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Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant in 1994
Fred Duval/FilmmagicThere are not many famous relationships that truly bloom to solid friendship, but Hugh grant and Elizabeth Hurley They seem to have been nailed. The actor, 64, and the model and actress, 59, have weathered many plays in their four decades of friendship and love, but somehow have come out of it all without the need to hold together by safety pins, unlike that dress. Let’s look back at what crazy journey they’ve been together …
Years before he became a real Romcom leader and road before she dressed that Dress, Grant and Hurley met – then only 27 and 22 – on the Spanish film set 1987 Remando al viento (rowing with the wind.) Like two oral brits trying to make their names in the film industry, they quickly hit it.
Soon they had moved into a small apartment together and just like any other pair of actors that struggling until a grant wined the role that would make it a huge world star, as the leader in 1994’s Four weddings and funeral. At the time, a grant was 32 and was quickly disillusioned with acting. “If you read as many bad scripts as I did, you would know how grateful you are when you come across one where the guy is really funny,” he said Diversity in 2002.
It was in the Four marriages Premiere in London on May 11, 1994, that Hurley, who is already a busy actress but certainly not a home name, has also become a supermarket, all thanks to that legendary black dress, oh-so-phexy. “That dress was a favor from Versace because I couldn’t afford to buy one,” he said years later. “I love it to have become so iconic.”
Suddenly, they were the hottest famous couple on the planet.
Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant in 1995
Stephane Cardinale/Sygma via Getty ImagesBasically forever! Showing that a solid foundation of friendship can suffer a lot of A-drama, the couple stayed together for 13 years, eventually going their different ways in 2000.
“I think it’s partly because we went from nothing to somewhere together, and we went through terrible years at first when none of us had any work, living in a small apartment,” said Grant Jess Cage’s interview In 2018. “It was quite bonding.”
Although they never got married or even engaged, Hurley said that they often joked about what their children would like. “Of course we used to think about it because we used to fight all day,” he told Andy Cohen In 2024. “We used to look in the mirror beside each other and say, ‘I would have to be in my eyes.’ ‘No, my eyes.’ ‘Your hair.’ ‘No, my hair!’ … So we used to pick for hours about who would look like who.
Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley in 1996
Durand / other afpIn one of the most friendly split in history, the couple decided that they would be better off as friends.
In May 2000, a few months after Simian Films’ co-founding together, Hurley issued a statement confirming that their romance was no more. “Hugh and I are no longer a couple,” he confirmed. “We are still great friends and talk all the time.”
It’s a line often trotted out by famous couples who have split, but these two actually meant. When Hurley became a mother in 2002 to her only child, Damian, with the late businessman Steve BingEven a grant was named one of his six Godfathers (together with Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnitureand more Denis LearyAmerican millionaire Teddy forstman and Henry Dent Brocklehurst.)
Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley in 1999
Steve Eichner/Getty ImagesBack in 2000, in his first interview following the split, the professional self-valuing grant told German announcement Listen to it is a little too boring to glamor-ozing ex. “My life is basically so boring, it’s embarrassing,” he said. “I would love a jet -etter, flying to parties in New York and Monte Carlo. Obviously I was too boring for Liz.”
In recent years, a more rounded picture of the relationship, and subsequent friendship, has formed.
In 2015 Hurley and a grant spoke apart about their relationship on Andy Cohen‘S. Watch what happens alive.
“The sex piece was probably fused,” admitted a grant. “But now she’s my absolute best friend – number one I’m calling an emergency crisis.”
In the meantime, Hurley mentioned how much the actor annoyed when they were together. “He used to annoy me greatly,” he said. “I love him, but it’s very annoying.” He even admitted that his friends nicknamed the star “Grumpelstiltskin” because of his barren trends – but admitted he was 10 out of 10 in bed, laughing “I was with him for 13 years!”
Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant in 1994
Fred Duval/FilmmagicIn 2016 Hurley spoke brighter about a grant in an interview with Weekly US. “He is still my best friend today and I still talk to him every day,” he told Us. “That was the best Costar I’ve ever had, for sure.”
In 2017 Hurley told People that she is still the exaggeration of her ex. “It’s really bad,” he said. “Not grown up tremendously. But I think that’s charming too.”
The following year, on Jess Cage’s interviewGrant admitted that he was an “idiot” during their relationship, but said they now felt “as a brother and sister”, having passed through so much together over their formative years in the spotlight. Hurley later responded to the attention of “idiot” grant, saying A! News In 2018, “I didn’t know he said that … even though, of course, I was an idiot. I’m very lucky to have 31 years to our friendship, that he was still my best friend in the world. He’s a really great guy. Yes, I see him a lot, I’m talking to him a lot. You now know, he’s now the father of five, he has five children.”
Hurley also reflected on their unique journey together while in conversation with her son Damian at the Bazaar Summit at Work in London in 2024. “I was with my ex, Hugh Grant, so it happened to the two of us at the same time,” he said. “Like me, he also worked a lot, and thought he was doing pretty well, until Four weddings and funeral Having come out and suddenly it was completely different – it was a phenomenon. The film was a huge success, and everything changed. But two of us were and I think that helped tremendously. When you suddenly thrust into the spotlight, your lives are not set up for it. I think it gives you a bond when you go to the trenches with someone. That is, he is married with five children. I hardly never see it, but it’s still very close to my heart. “
Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley in 1996
Scranitz/wirimageFor a ride these two have been on together! But now, as Hurley herself put it on Jonathan Ross Show In 2017, “We’ve been separate longer than we were together.”
Now, with a grant a busy father for five (he shares two children with his ex, Hong tinglanand three with producer Anna Ebersteinwho married in 2018), he may not be able to see Hurley as often as he used to, but he seems to be always in each other’s lives.
In fact, Hurley himself said that respecting the boundaries of ex life is key to staying on good terms. “We have not been romantic participation for 20 years,” he said on the In the 90s Podcast in 2021. “But we are always well aware that there are other people in our lives. There are partners, there are children. You can only, kind of, live in a lovely fog, Rosy, the past.”
Hurley is currently living in the present, with the actress launches her unexpected new relationship with Billy Ray Cyrus (who also became a star in the 90s) on Easter Sunday 2025. We have just one question: has a grant met again?