The road to marital bliss is never easy – but Liz Hurley might just be making things a little more difficult for herself.
The Gossip Girl star told the media she is better friends with her floppy-haired ex, Hugh Grant, than she is to her fiancé, Shane Warne.
Liz, 46, engaged to Aussie cricket legend Shane, 42, since October, told the UK’s The Sun that she still holidayed with Grant – her former flame of 13 years.
“It’s hard for six months to compete with 20 years on a friendship level,” Hurley said of her new romance.
“I don’t think either of us can imagine not having the other in our lives.” Meanwhile, in the Warne camp, things aren’t so rosy, with the cricketer’s ex Simone Callaghan publicly saying Hurley’s relationship with her kids was ‘disrespectful’, revealing they called their stepmother M2 for Mummy 2.
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Hurley took to Facebook to vent over the weekend, seemingly one-upping Callaghan by asking that the kids be left out of their quarrel.
“Neither my fiancé Shane nor I have ever asked his children to call me anything in particular and have never suggested any nicknames for me.”
“Shane’s three children started to call me ‘M2’, in an affectionate and light-hearted way, over a year ago. I find it very upsetting that they have been accused publicly of being ‘disrespectful’ to their mother by doing this. I believe they were…“And please know that we HATE photographers following us on the school run and to the kid’s netball and football matches.”
Warne also responded to his ex-wife’s interview on Australian radio, but only to confirm he really couldn’t care less.
“I thought everyone was getting along pretty well,” he told Triple M’s Hot Breakfast.
