Awww. Such a loving picture, so sunny and, with its well timed launch on Easter Sunday, simply gooey sufficient to soften our hearts as nicely as our chocolate eggs.
Because right here is Elizabeth Hurley, leaning in for a kiss with her new man.
I can nearly hear the clink of their sun shades clashing alongside with their worlds-apart cultures.
She is our much-loved English rose, a leggy legend within the custom of a Joan Collins : by no means knowingly underdressed or seen with out make-up.
He is a nation singer with sleeve tattoos and two first names, as is de rigueur for anybody who makes music for individuals who put on cowboy boots and hook their thumbs of their braces. Liz has helpfully undone the highest buttons of her cheesecloth shirt to expose the summit of her excellent breasts, simply so we all know it’s actually, actually her.
But Liz Hurley? Former squeeze of Hugh Grant, the girl who shocked the world with a Versace robe held collectively with gold security pins?
In lumberjack shirts, Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus are pictured kissing in a picture captioned: Happy Easter
Liz Hurley, within the iconic Versace gown, and Hugh Grant on the premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral in 1994
We are all considering this: will it simply be her gown that comes aside on the seams this time?
Because it seems the person is Billy Ray Cyrus. He is 63, father of singing sensation Miley, and had a hit in 1992 with Achy Breaky Heart, prompting inept line dancing for ever extra at weddings the world over.
He certainly dyes his beard and nonetheless earns sufficient from that tune to hold him in lumberjack shirts.
His most up-to-date ex-wife, his third, is 37 and goes by the identify of Firerose. I doubt there’s anybody with a regular identify on the barn dances this chap frequents.
Their divorce got here after simply eight months of sharing a bank card, was Johnny Depp and Amber Heard ranges of messy, and was solely finalised in August.
To cap all of it, he launched an Insta picture final 12 months endorsing Donald Trump and carried out on the President’s inaugural ball – prompting his adopted son to say he ‘barely recognised’ his father and urging him to ‘get assist’.
According to Firerose, Billy Ray informed her he was divorcing her on the day she was due to have a preventative mastectomy.
Oh, and he nonetheless appears to be carrying a wedding ceremony ring, until that is simply one other tattoo.
No marvel daughter Miley snubbed him when she received a Grammy final 12 months. There is not any house right here to point out all the assorted offspring and bitter bickering, however suffice to say it is a nice massive mess.
We want Liz nicely, in fact, as she enters the fray. She would not simply look wonderful for 59, she appears fairly rattling gorgeous for any age.
And that takes arduous work, sacrifice, good genes (and she appears nice in these denims) and restraint.
But, like so many stunning and well-known ladies, the Pilates stretching and bikini purchasing hasn’t introduced her lasting happiness with males. Her 13-year relationship with Hugh Grant, who took her alongside in that gown to the premiere of Four Weddings And A Funeral in 1994, was doomed when Grant was arrested a 12 months later for having intercourse with Divine Brown, a prostitute, in a automobile.
Liz was married in a spectacular, wildly costly Indian wedding ceremony to textile inheritor Arun Nayar. They had been collectively for 4 years, and have remained mates.
With her son and mini-me Damian, who’s now a filmmaker
Billy Ray with his most up-to-date ex-wife, his third, who goes by the identify of Firerose
She then had a son referred to as Damian with film mogul Steve Bing (when he died in 2020, the boy was lower out of any inheritance as his mother and father weren’t married).
Her final critical relationship was with cricketer Shane Warne, which led to 2013. The wicket should have been sticky.
I’m sorry, however the reality her 23-year-old son, a glossy-haired doppelganger of his mum and now a filmmaker, known as Damian made me research this new picture of Liz smooching Billy Ray and seek for a spike hovering over their heads auguring doom.
Because this will’t probably work, can it? The uptight, Army officer’s daughter from Basingstoke with the clipped vowels and a man from Kentucky.
How on earth did these two cross paths? Shopping for Quorn in Wholefoods?
The pairing is so unlikely that feedback beneath the put up on social media yesterday advised the picture was produced by AI. I’m wondering what they’ve in frequent aside from hair merchandise?
Is Liz fearing turning 60, so has hurried into a relationship? I very a lot doubt that.
Remember, simply two months in the past she posted two images of her and her greatest pal, skincare mogul Trinny Woodall, taken 30 years aside. They are each carrying bikinis, and it appears as although barely an hour has handed, not to mention a number of a long time.
‘May we romp collectively in our bikinis for a lot of extra years,’ Liz wrote.
I echo that sentiment, and commend her for her unabashed optimism, embarking on a now very public romance that will not simply have one another’s peccadillos to contend with and adapt to (‘What do you imply, it is my flip to unblock the plug gap?’) however the opprobrium of males who suppose any lady over 40 should essentially be determined.
Make no mistake, Billy Ray is the fortunate one on this state of affairs. We all love a unhealthy boy, however Liz is simply too smart, too impartial to kowtow to any nonsense.
Let’s hope, within the phrases of Liz’s former co-star Mike Myers – within the guise of Austin Powers – that Billy Ray beeehhhaaaves.
If not, he may have the ladies of Great Britain to reply to.
