I’ve spent most of the week blissfully disinterested in the Liz Hurley vs Simone Warne hoo-hah. But Ros Reines’ column in The Sunday Telegraph, taking pot-shots at wicked Liz, made me cross. Divorces are a big, fat pain. They’re not fun for anyone. They’re not fun for the couple splitting, they’re not fun for the kids involved, and they’re a rollercoaster for anyone who dates a divorcee. Merging families is tough. Bonding with your new partner’s children is tricky. Your ex-husband dating Liz Hurley would, I agree, be galling … but you suck it up. You do what’s best for the kids so they feel loved and secure. Liz Hurley is being lambasted for wanting the Warne kids to call her M2. OK, I’m not a divorcee myself, I have no concept of how it feels to have another woman care for your kids (although mine spent an awful lot of time with the nanny and cried when prised from her arms by me). But I think M2’s kinda cute. And as long as the kids are fine with it, what’s the biggie? Liz also cops a serve for “wholeheartedly embracing Warnie’s three kids for the camera”. I’m thinking if she appeared standoffish around the kids, the wicked stepmonster headlines would be flying. As for the crime of making Brooke Warne wear white for a family photo shoot … big, fat, hairy deal. Liz and white go way back. Everyone has their quirks. Oh, and one last gripe. Why is it “hardly dignified”, Ros, for Simone to appear in a photo shoot with her “attractive partner” in Hawaii? Good on her, I say. Free holiday, bit of spending cashola from Woman’s Day. Can’t see the harm in it myself.
housegoeshome 
apparently the kids made liz brekkie in bed on mothers day… if i was simone, i would want my kids with me on mothers day, not with their step-mother (& seriously – whats wrong with calling liz that ‘step-mother’!!! lol)
Bah, Mother’s Day is a big, manufactured con in my books.
but, wld u prefer your kids with u, or with liz on that morning that is more special in a kids life coz they think theyr doing something special 4 u…???