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by Tory Maguire

13 Dec 12:25pm

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Filed under: Elizabeth Hurley, Entertainment, Internet, Shane Warne, Social Media, Society, Twitter

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Shane Warne, bless him, has more than a quarter of a million followers on Twitter, and Liz Hurley just more than 41,000.

Honk if you wanna Tweet me…

Presumably they also have email accounts, mobile phones, postal addresses and numerous other ways to contact each other. But in a generous gift to the public, perhaps inspired by the new openness a la Wikileaks, they carried on their flirtation in full view of anyone with an internet connection.

The day celebrities work out that when they write stuff online people can see it will be a sad day.

Hopefully no-one teaches them how to use privacy settings on Facebook, or Direct Messaging on Twitter, or that if you manage to send an email to the correct person it’s easier to keep the contents quiet.

Otherwise we would never be able to indulge in gems such as can be found on Warnie and Liz’s Twitter pages.

Like this exchange started by Warnie:

To which Hurley responded:

Warne followed up (brace yourselves):

Or this corker:

Hurley’s reply:

The benefits of this kind of public shamelessness is twofold. Firstly, it’s entertaining, in a gross-out kind of way. And secondly, any celebrity who carries on like this on a public forum is sending a clear signal they’re not about to start bleating about their right to privacy.

Not that you can imagine Warnie’s too upset about this morning’s headlines about being caught in a passionate lip-lock with a woman the Daily Telegraph described as “one of the world’s most desirable woman.” (Personally I think that description is pushing it, but millions clearly disagree).

It’s likely 2010 will one day be considered the golden age of celebrities making dicks of themselves online.

Caught up in the joys of being able to cut out the middle-man between themselves and their fans, public figures have taken to Twitter with gusto, and often without a filter.

Some of the stuff they tapped into their iPhones and published without thinking must have sent their publicicts’ hair grey, and time and time again the rest of us were left wondering “didn’t they know people would read it?”

But learning from those who went before them, such as Stephanie Rice who’s golden-girl image was shattered with her ill-considered “faggots” remark while watching rugby, it’s likely agents and managers could well start shutting their more talkative clients down in 2011.

What a shame that will be for the rest of us.

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    • Mandy Mc says:

      12:05pm | 13/12/10

      Tors, you have summed it up perfectly. I don’t follow too many ‘celebs’ on FB but have been following Warney as a social experiment (and to understand more of his Foundation) but he gets it so horribly wrong, I’m surprised his manager/ publicist (presuming he still has one) dosen’t pull him up on his tirades on Twitter. One thing is certain, very little mention of Simone on his tweets - mostly himself & kids and plenty of people (one journo springs to mind) flirting with him ! Silly boy - will he ever learn ???

      Reply

    • Scarneck says:

      04:26pm | 13/12/10

      “a social experiment” - LOL - FB and Twitter are for children or adults who have nothing better to do with their life. Sad really….

    • Seano says:

      05:29pm | 13/12/10

      Scarneck - Ludites have said similar things about the internet and email.

    • Scarneck says:

      06:36pm | 13/12/10

      Seano @ 05:29 -  Ludites (sic) may have…I happen to be a technophile who finds FB and Twitter extremely childish and boring - each to their own I suppose.

    • acotrel says:

      07:38am | 14/12/10

      Is Shane Warne a criquetter? Who’s Elizabeth Hurley?

    • Seano says:

      08:56am | 14/12/10

      As someone with an IT degree and background I doubt you’re much of a technophile if you can’t see the benefits of social networking.

    • Bill Steamshovel says:

      12:06pm | 15/12/10

      @Seano: An IT degree isn’t something to be proud of. It’s for chumps who can’t handle Computer Science or Software Engineering.

      Beyond that, Scarneck wasn’t commenting on social networking, but on Twitter and Facebook, but even if you want to move the goal posts to make an easier target, Scarneck actually puts forward a benefit: namely that it gives adults and children something better to do in comparison with the options available to them.

    • Rosie says:

      12:16pm | 13/12/10

      Tory the problem with people like Liz Hurley and Shane Warne is everything is forgotten when the lust fever sets in. We must not forget Liz’s ex. What’s that saying thinking with their #$%@s instead of their God given brains????????

      Usually it doesn’t bother me but felt for Warnie’s children when once again they have to read about their father’s on going shenanigans.

      The world is changing, today I have to put up with my country’s PM living in sin at the Lodge with her boyfriend. By the way they can’t be too serious because they will be apart on christmas day. The first bloke will be in Melbourne and the first lady in Adelaide with her parents. I guess it doesn’t matter if you don’t have children because christmas to most of us is seeing the great joy in the faces of our children and being together with your loved ones.

      Reply

    • Ask a stupid question says:

      07:15pm | 13/12/10

      Yet again Rosie manages to drag her unhealthy obsession into another topic. You do realise Liz Hurley’s still married, (for now), and has a child, don’t you ?

    • Rosie says:

      08:21pm | 13/12/10

      Oh dear here we go again, AASQ reads but doesn’t comprehend! Perhaps you should be asking others to explain to you, your source of information before you submit your comments. Please read and explain!

      “Warne’s comments follow those of Hurley, who announced via microblogging site Twitter on Sunday that she had recently split with her Indian businessman husband of three years Arun Nayar.”

      “For the record, my husband Arun and I separated a few months ago,” she said. “Our close family and friends were aware of this.”

      AASQ what does the above tell you? As for my obsession, no, no we don’t want to be complacent when it comes to our atheist, unwed living a defacto relationship in the Lodge PM do we???????

    • Ask a stupid question says:

      08:58pm | 13/12/10

      I missed the part where they got divorced, Rosie. Could you please find that quote for me ?

      As for your unhealthy obsession, complacent about what ?

    • NicoleG says:

      10:15pm | 13/12/10

      Rosie, I told you the other day that AASQ would benefit with finger puppets to explain things.

    • MG says:

      07:45am | 14/12/10

      I won’t be seeing my partner on Christmas day does that mean I’m not serious?
      That’s an f-ing joke.
      Living in sin, what ‘cause they aren’t married…

      I know I’m going to regret this, but I’m a Gen Y-er and yes I have FB and Twitter, but No, I don’t follow celebrities - the only thing that gives the Warnies and Liz Hurley’s power, is that people lap up their public extravagances.

      If Warnie/Liz came up to me themselves and acted in a similar way to their twitter alter ego’s, I’d keep walking.

      It’s all about attention. The problem is we give it to them…. And by we, I mean yes, you who thinks they live in sin and Warnies a bit of a wanker… Maybe his Mrs likes the idea of a cheating man. You’d be surprised how some relationships work, and I don’t think it’s our place to make judgement. It’s a hilarious read, and that’s where it ends.

    • Ask a stupid question says:

      09:20am | 14/12/10

      Don’t be offended, MG. Rosie just has an irrational, unhealthy obsession. She can’t help herself, and always tries to drag it into any topic. Merry Xmas.

    • Flutz says:

      09:43am | 14/12/10

      A lot of couples are unable to be together on Christmas Day, for a variety of reasons.  I am unable to be with my partner on Christmas - that absolutely doesn’t mean that we are not serious.

    • Macca says:

      12:20pm | 13/12/10

      People who use Twitter are called Twits, right?

      Reply

    • The Badger says:

      12:47pm | 13/12/10

      I thought they were called Tweens

    • Tim says:

      01:21pm | 13/12/10

      I believe the correct term is Twats.

    • Macca says:

      01:26pm | 13/12/10

      Na, you’re thinking of the group that wear Olson G-strings….

    • Dhammachick says:

      04:06pm | 13/12/10

      @Tim:

      GOLD! smile

    • Michael Larkin says:

      12:34pm | 13/12/10

      Ahhh theres hope for all of us. Two famous and wealthy people trying to chat each other up like two bogans at the Rooty Hill RSL

      Reply

    • MrMac says:

      01:26pm | 13/12/10

      they’re just famous & wealthy bogans.

    • neil says:

      12:41pm | 13/12/10

      If I got the opportunity to snog Liz Hurley I wouldn’t care who was watching.

      Reply

    • Dan says:

      12:45pm | 13/12/10

      Well bowled Shane, Liz Hurley is a very sexy woman. But really this is none of our business. Shane is a single man and whether Liz honours her vows is between her and her husband.

      The real story is will Shane Warne make a comeback to cricket and if he does will he still be as good as he was???

      Reply

    • Fi says:

      02:59pm | 13/12/10

      Warne remarried his wife, Simone.

    • Ask a stupid question says:

      07:31pm | 13/12/10

      He did, Fi ?

    • Flutz says:

      09:40am | 14/12/10

      Ummm, no he didn’t Fi.  He and Simone have been hanging out together quite a bit and moved back into sharing a house (for the sake of the kids) and who knows how intimate they have been - but they have not re-married.

    • Kelly says:

      03:11pm | 14/12/10

      Dan, the issue is that the old “none of our business” line fails when they are clumsily flirting online in an open forum.

    • Davida says:

      01:23pm | 13/12/10

      “The day celebrities work out that when they write stuff online people can see it will be a sad day.”
      I don’t think it’s so much “don’t know” as “don’t care”.  Most of us learn that actions have consequences.  In the case of Warnie, what’s the worst that can happen?  Last time he escaped with no harm to his career/profile, was taken back by Simone and added trouser legend to the mix.  Can the consequences this time be much different?

      Reply

    • dancan says:

      01:38pm | 13/12/10

      I wish I got to flirt with liz hurley!

      Reply

    • kate says:

      01:43pm | 13/12/10

      Exactly.  He just loves the attention.  And we’re the mugs giving it to him…

      Reply

    • WhoGives says:

      01:53pm | 13/12/10

      Surely this is something we have come to EXPECT from Warney?

      Why do we care? And WHY does it still make the headlines?!

      Obviously a slow news day…..

      Reply

    • Davo says:

      02:23pm | 13/12/10

      Great catch Warnie!  Going after a class act like Liz shows great taste - it’s not like he’s going after some twentysomething year old bimbo.

      Reply

    • MrMac says:

      03:03pm | 13/12/10

      Liz Hurley - who 1st rose to fame wearing a safety pin dress while on on Hugh Grant’s arm - is a class act and not a bimbo ??!

      Snogging Warnie (and other likely acts with him) also negates yer argument, Davo.

    • Zeta says:

      02:29pm | 13/12/10

      For someone who epitomised 1990s sex appeal, Liz Hurley’s tweets make her sound like a horny nan.

      But seriously, do you really think celebrities are doing this stuff without thinking? Or even doing it at all?

      I might sound like a mad conspiracy theorist, but if there is one thing I know, it’s the dark, Lovecraftian mathematics of public relations - it’s what drove me mad in the first place. You have the Guantanamo hood pulled off your eyes too soon you’ll be sacrificing virgins at the alter and singing The Song That Ends The World like a maniac as well.

      Celebrities are products. They’re the perfect products. They’re like diamond bullets shot straight into the brain in an idea market that peppers the collective unconscious with anti-aircraft fire into starless nights without a target in sight.

      With the right degree of celebrity anything can be sold. The most heinous ideas ever muttered by mortal mouths were sold by great celebrity - take Hitler, biggest celebrity of the 20th century. He sold the idea of genocide so eloquently moral Germans didn’t know it was happening until they were marched through the extermination camps to see it themselves.

      I myself own 2 Nespresso machines for reasons I can’t even fully understand and I’ve spent much of my career studying the subtle psychic mechanics of how people can be compelled to do things they can’t explain. But damn if I don’t feel like George Clooney when I’m sipping on a tiny Ristretto every morning.

      Now you take George Clooney - he’s the BMW of the celebrity world. You know everything you need to know about him and his brand by simply looking at him. He’s German engineered perfection, he’s seats made of individually chosen cows bred for no other purpose than cradling your arse as you’re conveyed from one important meeting to another. He’s the AAA credit rating of celebrities. In fact Moody’s is rumoured to produce such ratings specifically for the celebrity marketing industry. And if that’s true, Clooney would be blue chip. 

      Then some celebrities are disposabal, cheap entertainment. Lindsay Lohan for example. Comparing Lindsay Lohan to say, Nicole Kidman - it’s like comparing amateur streaming internet porn to Avatar. They’re bubblegum for the mind- but they have their uses. They’re still marketable. Everyone still likes bubblegum. But once it’s chewed up and spat out it’s useless.

      The Liz Hurley’s of the world are like analog mobile phones. Produced on mass for a market we thought would never exhaust. But the world has moved on to iPhones and tablets and eventually microchips that stimulate the tiny bones of the inner ear when you want to take a call.

      They just end up being landfill unless some savvy operator figures out a new market for them. You know what they did with analog mobile phones? They found markets where analog was still being used and shipped them there. You buy a new mobile phone on an analog network in India, the circuit boards were probably in the phone Gordan Gecko used in Wall Street.

      Australia is to India as Liz Hurley is to the analog cell phone. What better way to convey her to a new marketplace than with the rumoured romance with a regional celebrity? You think this is making news outside Australia? It’s a footnote. A curiosity. I don’t see Perez Hilton tweeting about it.

      Now Liz Hurley can be moved here with the appropriate amount of media attention and she can begin her life as a product renewed. She can make a guest appearance on a regionally significant drama. She can host a talent show. She’s been recycled.

      I wouldn’t be suprised if there were public relations operators who specialise in just this sort of deceit. If it weren’t possible to pay someone a modest fee to manipulate a small, regional media market into acknowledging your faded celebrity status so as to reignite your career.

      Because how hard would it be? You might think I’m crazy now - but when Liz Hurley shows up as guest judge on The X Factor, you tell me how crazy I am then.

      Reply

    • chris says:

      02:52pm | 13/12/10

      Zeta . . . what the hell are you on? You sound like a public servant with not much to do during work hours!

    • Tedd says:

      03:14pm | 13/12/10

      Zeta, you actually show Hitler did not sell the idea of genocide when you subsequently say ” Germans didn’t know it was happening until they were marched through the extermination camps to see it themselves”.

      Hitler rose to power as a minority, after another minority leader quit after a period of almost elections, and after subsequently manipulating the system.

    • Shifter says:

      03:27pm | 13/12/10

      Horny nan? I think she sounds a bit like an English bogan, a chav if you will. Which probably means Shane “bogan royalty” Warne and herself will suit each other rather well.

      Also, I do think you are crazy. That opinion has nothing to do with Ms Hurley. Mind you, that’s a pretty decent conspiracy theory. What odds are you offering on the punt?

    • Macca says:

      03:47pm | 13/12/10

      Zeta, I don’t enjoy congratulating you anymore, it makes me feel cheap

    • Muzz says:

      03:57pm | 13/12/10

      Oh, is that what it was all about. I thought they were just talking dirty to each other.

    • Lucas says:

      04:45pm | 13/12/10

      Despite others trying to contradict the technicality of what you’re trying to prove here, you are absolutely right and it’s plainly obvious that celebrities are just another market to make money and they’ll hold hands, kiss in public and pretend to be married to anyone their agents tell them to if that means they’ll make more money and continue to be rich and famous. As if someone as striking as Liz Hurley who had the likes of Hugh Grant is going to go for Warnie?..haha as if! that guy is unattractive and no one outside Australia knows who he is or cares. Just one big marketing ploy to both Liz and Warnie and especially Warnie to give his new show more exposure,.

    • Drew(Darlinghurst) says:

      02:54pm | 13/12/10

      This is nothing more than a publicity stunt for his silly little show on the Nine Network.

      Plus…Twitter is for Teens with ADHD.

      Warnie screams AUSTRALIA…..a C.U.B (Cashed Up Bogan)

      Reply

    • Drew(Darlinghurst) says:

      02:54pm | 13/12/10

      This is nothing more than a publicity stunt for his silly little show on the Nine Network.

      Plus…Twitter is for Teens with ADHD.

      Warnie screams AUSTRALIA…..a C.U.B (Cashed Up Bogan)

      Reply

    • dan says:

      03:00pm | 13/12/10

      I gave up following warne. His tweets are boring….... far too self obsessed, vain person.

      Reply

    • Gimb says:

      03:18pm | 13/12/10

      Zeta - love your analysis. You clearly have a lot of spare time on your hands. I just read it as another demonstration of Hurley’s poor taste in men.

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      03:57pm | 13/12/10

      I knocked that up in 15 minutes, you should see what I can do on a public holiday.

    • stephen says:

      09:19pm | 13/12/10

      Sounds like something Warnie would say.
      And why wasn’t he on the boat with Oprah ?
      With his phone ?

    • NicoleG says:

      03:56pm | 13/12/10

      Rather nauseating stuff. Pass.

      Reply

    • Pugilist says:

      04:23pm | 13/12/10

      Once again Warnie is stung by that epitome of journalistic credibility - The News of the World. Who could every forget Warnie cavorting with those two bits of crumpet and his blow up whatever it was ... I’ve tried to un-see it ever since with no luck.

      But really, creeping around after two B Grade celebrities to catch some blurry vision of a snog shows you how low the media has descended. The fact that is front page news is an indictment on the media and public at large. And when will Wikileaks reveal the secret cables in the Warne/Hurley affair?

      Reply

    • Stace says:

      04:31pm | 13/12/10

      I’m a little bit disgusted with myself for actually taking the time to read this, and all the comments. Thank heavens I can still say I’ve never followed anyone so lame on Twitter. I think Stephen Fry is the only “celeb” I’ve ever bothered looking at.

      Reply

    • Tails says:

      04:45pm | 13/12/10

      It’s another Warnie cross promotion for Maccas: the mutton dressed as lamb burger.

      Reply

    • Seano says:

      05:30pm | 13/12/10

      Shane Warne.

      Like him as a commentator.

      Loved him as a cricketer.

      Otherwise not interested.

      Reply

    • sandra nelson says:

      06:32pm | 13/12/10

      in ireland, hurling players are sometimes called hurleys.
      Is Shane warne a Cricket player or a hurley?

      Reply

    • sandra nelson says:

      07:02pm | 13/12/10

      will shane warne have any energy left to play england in the 4th and 5th tests?
      Is Liz the pommies’ Secret weapon?

      Reply

    • John says:

      08:42pm | 13/12/10

      OH come-on guys, we all really know this is about Shane Warne’s publicity stunt to Kick off his new TV Show ‘Warney’, any news is good news to have your name in headlines, its not as juicy as the tiger woods affairs, but the aussie version with warny will keep our tongues wagging for a while.

      I prefer he also sped away from his hysterical screaming ex crashing the yellow Lamborghini into a picket fence, would have been juicy stuff. Classier than some cheap 4WD tiger crashed.

      Com-on Warny you can do better than some Australia’s funniest home video filmed by some homeless drunk scoring your kissing scene on a out- of-date poor quality analog mobile phone….

      Reply

    • Bob says:

      07:42am | 14/12/10

      Couldn’t agree more, John, it is all about ratings - and that is for his TV show, not personally!!

    • Flutz says:

      09:38am | 14/12/10

      Yep - publicity stunt pure and simple, esp as Ms Hurley is slated to be a guest on an upcoming episode of his lame-arse TV show

    • Amy Sturt says:

      09:17am | 14/12/10

      Elizabeth Hurley has no taste in men, a fact clearly established when she had her son by Stephen Bing.  Eww.

      Reply

    • Dan says:

      02:05pm | 14/12/10

      Warnie is the new Warwick Capper

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