Warnie on Liz Hurley: ‘Hugh would stay on weekends when I wasn’t there’

THE cricketing legend spills on his ex Liz Hurley — and why her friendship with Hugh Grant proved an issue in their relationship.

IT seems the I’m A Celebrity campsite has a knack for drawing out secrets and confessions, as Shane Warne tonight reveals to his fellow contestants one issue that plagued him during his very public relationship with ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley.

Namely, it was Hurley’s still-close friendship with ex Hugh Grant, who she was in a relationship with from 1987 to 2000, and who is godfather to her son.

“It’s hard on your new relationship when you’re really good friends with your exes. Like Elizabeth was really good friends with Hugh Grant — best friend,” he’s seen telling fellow celebs Havana Brown and Bonnie Lythgoe.

Warne and ex Liz Hurley.

Hurley and her ex, Hugh Grant, remain close friends.

“So when I used to go back to Australia and she wasn’t leaving London, he’d come and spend the weekend at the house.

“I was like, ‘what’s that?’ ‘No, we’re just friends.’ I was like, ‘Tell him to come down when I’m there’.”

Warne and Hurley started dating in 2010, announcing their engagement the following year. They called it quits in 2013.

Warne also opens up about what it would take for him to have more children. The 46-year-old cricketing legend already has three children — Brooke, Summer and Jackson — with his ex-wife Simone Callahan.

“I’d have to fall absolutely head over heels in love with someone to have kids again. The only way I could do it is if I absolutely fell for someone and they were desperate for them — then I’d consider it.”

Campfire confessional: Warnie admits he had something of a love rival in Hugh Grant. Picture: Nigel Wright / Channel Ten

Elsewhere in tonight’s episode, airing 7:30pm on Network Ten, Laurina continues to do the hard yards in her efforts to redeem herself following her Tucker Trial bomb-out earlier in the week. She’s been selected to enter the ‘Viper Room’ and it’s as horrifying as you’d imagine: trapped in a coffin-like tiny dark box with dozens of snakes writhing all around her.

Midway through, as two particularly heavy snakes grapple with each other on top of her, Dr Chris Brown utters the words nobody wants to hear: “Laurina, the snakes may be mating on you.”