is also her manager and who — rather neatly — is played by her real father, the country music star Billy Ray Cyrus. Hannah Montana is the current figurehead of Disney's global marketing juggernaut. Last year she trumped the Beatles and Elvis by having seven singles simultaneously in the Billboard singles chart, and now her first album is poised to go platinum in the UK. This week she came to Europe for the first time, visiting London and Paris to promote her new DVD. Cyrus Sr had to remain in Los Angeles, where he is currently appearing alongside Heather Mills McCartney in Dancing with the Stars. 11:40am. New Look Store, Oxford Street A fleet of silver cars disgorges Cyrus's entourage, which includes several publicists, a frizzy-haired male stylist and a pair of lantern-jawed Disney bigwigs. But there's no Miley herself, who has clearly mastered the art ofthe diva entrance. While we wait, Adam Sanderson, Disney's senior vicepresident of brand marketing, talks about how excited he is to be "kicking off the European roll-out". Hannah Montana, he says, "has quickly grown into a multiplatform business for the Walt Disney Company. It's something that all kids can relate to, whether