Sydney
(ANI):
It"s
been
some
time
now,
but
Elizabeth
Hurley
and
Shane
Warne"s
'very
public'
love
story
doesn"t
seem
to
leave
the
spotlight
or
the
front
pages
even
for
a
moment
–
but
some
are
left
wondering
–
is
it
true
love
or
just
a
cheap
publicity
gimmick?
Warne
and
Hurley
have
been
very
vocal
about
their
mutual
affection
for
each
other
on
Twitter,
for
the
rest
of
the
world
to
see.
"That's
what
was
so
extraordinary
about
it
-
just
how
open
they
were
in
their
tweeting," the
Sydney
Morning
Herald
quoted
Fiona
McIntosh,
the
founding
editor
of
Grazia
and
now
a
columnist
for
the
London-based
Sunday
Mirror,
as
saying.
McIntosh
added
that
Warne
and
Hurley
seemed
to
be
completely
unaffected
by
with
the
ongoing
phone-tapping
scandal
–
where
some
stars
jealously
guard
their
privacy,
these
two
don"t
seem
to
care
at
all.
"Maybe
they
were
carried
away
in
the
first
flash
of
love.
That's
what
I'm
not
sure
about
-
if
it
was
a
strategy
or
not,"
she
said.
Then
mid-December
saw
a
complete
silence
over
Twitter
but
when
Hurley
got
her
new
parrot
Ping-Pong,
Warne
tweeted,
"I'm
getting
jealous
of
ping
pong
!
Think
it's
time
you
left
ping
pong
alone
for
a
while
&
come
visit
me
in
Australia."
And
when
she
did,
the
media
world
was
abuzz
with
activity
yet
again.
It
seemed
that
what
had
begun
as
something
quite
ambiguous
and
haphazard
was
now
being
formalised
as
a
media
strategy.
Surprisingly,
Hurley
has
been
very
private
about
her
life
–
whether
it
was
ex
boyfriend
Hugh
Grant's
encounter
with
prostitute
Divine
Brown
or
her
court
case
for
picture
agencies
who
snapped
her,
Grant
and
new
husband
Arun
Nayar
while
they
were
on
holiday.
"It's
a
way
of
beating
[journalists]
at
their
own
game.
By
tweeting,
you're
taking
power
from
the
journalist.
The
biggest
bugbear
to
[celebrities]
are
stories
which
are
damaging
and
possibly
false.
But
this
way,
you
eliminate
that,"
says
publicist
Max
Clifford.
Sam
Delaney
-
Heat's
editor
until
last
year
–
gives
another
reason.When
celebrities
reveal
intimate
details
on
Twitter,
a
la
Warne
and
Hurley,
"you
think:
''This
is
amazing.
We're
getting
insights
into
all
the
dirty
laundry
our
readers
want
to
know
about.
Oh,
but
so
are
our
readers."
As
a
result,
he
says,
"you're
left
being
an
amalgam
of
stuff
that
is
already
out
there.
Rather
like
The
Week
magazine,
but
for
celebrity
news."
But
he
argues,
saying,
“People
will
always
enjoy
seeing
a
story
printed
bigger,
and
delivered
with
humour
and
a
bit
of
editorial
comment."
But
the
microblogging
site
seems
to
have
worked
wonders
for
the
couple.
Hurley"s
Twitter
following
has
almost
doubled
-
from
50,000
in
December
to
over
90,000
now
-
while
the
new
account
she
set
up
last
week
for
her
pet
Ping
Pong
has
already
attracted
over
3500
subscribers.
Sadly,
her
relationship
with
Warne
hasn't
been
so
successful.
"Happy
Valentine's
Day!"
Hurley
tweeted
at
the
end
of
what
turned
out
to
be
a
disastrous
trip
to
Australia.
"Remember,
love
is
like
a
rollercoaster
ride
-
sometimes
it's
exhilarating
but
sometimes
u
feel
sick
and
want
to
get
off."