Liz Hurley and The Goblet of Soup

When Liz Hurley passes on to the big polo match in the sky, celebrity journalists and obituary writers everywhere will be wondering one thing. Just what did the woman do, apart from push out the big-headed love child of Steve Bing?

Liz could go down in history for three things: safety pins, jostling for mirror space with Pammie Anderson’s airbags at the Oscars and surviving on one meal a day. Which proves that you too can live the celebrity dream if you are willing to wear very little, hang around with C-list silicon dolls and starve yourself.

But it now looks like Liz’s epitaph could be spared from those slim pickings. Producers of the next Harry Potter film want her to play Bellatrix Lestrange. Given that Bellatrix is “a dark, heavy-lidded woman with hair scraggled and a once-handsome face wasted by years in Azkaban” Liz should walk it. All that cabbage soup might have finally paid off.