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Liz has choice of Versace for wedding day

Only five days to go until Elizabeth Hurley's Gloucestershire nuptials at Sudeley Castle on Saturday.

It has emerged that Hurley's pal, Donatella Versace has designed not one but two different dresses for the wedding celebrations, which will move to India next week for a further six nights of parties and traditional Hindu ceremonies.

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Versace is also believed to have been designing clothes for other members of Liz's bridal party in Gloucestershire, including bridesmaids and page boys.

This is happy news for the Versace family, ten years after the murder of Donatella's brother Gianni in Florida.

Hurley is eternally grateful to the Versaces because it was Gianni's safety-pin dress which first thrust Liz firmly into the headlines in 1994.

She also memorably upstaged the bride at Henry Dent-Brocklehurst's wedding, also held at Sudeley Castle, when she wore another extremely revealing Versace dress which exposed her leopard-print underwear.

While Donatella had a reputation for designing garish outfits in the past, she has toned down her designs in recent years.

Friends say: "Since she conquered her drug addiction, Donatella has calmed down a lot."

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