Cricket legend Shane Warne has confessed that his ex-fiancee Liz Hurley’s close relationship with Hugh Grant caused huge strain on their relationship.

Warne and Hurley were happily engaged from 2011 to 2013, but the Aussie has now said her ex-boyfriend Grant’s sleepovers at her house were difficult to handle.

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Shane Warne and Liz Hurley in 2012 (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

The 46-year-old, speaking on the Australian version of I’m A Celebrity, said: “It’s hard on your new relationship when you’re really good friends with the exes.

“Elizabeth was really good friends with Hugh, who’s like her best friend.

“So when I used to go back to Australia and she wasn’t leaving London, he’d come and spend the weekend at the house.”

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Hurley and Grant pictured in 1997 (Michael Stephens/PA)

“I was like, ‘What’s that?’ ‘No, we’re just friends.’ I was like, ‘Tell him to come down when I’m there’.”

Grant, 55, and Hurley dated for 13 years from 1987, with the British actress standing by him even when he was caught soliciting the services of a prostitute in 1995.

The pair remain close friends and Grant is godfather to Hurley’s son Damian, but Warne said Hurley told him the Love Actually actor felt “uncomfortable” when they were around her together.

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Grant is godfather to Hurley’s son Damian (Nick Ansell/PA)

But he holds no grudge against Hurley, 50, and he suggested the reason for their break-up was simply that they moved too quickly.

He continued: “We had some fun, yeah. We got engaged after jeez, not long. We are still great mates.

“Contrary to what anyone writes, I didn’t do anything wrong. She didn’t do anything wrong. She is a cool chick, actually.”

Warne was previously married to Simone Callahan for 10 years until their split in 2007, while Hurley was married to Indian textile magnate Arun Nayar from 2007 until 2011.