“Mummy, actress, model, farmer, bikini designer”: that’s how Elizabeth Hurley describes herself on her Instagram bio, and who are we to contradict? Though if we may, we’d also like to add “national institution who has been enlivening the news cycle since 1994, when she stole every front page in That black safety-pin Versace dress”.

“National institution” is not, one fears, a phrase that would find favour with the perennially youthful and ebullient Liz. It makes her sound venerable, yes, but also rather staid, something that Hurley is decidedly not. Everyone celebrates their 60th birthday in different ways, and Hurley seems to have chosen to mark hers by ageing backwards, though not in a Kris Jenner way.

Yes, she’s genetically blessed to be a quintessential English rose, but more comp

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