Elizabeth Hurley Shares Delight After Reviving Neglected Orchard and Picking Apples

Hurley took to Instagram with a photograph of herself wearing a crimson red T-shirt and denim jeans, holding freshly picked apples while standing beside baskets filled with the harvest.

The actress revealed that she had begun working on the ancient orchard during the summer and said that although there was still plenty of work to be done, the first results had already arrived.

“I have an ancient, neglected orchard which I finally started to work on this summer. It still needs tons of work but here’s the results of this year’s effort, all hand picked by me and my family,” Hurley wrote.

She also shared plans to have the apples turned into juice at a local facility, saying she was looking forward to tasting the final product.

“Crates on the way to a local juice presser and can’t wait to get my juice. Apparently I get x10 bottles per crate #home #country #apple #local,” she added.

Hurley is known for a range of film and television roles, including Vanessa Kensington in *Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery* and the Devil in *Bedazzled*. Her television credits include the original series *The Royals*, in which she played Queen Helena, and Morgan le Fay in *Runaways*, based on the Marvel Comics series.

She also portrayed Diana Payne during the fifth season of *Gossip Girl*.

Her first major role in a big-budget film came with *Passenger 57*. In 1994, Hurley accompanied her then-partner Hugh Grant to the London premiere of his film *Four Weddings and a Funeral*, an appearance that also attracted considerable media attention.

Hurley was most recently seen on the big screen in the 2024 British thriller *Strictly Confidential*. Written and directed by her son Damian Hurley in his directorial debut, the film stars Elizabeth Hurley alongside Georgia Lock, Lauren McQueen, Freddie Thorp, Genevieve Gaunt, Pear Chiravara, Llyrio Boateng and Max Parker.

On television, her recent work includes *Breaking Bear*, an adult animated dark comedy crime series created by Julien Nitzberg for Tubi. The series features the voices of Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Annie Murphy, Elizabeth Hurley and Josh Gad, and parodies mobster films and crime fiction, including the television series *Breaking Bad*.