Eight weeks after a video of Liz Hurley and Shane Warne kissing made headlines around the world, the British actress is on her way to Australia. Hurley will reportedly touch down in Melbourne later this week to spend some time with the cricketer.
Warne has been busily redecorating his home ahead of Hurley’s visit, and can’t wait to show her around his native country, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported.
Hurley and Warne had been exchanging flirtatious messages on social networking site Twitter for months before they were caught kissing in December. Soon after news of their romance emerged, Hurley announced she had separated from her husband, Arun Nayar, several months beforehand, while Warne confirmed he had once again split from his former wife, Simone Callahan.
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Hurley and Warne have been photographed together several times since their first public kiss, including two occasions in which they were seen going into a hotel together. Their romance reportedly encountered trouble when Warne was caught sending text messages to another woman, but is now said to be back on track.
The couple met up in Los Angeles last month, and have been happily discussing Hurley’s Australian trip on Twitter for the past few weeks. “If you haven’t lined up koalas and kangaroos for my next trip I shall be desolate,” Hurley tweeted to Warne.
The actress has been researching her trip to Australia thoroughly, updating her fans every time she learns something new. “In the bath, reading Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country,” she wrote late last month. “Am now scared of funnel-web spiders, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus[es], paralysis ticks [and] stonefish. All lethal. Gulp.”
She has also spent time teasing Warne about her relationship with her new pet parrot Ping Pong writing: “Ping Pong just mumbled her first words! High excitement. She has a very deep, alarmingly manly voice. No need for jealousy SW, she’s not getting any cuddles or kisses!”
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Video: Shane Warne caught kissing Liz Hurley