‘It was love at first sight with Warne’
Actress Elizabeth Hurley has opened up about her romance with cricket ace Shane Warne, saying it was love at first sight.
Hurley’s relationship with the Aussie sportsman emerged in 2010 and, in the wake of the revelations, she confirmed that she had split from her businessman husband Arun Nayar months ago.
“We come from very different worlds so I see that’s fascinating, if not odd, to many (fans),” Hurley said.
“But it’s not often you meet people you instantly feel comfortable with, and when you find that, even if there are vast differences in background and experiences, it’s worth following through,” dailystar.co.uk quoted the 46-year-old as saying.
Hurley admits their romance is a “challenge” because they live on opposite sides of the world. “When you recognise you have a lot in common with someone it’s nice to explore. The biggest problem is we’re 23 hours apart. It’s a challenge. We’ll see what happens,” she added.
Elizabeth Hurley and ArunNayar were granted divorce earlier in June.
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Francis Bacon’s masterpiece fetches £18m
London: An oil masterpiece by Irish painter Francis Bacon on Tuesday fetched £18 million at a London sale while a portrait of Chairman Mao by Andy Warhol netted £7 million.
Bacon’s moody 1953 work Study for a Portrait was snapped up by an anonymous bidder at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art auction, which realised £78,817,050 in total.
The 2 metre by 1.4 metre piece, described by the auction house as “an arresting and dark study in the degradation of power”, eventually sold for £17,961,250, almost £7 million more than the pre-sale estimate.
It is the second highest price paid for a work at a Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art auction after Bacon’s Triptych, which sold for £26.3 million in 2008.
Iconic pop artist Andy Warhol’s 1973 acrylic of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong fetched £6,985,250 while Woman Smiling, a 1958-59 portrait by Lucian Freud, sold for £4,745,250. Five artist records were set at Tuesday’s sale for Juan Munoz, Ron Mueck, Paula Rego, Domenico Gnoli and Miquel Barcelo, who broke the record for any living Spanish artist. —AFP
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