Liz Hurley

Profession: Actress
Place/Date of Birth: Basingstoke, Hampshire, 10 June 2020
Associated with: Hugh Grant

Hurley is also busy looking for a house in LA, following news that she is set to star in a US sitcom.

Six Million Dollar Girl - 11/02/03
From the girl who once held her dress together with a few safety pins to a six million deal with Estee Lauder again - well done Liz!

Estee Lauder have extended Liz’s contract to the tune of six million - so she will continue to be ’the face of Estee Lauder’ for another three years.

This means she will still be modelling at the ripe old age of 41, which is very unusual for a model. Still, six million will help little Damian to stay in nappies though.

Hurley refuses ?1.8m child support - 18/12/02
Liz Hurley has refused to accept Steve Bing’s ?1.8 million financial support offer for their son Damian.

Millionaire Steve Bing said he would pay ?100,000 a year in "financial provision" for Damian - who was born earlier this year - until he reaches 18. The film producer said he was "delighted" to make "generous provision" for the youngster.

Elizabeth Hurley released a statement saying: "I have always made it perfectly clear to Stephen Bing, the father of my son Damian, that I don’t want any financial help from him whatsoever.

It added: "However, following legal proceedings instigated by himself and opposed by me, it appears that one cannot stop someone trying to give you money. Fortunately one can refuse to accept it. This I have done. "Mr Bing states that the financial provision in the court order was ’by consent’. This statement is false.

"It was not by consent, it was opposed by me in court. It does not say ’by consent’ on the court order. She concluded: "I know that ?100,000 a year is an enormous sum of money to Mr Bing and I fully appreciate his generosity towards his son.

"However my position remains the same. The money is not wanted or welcome. Damian and I are managing very well by ourselves."

Sleeve secrets - 26/11/02 Courtesy of Heat Magazine
Liz Hurley has revealed one of her specials secrets to looking slim - and its not carrying giant baby Damian around. She wears men’s watches to make her wrists appear smaller. Try it at home

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Biography

Born on June 10 1965, in Hampshire, England, Elizabeth Hurley is the daughter of an army officer and an elementary schoolteacher mother.

At 21, Hurley got her first film role in the 1987 film Aria after having attended the London Studio Centre on scholarship. Hurley’s role in the film Remando al Viento that same year could be considered a crucial one, as it also starred her future boyfriend Hugh Grant.

However, despite acting and modelling jobs it was a certain safety pinned Versace frock that made Liz on of Britain’s most famous faces. She wore what would soon simply be called ’that dress’ to the premiere of Hugh’s breakthrough film Four Weddings and a Funeral. More attention followed when Estee Lauder signed Hurley to be the face of their cosmetics.

Although together for several years, even sticking together through the embarrassing Divine Brown incident, Hugh and Liz split in 2001 although they remain friends to this day. Liz had a brief fling with billionaire Steve Bing, during which she became pregnant with her son Damien. A very public battle occured during her pregnancy with Bing claiming that the child was not his. Liz found vindication when the child was born - not only was he the spit of Bing but a dna test proved without doubt what we could all see.

Liz is now engaged to Indian businessman Arun Nayer and their impending nuptuals have been the source of much speculation with several dates touted and even Hugh Grant has been suggested as Arun’s best man.

Meanwhile Liz’s career has taken a forward leap. Her acting credentials may be lousy (Bedazzled anyone?) and her stint as presenter of Project Catwalk might have been panned but the very British beauty has found her niche. Elizabeth Hurley Beach, her own range of beachwear has been flying off the shelves in the UK and US while her Estee Lauder job goes from strength to strength.

Liz splits her time between Ampney Crucis in the Cotswolds and California.
October 2007