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Miley nixes dad on ‘View’

Miley Cyrus has gotten her dad to back out of a scheduled appearance on “The View” — to keep him from bad-mouthing “Hannah Montana,” according to reports.

Last week, dad Billy Ray Cyrus complained in an interview with GQ magazine that he was no longer close to his daughter and that he regretted ever letting her appear in the Disney Channel series that made her famous.

“At first, Miley defended her dad, wanting to believe he had been tricked into saying bad things by the magazine,” an insider told popeater.com, a Hollywood gossip site owned by AOL.

“But after she found out about his media trip to New York, no more excuses could be made.

“Only last week, Billy shot his mouth off in GQ, and now he planned to sit down with [Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg] and talk more crap about his family? No way would Miley or her team let that happen.”

Billy Ray had been listed as a guest on today’s show for several weeks. Then, yesterday, without mentioning Cyrus’ cancellation, a press release from the morning talk show listed MSNBC anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as today’s guests.

A spokesman for Billy Ray declined comment last night and said he had no plans to reschedule.

“The damn show destroyed my family,” Billy Ray told the magazine of “Hannah.”

“I’d erase it all in a second if I could.”