ACTRESS Elizabeth Hurly has separated

ACTRESS Elizabeth Hurly has separated with her husband. She reportedly had an affair with Australian cricket great Shane Warne. -- PHTO: AP

LONDON - LIZ Hurley and her husband have separated, the British actress announced on Sunday, as a newspaper reported she has been having an affair with Australia cricket great Shane Warne.

'Not a great day,' Hurley told her followers on social networking site Twitter. 'For the record, my husband Arun and I separated a few months ago.

'Our close family and friends were aware of this.' Hurley, 45, who has an eight-year-old son, Damian, married Indian businessman Arun Nayar three years ago.

Britain's News of the World tabloid reported Sunday that Hurley had spent two nights with Warne, 41, in his London hotel suite last week.

She had been flirting with him for months via Twitter, it said. Divorced former leg-spin bowler Warne arrived in Britain on Wednesday to shoot interviews for his new television show, Warnie, the newspaper said.

Previous affairs cost Warne not only his marriage but the vice-captaincy of the Australia Test side in 2000 and the opportunity to become his country's one-day captain two years later. -- AFP