Sorry, Liz, you’re wrong about sex in the country

13 May 2009

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Rachel Johnson says that Elizabeth Hurley is a wonderful pin-up for rural England, but has fallen for the entirely fictional belief that living there is a great aphrodisiac

Elizabeth Hurley is very gorgeous and probably great fun. Of course she is perfectly entitled to use sex to sell her products. After all, everyone else uses sex to sell theirs. But when it comes to her sex-and-the-country pitch, delivered in a mink stole in haute couture, one does wonder if she’s been at the horse tranquilliser.

Because I can’t see why she bothered at all with the breathless Jilly-Cooper-on-crystal-meth bonkbuster spiel in ballgowns. Miss Hurley, who hails from Basingstoke, is an Honourable Member of the Hellocracy. And all she actually needed to do here was direct her many admirers and customers to her website, where she models her own designs in a tangle of glistening caramel limbs, cornflower gaze and toned tummy. And then they would see in a flash and a click. There’s no better advert for itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny python-print bikinis than Liz herself.

Rachel Johnson’s Shire Hell is published by Penguin. She is a contributing editor of The Spectator.

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David Short

May 14th, 2009 9:26am Report this comment

Middle aged mums like Liz Hurley embarrass themselves, not to mention their children, when they go on about sex.

foxy farm hand

May 14th, 2009 11:59am Report this comment

How does she have time, running the farm too? I barely have time for a cup of tea and bed is definitely for sleeping!

Steve.W

May 17th, 2009 2:49pm Report this comment

Perhaps lots of sex in the countryside, though probably in a house in the countryside, is a way of taking your mind off the ever present smell of poo and all those flies. Occasionally I ride through the countryside on my motorbike, can't see the attraction, it's dull.

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