HURLEY & SON
Incredible first photo shoot of Liz and her No 1 man
HE HAS inherited his mother’s striking looks – and Liz Hurley’s son Damian is intent on following her into acting, too.
The 16-year-old has already appeared alongside his mother in the high-camp US soap opera The Royals, and now has his sights on a career in front of the camera.
Although the 53-year-old initially kept Damian away from the business, she is delighted about his decision.
‘I took off the first eight years of his life from acting so I could be at home with Damian, but it transpires that being on set is where he’s happiest,’ she says. ‘He loves reading scripts, running through everyone’s lines and soaking it all up.’
In his first interview alongside his mother, Damian looks back with fondness on how he was eventually allowed on shoots when he was younger.
‘Everyone would spoil me,’ he says. ‘I knew all the actors’ lines and would hide behind furniture and prompt them. When my mother went back to work and did a season of Gossip Girl in New York, the director used to let me shout “Action!” and “Cut!” ’
Liz rails at stories that Damian, whose father is US businessman Steve Bing, follows her around the world taking pictures of her in her swimsuit. ‘It’s just complete nonsense that somebody made up. He took one or two shots and that was it… He’s at boarding school, for heaven’s sake. I don’t drag him to Mauritius every weekend to take my picture,’ she said.