ELIZABETH HURLEY - HURLEY GOT ME ARRESTED, CLAIMS DIRECTOR

Actress ELIZABETH HURLEY landed her director in trouble with the police in the United Arab Emirates, when she broke the law by stripping off.

Early in her career, the sexy star was touring the Middle East, performing in a play directed by veteran English actor LESLIE PHILLIPS - but forgot the Muslim country's strict anti-nudity laws during a spot of sunbathing on the beach in capital Abu Dhabi.

LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER actor Phillips reminisces, "I was directing a play and she auditioned for me, and she hadn't done a thing, just some modelling. I took that play all over the Middle East and you should have seen how the Arabs revered her.

"Only shame was I never got to sleep with her. Problem was there was always too much of a queue!

"Mind you I did get arrested - because she went to a beach and took her clothes off. I got arrested because the police said that, as the director of the play, I was responsible for her.

"I told them if I'd known that was what she'd been doing, I'd have been on the beach with her."