Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English actress and model. Her best-known film roles are Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and as the Devil in Bedazzled (2000). Hurley's television roles include the E! original series The Royals (2015–2018) and Morgan le Fay in Runaways (2019), based on the Marvel Comics series. She portrayed Diana Payne on the fifth season of The CW's original series Gossip Girl (2011).
Ms Hurley might enjoy a good spanking and there's even a fitting scene in Bedazzled, but she has denied those rumours (so far).
The British model and actress made the tabloids repeatedly with hints that she is into spanking. Here's the round-up from the American Spanking Society:
It was widely reported that Hurley and her friends (a racy English group nicknamed the Viles) like to play a spanking game. The spankee bends over a sofa, and is blindfolded. Members of the group then take turns administrating a hard spank (to most likely a bare-bottom). If the spankee correctly guesses the spanker... the spanker is out. The game continues until all spankers have been guessed.
English tabloids had fun with this, throwing out headlines such as... "Spank You Very Much" and "Liz Hurt-y."
Also, movie producer William Annesley mentioned giving Hurley a bare-bottomed spanking with a hairbrush... and that she had also spanked him. He said it was no big deal, it was just "an English thing."
Finally, in March 2010 Liz Hurley denied on the Irish Independent News that she was into spanking.
"That was a myth," says Hurley now, in that voice of hers.
It's not true?
"What?"
These spanking games at upper-class parties?
"No, I was never part of any set. I have never been a member of any set, club or gang in my life. I don't like that."
There was a revealing picture of her bending over suggestively on this magazine cover, to illustrate an article about spanking and The Viles. "But that was so unfair," she coos, and she looks like she is going to cry.
"I fell out with the magazine for 10 years because of that," she says with a laugh. "That was really unfair. That wouldn't happen today. The wind-machine blew my skirt up. It was ridiculous. I was very hurt by that."
So it wasn't a fetish?
"No! Not remotely," she smiles, showing the brightest teeth I've ever seen. "The thought of being a member of a club called The Viles is beyond embarrassing. Ridiculous. Absolute rubbish. I don't normally refute anything, but I can refute that to you. It is absolute bollocks.
"It sounds very immature to me! It sounds completely ludicrous," she adds.
The rumours don't stop though and in 2023 she had to deny another incident.
Prince Harry revealed he was a 17-year-old student when he lost his virginity to an older women who "spanked his ass" - and Liz Hurley denied she was the woman in question. (DailyStar, Jan 2023)
And filmed a kinky scene in The Royal in a miad outfit.
