'Too raw & personal to share right now': Elizabeth Hurley confirms split from Shane Warne as she steps out without engagement ring

Elizabeth Hurley confirmed her relationship with Shane Warne is over with a message on Twitter on Wednesday morning.
The 48-year-old wrote: 'Apologies to loyal followers for Twitter silence on recent events. Too raw & personal to share right now.'

Her tweet came just a day after she cut a downcast figure as she was photographed in London wearing an all-black outfit, with her large diamond and sapphire sparkler noticeably absent from her left hand.

Downcast: Elizabeth Hurley cut a sad figure as she stepped out in London on Tuesday minus her engagement ring following reports of a split from fiancé Shane Warne

Disappearing acts: Hurley's diamond and sapphire engagement ring (seen right) was noticeably absent from her left hand

Confirmation: The model sent a message out to her fans on Wednesday morning

Elizabeth's outing came as her reported split from cricketer Shane was blamed on his continued close relationship with is ex-wife Simone.
According to The Sun, mother-of-one Elizabeth was growing increasingly uncomfortable about Shane's cosy friendship with Simone, with whom he has three children.

A source told The Sun: 'Elizabeth found out he had been over at Simone's house a lot. She seemed to get the idea that something more than friendship was going on.
'Liz couldn't ever handle Shane and Simone being friends.'
Shane and Simone split in 2005 amid allegations that the sportsman had been unfaithful. However, just two years later, the pair gave their relationship another go after Simone decided to take him back.

Sombre: Elizabeth wore an all-black outfit for the outing perhaps reflecting her current mood

Stepping out: Meanwhile, Shane was pictured on Tuesday in Australia amid rumours of the split

Ex: It is thought Shane's relationship with his ex wife Simone (pictured here in 2007) was causing problems

Their split was later confirmed in 2010, when Shane debuted his romance with Elizabeth.
While Elizabeth and Shane have both remained silent about the alleged split, it has been claimed that the model-turned-actress has now called off a scheduled trip to be with Shane in Australia, where he recently celebrated his 44th birthday alongside Simone and their children.
It was the noticeable Twitter silence between Elizabeth and Shane which first sparked rumours of a split.
The pair, who frequently sent each other public tweets, haven't mentioned each other for several weeks.

Preoccupied: Shane was seen on his phone while he stood beside his daughter Summer on Tuesday

Shane notably didn't mentioned his fiancée when he celebrated his birthday last Friday, thanking his friends and family for birthday messages, but failing to mention the swimwear designer, who is back home in England.
The same day, Elizabeth tweeted how she spent the day fixing an alpaca fence at her Gloucestershire farm.
In fact several days before his big day, he wrote a cryptic message: 'Something to think about, it's not what happens in your life, it's how you react to what life throws at u, in both the good & bad times!'
Former Austin Powers star Elizabeth last tweeted Shane on September 1: 'Happy Father's Day to all Australian Dads. Especially @warne888 ❤.'

No comment: Shane has not yet broken his silence about the state of his relationship

He last mentioned her in a tweet 24 hours earlier in a message to a friend: '@simon_odonnell no worries mate ! Golf next week if you're free ? @ElizabethHurley & my horse is still running, @HighclereRacing lift!'
The couple were first linked in July 2010 after Liz was photographed chatting to Shane at the Glorious Goodwood Festival in Sussex.

After the couple were photographed kissing in a London hotel in mid-December that year, the former actress decided to go public with her marriage breakdown to first husband Arun Nayar.

She announced her split on Twitter: 'For the record, my husband Arun and I separated a few months ago. Our close family and friends were aware of this.'

Putting on a brave face: Liz stepped out on Wednesday looking in better spirits than the day before

Ringless: Liz's appearance came as she tweeted a message to her followers

Around the same time, Warne confirmed he too was no longer with his ex-wife Simone Callahan, who he had reconciled with following their 2007 divorce.
He wrote on his website: 'Sadly and unfortunately, Simone and I split up a while ago, our close friends and family were informed at that time.
'It is a private matter so we did not make it public. We remain friends and will continue to be good parents.'

Chic: Liz looked stylish in tight blue jeans with a boucle style jacket and black heels

After roughly a year of dating, Shane proposed to Liz at St Andrews, Scotland in October 2011.
In a joint interview last year, the couple spoke of their plans to marry in 2013, with ceremonies in both Australia and England.
She said: 'I am extremely happy when I’m with Shane. We are very similar in many ways. Despite differences in our backgrounds and careers, we both come from very secure, loving homes and to me that says a lot.'
MailOnline has contacted the couple's representatives for comment.

Is it all over for Liz and Shane?                                                                                         

by Alison Boshoff
Theirs has been a very modern kind of relationship, often conducted in public and via flirtatious Twitter messages.
And now, with a couple of cryptic tweets, it seems to all be over between Liz Hurley and Shane Warne.
Although on September 1, she wished Warne a happy [Australian] Father’s Day, with a heart, on Twitter, the tone changed dramatically three days later.
She posted the message: ‘The more I know of man, the more I love my dog.’ 
For his part, Warne put online his own homespun Aussie musings, saying: ‘It’s not what happens in your life, it’s how you react to what life throws at u, in both the good & bad times!’

Stepdad: Shane and Liz, pictured with her son Damian, had embraced each others' children from previous relatiosnhips

Reports that they had separated were published yesterday while Hurley was in England and Warne was in Melbourne. Significantly, Hurley was not wearing her engagement ring — although it had been seen on her finger as recently as three weeks ago.
This would not be the couple’s first split — they broke up for a while in the spring of last year. That bust-up had been prompted by a series of long separations and Hurley’s growing fear that she really didn’t have enough in common with her blunt and brash boyfriend. 
After a series of unsatisfactory phone calls, she dumped him — but they made it up. However, the relationship was badly scarred and Warne, 44, has seldom been seen at her side since.
For example, he didn’t join her for Elton John’s annual White Tie and Tiara ball this year — that honour went to designer Patrick Cox, her closest friend. Nor was he there to celebrate Cox’s birthday at the Café Royal, even though her ex-husband Arun Nayer and ex-boyfriend Hugh Grant were.

Too much: It's been reported that Liz found Shane's behaviour 'unsophisticated' at times

Also, instead of Warne, she took her son Damian (whose father is playboy film producer Steve Bing) as her plus-one to an Elton John event earlier this month. 
Warne was said to be unavailable because of work commitments.
In any case, often when the couple were seen together, they looked ill-matched.
For example, when they attended Ascot in July, Hurley wore a dainty fascinator and patterned skirt. 
Yet Warne treated the day as a booze-up — ostentatiously squeezing her bottom and then performing his party trick of trying to put a whole glass of beer inside his mouth. 
Liz was not impressed — and it was very embarrassing and public proof that her much-mocked make-over of the larrikin sportsman into a pompadoured metrosexual had failed.

Silence: The pair have failed to mention each other for weeks

For, over three years, Hurley had transformed the porky charmer with dodgy highlights, whose nickname was Hornie Warne, into a highly buffed tailor’s dummy — the perfect Ken to her Barbie.
His eyebrows were plucked; his skin slathered in her Estee Lauder and he was put on the diet of his life, losing 22lb under her encouraging direction.
Her Cotswolds friends say that 48-year-old Hurley initially relished dating a younger, world-famous man, but it has been suggested that they shared insufficient interests and she has occasionally found his behaviour to be unsophisticated.
A friend says: ‘Shane would prefer having a “tear-up” in the pub than hanging about the countryside with Liz. She has become fed up with him behaving like a child.’

Telling: Earlier this month Liz shared a picture of herself with her dog and a not so cryptic message

For her part, Hurley can be difficult, too. Hugh Grant, her boyfriend for more than a decade, once observed that she was a high-maintenance consort who has a ‘terrible temper’.
Hurley and Warne were first linked after they were seen chatting at the Glorious Goodwood Festival.
Over the next few months, they exchanged a number of flirty text messages on Twitter. They were then photographed kissing in a London hotel, before Hurley announced on Twitter (of course) that her marriage was over.
After getting engaged two years ago, the unlikely PR-hungry couple made plans to marry last winter in Scotland. But the wedding never took place.
Then they agreed to have two weddings this year — one in England and another in Australia. But the idea was shelved.

Quite a show: Shane ostentatiously squeezed Liz's bottom and then performed his party trick at Ascot this year

Liz’s closest confidantes, the designer Patrick Cox and Elton John’s film-maker partner David Furnish, have heard her complain that Warne was resisting commitment.  
There were whispers, too, that the ex-cricketer isn’t quite as wealthy as she would like — there weren’t the private jets that she’d enjoyed while dating Steve Bing.
Despite his string of flash cars and a big house in Melbourne, she often ends up having to pay their bills.
But what has caused this reported sudden rift? 
Unsurprisingly, given Warne’s track record, there are rumours that he has been unfaithful. Although there is no evidence, he was accused of sending saucy messages to a porn star (with whom he had allegedly had sex before he met Hurley). The woman, Kimberly Conrad, said that she had suffered carpet burns after some enthusiastic love-making with him.

Ex: Liz confirmed on Twitter that she had split from her husband Arun Nayar after pictures emerged of her with Shane

The 26-year-old said: ‘If Liz thinks he has changed, she is sorely mistaken.’ Such embarrassments continued when, three months after Hurley and Warne began dating, he was reported to have sent saucy texts to a glamorous Melbourne woman, Adele Angeleri.
It has to be said that this would be par for the course for Warne, who was caught cheating by his long-suffering then wife, Simone, after he sent a sexy text intended for a girlfriend to her by mistake in 2007. 
His biographer, Paul Barry, reckons that Warne bedded up to 1,000 women during his 15-year marriage, which ended in 2010. These include a British nurse, who received X-rated texts and voicemails, and a secretary who allegedly had a four-month affair with him.
Most unsavourily, Warne was also videoed enjoying himself with two models and a large inflatable phallus.

Telling? This year Liz attended Elton John's ball alongside Patrick Cox rather than Shane

Certainly, any hint of a repetition of such antics would explain a sudden change of heart by Hurley. 
To be fair to the couple, they confounded many cynics by falling deeply in love — when, at first, it was widely assumed that what was going on was merely a fling.
Both endured gruelling 23-hour flights to meet up, but neither has been willing to relocate to the other’s country full time because of their respective children.
Nevertheless, Warne made an effort to charm Hurley’s 11-year-old son, Damian, while she grew close to Shane’s children, Brooke, 15, Summer, 13, and Jackson, ten — even calling herself ‘Mummy 2’.
They took ‘Brady Bunch’-style holidays with all the children. It was quite an undertaking, and not what Hurley was used to.
When the Basingstoke-born actress bought a £6 million home in Herefordshire last year, she set about restoring the property and enlisted her lover’s advice on how to manage the 200 acres, 13 bedrooms and 12 stables. 
But he preferred a different lifestyle of cricket and games of poker — and was not much bothered about the flock of sheep and alpacas.
Hurley may have succeeded in turning Warne into a metrosexual piece of arm candy, with perfectly dyed strawberry-blond hair, but it seems she just couldn’t manage to get him to the altar.