Liz Hurley stripped off and danced on a coffee table during her first date with actor, Tom Sizemore, with whom she was appearing in the 1992 terrorist movie Passenger 57.

“And it was a damn good routine,” says Sizemore, then 26. “She knew what she was doing because she looked at me and asked: ‘Is it too bright for you?’ And then got down and dimmed the lights and got back up and started dancing to music. It was wonderful.”

He then moved in with Hurley. “And that’s when I found out that she already had a boyfriend back in England: Hugh Grant,” he writes in the Mail on Sunday. “He hadn’t done Four Weddings And A Funeral yet, and I didn’t know who he was. The Sizemore-Hurley love was not to be.” He recalls: “The last time Elizabeth and I saw each other romantically was heartbreaking. I called her up and said: ‘I can’t do this anymore.’

Later, they met and Sizemore burst into tears. Hurley told him : “Don’t cry. Let’s walk the dog.” Sizemore concludes: “She didn’t like tears — no Brits do. They’ve been bombed by the Nazis; they’re tough.”

She said: “Tom , I’m begging you, please stop it. I feel bad enough.”

Table-dancing Hurley does not wish to comment on the Sizemore book and why should she? Her life now with cricketer Shane Warne is more pastoral than hanky panky.