fashion boutique]] A boutique is a small shopping outlet, especially one that specializes in elite and fashionable items such as clothing and jewellery. The word is French for "shop", via Latin from Greek ἀποθήκη (apothēkē), "storehouse".

The term entered into everyday English use in the late 1960s when, for a brief period, London was the centre of the fashion trade. Carnaby Street and the Kings Road were the focus of much media attention as home to the most fashionable boutiques of the era.

It can also refer to a specialised firm such as a boutique investment bank or boutique law firm. The word is often used to describe a property in the independent section of the hotel market (such as The Rockwell in London) in order to distinguish themselves from larger chains (such as Hilton Hotels). In such cases the idea is that the operation is elite and highly specialised.

In the strictest sense of the word, boutiques would be one-of-a-kind but more generally speaking, some chains can be referred to as boutiques if they specialize in particularly stylish offerings (such as New York City boutique shoe store Alife Rivington Club).

Recently, the term "boutique" has started being applied to normally-mass-market items that are either niche or produced in intentionally small numbers at very high prices. This may be referred to as boutique manufacturing. For example, before the release of the Wii, a Time Magazine article suggested that Nintendo could become a "boutique video-game company", producing games for niche audiences, rather than trying to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony.

In the traditional luxury watch industry Scalfaro International is considered as the precursor in manufacturing and sale of bespoke watches. The Swiss company uses a highly flexible boutique manufacturing site, which allows producing small series or even unique timepieces.

Although some boutiques specialise in hand-made items and other truly one-of-a-kind items, others simply produce t-shirts, stickers, and other fashion accessories in artificially small runs and sell them at unusually high prices. In the early 1990s Selena started manufacturing her own line of women's clothing. Opening two boutiques labeled as "Selena Etc. Boutique & Salon" One located in Corpus Christi and one located in San Antonio, Texas. One was due to open in Monterrey, Mexico in 1995 but due to her death it was not opened. Today, only the Corpus Christi Boutique is still open.

In late 1990s some European retail traders developed the idea of tailoring a shop towards a lifestyle theme, in the form of "concept stores", which specialised in cross-selling without using separate departments. One of the first concept stores was 10 Corso Como in Milan, Italy followed by Colette in Paris and Quartier 206 in Berlin. Several well known American chains such as Urban Outfitters, D-A-S-H, and The Gap, Australian chain Billabong and, though less common, Lord & Taylor adapted to the concept store trend after 2000.

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Name	Tego Calderón
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Tegui Calderón Rosario
Origin	Santurce,Puerto Rico
Born	January 01, 1972
Genre	Reggaeton, reggae, hip-hop, Latin, salsa
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, actor, rapper
Years active	1998–present
Label	Jiggiri Records (2000–present)Sony BMG (2001–2005)Atlantic Records (2006–present) White Lion Records (2002-present) WY Records (2010-present)
Associated acts	Voltio, Don Omar, Aventura, The Game
Url	Official Website

Tegui Calderón Rosario (born February 1, 1972) is a Puerto Rican rapper.

Rundown

He is better known to his fans around the world as Tego Calderón, or by the nickname "El Abayarde" (given by his grandmother), which refers to a tiny, slow-moving species of fire ant found in Puerto Rico. The name is in reference to his behavior as a child, which was mischievous and troublesome. In addition to rap music, Tego is considered part of the alternative-reggaeton wave. He has also made songs that are considered "pure" reggae (e.g. "Chillin'" from the 2006 album The Underdog/El Subestimado). Tego believes that the roots of reggaeton include Jamaican dancehall reggae and hip hop as well as salsa. His album El Abayarde made him a major Latin star. Calderón has received awards for his work, including a Source Award from The Source Magazine for "International Artist of the Year" and a Tu Música Award. He has also received nomination in several ceremonies, including the Latin Grammy, Billboard Award, Premios Lo Nuestro and Premios La Gente. Tego Calderón has also broke records of attendance of audience at a concert in El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Early life

Calderón was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Moving at a young age from his native Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, Tego attended Miami Beach Senior High. Here he was exposed to several different cultures, eventually studying percussion and working as a drummer in a rock band. The band would cover songs produced by artists including Ozzy Osbourne and Led Zeppelin. Following the release of this album, reggaeton gained more influence with several hip-hop producers in New York. Calderón continued working on several mixtapes, being featured in remixes of Usher's "Yeah", Fat Joe's "Lean Back", N.O.R.E.'s "Oye Mi Canto" and Akon's "I Wanna Love You" and also Tego featured Aventura's "We Got The Crown".

2005-Present

Calderón participated on the 2004 and 2005 editions of New York's Puerto Rican Day parade. During this timeframe he became the first Latin American artist to be included on New York's Power-105. Calderón's influence among Latin American youth was noted in a featured published by the Village Voice. The publication claimed that he had "almost single-handedly. .. steered his country’s dominant youth culture out of the island and Latino neighborhoods, and into the American stream of pop consciousness.”

In the summer of 2005, Calderón signed a deal between Atlantic Records and his own independent label, Jiggiri Records, making him the first reggaeton artist to have a deal with a major record company.

In 2006, Calderón and both companies published The Underdog/El Subestimado. He noted that the production includes influence from several Afro-Caribbean rhythms including Reggae, Salsa, Bomba and Rumba. This production featured the guests appearances of Buju Banton, Voltio, Bataklán, Eddie Dee, Luis Cabán, Yandel, Zion, Chyno Nyno, Don Omar and Oscar D'León. Several producers were involved in the album, including Cookee, Major League, Salaam Remi, Eric Figueroa, Luny Tunes, DJ Nelson, Danny Fornaris, DJ Nesty, Naldo, DJ Joe, DJ Fat and Echo & Diesel. At the presentation party for the album, Calderón explained that he no longer considers himself as a reggaeton artist because this genre of music has become too commercial. Noting that reggaeton is becoming too similar to pop music and that he does not let his children listen to it at home unless it is on the radio.

Musical styles and themes

Although Calderón is a reggaeton artist, he claims to like "all types of music". Evidence of this is seen both in his biography (he began his career in music in a metal band and attended a school for music as a drummer) as well as in his music, which incorporates "'several musical tendencies'", including sounds and rhythms from places like Africa, Colombia, and the Caribbean. He obtains the sound for his popular reggaeton music through "fusing an experimental reggaeton style strongly rooted in the working-class Caribbean aesthetics of classic salsa with a strong dose of hip-hop". On The Underdog/El Subestimado, he collaborated with rap duo Anónimo Consejo to create a song entitled "Son Dos Alas" which eventually was shortened to an interdule without Calderón.

Calderón has also been praised for his lyrics, which are much more substantive and uplifting than the misogynist materialistic words that have come to define reggaeton as well as the majority of hip-hop music. Calderón has been described as "the reggaeton champion of an Afro-Caribbean working-class aesthetic" and is known for lyrics that are equal parts poetry and politics.

Film and other career projects

Calderón made his acting debut in the film "Illegal Tender" produced by John Singleton. Calderon played the role of Choco, a Puerto Rican gangster whose character was written specifically for him by director Franc Reyes.

Calderón turned down roles in both "Feel the Noise" and "El Cantante" and instead chose to appear in Illegal Tender out of respect for its producer. After convincing John Singleton that he wanted to appear in a comedy, Calderón is slated to appear in an upcoming Singleton film which casts him as the coach of a baseball team.

Calderon and Don Omar are featured in Fast & Furious, The fourth movie of The Fast and the Furious franchise.

Tego will appear in the fifth installment of the series, entitled Fast Five.

Personal life

Tego's father, Esteban Calderón Ilarraza, who died in May 2004, was a government worker for Puerto Rico's Department of Health. Tego's mother, Pilar Rosario Parrilla, is an elementary school teacher.

Tego is married to Michelle Peterbauer; they have a son, Malcolm X, and a daughter, Ebony Nairobi.

Discography

El Abayarde (2003)

El Enemy de los Guasíbiri (2004)

The Underdog/El Subestimado (2006)

El Abayarde Contraataca (2007)

El Que Sabe, Sabe (2011)

Filmography

{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |2007 | |Himself |Video game, voice only |- |2007 |Ilegal Tender |Choco |Film Debut |- |2007 |Bling: A Planet Rock |Himself |Documentary film / DVD |- |2009 |Fast & Furious |Tego |Cameo |- |2009 |Los Bandoleros |Leo |Lead Role / Short Film, Part of Fast & Furious |- |2011 |Fast Five |Tego | |}

References

External links

Official website

Tego Calderon, Artistas Destacado - Billboard En Español

Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:Puerto Rican people of African descent Category:Puerto Rican musicians Category:Puerto Rican reggaeton artists Category:Reggaeton musicians Category:Puerto Rican rappers

Name	Norman Cook
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Quentin Leo Cook
Alias	Fatboy Slim, and others. See pseudonym section
Born	July 31, 1963
Origin	Reigate, Surrey, England
Spouse	Zoe Ball (1999-present)
Genre	Big beatTrip hopDanceRave
Occupation	musician, producer, disc jockey
Instrument	Turntables, keyboard, bass guitar, guitar, drums
Years active	1981–present
Label	Skint, Astralwerks, Southern Fried,
Associated acts	The Housemartins, Beats International, Freak Power, Brighton Port Authority, David Byrne
Url	FatboySlim.net

Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), also known by the stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, big beat musician, record producer and pioneer of the electronic dance genre that achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s. Cook has achieved considerable success in the UK charts, performing as Fatboy Slim and with The Housemartins, Beats International and Freak Power. He currently performs as the Brighton Port Authority.

History

Quentin Leo Cook was raised in Reigate, Surrey, England, and was educated at Reigate Grammar School. He played drums in Disque Attack (a British new-wave-influenced rock band). When singer Charlie Alcock was told by his parents that he had to give up the band to concentrate on his O levels, Quentin took over as lead vocalist. At Reigate College he also met Paul Heaton with whom he formed the Stomping Pondfrogs. At 18, he went to the Brighton Polytechnic to study a BA in English, politics and sociology. Although he had begun DJing some years before, it was at this time that he began to develop his skills on the thriving Brighton club scene.

Known as DJ Quentox (The OX that Rocks) Cook and DJ Baptiste started putting on Youth Club Hip Hop jams in Brighton, sowing the seeds of the City's flourishing Hip Hop scene today. These primitive 80's block parties are recalled in the music documentary 'South Coast' which documents Brighton's cult Hip Hop scene from its grass roots to the present day.

In 1985 Cook's friend Paul Heaton had formed a guitar band called The Housemartins. Their bassist quit on the eve of their first national tour, so Cook agreed to move to Hull to join them. The band soon had a hit single with "Happy Hour". They also reached number one just before Christmas 1986 with a version of "Caravan of Love" originally a hit the year before for Isley-Jasper-Isley. However, by 1988 they had split up. Heaton and the band's drummer Dave Hemingway went on to form The Beautiful South, while Cook moved back to Brighton to pursue his interest in the style of music he preferred. It was at this time that he first started working with young studio engineer Simon Thornton, with whom he continues to make records. All Cook's records released from that point onwards have involved both of them to varying degrees (Thornton is credited in 2004 as "Executive Producer" for example).

Cook achieved his first solo hit in 1989, featuring his future Beats International member MC Wildski called "Blame It on the Bassline". Credited to "Norman Cook feat. MC Wildski", the song followed the basic template of what was to come in the style of the music of Beats International. It became a modest hit in the UK Singles Chart, reaching #29.

Cook formed Beats International, a loose confederation of studio musicians including vocalists Lindy Layton, Lester Noel, D.J. Baptiste, rapper MC Wildski, and keyboardist Andy Boucher. Their first album Let Them Eat Bingo included the number one single "Dub Be Good to Me", which caused a legal dispute revolving around allegations of infringement of copyright through the liberal use of unauthorised samples: the bassline was a note-for-note lift from "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash and the lyrics borrowed heavily from "Just Be Good to Me" by The S.O.S. Band. The 1991 follow-up album Excursion on the Version, an exploration of dub and reggae rhythms, failed to repeat the success of its predecessor, as it did not chart.

Cook then formed Freak Power with horn player Ashley Slater and singer Jesse Graham. They released their debut album Drive Thru Booty in 1994, which contained the single "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out". The cut was picked up by the Levi's company for use in a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign. In 1996, Cook re-joined Freak Power for their second album More of Everything for Everybody.

Cook enlisted help from producer friends Tim Jeffery and JC Reid to create a solo house music album under the Pizzaman pseudonym. The 1995 Pizzamania album spawned 3 UK Top 40 hits in "Trippin' on Sunshine", "Sex on the Streets" and "Happiness". "Happiness" was picked up by the Del Monte Foods corporation for use in a UK fruit juice ad. The music videos for "Trippin' on Sunshine", "Sex on the Streets" and "Happiness" were all directed by Michael Dominic.

Cook also formed the group The Mighty Dub Katz along with Gareth Hansome (aka GMoney), Cook's former flatmate. Together they started the Boutique Nightclub in Brighton, formerly known as the Big Beat Boutique. Their biggest song together was "Magic Carpet Ride".

Recordings, 1997–2008

Cook adopted the new pseudonym Fatboy Slim in 1996. The Fatboy Slim album and Cook's second solo album Better Living Through Chemistry (released through Skint Records) contained the Top 40 UK hit, "Everybody Needs a 303".

Fatboy Slim's next work was the single "The Rockafeller Skank", released prior to the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby, both of which were released in 1998. "Praise You", also from this album, was Cook's first UK solo number one. Its music video, directed by Spike Jonze, won numerous awards.

In 2003, he produced the Blur album Think Tank, and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years.

Fatboy Slim's greatest hits album Why Try Harder was released on 19 June 2006. It comprises eighteen tracks, including ten Top 40 singles, a couple of Number Ones and two exclusive new tracks – "Champion Sound" and "That Old Pair of Jeans". Most of the songs were shortened and heavily edited, resulting in almost fifteen minutes of unused space on the compact disc release.

In 2006 Cook travelled to Cuba, and wrote and produced two original Cuban crossover tracks for the album The Revolution Presents: Revolution, which was released by Studio !K7 and Rapster Records in 2009. The tracks were called "Shelter" (which featured long time collaborator Lateef); and "Siente Mi Ritmo", featuring Cuba's top female vocal group "Sexto Sentido". The recordings took place in Cuba's legendary EGREM Studios, home of the Buena Vista Social Club, and featured a band made up of Cuba's top young musicians, including Harold Lopez Nussa. Another track recorded during these sessions entitled "Guaguanco" was released separately under the Mighty Dub Katz moniker in 2006.

Cook has also been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest and Wildchild. In 2008 he did a remix of the track "Amazonas" for the charity Bottletop.

Cook released a mix album in 2010 titled The Legend Returns as a covermount album in the June 2010 issue of Mixmag.

Performances

On 13 July 2002, Fatboy Slim performed the second of his free, open air concerts on Brighton beach. Although organisers expected a crowd of around 60,000 people, the event instead attracted an estimated 250,000 who crammed the promenade and beach between Brighton's piers. Local police forced the event to end early amid safety concerns, overcrowding, and one death. After the music had finished and the crowd began to dissipate, traffic ensued throughout the Brighton area with many caught in traffic jams until the morning.

In June 2005 Fatboy Slim filled the Friday night headline slot on the 'Other Stage' at the Glastonbury Festival, a booking which actually generated a financial loss for Cook.

In 2006, Fatboy Slim filled the Saturday headline slot at the Global Gathering festival, Long Marston Airfield in the English Midlands. He played a two hour set, appearing in front of a visual stage set comprising video screens and 3D lighting. A firework display rounded off the show.

After being banned by police from playing in Brighton since 2002, Fatboy Slim was given permission in 2006 to play again in his home town. On 1 January 2007 he played to an audience of more than 20,000 fans along Brighton's seafront. Tickets to the event, titled 'Fatboy Slim's Big Beach Boutique 3', were made available only to Brighton residents. The concert was deemed a stunning success by Sussex Police, Fatboy Slim, and the crowd. The Cuban Brothers and David Guetta opened the concert. The next similar event, 'Big Beach Boutique 4', was held on 27 September 2008.

In 2008, Fatboy Slim played at the Glastonbury Festival again, and headlined the O2 Wireless Festival and Rockness Festival. According to an NME interview, this may have been one of the last times he performed as Fatboy Slim, as he may now focus on his new album, Brighton Port Authority (The BPA).

In 2009, Fatboy Slim toured Australia in the Good Vibrations festival. Also in 2009, Fatboy Slim played in Marlay Park, Ireland, alongside David Guetta, Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris; as well as one huge performance at the Sziget Festival in Budapest. He also has performed at V Festival 2009.

At Glastonbury 2009, Fatboy Slim played an unadvertised concert in the "pinball-machine" stage at trash city.

In 2010 Fatboy Slim headlined the east dance at Glastonbury Festival on Friday.

He performed on June 18 in Cape Town, South Africa as part of the Cool Britannia World Cup music festival at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

He will return to Ireland at Oxegen 2010 in July, following that he will perform at South West Four on Clapham Common on 29 August 2010.

Biography

Cook was awarded a star on the city of Brighton's Walk of Fame, next to that of Winston Churchill.

He married TV personality Zoë Ball in 1999 at Babington House in Somerset; in January 2003, Cook broke up with Zoe but three months later, they reconciled. They have a son named Woody (born 15 December 2000) and a daughter named Nelly May Lois (born 14 January 2010). Cook is a 12% shareholder of the football club he has supported since moving to Brighton in the late 1980s, Brighton & Hove Albion.

Q magazine named Fatboy Slim in their 50 Bands To See Before You Die list.

On 4 March 2009, Cook checked into a rehabilitation centre in Bournemouth to fight a "booze addiction" that he has been battling "for some time".

Because of an extended stay in rehab his performance at Snowbombing (week-long winter sports and music festival held in the Austrian ski resort of Mayrhofen) was canceled – with the slot being filled by 2ManyDJs. Cook then left the clinic at the end of March.

Cook completed the inaugural Brighton Marathon on 18 April 2010 in a time of 4:53:10.

Awards

In 1999, the video to "Praise You" won three MTV awards, for best direction (Spike Jonze), best choreography (Richard Koufey) and best breakthrough video.

Cook's single The Rockafeller Skank topped the 1999 Pazz & Jop singles poll.

In September, 2001, Fatboy Slim's video for "Weapon of Choice" (also directed by Spike Jonze) received six prizes at the MTV Video Awards, the most given to a single winner that year. Cook was also a judge for the 6th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.

Three Brit awards: 1987 (British breakthrough act: The Housemartins), 1999 (British dance act: Fatboy Slim), 2001 (British dance act: Fatboy Slim)

Bands and pseudonyms

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Other songs

See also

The Chemical Brothers

The Prodigy

The Crystal Method

Notes

External links

A Conversation with Norman Cook

Fatboy Slim (Discography) – beatbuggy.com

Norman Cook's Cuban Tracks on The Revolution Presents: Revolution

Video: Norman Cook In Cuba (Interview)

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Name	Elizabeth Hurley
Caption	Hurley at the launch of Estee Lauder's new fragrance, Sensuous, in July 2008
Birth name	Elizabeth Jane Hurley
Birth date	June 10, 1965
Birth place	Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Occupation	Actress/Model
Years active	1987–present (Actress)
Spouse	Arun Nayar (2007–2010)Separated
Website	http://www.elizabethhurley.com/

Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los Angeles premiere in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media attention.

Hurley has been associated with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder for over fifteen years since the company awarded Hurley her first modelling job at the age of 29. They have featured her as a representative and model for its products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995. As an actress her best known cinematic works to date have been as Vanessa Kensington in Mike Myers' hit spy comedies, (1997) and as the Devil in Bedazzled (2000). Hurley currently owns an eponymous beachwear line.

Early life

Hurley was born as a middle child in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the daughter of Angela and Roy Hurley. She has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother Michael James Hurley. Hurley was educated at local schools including Kempshott Infant School, Kempshott Junior School, and the Harriet Costello School. Aspiring to be a dancer as a young girl, she took ballet classes and later briefly studied dance and theatre at the London Studio Centre. While in her teens, she became involved with punk fashion, dying her hair pink and piercing her nose. She also reportedly associated with the New Age Travellers in her youth.

Career

Hurley started working as an actress in the late 1980s and became a model in 1995. During the 2000s, she worked as a reality television presenter in Britain.

Fashion

In 1995, with no prior modeling experience, Hurley was introduced as an Estée Lauder spokesmodel. She was replaced as the face of Estée Lauder by Carolyn Murphy in 2001. However, she continues to work with the company non-exclusively, signing a contract for the 16th year with Lauder in 2010. She told Tatler magazine, "I was on Necker Island for a fashion shoot and even as [Richard Branson] was lying back in a hammock, he was on the phone, doing deals, managing his empire. But then I thought I am never going to have even a holiday home, let alone an island, unless I start a business that I can do without disrupting Damian's school days." In May 2008, Hurley designed and modeled a capsule collection of 12 swimsuits for the Spanish clothes brand MANGO.

Hurley has appeared three times on the cover of British Vogue. She is signed to the Independent Modeling Agency in London.

Film

Hurley made her first film appearance in Aria (1987). In 2000, she was publicly criticised for breaking a five-month acting strike to film an Estée Lauder advertisement, for which she was fined $100,000 (£70,000 in 2000) by the Screen Actors Guild and labeled "Elizabeth Scably" by protesters.

Television

In the late 1980s, Hurley portrayed the title character in a five-part television drama, Christabel. After appearing in John Cleese's The Human Face (2001), she hosted the inaugural season of the British reality series Project Catwalk on Sky1 in 2006. The show drew tepid ratings with only 1% of its target audience tuning into the first few episodes. GQ 's Dylan Jones defended her as someone "immersed in the fashion world as a celebrity." It was also later revealed that Hurley had asked contestants to send her free clothes off the record.

Charity

Hurley has been active in Estée Lauder's Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, as part of which the company created an "Elizabeth Pink" lipstick whose sales benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Hurley, whose grandmother died of breast cancer, was the mistress of ceremonies at "The Hot Pink Party" that marked the tenth anniversary of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Hurley supported The Prince's Trust by co-presenting the 2003 Fashion Rocks event in its aid and helping launch the Get Into Cooking youth initiative in 2004.

She has also helped raise funds for End Hunger Network, ARK children's charity, and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Personal life

Village Fete in 2008]]

Hurley was a struggling actress in 1987, when she met Hugh Grant while working on a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento. While he was Hurley's boyfriend, According to The Guardian,

On 4 April 2002, Hurley gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley. The baby's father, Steve Bing, denied paternity by alleging that he and Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in 2001. A DNA test, however, established Bing as the child's father. Hurley is godmother to Patsy Kensit's son Lennon and two of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham's sons (Brooklyn and Romeo).

In late 2002, Hurley started dating Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, who has run a small software company since 1998. On 2 March 2007, Hurley and Nayar married at Sudeley Castle and then had a second traditional Hindu wedding at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur , India. The Indian celebrations included a sangeet at Nagaur Fort and a reception at Mehrangarh Fort. The wedding ceremonies, photos of which were sold to Hello! magazine for a reported £2 million, were attended by numerous celebrities, including Elton John, who gave Hurley away. Hurley, whose net worth was estimated at £13 million in 2003, resides on a organic farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, with her son and husband.

On 12 December 2010, following press reports linking her romantically with Australian cricketer Shane Warne, Hurley announced via her twitter account that she and her husband Arun had separated several months earlier. Numerous tabloids including the Paparazzi have taken pictures that appear to confirm Warne and Hurley are romantically involved. They were photographed going into a hotel on at least two occasions.

Hurley is a supporter of the Conservative Party, and attended their 2010 fundraising ball.

Recognitions

2010 Peoplestar.co.uk Celebrity Magazine, The World's Most Beautiful Women (ranked 9th)

Filmography

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1987 | Aria | Marietta | |- | 1988 | Inspector Morse | Julia | 1 episode: Last Seen Wearing |- | 1988 | Rowing with the Wind | Claire Clairmont | Gonzalo Suárez film |- | 1988 | Christabel | Christabel Bielenberg | BBC serial |- | 1988 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Rosie Japhet | 1 episode: Rumpole and the Barrow Boy |- | 1989 | Act of Will | Christina | TV series |- | 1990 | Death Has a Bad Reputation | Julia Latham | TV serial |- | 1990 | Kill Cruise | Lou | Peter Keglevic film |- | 1991 | | Natalie | 1 episode: Natalie |- | 1992 | | Candida Ashton | 1 episode: Relative Values |- | 1992 | El largo invierno | Emma Stapleton | Jaime Camino film |- | 1992 | | Vicky Prentiss | 1 episode: London, May 1916 |- | 1992 | Passenger 57 | Sabrine Ritchie | Kevin Hooks film |- | 1994 | Beyond Bedlam | Stephanie Lyell | Vadim Jean film |- | 1994 | Sharpe's Enemy | Lady Farthingdale | Series regular |- | 1995 | | Cecilia Harrison | James Frawley TV movie |- | 1995 | Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Antonia Dyer | Henry Cole film |- | 1996 | Harrison: Cry of the City | Cecilia Harrison | James Frawley TV movie |- | 1996 | Samson and Delilah | Delilah | Nicolas Roeg TV movie |- | 1997 | Dangerous Ground | Karen | Darrell Roodt film |- | 1997 | | Vanessa Kensington | Jay Roach film |- | 1998 | Permanent Midnight | Sandra | David Veloz film |- | 1999 | My Favorite Martian | Brace Channing | Donald Petrie film |- | 1999 | EDtv | Jill | Ron Howard film |- | 1999 | | Vanessa | Jay Roach film |- | 2000 | | Adaline Gunn | Kathryn Bigelow film |- | 2000 | Bedazzled | The Devil | Harold Ramis film |- | 2001 | Double Whammy | Dr. Ann Beamer | Tom DiCillo film |- | 2002 | Dawg | Anna Lockheart | Victoria Hochberg film |- | 2002 | Serving Sara | Sara Moore | Reginald Hudlin film. |- | 2004 | Method | Rebecca | Duncan Roy film |- | 2006 | | | Jim Fitzpatrick film |- | 2010 | | (voice) | In production |}

; Theatre

The Cherry Orchard – A Jubilee (Russian & Soviet Arts Festival)

The Man Most Likely To (Middle East tour)

; Documentary film

Signé Chanel (2005) ... Herself

(2008) ... Herself

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