For Shane Warne, Liz Hurley is just the latest notch on the bedpost. For her, he’s a means to escape the fantasy life she’s constructed on a 400-acre organic farm in Gloucestershire since her marriage to Arun Nayar three years ago.
Desperate for stability for her and her son, Damian, by American millionaire Steve Bing, she had imagined Arun - cool, wealthy and clever, with a degree in physics from Oxford and a penchant for collecting cufflinks and expensive watches - to be the perfect husband.
Hurley spotted a gap in the organic market for non-fattening healthy snacks and threw herself into promoting her new business, while also proclaiming her devotion to motherhood.
In an interview last year, she said she didn’t have any spare time at all: ‘I have two businesses and I like to do the school run as well and be with Damian when he is not at school. It would be impossible to find time to have a facial or a massage.’
Well, as the whole world now knows, despite the exigencies of the school run, she has managed lately to find time for rather more than just a massage. I’ve no doubt she and Warne have had a lot of fun - although the attraction of a man who wears Playboy briefs must surely pall quite swiftly.
In fact, even she probably knows it won’t last. Not because they’re both selfish and emotionally immature, but because Liz Hurley is plainly still more than half in love with another rather selfish, immature hedonist - her former boyfriend, Hugh Grant.
She started going out with him when she was just 21. They broke up 13 years later, five years after Grant’s infamous encounter with Los Angeles prostitute Divine Brown. Despite that, he has remained a constant presence in her life - he is godfather to her son, and has been a frequent fixture on her holidays with Arun and Damian.
Like the teenagers they still are, Liz and Hugh think sex is everything and cannot contemplate a life without new thrills. Hurley, tired of Arun reading the Christie’s catalogue in bed, has dallied with a bleach-haired voracious womaniser whose wife, for some reason, keeps having him back.
Meanwhile, Grant is a self-confessed commitment-phobe who once said he could contemplate marriage only if he could live in a big castle so that he and his wife would have enough space to avoid each other.
Now he has turned 50, however, he is worried about getting old, and earlier this year revealed that he needed to ‘get married and have children’. It’s not the most romantic proposal for a woman. Yet I can’t help feeling how much happier both would be - not to mention Hurley’s son, who’s clearly devoted to Grant - if they tried growing up and got married to each other.
They might discover, like those of us who have spent long years working at our own, that marriage brings benefits that far outweigh the fear of being trapped or the ephemeral thrill of illicit sex.
Yes, it can be hard. Yes, most couples sometimes yearn, like Hugh Grant, to live in a castle so vast they never have to encounter each other at all. But if you can survive the arguments, the petty annoyances and your partner’s less lovable habits, you will also find something else: a deep companionship, trust and love which is literally beyond price.
Is such a marriage within their grasp? If ever two people were made for each other, it’s Hurley and Grant. The trouble is, they’re both so spoiled and egocentric that it will probably take them another 30 years to realise it.
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