Liz Hurley

### Participated In

WWYD1, WWYD2, WWYD3, WWYD4, WWYD5, 1st Tag-Team Tournament, WWYD6, Queen's Cup VI

## Overview

Despite having never won the competition, Liz Hurley is considered a WWYD legend. A pioneer of Route 1, her willingness to use cynical tactics earned her the nickname "The Rack" and the ire of pundit Alan Hansen. Hurley is always in the main-event mix and there is no scheme too devious for her to try as long as it means maintaining her Elite Eight status. Hurley has only lost four matches to date: to Jennifer Connelly, Monica Bellucci, Penelope Cruz and Michelle Pfeiffer. Hurley has been involved in constantly shifting alliances. For WWYD2 and WWYD3, she was managed by Bobby Heenan, after crashing out of the latter tournament in the Quarter-Finals, she blamed Heenan for his tactics and fired him. When the Med Event Mafia Takeover occurred, Hurley had appeared to put her "bad girl" days behind her and aligned herself with The Pantheon. However, as the Med Event Mafia vs. The Pantheon story arc progressed, Hurley sensed momentum to be with the Med Event Mafia and faked DNA evidence to show Bellucci that she was was really Italian, trading her son Damian Hurley as a "manservant" in the process. When The Pantheon defeated the Med Event Mafia during the Quarter-Finals of WWYD4 (Hurley lost to long-time rival Pfeiffer), after The Consortium Takeover stripped Bellucci of her powers as commissioner, Hurley denounced the Meds and revealed that she had "not a drop" of Italian blood. Shortly afterwards she approached disaffected Pantheon-member Scarlett Johansson to form a new team called GTFO. Both made the Elite Eight of WWYD5 but were knocked out in the Quarter-Finals. After this point, Hurley's career went into free-fall. GTFO failed to win the first tag-tournaments. Hurley suffered a shock double-elimination against Zooey Deschanel in Round 2 of WWYD6, this was the first time she'd ever failed to make the Quarter-Finals. Critics said the game had passed her by and that her tactics were dated. At the Queen's Cup VI, Hurley lost all three of her matches 58-42 marking a very sorry end to her eventful singles career.

# Storylines and Controversies

## WWYD1

Hurley was involved in the controversy around The Pfeiffer Brigade whose chairman dismissed her as "beans on toast". When the brigade refused to accept that Michelle Pfeiffer was losing the semi-final match to Hurley, Head Referee Walter Day ordered an unofficial rematch which Hurley also won. She lost in the final to Jennifer Connelly.

## WWYD2

Shortly before the tournament, Hurley hired Bobby Heenan as her manager. Her entire tournament was mired in controversy. In Round 2 her opponent Denise Richards was winning 51-49 when Alan Hansen was found to have interfered in the match by donning a disguise and attempting to get Hurley disqualified. This event is now known as Hansen-gate and led to Hansen being suspended for a period by Walter Day. Later in the tournament, Hurley had another opponent disqualified, Abigail Shapiro, who was banned for life by Day after being caught using bots to bolster her vote. This event is now known as Shapiro-gate. Hurley would lose to Monica Bellucci in the semi-final and later blamed Heenan for his poor tactics.

## WWYD3

Hurley had dominant wins in her first three matches, but lost narrowly in the quarter-finals against Penelope Cruz, again blaming Bobby Heenan for his tactics, she fired him as manager. Shortly after the Med Event Mafia Takeover, Hurley joined The Pantheon. She vowed to become a fan favourite, was accepted by the other Pantheon members, and seemed to put her villainous ways behind her.

## WWYD4

Days before the tournament began, everything was set for the Med Event Mafia vs. Pantheon. However, Hurley had other plans and approached Commissioner Monica Bellucci with "DNA Evidence" proving that she is, in fact, Italian. So desperate was Hurley to join the Med Event Mafia that she offered Bellucci her son, Damian Hurley, as a "manservant" to sweeten the deal. Bellucci accepted and Hurley was now a "Med", even though many privately doubted the credulity of her DNA results. As part of the deal, Hurley had Vanessa Ferlito fired from the group, changed her positioning in the bracket and secured Lizzo as a Round 1 opponent, whom she would go on to defeat 95-5. During the tournament, it emerged that Damian was being abused and whipped by Bellucci, but when he pleaded with his mother for help, she told him to support her WWYD career. This led a desperate Damian to turn to Hurley's old boyfriend Hugh Grant for help, which resulted in Silvio Berlusconi "putting out a hit" on Damian. Hurley, however, was more concerned with her forthcoming match against Catherine Zeta-Jones. After Hurley lost to Michelle Pfeiffer in the Quarter-Finals, the Med Event Mafia were told to disband following The Consortium Takeover; while the rest of the Meds stood by Bellucci, Hurley denounced them and denied she ever had any Italian blood while posing in front of a British flag.

## WWYD5

Hurley seemed either completely oblivious or else turned a blind eye to the dark Med Event Mafia Dominate Damian storyline, and instead pressured her son to change the placement of her Round 1 match in the brackets so that she would face Nigella Lawson in Round 2 instead of Barbara Palvin, the move paid off as Hurley would defeat Lawson. She also destroyed Med Event Mafia mainstay Lauren Jauregui, 80-20 in Round 3, but had a disappointing match against Brooke Shields in the Quarters which she lost 60-40.

## 1st Tag-Team Tournament

GTFO were winning their Semi-Final match against The Cuban Connection but after it had to be restarted owing to the Med Event Mafia's Hospitalisation of Brooke Shields, they lost.

## WWYD6

Hurley went out in Round 2 on The Watson Rule following a tie with Zooey Deschanel.

## Queen's Cup VI

Hurley had a disastrous campaign and lost all her matches. Critics said it was because her tactics were dated owing to the fact that Route 1 was out of vogue with voters.

# Facts

* **Signature Shot**
	+ The Vine

* **Nicknames**
	+ "The Rack"
	+ "The Devilish One"

* **Stables**
	+ The Pantheon
	+ Med Event Mafia
	+ GTFO

* **Managers**
	+ Bobby Heenan