(24 May 2000) English/Nat
It has all turned ugly for one of the world's most beautiful couples. British sensitive-guy-actor HUGH GRANT and his longtime model-actress gal-pal ELIZABETH HURLEY are splitting up.
A smiling Liz Hurley emerged from her home today to declare she was "fine" despite the relationship breakdown. The actress and model declined to comment on mounting speculation over the future of one of the most glamorous couples in showbiz.
Dressed casually and looking relaxed in a green top and sunglasses, she told waiting reporters that she was "fine, thank you" before climbing into a vehicle and driving away.
She left the couple's shared terraced home in upmarket Chelsea shortly after noon after spending the night behind shuttered windows. Hurley had arrived there last night arm in arm with a mystery man.
Hurley is due to attend a #1,000-a-head gala dinner for Dame Elizabeth Taylor this evening - at which she has a seat next to the Notting Hill star.
Grant later emerged from the house, grim-faced and refusing to answer
reporters' questions. his only comment was when, faced by a scrum of photographers and journalists, he said: "this is like Notting Hill."
he was driven off in a black cab.T
he Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant roadshow, at one time the toast of the movie premiere paparazzi, is "temporarily" at an end, a spokeswoman explained
They were putting their relationship on ice, the couple declared through a spokeswoman that the breakup was "a temporary thing, a mutual and amicable decision".
They denied that there was any third party involved but the news will fuel tabloid speculation about the pair, who have been an item for 13 years but have reportedly not been seen together in the last four months.
Indeed, Hurley stoked up the fevered media speculation over
the split by arriving at her London home with a mystery man, last night.
Rumours of a bust-up gained currency this month when Hurley went to the Cannes Film Festival alone, for the first time in six years.
Hurley, 34, who models for EsteeLauder, has been linked to New York billionaire Ted Forstmann, while grant, 39, was reportedly seen dining with a mystery woman at a London hotel in march.
the couple said yesterday that they would continue to run Simian Films, the production company they formed five years ago to capitalise on Grant's celebrity.
Their relationship last reached a public crisis point in June 1995, when grant was fined the equivalent of �75 after admitting engaging in a sex act with the Los Angeles prostitute Divine Brown after picking her up on SunsetBoulevard.
The world watched as the humiliated couple retreated to their country home to discuss the delicate situation.
They stayed together, but Hurley revealed that she "felt like she'd been shot" when she learned that her boyfriend had been arrested. The affair is said to have changed the dynamic of their relationship.
Hurley, whose acting talents are considered modest, has warmed to her new role as a movie producer, impressing director Michael Apted, with whom she worked on the 1996 film extreme measures which starred Grant and Gene Hackman. Apted described her as "a hands-on producer at all times."
Hurley's next acting role will be playing the devil in the Twentieth CenturyFox movie bedazzled, while Grant has a role in the Woody Allen comedy Small Time Crooks.
In a magazine interview last Autumn, Hurley gave a cool appraisal of their relationship. She said: "We're not like some fabulously happy Adam and eve all the time. We bicker like mad, but it's like arguing with my sister."
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