Farmer Liz too posh for reality TV

Published Dec 19, 2011

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A fly-on-the-wall programme about Liz Hurley has been shelved because television executives decided she was too posh for reality TV.

Living With Liz Hurley was commissioned in October last year after the model and actress agreed to let cameras film day-to-day life on her 400-acre organic farm.

The show, made for Living TV, which has since been taken over and rebranded Sky Living, was billed as “the Good Life meets the high life”.

It was to include scenes of 46-year-old Miss Hurley getting her hands dirty on the farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, and in one scene she is seen milking a sheep.

Now, a year on, sources at Sky Living say the show will never be aired because it seems Miss Hurley is too upmarket for the channel.

One said: “The show was supposed to be about Liz’s life in the country. We were given a lot of footage of her and it was due to be aired this year but Sky has chosen not to go ahead with it. It will not be aired. Everyone thinks ‘Oh, Liz Hurley, she’s great,’ but the problem is that she doesn’t quite fit the demographic of Sky Living.

“Things change. You have to give the audience what they want and move with the times. Sometimes what is captured on camera doesn’t deliver and we have to make a decision. Is it salvageable or do we rest it?”

When the show was announced, Miss Hurley was still married to Arun Nayar and living on the farm with her son Damian, now ten.

Miss Hurley and her former husband were both due to appear in the programme. She had described the show as “a mixture of fashion, fame and farming”.

She added: “It’ll be a bit of everything. Two days before I came here, I was learning how to milk sheep, to make my own cheese at home.”

But at the time of filming, her three-year marriage was unravelling. She and Mr Nayar, who had no children together, separated and subsequently divorced earlier this year. Miss Hurley is now engaged to Australian cricketer Shane Warne, 45, who proposed with a diamond ring worth more than £30,000.

Last night a spokeswoman for Miss Hurley declined to comment. - Daily Mail

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