9 reasons why Miley and Liam were doomed from the start

THEY were a match made in showbiz heaven ... or were they? Those close to the Hollywood pair said they would never walk down the aisle. Here's why.

In happier times, Liam and Miley in June 2012. Picture: Getty

THEY were a match made in showbiz heaven ... or were they?

He a surfer and former carpenter of Phillip Island and she a teen superstar of Hannah Montana fame, Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus were initially from two different worlds.

After meeting on the set of the Nicolas Sparks movie The Last Song in 2009, they embarked on a rollercoaster relationship, culminating in an engagement and a flurry of declarations of their love on Twitter.

But despite a big rock, numerous red carpet appearances and three tumultuous years, those close to Miley and Liam say they would never walk down the aisle.

The pair were doomed from the start.

Their break-up makes sense for those who've followed their romance - or "showmance" as many conspiracy theorists would have you believe.

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth in 2009's The Last Song. How times have changed. Picture: Supplied

There had been rumblings for months that the relationship was in trouble with a capital T and today they called off their 15-month engagement.

Here's why they were never meant to live happily ever after.

Miley loves Twitter, Liam loathes it.

Miley has always had two big loves in her life. Liam, and Twitter. Perez Hilton reported as far back as October last year that Liam had demanded his fiancée quit the micro blogging site. She didn't. When Miley stopped following Liam on Twitter it was a #fittingend to their relationship.

They don't always support each other.

Miley and Liam have rarely been seen together of late and when a couple makes headlines for actually being in the same place at the same time you know things can't be good. The pair were reportedly "like strangers" at the premiere of his film Paranoia, while Liam didn't even turn up to watch her MTV VMA performance. It begs the question, would Miley have given the same raunchy performance at the MTV VMAs if Liam was in the room?

Liam and Miley at the Vanity Fair Oscars after party in 2012. Picture: Getty

Miley's makeover

When Miley underwent her physical makeover, she also had an attitudinal makeover. And Liam didn't like it. Neither did his family and her new edgy attention-grabbing look was at odds with the small town boy from Australia.

She was 19 when she became engaged

Some may say that's too young to become a wife, others may say follow your heart. But the makeover Miley has undergone and Liam's swift rise to fame has proved they've greatly changed and are not the same innocent kids who met on the set of their first movie.

She basically played a marathon game of hide and seek with her ring.

It was a daily guessing game as to whether Miley was wearing her ring or not. Sometimes she'd tweet photos with it, sometimes without. The on-again, off-again ring tricks were an indicator that their relationship had entered rollercoaster territory.

In happier times, Liam and Miley in June 2012. Picture: Getty

Liam wants to be a serious, critically acclaimed actor

Miley wants pop star world domination - and she is prepared to twerk and grind and get naked as much as she has to to achieve it. "Even if you were watching just to hate on me, now I hold the record, so I win," she told Good Morning America of the criticism she received for her performance.

Meeting on the set of a Nicolas Sparks movie doesn't always mean happily ever after.

Just ask Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. There could not have been a more romantic setting for The Notebook's co-stars to have met, but just like Miley and Liam, they hit the three-year mark and it was all over.

Liam will always be a surfer dude from Phillip Island

And Miley hated his look. "I have a problem with people who wear board shorts when they're not going to the beach, and [Liam is] constantly in surf trunks," she said on the Graham Norton Show. Not a problem for you anymore Miley.

Miley couldn't have been less disinterested in her wedding

"I definitely don't have time to deal with a wedding right now. But I will at some point.," she told the October issue of Harper's Bazaar. It was relegated to the bottom of her to-do list.