Elizabeth Hurley’s Prince Harry Rumor Denial: What She Said, and When

Was Elizabeth Hurley interviewed about Prince Harry on Oct. 25?

No new interview is documented in the Oct. 25 coverage. InStyle published a fresh recap that day, but its account looks back to Hurley’s April 3, 2024 appearance with Brooke Shields on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. Bravo’s episode listing confirms the original air date and guests. The distinction matters: the Oct. 25 item is renewed coverage of an older exchange, not a new on-record comment from Hurley. ^{[1] [2]}

On the 2024 show, Cohen read a fan question about whether Hurley was the unnamed older woman Prince Harry had described in his memoir Spare. Hurley rejected the identification, calling the speculation “ludicrous” and later saying she had “never met him.” People’s report of the appearance and the episode record establish what was said and when; neither supports presenting the remarks as a new denial today. ^{[2] [3]}

The rumor and Hurley’s earlier denial

The speculation had surfaced before the memoir was released. In a December 2022 interview with The Sunday Times, Hurley answered “Not me. Not guilty,” then made her denial explicit when asked again. The Los Angeles Times reported those comments at the time, tracing the rumor to Harry’s forthcoming account of an unnamed older woman. The timing is useful context: the interview came before Spare’s January 2023 publication, so Hurley was responding to speculation about an account readers had not yet seen in full. That earlier exchange is another reason to describe the story as a recurring rumor—not a claim newly prompted by a 2026 interview. ^[4]

In Spare, Harry wrote about an unnamed older woman; he did not name Hurley. The association was speculation by others, linked in coverage to details such as the woman being English, older, and connected with Gloucestershire. In 2024, Hurley described how people made that leap and dismissed it as absurd. Her denial is direct; the proposed identification was never established as fact. ^{[2] [3] [5]}

What is confirmed—and what is not

The confirmed timeline is straightforward: Hurley denied the rumor in 2022, addressed it again on a 2024 talk-show episode, and InStyle revisited that exchange on Oct. 25, 2026. Bravo’s listing and contemporaneous reporting from People and the Los Angeles Times independently corroborate the dates and context. There is no verified new interview in the latest recap, and no evidence in these reports that Hurley and Harry ever had the encounter described by the rumor. For readers who arrived via today’s headline, the useful distinction is between the date a story is republished and the date a public figure actually spoke. That keeps the article’s freshness claim—and the underlying evidence—in proportion. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}