3 weeks Ago By Guy Kelly
If history and the Bible are to be our guide, there are few better days than Easter Sunday to announce a surprise comeback and a bright new era – especially if it’s one that makes your devoted followers say, “Er, hold on, what?” Liz Hurley, a dab hand at shock valu e for well over three decades, clearly knows this. Hurley has spent the past few years in relative quiet. At 59 (honestly, Google it), she still acts occasionally, but rather than maintain her celebrity, she’s seemed to live a life of bucolic splendour at her 13-bedroom Georgian pile in Herefordshire, far away from the gossip pages she used to reside in.
The only man in her life, and on her arm, has been her son and clone, Damian. That changed on Sunday afternoon, when Hurley posted a photograph to her Instagram of her in jeans, a straw hat and a blue-plaid shirt, being kissed by none other than Billy Ray Cyrus , the thrice-married country singer, actor and, latterly, Trump supporter and nepo parent. Cyrus is also in denim, and accessorises his look with bunny ears and some kind of large stick.
To confirm the rollout was mutual, he reposted the image to his account. “Happy Easter,” Hurley captioned it. An instant response came in from the US actress Melissa Gilbert.
“Wait...
what?” she wrote, ushering a tsunami of similarly confused replies. True to form, acolytes were perplexed. It had been a while, but Basingstoke’s finest was back in the gossip pages, back with a new famous partner, and this one couldn’t be more different from the last.
Elizabeth Hurley is risen. As for Billy Ray? Well, he is risen indeed..
