UK Tatler June 2009 covers Elizabeth Hurley

British actress and model, 43, says that countryside is simply far ’sexier’ than London.

When I close my eyes and think of England, I’m not in a fancy restaurant in Knightsbridge, but am instead lolling, scantily clad, in front of a roaring fire, surrounded by four Labradors and Rupert Campbell-Black,’

I wouldn’t mind betting that there’s le in the city than there is in the country because it’s just well, sexier here.’

To me people look sexier in the country,’ she said.

She also has home in London but now she lives almost full-time on the ?2.7million Gloucestershire estate she bought in 2003.

Her family is not big( husband Arun Nayar, son Damian), but she has a lot of animals: four Labradors, two cats, three geese, eight chickens, 49 cows, 63 sheep and 82 pigs.

About country interior design:

Next time you go to someone’s house in the country, be sure to check out if they have warm, possibly fluffy, rugs in front of their fire,’

No prizes for guessing why they’re there.’

Later she adds:

I can also shyly confess to having two sheepskin rugs in front of all my fireplaces.’

read more in UK Tatler June 2009

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